GAWDA Spring Management Conference to utilize social media.

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Scheduled for April 28 to May 1, GAWDA's 2012 Spring Management Conference equips members with best practices and takeaways for everyday business. Welding and Gases Today is taking educational and networking opportunities of conference to the Web, providing live updates from show floor throughout event, and delivering daily blog with more in-depth observations, analysis, and gossip. Editors of the magazine will also be posting updates to Twitter.



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GAWDA Spring Management Conference Utilizes Social Media



Welding & Gases Today uses Twitter, blogging, to provide live updates from Baltimore.

Dewitt, NY - The Gases and Welding Distributors Association's 2012 Spring Management Conference, April 28 - May 1 in Baltimore, Maryland, equips members with best practices and takeaways for everyday business. Welding & Gases Today is taking the amazing educational and networking opportunities of the SMC to the Web, providing live updates from the show floor throughout the event. Welding & Gases Today is the leading magazine for the gases and welding equipment industry.

The 2012 Spring Management Conference will be held at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel. The editors of Welding & Gases Today, GAWDA's member journal, will be on-site throughout the conference, posting updates to Twitter. Whether in attendance or not, members of the gases and welding industry are invited to follow GasWeldEdge on Twitter (http://www.twitter.com/GasWeldEdge) to receive updates and take part in the conversation.

Throughout the SMC, Welding & Gases Today will also deliver a daily blog with more in-depth observations, analysis and gossip. The daily blog will be publicly available on Welding & Gases Today's Executive Dialogue (http://www.weldingandgasestoday.org/blogs/Devin-OToole/), a gases and welding industry blog aimed at creating discussion and dialogue with GAWDA professionals through comments.

As a resource for conference-goers, Welding & Gases Today offers an online guide to Contact Booth Program exhibitors (http://www.weldingandgasestoday.org/index.php/2012/03/guide-to-smc-exhibitors/ ). The Contact Booth Program takes place Monday, April 30, from 1:00 pm to 4:00 pm. More than 120 exhibitors will be showcasing the latest gases and welding products, services and technology.

To stay current and keep up to date with GAWDA's Spring Management Conference, visit Welding & Gases Today Online at www.WeldingAndGasesToday.org and on Twitter at www.twitter.com/GasWeldEdge. For more information, contact Devin O'Toole, content editor at Welding & Gases Today at devin@weldingandgasestoday.org or 315-445-2347.

About GAWDA

Founded in 1945, the Gases and Welding Distributors Association (GAWDA) is the premier source for manufacturing knowledge, education and networking. Through its member journals (www.weldingandgasestoday.org), e-magazines, newsletters and industry wiki (www.gawdawiki.org), GAWDA connects suppliers of gases and manufacturers of related equipment as well as manufacturers of welding equipment and distribution leaders, for the purpose of safely delivering optimal solutions to the users of those products. GAWDA publications are the industry's voice for all matters related to the latest technology and the most up-to-date processes spanning welding equipment and products and services related to industrial, medical, specialty and cryogenic gases. A 501(c)3 organization, GAWDA members are located throughout North America.

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