News and updates from SEMA's councils and committees.

Nominations for the 2011 SEMA Chairman-Elect and Board of Directors are due Thursday, January 6, 2011. Take a moment to tell us about whom you would recommend as a potential nominee for the Chairman-Elect position and/or for a Board member position. Be sure to include qualification information. Please complete and submit the nomination form.

While groups of any kind naturally lend themselves to job opportunities, social networks can give your next career move a real bounce if used expertly. Not surprisingly, the best places to start are on the networks with millions of users: LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook. [Read more]

No one can predict the future, of course, but experience is a type of barometer. As we move into the new year, SEMA News called on the wisdom of SEMA's council leaders to provide their opinions about what's just down the road. [Read more]

News and updates from SEMA's councils and committees.

News and updates from SEMA's councils and committees.

News and updates from SEMA's councils and committees.

The year 1990 seems like a lifetime ago. That year brought our industry the Ford Explorer and the Acura NSX. Chevy started using the song "Like a Rock" in its advertising campaigns. Dale Earnhardt was crowned the Winston Cup champion for the fourth time. The highly anticipated racing movie Days of Thunder was released. E-mail wasn't available to the masses in 1990, and there were only 12 million people worldwide who owned cell phones (compared to 4.6 billion today). Compact discs were all the rage and were taking over cassette tapes in cars across the country. Web surfing? There was nowhere to go. There was no AOL, no Google, no YouTube, no Twitter and no Facebook. How did we ever survive? [Read more]