05.05.09
Posted in PRSA News at 4:39 pm by Stephanie Skordas
Five reasons why you should attend Tuesday’s PRSA Tar Heel meeting at the Airport Marriott:
1. Our speaker is KD Paine, a social media measurement maven/guru/diva. Not only should you see her in person to soak up all her social media measurement wisdom, but you should follow her on Twitter and read her blog too.
2. In addition to a fabulous speaker, these chapter meetings give you a chance to network and make connections with folks in your field.
3. Have you priced webinars, teleseminars and conferences these days? Our monthly meetings are an economical way to continue your professional development. Many organizations are cutting back on professional development for staff members, and this is an affordable way to keep growing and learning and honing your personal brand, even if your organization doesn’t pick up the tab.
4. You could find your next job at meeting like this one.
5. Okay, I admit it. The desserts. They’re always scrumptious.
Register today at www.prsatarheel.org. Don’t wait til the last minute. I know folks who are driving over from the Triangle to attend this event. The desserts taste much better when you actually have a seat at the table.
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Posted in PRSA News at 2:28 pm by elizabethmckinney
by Bob Conn, APR
Vice President, Professional Development
Save the date–Thursday, Sept. 10– for our annual Professional Development Seminar–an opportunity for a more intensive education opportunity than is available in our monthly luncheons. The chapter’s seminar committee is already hard at work planning the all-day meeting, which will be at High Point University. So block out the whole day now, or even schedule a vacation day, for a seminar you won’t want to miss.
Last year’s Professional Development Seminar at Elon University focused on communicating in a crisis and featured speakers who had handled some of the biggest PR crises in the past several decades. The 2007 seminar, at the Victory Junction Gang Camp near Randleman, focused on new technologies.
The committee is using the results of the recent chapter survey that got reaction to the prior seminars to help them plan this year’s seminar. Thank you for taking part. (If you haven’t taken the survey, do so now.)
Over the next several weeks, the committee will be planning the program. Watch this space for details!
If you have additional thoughts since you filled out the survey, the chair is Elizabeth McKinney, APR, and the members are Tarah Jakubiak, John Luecke, APR, Samantha Hargrove and Beth Bartlett. Feel free to talk to them or to me.
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