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Season's Greetings ,

The holiday season brings memories of times past, and hopes for all that the New Year can bring. May your holidays be filled with happiness and health, good cheer, and the joy of family and friends.

Wishing you all the joys of the season and best wishes for a fantastic 2010.

Please note, the Chamber office will be closed December 24 - January 3, 2010.

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Successfully advocating for businesses in San Diego would not be possible without our dedicated members. The Chamber appreciates its members who have gone above and beyond in 2009 to fundraise, volunteer, and push for legislation that makes our region the best possible place to do business.

Special thanks to the following members for their contributions in 2009:

Paul Robinson and Neil Hyytinen, Hecht Solberg Robinson Goldberg & Bagley LLP

Kamal Muilenburg, San Diego Business Healthcare Connection, and Mike Bardin, Scripps Health

Lee Burdick, Higgs Fletcher & Mack, and Chris Todd , Wingert, Grebing, Brubaker & Goodwin

Donna Jones, Sheppard Mullin, and Rikki Schroeder, RMA

Marcela Escobar-Eck

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Build quality connections and commit your networking events to help others. Check out the Chamber Source for more tips on how to get the most out of your networking strategy.

Happy Holidays!

Bill Holman
Vice President, External Affairs
San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce

Business After Five Mixer - January 14

The January mixer at Language World USA will include exciting language demo lessons to celebrate internationalism within San Diego and to connect Chamber members through a unique experience! Join us in the new year to mix and mingle with at least 250 Chamber members and start your year off with great business relationships.

139th Annual Dinner - February 3, 2010

The event brings a Who's Who of our region's business and government leaders together to one event, on one night, at one place. This is truly the networking event of the year with over 1,000 business and elected leaders expected to attend.

Interested in Hosting a Mixer?

Hosting an event is a prime opportunity to
promote your business to a captive
audience while displaying firsthand the
quality of your product, service and facility.
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The Chamber Academy is dedicated to educate and cultivate the business community throughout the region by providing informational seminars and workshops. Chamber Academy is complimentary for San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce members, thanks to our sponsor Bank of America.

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Extending your Development Runway: A Venture Capital Perspective - January 8
The Venture Capital Market has dropped over $10B in 2009. This is a good time to be creative and look for alternative paths to extend your development runway. Canada and Saskatchewan have unique programs and technology that may provide different alternatives.

Unlocking the Secrets: The Power of Strategic Alliances - January 20
This in-depth session dissects the importance of strategic alliances for anyone interested in becoming an excellent networker.

Unlocking the Secrets: The Art of Giving a Presentation - January 26
Learn how to show-off what you do and share what makes your business, product or service unique.

PDF Safety

Back in that day Adobe PDFs were the safe alternative to Word documents, but times change. Adobe wanted to add functionality to the PDF format so they introduced JavaScript to PDF files. JavaScript is a very powerful programming language that is used all over the web by both good guys and bad guys.