​The Greater Bethesda Chamber of Commerce is pleased and excited to announce that after an extensive interview process, Allie Williams, IOM, has been named President/CEO.
 
Williams brings more than 20 years’ experience as an association executive spending time at the helm of the Title VII Administrators Association (VIIAA), Corporate Responsibility Association (CRA), Director of Organizational Development at the Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives (ACCE) and Director of the Office of Chamber of Commerce Relations at the United States Chamber of Commerce. 

Guest Blog by Brandan Stuckey, Bethesda Transportation Solutions

I’m not sure how we entered a space where the same few platitudes are thrown about, seemingly every other sentence. Counting how many times you see words like normalize, robust, engage, or deliverables, used in our corporate lexicon can lead to the most intense interoffice game of bingo this side of Cordell Ave. Words, are powerful. Words have meaning. Words have impact. And there’s nothing more impactful than hearing vibrancy in the context of downtown. Vibrancy is often used when speaking of outdoor spaces. However, its usage must become more than the latest platitude; Vibrancy has to become a call to action. For instance, Bethesda Urban Partnership answered the call to help by creating the Streetery, a broad collaborative effort to sustain businesses during the pandemic. That’s Vibrancy.

Guest Blog by Joseph S. Barone, Network Bethesda

A recent Office Depot/OfficeMax Survey of over 1000 employees in the US asked the question:  How can employers better introduce new technologies?  
Here is how they responded:

• Provide more training (69%)
• Provide more IT support staff (44%)
• Increase the amount of time to adapt to new technologies (36%)
• Introduce new technologies less frequently (16%)
• Introduce fewer technologies overall (12%).

Although there is much to unpack here, with each of these, I want to take a little time on the first response: Provide more training.
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