Why should you join POCA?
Let members of POCA's governing body, the General Circle, tell you why they think POCA is great!
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Thanks for making this video, you guys! In addition to all your articulate explanations of why join POCA, I think it’s cool for people to get a sense of what POCA meetings are like. If you wonder where all the stuff that POCA does originates — an awful lot of it comes from hardworking volunteers in Google Chat meetings. Also, I’m impressed that you all restrained yourselves from using the Google function that lets you put on glasses and moustaches and/or devil horns during the chat. Most of the POCA meetings I’ve been to involved devil horns at some point.
Other GC members not present in the video are:
Tatyana Ryevzina- Events- works at Sarana Community Acupunture
Laura Rosenthal-POCA BOD member and link to GC-works at Providence Community Acupuncture
Melissa Tiernan-Clinic Success-works at Providence Community Acupuncture
Elizabeth Ropp- Clinic Success- works at Manchester Acupuncture Studio