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IMPORTANT PIEA UPDATE

PIEA members,

I know you haven't heard much from us since last spring. I was hoping that we would have some news for you regarding the status of the organization, but at this point we don't really have much to report.

You received a membership renewal from PMA today by e-mail. I thought they were mailing this and you would receive this listserve posting before you received the information from PMA. I got off a flight in San Diego to discover otherwise.

While PMA is no longer supporting any PIEA activities, they are offering a free trade show badge to the PMA@CES trade show in January if you renew your PMA membership by October 31. They have several other benefits of membership if you choose to renew, but we just wanted to make sure that you knew that your membership renewal was to PMA and not PIEA. None of these membership dues will go to PIEA.

We are waiting to hear back from the SPE board to see if they are interested in working with us to create a PIEA caucus within their organization. This might eventually lead to restarting the contest, but we don't have an answer to that question yet. And once we do hear back from SPE with the details of how this might work and the membership costs associated with this, it is the intent of Stan and myself to bring this to the PIEA board and members for your approval.

In the meantime we did want to let you know that SPE has offered to discount their memberships for this year to any PIEA member that wants to join their organization now. They will basically subtract the $35 PIEA membership from their normal rate, making their membership a $90 value. To receive this discount you will need to contact the SPE registrar by December 31 at 216-622-2733 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . This discount is available to all 2010-2011 PIEA members.

We will continue to use the PIEA Listserv and the PIEA Facebook page, along with the website (as long as we can) to keep you informed of what is happening.

Thanks for all the support.

Mark Murray
mmurray  @  atpi.org

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