August 9, 2011
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News & Updates
- NEW! IABC/Toronto 2011 Volunteer Recruitment Night
- NEW! PIC Presents: Marketing on a Tight Budget
- Call for student newsletter contributions
- FREE IABC membership offer for educators
- Supercharge your summer reading
- IABC Canada Western Region Conference – Whistler, BC
- Have you signed-up for IABC/Toronto’s CareerLine e-job notification service yet? It’s a FREE membership benefit!
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Events Calendar
September 7, 2011
PIC Presents: Marketing on a Tight Budget
September 21, 2011
IABC/Toronto Volunteer Recruitment Night
September 27, 2011
Coming Soon! Get Known, Get Remembered: Get blogging (seminar)
November 6-8, 2011
IABC Canada West Whistler Conference
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NEW! IABC/Toronto 2011 Volunteer Recruitment Night
Wednesday, September 21, 2011, 6 to 8 p.m., Pantages Hotel, Rehearsal Hall 3, Third Fl, 200 Victoria Street, Toronto
IABC/TORONTO MEMBERS ONLY!
Want to volunteer with IABC/Toronto?
We’d love to have you! We just couldn’t do what we do without the help and dedication of our fabulous volunteers. If you’re interested in learning more about volunteering, please join us at our upcoming Volunteer Recruitment event. You can chat one on one with IABC/Toronto Board members about volunteer opportunities available, and meet fellow members. Whether it’s an expertise you’d like to share or a skill you’re looking to develop, there’s something for everyone. It’s free, and you can register here.
If you are not able to attend this event but are interested in volunteering with IABC/Toronto, please be sure to complete a volunteer interest form. Completing a volunteer form helps us get a better sense of your interests and assists us in your placement. Please go to http://toronto.iabc.com/members-area/volunteering/sign-up-form/
NEW! PIC Presents: Marketing on a Tight Budget
Wednesday, September 7, 2011, 6 to 9 p.m., location to be announced shortly
Featuring: Tom Kaufmann, founder of TK Enterprises Inc.
Whether you run a small or large business, you need a strategy to achieve your marketing goals. “Effective marketing is not just a collection of random acts”, says presenter Tom Kaufmann.
There are many ways you can invest a small amount of money. Your business is a business, so treat it like one and invest in it, even if your budget is small.
By coming to this presentation, you will learn:
- The most effective marketing tools to use to promote your business.
- How to craft an “elevator pitch” that works.
- The “right” way to network.
For a preview of this event, listen to a podcast of PIC Chair Donna Papacosta interviewing Tom Kaufmann.
Registration Fees*:
- $22: IABC member ($24.86 with HST)
- $32: Non-member ($36.16 with HST)
*Advance registration and payment is required. Registrations and payments will NOT be accepted at the door.
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Call for student newsletter contributions
IABC is seeking contributions for upcoming Student Connection e-newsletters. To get your creative juices flowing, past newsletter topics have provided insight to young professionals, advice on career path navigation as well as keeping students in the loop about hot industry topics and trends. Future articles can be on any communication-based topic and tailored to IABC’s student audience. Anyone interested in authoring a piece for the newsletter should contact Student Services.
The IABC Student Connection is a bi-monthly e-newsletter distributed to more than 1,000 students, educators and professional communicators worldwide. The purpose of the newsletter is to provide IABC student members with content and information that helps them prepare to enter the communication profession. IABC strives for the highest quality and diversity of information possible through a mixture of professional development/advice pieces, feature articles on current industry trends, interviews with top communication professionals, job searching tips, tools, resources and news of interest.
FREE IABC membership offer for educators
In an effort to grow student membership, IABC is offering a free year of membership to any educator who promotes IABC membership to students at their campus. Educators can promote IABC membership and benefits via their classes, clubs or advising. Please contact Student Servicesfor more details.
Accredited communications professional, educator, and IABC/Toronto past president Leslie Hetherington shares how students will benefit from joining IABC and how she integrates IABC-related material into her curriculum.
“IABC offers access to diverse resources on communication best practices, as well as professional communicators, who can offer students insight for building their skills and network. When time permits, volunteering can create invaluable growth opportunities for emerging communicators. Where relevant, I incorporate content from IABC research, articles and speakers into readings, lesson plans and class discussions.”
Leslie Hetherington, MBA, APR
Part-time Professor, School of Business,
Humber College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning
Supercharge your summer reading Booklet
Tired of reading the best sellers? Are you looking for a riveting read with best practices and the GTA's best communications campaigns? Download the IABC/Toronto OVATION Awards Winning Entries Book now! The Book is free for members. If you're not a member, email toronto-info@iabc.com to order your copy for $40 plus HST.
IABC Canada Western Region Conference – Whistler, BC!
Experience the Best of the Best at the IABC Canada Western Region Conference in picturesque Whistler, BC, November 6-8, 2011.
The Whistler conference delivers top speakers and sessions in three key areas: Personal Best for professional development, Best Practices in tactics and case studies and the Best are Back all star speakers from past conferences. Sessions feature project and change management, building your own brand and communications planning, best practices to advance your skills in social media, as well as measurement and crisis communications.
The CWR conference is the best value conference available – and when you register early, you save even more. Early bird registration closes August 31, 2011.
Visit the conference website at http://cwr.iabc.com/conference for details. To register online, visit: http://cwr.iabc.com/conference/registration/
Have you signed-up for IABC/Toronto’s CareerLine e-job notification service yet? It’s a FREE membership benefit!
Since January 1, 2011, more than 200 new job postings have been placed on IABC/Toronto’s CareerLine job board. When IABC/Toronto members sign up, they will automatically receive e-mail about job listings shortly after they are placed on CareerLine. The sooner you know, the sooner you can apply.
Be in the loop; subscribe to the e-job notification service. To protect your privacy, we need your permission to subscribe—just click on e-job notification subscription and indicate your name and what e-mail address you would like to have e-job notifications sent to (each IABC/Toronto member can subscribe one e-mail address to the service).
Some of the latest positions listed on CareerLine and sent to e-Job subscribers are:
- Manager, Internal Communications
- Communications Advisor
- Manager, Employee Communications
- Director, Policy, Partnership and Government Relations
- Consultant
- Senior Consultant, Healthcare Practice
- Manager, Public Relations - Products
- Senior Communications Officer
- Communications Assistant
- Bilingual Online Communications Coordinator
Have a job position needing qualified candidates? For only $230 plus HST ($280 plus HST for companies that do not employ an IABC member), you can post your job listing and have access to more than 1,700 communication professionals in the GTA. For more information, please go to http://toronto.iabc.com/careerline/
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