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FEATURE A D V A N C E D M A T E R I A L S & P R O C E S S E S | M A R C H 2 0 2 2 3 4 2 HTS ONLINE MEMBER COMMUNITY: LET’S KEEP THE DISCUSSION GOING! If you are an active member of the Heat Treating Society’s On- line Member Community (HTSOMC) on ASM Connect, you may have no- ticed an increase in activity in recent months, especially in the weeks lead- ing up to and after the Heat Treat 2021 conference in St. Louis. Over the past six months, the HTS Membership Committee has prioritized promoting the HTSOMC because: • It is a relatively new membership benefit that we expect to offer increasing value moving forward. • According to the 2020 ASM membership survey, networking opportunities and access to industry news and trends are two of the most valuable benefits of membership. As a place to meet new people, share industry news, and have technical discussions with technical experts, the HTSOMC should provide additional value in both of these key areas. • Professional societies such as ASM’s HTS—both the organization and its members—benefit from dialog, and the HTSOMC provides an additional platform for such dialog. GUEST DITORIAL If you have not already, I encourage you to create an ASM Connect account at connect.asminternational.org. Your Connect account will be linked to your existing ASM International account and, as an HTS member, you will automatically have access to the HTSOMC. We expect ac- tivity to continue increasing in the coming months and we would love for you to be a part of it! The HTS Membership Committee is also looking to expand to better represent our diverse membership and gain new perspectives and ideas. If you are interested in joining the committee, please contact Nicole Hale (nicole. hale@asminternational.org) or Collin Russe ll (crussell@ lanl.gov). Collin Russell R&D Engineer, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico The views expressed in this article are his own and do not represent the views of the Laboratory. This work was ap- proved for public release under LA-UR-21-32210. Russell