US Chamber of Commerce Career Fair, Bethesda MD
When:
Friday June 4, 2010
9:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Where:
National Naval Medical Center (NNMC), Bethesda
Uniformed Services University (USU) Bldg. 71
8901 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, Maryland 20889
What:
On June 4, 2010, the Fleet and Family Support Office, NNMC in partnership with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Chamber Foundation will host a career fair at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda. Our goal is to connect transitioning wounded, ill, and injured veterans with the best of employers. As a valued member of the Chamber, we invite you to participate in what will be an ideal place to meet and network with (and thank!) our country’s heroes.
The career fair will include a line-up of leading employers in various industries looking to fill a wide range of positions from entry-level to management. This would be an excellent opportunity for you to meet potential and well-deserving candidates for employment. Service members from Bethesda, Walter Reed, Ft. Belvoir, Ft. Meade, and Quantico will be participating in the event.
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Reflecting on the CIAV Conference
This week we've been at the Coalition for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans (CIAV) Conference, conveniently held just down the street from us. It's been a great event, filled with a diverse group of speakers and attendees - veterans, non-profits, government programs, authors, filmmakers, members of the media, and more.
Devin presented on the Warrior Gateway on the opening day of the conference, and we received a number of good questions and feedback about the site. Thanks to everyone who stopped by to chat with us about the Warrior Gateway throughout the week - we always love to hear your thoughts and ideas and explain more about what the site does.
We also heard some excellent speakers and attended workshops that touched on topics ranging from job creation to fundraising to blogging. These sessions were all very informative; it was great to hear not only the expertise of the speakers but the thoughts and experiences of the attendees. We heard a lot about the current issues, challenges, and successes of service providers in the field.
Many of these issues and challenges were similar to feedback we've heard from service providers before -- a need for a good database of organizations working with the military community; the desire to reach out more to one's client base and attract new clients who would gain from your services; the difficulty (especially for small organizations) of maintaining an active, dynamic presence on the Internet.
And these are all ways in which the Warrior Gateway adds value to service providers, addressing these challenges and providing an easy interface for service providers to communicate with clients, and allow clients to easily find and connect with them.
This was the theme of our presentation at CIAV and, again, we were very pleased to talk with so many people about the Gateway. A special thanks to CIAV for your hard work in organization a wonderful event!
Reminder: see us tomorrow at the CIAV Conference
As a reminder, tomorrow the Warrior Gateway team will be at the Coalition for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans (CIAV) Conference. Devin will be presenting on how WarriorGateway.org helps connect members of the military community with the resources they need, and conversely, how service providers can use the Warrior Gateway to community with their clients.
Drop by for Devin's talk or at our table throughout the week to learn more about the Gateway -- we'd love to answer any questions you have!
Military Family Association summit on military families, Washington DC
When:
Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Registration: 7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.
Summit: 8:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Where:
Georgetown University Hotel and Conference Center
3800 Reservoir Road NW
Washington, DC 20057
What:
The National Military Family Association is hosting a summit on military families: "When Parents Deploy: Understanding the Experiences of Military Children and Spouses"
Learn more:
Upcoming feature: enhancements to the service provider profile
We'll soon be adding a few features to the service provider profile page, in order to give users and particularly service providers more ways to communicate and interact. These features will include:
1) an Announcements box, which will allow a service provider to type in a brief message, announcement, fact, description, or whatever else they choose. It's similar to the 'say something about yourself' box on a Facebook profile;
2) a list of Events, which lets a service provider display a list of upcoming events being held at their facility or otherwise hosted by their organization;
3) the ability for a service provider to submit an official response to user reviews left on that service provider's profile page. The response will appear directly under the review it responds to and will be clearly marked as having come from the service provider; and
4) the ability for users to mark reviews with a thumbs-up or thumbs-down, to signify whether they find the review useful or not. We will eventually allow you to view reviews by a ranking of their usefulness.
Watch out for these features at the end of April. We think they'll help make the service provider profile page do more for our users. If you have any features you'd like to see built into the profile page (or any other area of the site), please let us know!
We’re heading to Nashville
Next Tuesday the Warrior Gateway will be attending the Operation Yellow Ribbon event hosted by Lipscomb University in Nashville, TN. It looks to be an exciting and informative event, in which participants will "discuss solutions for the transition from battlefield to home front for returning military."
Devin from here at the Warrior Gateway will be one of two moderators for the event. The program for the day is as follows.
Sponsored by Lipscomb University and Challenge America, panelists include:
• David Hughes, Lipscomb University
• Elaine Katz, Kessler Foundation
• Major Ed Pulido, Folds of Honor Foundation
• Keith Wilson, U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs Education Service
• Wesley Baugess, 82nd Airborne Wounded Warrior Committee
• Tiffany Calhoun, Wounded Warrior Project – Caregiver Retr.
• Mike Zeiders, Quality of Life Foundation
• Carla Joy Bell, Fort Campbell Warrior Transition Battalion
• Sarah Wade, Wounded Warrior Project - Project Odyssey
• Dan Shannon, injured veteran
• Joey Bozik, injured veteran
• Mary Ross, Operation Stand Down
• Joe Dillard, The Shield Foundation
• Bill Patrowicz, Warrior Works
• Capt. Cheri Ruiz, Fort Carson Warrior Transition Battalion
• Sarah Williams Volf, Challenge Aspen Military Opportunities
• Julia Ray, DSUSA - Wounded Warrior Disabled Sports Program
• Dr. Donald Leslie, Shepherd Center
• Torrey Shannon, wife of injured veteran
• Lisa Stern, America’s Heroes at Work
• Col. Mary Carstensen, AW2 & National Organization on Dis.
• Ed Edmundson, father of injured veteran
• Adrienne Rumph, Defense & Veterans Brain Injury Center
• Dr. Steven Scott, James E. Haley VA Medical Center (TBC)
• Mike Goodrich, NGB Transition Assistance
• Dominic Shannon, son of injured veteran
• Dave Topp, Military Family Research Institute
• VA Loan Guaranty Home Loan Program representative
• Mike Britton, Fort Campbell Soldier & Family Assistance Center for Warriors in TransitionMajor General Bob Dees (Ret.) and Jeff Arnold, founder of WebMD, will be keynote speakers at the symposium.
Operation Yellow Ribbon is highlighted by a special evening event featuring keynote speaker General Tommy Franks (retired) and special acoustic performances by Charlie Daniels, Amy Grant, Kix Brooks, Gretchen Wilson, Larry Gatlin and more.
If you're in the area, be sure to come out to the event. For more details from the organizers of the event, click here.
Warrior Gateway at the Hiring Heroes Career Fair tomorrow
Tomorrow (Tuesday March 9), the Warrior Gateway will be attending the Hiring Heroes Career Fair at Ft. Sam Houston, near San Antonio, TX. We will be talking with members of the military community in attendance, demoing the Careers section of the Warrior Gateway, and also recruiting to fill the positions for which we're currently hiring.
Click here for more details on the event. If you're in the area, stop by--we'd love to chat with you!
To view more events we'll be attending in the near future, click here.
Gov. 2.0 Expo, Washington DC
When:
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 through Thursday, May 27, 2010
Where:
Washington Convention Center
801 Mount Vernon Place Northwest
Washington, DC 20001
What:
Gov 2.0 Expo is the technology event for 21st Century Government, bringing stakeholders together to explore transformative technologies and discover new solutions.
Gov 2.0 Expo gives government employees and contractors access to the practical tools, in-depth training, and industry contacts needed to answer the new mandate for transparency, efficiency, and cost containment.
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New features launched for service providers: announcements, events, & responding to comments
We're committed to making the Warrior Gateway a useful tool for service providers. Which is why we've added a number of features that should allow service providers to communicate with their clients more, right on their profiles in the Warrior Gateway Directory:
1) Announcements: You can now post an announcement or 'Message to the Users' on your profile page. This can be an announcement for a specific piece of information (e.g., "We'll be closed on Monday"), a general welcome message (e.g., "We are a haven for military families; come join us!"); or anything else you like! You can post an announcement through the 'Edit profile' screen...
...and it will display on the right side of your profile, below the map:
2) Events: you can now add listings for upcoming events your organization is hosting, which users will see on your profile. Simply click the 'add an event' link below your organization's description in your profile page...
...fill in the event info in the fields that appear...
...and your event will be displayed on your profile page:
3) Official responses to user reviews: we allow users to leave ratings and reviews about service providers listed in the Directory. We wanted these reviews to spur communication between you and your clients, so we added the ability to add an 'official response' to any user review left about your organization. Simply click the 'leave a response' link on any user comment on your profile...
...type in your response in the box that pops up...
...and your response will be displayed in a blue box directly below the user's comment:
Please note that to use all these features, you must be logged in and you must have already claimed your organization's profile on the Warrior Gateway.
All you service providers out there -- give these new features a spin and let us know what you think.