{"id":192,"date":"2015-09-16T20:34:39","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T19:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/sopenet\/2015\/09\/16\/top-10-sope-chapter-tips\/"},"modified":"2015-09-16T20:34:39","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T19:34:39","slug":"top-10-sope-chapter-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sopenet.org\/de\/top-10-sope-chapter-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 SoPE Chapter Tips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many are interested in learning more about what is involved with creating and leading a SOPE chapter. Here are some tips :<\/p>\n<p>1. Remember, the puposes of SoPE chapters are to 1) advance the mission of SoPE-getting ideas to patients-by providing members with education, resources, networks, mentors, experiential learning and connections to investors, 2) recruit dues paying members, and 3) recruit partners and sponsors<\/p>\n<p>2. SoPE chapters are led by MDs\/DOs in collaboration with other executive committe members of the chapter who do not have to be physicians.<\/p>\n<p>3. Start with building the community of interest using word of mouth and extensive socia media and include medical societies, business schools, bioscience assns, eco-devo agencies and other health professional organizations<\/p>\n<p>4. Identify a partner willing to provide a free, conveniently located venue to host regularly scheduled meetings<\/p>\n<p>5. Identify hosts who are willing to defray the costs of food at the meetings and chapter sponsors.<\/p>\n<p>6. Invite speakers from your local bioimedical and health ecosystem to give educational and informational presentations.<\/p>\n<p>7. Consider a 5 minute bull pen where members can pitch to other. These should not be a public solicitation for money or infomercials<\/p>\n<p>8. Use this SoPE website to inform chapter members about upcoming events and schedules.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>9. Require that attendees be SoPE dues paying members unless otherwise invited as guests to learn more<\/p>\n<p>10. Use SoPE resources to help you with marketing, web postings or other tips from chapter leaders. Jeff Hausfeld at <a href=\"mailto:jhausfeld@sopenet.org\">jhausfeld@sopenet.org<\/a>&nbsp;is the SoPE Chapter Coordinator and available to answer questions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your interest.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many are interested in learning more about what is involved with creating and leading a SOPE chapter. Here are some tips : 1. Remember, the puposes of SoPE chapters are to 1) advance the mission of SoPE-getting ideas to patients-by providing members with education, resources, networks, mentors, experiential learning and connections to investors, 2) recruit&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sopenet.org\/de\/top-10-sope-chapter-tips\/\" title=\"Read Top 10 SoPE Chapter Tips\">Weiter &raquo;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sopenet.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sopenet.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sopenet.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sopenet.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sopenet.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sopenet.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sopenet.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sopenet.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sopenet.org\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}