Why join the Division of Small Chemical Businesses (SCHB)?

SCHB named a FINALIST in TWO ChemLuminary Award categories at #ACSPhilly 2016!

The Small Chemical Business Division of the American Chemical Society has been selected as a finalist for the following ChemLuminary Award(s):

1. Most Unique Project as Funded by a Division Innovative Project Grant
2. Global Engagement Award

 

 

-Jennifer Maclachlan, Public Relations Chair, SCHB

ACS Division of Small Chemical Business meetings and lunches at the 2016 #ACSSanDiego

SCHB EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING SAN DIEGO:

SCHB’s technical program will be in Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina, which is adjacent to the San Diego Convention Center, and runs Sunday-Tuesday. The first SCHB event is the Executive Committee Meeting, Saturday March 12, 2016, 6:00-9:00 p.m., and is open and all are welcome to attend; if you have an item for the agenda, please contact Abhi Kantak at secretary@acs-schb.org. Refreshments will be served, please RSVP at https://t.co/brJc37NmOG

SCHB BUSINESS MEETING SAN DIEGO:

SCHB will also hold its 2016 Business Meeting on Monday, 12:00-1:00 p.m. and lunch will be provided. Please RSVP at   https://t.co/oC1unEjR4K.

SCHB MONDAY/TUESDAY LUNCH RSVP LINKS:

SCHB, with PROF, will host Speaker and Member Luncheons, no cost to you. After you RSVP, you will be notified of the room number:

• Monday 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., RSVP at https://t.co/oC1unEjR4K
• Tuesday 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., RSVP at https://t.co/SnsR1TDXHv

SCHB offers networking opportunities and benefits for small chemical businesses

Presented at the Fall ACS National Meeting in San Francisco 2014

Title: SCHB offers networking opportunities and benefits for small chemical businesses

SCHB at SCI-MIX Monday August 11, 2014 8pm
With SCHB PR Chair, Jennifer Maclachlan

Abstract Body: In our thirty-fourth year, our mission remains the same: to aid in the formation, development and growth of small chemical businesses. We do this by continuously providing relevant programming and social events at ACS national and regional meetings for attendees who currently own and operate their own small chemical businesses as well as for those who are considering it. In 2012, SCHB began entrepreneurial programming with the Southeastern Pennsylvania (SEPACS), Northeastern (NESACS), and Georgia Local Sections. In 2013, with the assistance of an ACS IPG, SCHB arranged programming at other scientific society meetings, including AAAS, APS, and CLEO. In 2014, in collaboration with PROF, we hosted networking lunches for our speakers, member, and other interested persons. In 2015, SCHB will sponsor several symposia at Pacifichem. At this 2014 San Francisco meeting, SCHB invites you to attend our technical sessions, meet old friends and new connections at our reception, visit our expo booth and "discuss businesses," and join us for lunch. After the meeting, stay in touch with SCHB member via Linked-In, Facebook, Twitter and on the ACS Network.

ACS Chemical Innovation and Entrepreneurship Council role in job creation

Tuesday, August 12, 2014 10:20 AM
The Role of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic Development in Sustainability (08:30 AM - 12:40 PM)
BMGT Track
Cosponsored by MPPG and SCHB                 

Location: Moscone Center, North Bldg. San Francisco, CA
Room: 132


11 - ACS Chemical Innovation and Entrepreneurship Council role in job creation

Judy Giordon, Janet Bryant, Lisa Kemp, Jennifer Maclachlan, John R. Vercellotti, Carlyn Burton. ecosVC, Pelham, MA 01002, United States

The ability for chemists to develop and communicate the value of their research as solutions for addressing challenges and opportunities faced by people and the planet is critical for 1) expanding personal professional development and career opportunities, 2) creating economic development and jobs, and 3) for demonstrating the value of chemistry – the central science! The Chemical Innovation and Entrepreneurship Council (CIEC) was formed to ensure that all members of the ACS – regardless of career stage or aspirations – have the opportunities and connections to be innovators who can knowledgeably and successfully transform their research into sustainable solutions to market opportunities. Join us and hear how the CIEC is working across the ACS to develop and share with ACS members roadmaps each of us can use to help successfully take the journey from researcher to innovator to a potential “start –up” whether as an “intra”preneur within an organization or as an “entre”preneur out on your own. Both require the same skills!

Want to attend this meeting? Go to www.acs.org/meetings for more information. 
See the full lineup for this symposium below:

  The Role of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Economic Development in Sustainability uploaded by Jennifer Maclachlan

Cyber Security: What You Can Do to Protect Your Business: A Symposium & Panel Discussion at #ACSdallas

  Cyber Security: What You Can Do to Protect Your Business: A Symposium and Panel Discussion on the SCHB trac... by Jennifer Maclachlan

ACS Division of Small Chemical Businesses SCHB is your connection to entrepreneurial resources

Mukund Chorghade, chair@acs-schb.org,  Jennifer Maclachlan pr@acs-schb.org, Stan Seelig,  Sharon Vercellotti, David Deutsch, Patrick Kearney, Joseph Sabol, Anis Rahman,  Keisha Hylton-Rodic, Carlyn Burton, George Ruger.  ACS Division of Small Chemical Businesses, Natick, MA 01760-4205, United States The ACS Division of Small Chemical Businesses SCHB provides entrepreneurial programming and resources at ACS national and regional meetings. SCHB reaches out to its members who currently own and operate businesses in the chemical and related sectors, as well as to others who are  considering their own startup. In 2012, SCHB partnered with ACS local sections to bring  entrepreneurial programming to local section meetings. At the ACS 246th national meeting in  Indianapolis, September 2013, two ChemLuminary Awards were bestowed on SCHB for  outstanding collaboration between a Division and Local Section.  Also, at the Indianapolis meeting, SCHB hosted networking lunches for its members and the  meeting speakers (see links below for the ACS Dallas luncheons*). SCHB actively participates in the Chemical Innovation and Entrepreneurship  Council (CIEC), which fosters cooperative efforts between other ACS Divisions whose charters include entrepreneurship and business-related missions. Coupled with programming and events at  the national, regional and local level, and a strong social media presence on Linked-In, Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and the ACS Network, as well as a monthly member eblast, SCHB keeps its  members abreast of entrepreneurial resources, networking opportunities, and opportunities to  advance in the market.  To be presented at the following times/places during the  ACS Spring National Meeting 2014 Sunday, March 16, 2014 01:00 PM SCHB Poster Session (01:00 PM - 01:30 PM) Location: Sheraton Dallas Room: Lone Star Blrm C4 Monday, March 17, 2014 08:00 PM Sci-Mix (08:00 PM - 10:00 PM) Location: Dallas Convention Center Room: Hall F

*RSVP for the joint networking lunches at #ACSDallas with SCHB & PROF members, speakers and guests. Monday Lunch RSVP link is here. Tuesday Lunch RSVP link is here.

#NERM12~a @pidgirl's eye view: The lost post

Here's a previously unpublished blog post from October 2012 which never made it's way out of *Draft Mode* until I came across it today while working on my newsletter!

The 38th Northeast Regional Meeting (NERM) of the American Chemical Society hosted by the Rochester, NY Local Section September 30-October 3 2012, was my first opportunity to organize and facilitate three half day technical sessions for the ACS Division of Small Chemical Businesses. Earlier this year I organized  a social media symposium and SCI-MIX for SCHB at the Fall National Meeting and participated as a speaker in the True Stories of Success of Chemical Entrepreneurs in San Diego at the Spring National Meeting. 


At NERM for 2 minutes and already found the ACS President! At Science is FUN science teacher workshop. —L to R with George Ruger and Bassam Shakhashiri, ACS 2012 President.

Jennifer Maclachlan ‏@pidgirl

Now on the 2nd floor of the Radisson #NERM12 for Science is Fun demo with ACS President Bassam Shakhashiri pic.twitter.com/LbdZJAEs 

I stuck around before checking the symposium room for SCHB banner setup because I love listening to Bassam speak and decided to live tweet from the Science Teacher Workshop.
 

After setup while on the way to the opening reception I ran into Tom Gilbert from my Local Section. While chatting with him I told him about the upcoming NESACS Cape Cod Science Cafe~The Chemistry of Wine Event that my father and I had organized. Tom asked me to send him the information about the event and he even ended up making the trek to Cape Cod and attending!

Jennifer Maclachlan and Andy Jorgensen

As I circulated around the room I saw Bill Suits who introduced me to Andy Jorgensen. Turns out Andy is an old HNU PID customer of mine! I asked him if I could get a picture with him and post it on my company Facebook page and Tweet it. Andy agreed!

Sidebar: Bill and I served together on the ACS National Committee on Public Relations and Communications in 2011 but he and my father *go way back*. Bill used to sell the HNU PIDs back when he worked at Varian as a Chromatography Specialist.

George Ruger, Jennifer Maclachlan and Bill Suits

The majority of my SCHB speakers for the three half day sessions were  invited by me or by an introduction and recommendation from a common person. In addition to several email exchanges I also spoke to each of my speakers on the phone. Next time what I will do is introduce the speakers to one another in advance of the symposium and arrange a conference call~it makes such a difference when there has been some rehearsal some feeling of familiarity with one another up at the podium. This is especially essential for a panel discussion. Fortunately we had the session wide coffee break to make quick introductions amongst the panelists so they appeared comfortable.

Jennifer Maclachlan ‏@pidgirl

We're all set up and ready to rock this Monday at #NERM12!@ACSSCHB sessions are in Fitzhugh from 830 until 330 today.pic.twitter.com/7RjpyqD3

Monday morning kicked off with the SCHB flagship programming Best Practices for Entrepreneurs led by Andrew Basner from Syracuse speaking about his experience with the NSF-I Corporation program followed by the importance of intellectual property protection with local area patent attorneys from Heslin Rothenberg Farley and Mesiti PC. This particular session was very well orchestrated with three patent attorneys from the firm speaking on their expertise of topics ranging from copyright protection, trade secrets, patent protection and how all of these can be the determining factor in the success or failure of a small chemical business. This was followed by a facilitated panel discussion led by Bonnie Charpentier, American Chemical Society Board of Directors, Director, District VI

Below is the Best Practices for Entrepreneurs Program which includes presentation title, presenter name and affiliation

   http://www.scribd.com/doc/106382044/chemical-entrepreneurial-programming-at-nerm12"  style="text-decoration: underline;" >Chemical Entrepreneurial Programming at #NERM12

by http://www.scribd.com/jennifer_maclachlan"  style="text-decoration: underline;" >Jennifer Maclachlan

Below is the True Stories of Success by Local Rochester, NY Chemical Entrepreneurs including presentation title, presenter name and affiliation.

   http://www.scribd.com/doc/105241123/true-stories-of-success-nerm12"  style="text-decoration: underline;" >True Stories of Success #NERM12

by http://www.scribd.com/jennifer_maclachlan"  style="text-decoration: underline;" >Jennifer Maclachlan
Below is the COMPLETE program that I organized for the ACS Division of Small Chemical Businesses

   http://www.scribd.com/doc/104705027/Small-Chemical-Businesses-DIV-at-NERM12"  style="text-decoration: underline;" >Small Chemical Businesses DIV at #NERM12

by http://www.scribd.com/jennifer_maclachlan"  style="text-decoration: underline;" >Jennifer Maclachlan

Resources for Startups at #NERM2013

  Resources for Startups at #NERM2013 by Jennifer Maclachlan

Discover the entrepreneurial resources available to ACS Division of Small Chemical Businesses members

2013 Northeast Regional Meeting, New Haven, CT 

Document ID: NERM1734

Program Area: RM_NERM: Regional Meetings

Symposium Title: (NERM 1030) Small Chemical Businesses - Best Practices for Entrepreneurs Thursday Afternoon at 3:05pm at the Omni Hotel, New Haven, CT #NERM2013 Wooster Room

NEW! Access the FULL presentation below

Discover the entrepreneurial resources available to American Chemical Society Division of Small Chemical Businesses Members from Jennifer Maclachlan

INSTITUTIONS

1. ACS Division of Small Chemical Businesses, Public Relations, Sandwich, Massachusetts, MA, 02563, United States

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AUTHORS

1. Jennifer Maclachlan¹ , Jennifer, ACS Division of Small Chemical Businesses, Public Relations

2. Bonk¹ , Peter, ACS Division of Small Chemical Businesses, Past Chair ACS Division of Small Chemical Businesses

3. S. Chorghade¹ , Mukund, ACS Division of Small Chemical Businesses, Immediate Past Chair ACS Division of Small Chemical Businesses

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L to R: Mukund Chorghade, SCHB Past President, Jennifer Maclachlan, SCHB PR Chair, Joseph Sabol, SCHB Program Chair, George Ruger, SCHB Member & Symposium Organizer at the SCHB Social Event at #ACSPhilly

Title: Discover the entrepreneurial resources available to ACS Division of Small Chemical Businesses members

Abstract Body: The ACS Division of Small Chemical Businesses offers many entrepreneurial resources to it's members. From networking opportunities at local section, National and Regional Meetings to social media connnectivity with other business-minded chemists via SCHB social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Linked-In and to members only content on the ACS Network, SCHB is the social network you want to utilize. Find out what member benefits this small division of ACS has to offer you with your startup or growing small chemical business.

@pidgirl's 2013 presentations

From most recent:

Northeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society #NERM2013

Organized and presiding over the ACS Division of Small Chemical Businesses technical program which includes three half days of flagship programming including Resources for Startups, Best Practices for Chemical Entrepreneurs and True Stories of Success from Chemical Entrepreneurs. 

My presentations at #NERM2013:

So you're Linked-In, now what?

Social media marketing best practices for entrepreneurs

Discover the entrepreneurial resources available to Small Chemical Businesses from SCHB

The following highlights my participation at #ACSIndy

Symposium organizer for the ACS Chemical Information Division CINF:
Role and Value of Social Networking in Advancing the Chemical Sciences
Date: Monday September 9, 2013
Location: Indiana Convention Center RM 143
Presiding: Jennifer Maclachlan and Antony Williams 
Morning session
Afternoon session*featuring #wherescarmen 

*Afternoon session includes facilitated panel discussion led by Carmen Drahl, Senior Editor of C&EN and attendee workshop


Symposium organizer for the ACS Division of Environmental Chemistry ENVR:
Air Monitoring Oral Session 
Date: Monday September 9, 2013 1:30pm-5:30pm
Location: CROWNE PLAZA AT HISTORIC UNION STATION
Room: Penn Station B
Presiding: Jack Driscoll 

Symposium organizer for the ACS Division of Small Chemical Businesses SCHB: 
STEM Women in Innovation and Investing
Date: Tuesday September 10, 2013 

Symposium organizer for the ACS Division of Environmental Chemistry ENVR:
Air Monitoring Poster Session 

Earlier in the year:

February 16, 2013

Facilitated a career workshop at AAAS Boston called Entrepreneurial Cravings? Learn how to satisfy them

ACS Division of Small Chemical Business representatives Jennifer Maclachlan, Mukund Chorghade and Jack Driscoll met with AAAS attendees in the career development lounge after the workshop to discuss specific chemistry career tracks. See my blog post here.

February 16 and 17 2013 facilitating and staffing the American Chemical Society: Northeastern Section and Division of Small Chemical Businesses table at Family Science Days Hynes Convention Center. 

American Chemical Society Spring National Meeting New Orleans, LA

April 7-11, 2013 

Organized and presided by Jennifer Maclachlan: Arsenic Contamination in Food and Water

Organized and presided by Jennifer Maclachlan: Advancements in Air Monitoring

Presented: How social media influences sales at a small chemical business 

Cambridge Science Festival  
Session organizer. Session that I organized on Climate Science: The Conversation had to be cancelled due to the Boston Marathon tragedy.

Participated in Science Carnival. Provided the same materials/experiments that were used at the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History Science on the Street event. See blog post about that here.

Jennifer Maclachlan & Joseph Sabol at ENVR posters #ACSIndy

Central Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, ACS Division of Small Chemical Businesses 
Co-Organizer ACS Division of Small Chemical Businesses program track: Small Business Entrepreneurs Tool Kit and Success Stories 

ACS Division of Small Chemical Businesses member benefits and core programming

  Member Benefits and Core Programming ACS Division of Small Chemical Businesses by Jennifer Maclachlan

Sunday morning posters with coffee & networking #ACSNOLA

Join us for coffee and networking at the Sunday morning poster session at #ACSNOLA hosted by the American Chemical Society Division of Small Chemical Businesses at the Doubltree Hotel 300 Canal Street Room Crescent B 

8:30am-9:30am

How social media marketing influences sales at a small chemical business

This presentation has been accepted for the technical program of the 245th ACS National Meeting that will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, April 7-11, 2013.

PAPER ID: 20037
PAPER TITLE: “How social media marketing influences sales at a small chemical business”

DIVISION: SCHB: Division of Small Chemical Businesses
SESSION: SCHB Poster Session Sunday Morning April 7, 2013 
PRESENTATION FORMAT: Poster

PID Analyzers, LLC launched their social media marketing plan in November of 2008 with a monthly E-Newsletter utilizing Constant ContactTM. One year later, in November 2009, aFacebook Business Page, the corporate blog “The Analyzer Source,” a LinkedIn page, and two Twitter accounts for owners Jack Driscoll (Twitter handle @pidguy) and Jennifer Maclachlan (Twitter handle @pidgirl) were established. We began to publish regular updates on LinkedIn while continuously building our own professional networks on LinkedIn. In the last year we addedGoogle+, Pinterest, and Tumblr to our marketing efforts. We are reaching a unique audience with each social media platform and we offer value with each post; the result is that our following is increasing. How do we do this? We note what people "like,"retweet, or comment on and consistently make our next post not about our products, but about people, places, and things that interest us and make us more human and less corporate. This poster will explore how we have built relationships with customers and prospective customers via social media marketing and how it has translated to sales of our analyzers.

  Sunday morning at ACS NOLA: SCHB posters by   Jennifer Maclachlan

@pidguy's true story of developing & marketing an environmental instrumentation company: a forty year perspective

Join us on the ACS Division of Small Chemical Businesses Program Track at the ACS National Meeting in New Orleans to hear @pidguy's *true story*

26 - Developing and marketing an environmental instrumentation company: A forty year perspective

Jack N. Driscoll, PID Analyzers, LLC, Sandwich, MA 02563, United States

HNU Systems, Inc., was founded by Driscoll & Spaziani in December 1973, intending to develop a new technology, photoionization detection (PID), for the analysis of environmental pollutants. We went to NIOSH in Cincinnati to explore potential uses of PID in industrial hygiene. During our visit, a scientist at NIOSH said, "If you had a portable instrument that would measure vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) at 1 ppm, we would be very interested." We went to a gas company the next day to get a lecture bottle of VCM and that afternoon we had a VCM monitor. A working prototype portable (battery operated) PID was built for the AIHCE show and, two months later, we got our first order from BFG. Once the evaluation period was over, we received an order for 50 units from BFG. In addition, BFG licensed their process for manufacturing VCM worldwide and included photoionization as the method of choice for VCM monitoring. We were off and running with VCM for the first few years. The next 35 years included rapid growth and then contraction as the economic times and markets changed. A number of years of economic struggles was followed by reorganizing and forming a new Company, PID Analyzers. Since bank financing has become more difficult in the past decade, PID has reverted to self funding to continue growing. These financial issues along with changing sources for parts will be discussed in detail.

Tuesday, April 9, 2013 11:15 AM
True Stories of Success from Chemical Entrepreneurs (08:00 AM - 11:50 AM)
Location: DoubleTree by Hilton New Orleans
Room: Crescent B

American Chemical Society members who were registered for the New Orleans Spring meeting can access the full presentation here with their ACS login. Otherwise ACS members and nonmembers can access this and all the Presentations on demand from #ACSNOLA with a paid subscription. See this link for pricing info. 

How social media marketing influences sales at a small chemical business

This presentation has been accepted for the technical program of the 245th ACS National Meeting that will be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, April 7-11, 2013.

PAPER ID: 20037
PAPER TITLE: “How social media marketing influences sales at a small chemical business” 

DIVISION: SCHB: Division of Small Chemical Businesses
SESSION: SCHB Poster Session Sunday April 7, 2013 & SCIMIX Monday April 8,2013 

PRESENTATION FORMAT: Poster


PID Analyzers, LLC launched their social media marketing plan in November of 2008 with a monthly E-Newsletter utilizing Constant ContactTM. One year later, in November 2009, a Facebook Business Page, the corporate blog “The Analyzer Source,” a LinkedIn page, and two Twitter accounts for owners Jack Driscoll (Twitter handle @pidguy) and Jennifer Maclachlan (Twitter handle @pidgirl) were established. We began to publish regular updates on LinkedIn while continuously building our own professional networks on LinkedIn. In the last year we added Google+, Pinterest, and Tumblr to our marketing efforts. We are reaching a unique audience with each social media platform and we offer value with each post; the result is that our following is increasing. How do we do this? We note what people "like,"retweet, or comment on and consistently make our next post not about our products, but about people, places, and things that interest us and make us more human and less corporate. This poster will explore how we have built relationships with customers and prospective customers via social media marketing and how it has translated to sales of our analyzers.

Small Chemical Business Symposium Report at Nova 10/11/12

Award-winning symposium: Starting and Financing a Small Chemical Business

Photo by M.Z. Hoffman L to R: M. Morello, S. Vercellotti, J. Maclachlan, J. Sabol, S.Seelig, M. Chorghade, M. Bruce, J. Driscoll, T. Barton

This award winning symposium earned a ChemLuminary award at the 15th Annual Awards Ceremony September 10, 2013 in Indianapolis, IN  for Outstanding Collaboration between a Local Section and a Division: Northeastern Local Section and the Division of Small Chemical Businesses

Guest blog post by Jack Driscoll, PR Chair NESACS

Waltham, MA, Oct.11,2012- When Nova Biomedical Corp. in Waltham, MA agreed to host the 926^th meeting of the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society (NESACS), we asked whether we could add an afternoon symposium to the venue and received an enthusiastic “yes”.  Our section, NESACS, is the largest of the 187 sections of the ACS with 7,500 members mostly in the greater Boston area. Most people are surprised to hear that.  The symposium program is described here.

 The program included a summary of the ACS programs for Entrepreneurs, programs available from MA Small Business Development Center, the startup of Nova in the nineteen seventies, conventional  and

SBA financing. Other subjects included advantages of executive education for Tech entrepreneurs, non dilutive and dilutive equity funding and an enlightening talk on the advantages of tweeting and other social media for marketing your businesses. Madeleine Jacobs, Executive Director & CEO of the American Chemical Society, the world’s largest scientific organization with 164,000 members talked about jobs and ACS programs for entrepreneurs that is described at http://www.acs.org/ei. We had a number of our NESACS  members describe “True Stories of Chemical Entrepreneurs”. The first described how he worked with Senators Kennedy and Dole to get government R&D funding for small businesses in the early 80’s. This became the NSF SBIR programs. Another, of the Movie “21” fame (MIT entrepreneurs develop a system to predict the cards in blackjack) and a serial entrepreneur describes four of her new ventures in biofuels, drug discovery etc.  The last true story was about of the start up of a contract drug discovery company. 

We had very lively discussions on financing small companies and how the Nova start up (no venture capital just bank financing) in the 1970’s could not be duplicated today.

We had 50 participants at this meeting with 30% NESACS members, 30% from Universities,  30% small business owners and a number of  patent attorneys. We also had Vivian Walworth, an entrepreneur, attend the seminar. On Thursday evening she received an award for being a 70 year member of the ACS. She is still very active in NESACS activities.

This symposium was organized by Dr. Mukund Chorgade, President,   Chorgade Enterprises  and immediate past chair of the Small Chemical Business Div. of the ACS, and Dr. Jack Driscoll, President, PID Analyzers, LLC, and Public Relations Chair of NESACS.

The symposium was sponsored by NESACS, the NESACS Government Relations Group,  the Small Chemical Business  Division of the ACS  and Nova Biomedical. 

Prepared by

Dr. Jack Driscoll,

Public Relations Chair of NESACS