<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7379220441015058950</id><updated>2012-02-16T23:03:07.481-05:00</updated><category term='january'/><category term='IABC'/><category term='2012'/><category term='communication'/><category term='corporate marketing'/><category term='IABC/RICHMOND'/><category term='traditional and digital media'/><category term='Recap'/><category term='PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT'/><category term='ACCREDITATION'/><title type='text'>IABC/Richmond</title><subtitle type='html'>The Richmond chapter of IABC offers professional development meetings on the first Thursday of each month, except during the months of July and August. The meetings are usually held from 11:45 a.m. until 1:30 p.m.
Unless specified, cost is $25 for members and students; $30 for non-members. Visit the Registration page for more details.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.iabcrichmond.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7379220441015058950/posts/default'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.iabcrichmond.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Elle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14552430268183388997</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_x5BwIWhb6DM/S3M-yA7iHrI/AAAAAAAAErI/NFixWZn6jqM/S220/DSC02055.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>19</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7379220441015058950.post-2343716307761250420</id><published>2012-01-29T09:00:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2012-02-06T15:02:18.705-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT'/><title type='text'>March Program and Luncheon</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Lessons Learned from Communicating in a Crisis: Staying Calm when the Earth Shakes Your Workplace Apart&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Speaker:&lt;/strong&gt; Dr. Deborah Pettit, Superintendent of Louisa County Public Schools&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Date:&lt;/strong&gt; Thursday, March 1, 2012 &lt;strong&gt;Time:&lt;/strong&gt; 11:45 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cost:&lt;/strong&gt; $25 for members and full-time students; $30 for non-members.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Location:&lt;/strong&gt; H&amp;amp;A Architects &amp;amp; Engineers | &lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=4880+Sadler+Road,+Suite+300,+Glen+Allen,+VA+23060&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;amp;sspn=66.66237,106.787109&amp;amp;hnear=4880+Sadler+Rd+%23300,+Glen+Allen,+Virginia+23060&amp;amp;t=m&amp;amp;z=17" target="_blank"&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; to view map&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="background-color: #ffd966;"&gt;Register:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.iabcrichmond.com/p/rsvp.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Click here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;to register by February 28&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dr. Deborah Pettit Superintendent of Louisa County Public Schools, will share some of the challenges she faced after the 5.8 magnitude earthquake struck the little town of&amp;nbsp;Mineral and made two schools completely unusable. As the central spokesperson for the crisis, she had to provide ongoing information on a timely basis to a wide variety of audiences.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dr. Pettit will give tips about how to handle crisis communications and how to deal with local and national news as well as other media sources.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We’ll learn:&lt;br /&gt;• If she followed a crisis communication plan or whether she had to wing it&lt;br /&gt;• Her support system for getting information&lt;br /&gt;• Her role in helping the county come together quickly to resolve a bad situation&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;About Our Speaker:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Y2M8XYZQ9f8/TyDEEa3r-TI/AAAAAAAAABc/hIj1lZA1mqQ/s1600/drpettit.bmp"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5701772708462459186" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Y2M8XYZQ9f8/TyDEEa3r-TI/AAAAAAAAABc/hIj1lZA1mqQ/s320/drpettit.bmp" style="float: left; height: 181px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 138px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;Throughout her educational career, Dr. Pettit has served as a teacher, reading specialist, principal, central office administrator, and now the Division Superintendent for the past five years. She received a Master’s Degree in Reading and a Doctorate in Instruction from The University of Virginia and has served as an adjunct professor for UVA as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is Dr. Pettit’s goal as Superintendent to support teachers and staff as they provide a world class education for our students. In efforts to maintain a close relationship with the school’s staff members, Dr. Pettit personally makes a weekly visit to each school, takes pictures of students and teachers at work, and then sends a letter by email about those visits. She also shares these experiences with her local community by posting the same information, along with a slide show, on the school division website. In addition, it is Dr. Pettit’s joy to attend as many school events as possible, so that she can get to know the families whom the local school system serves.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of Dr. Pettit’s greatest pleasures in life is spending time with her grandchildren – Moriah, age 9 and Mack, age 4. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mark your calendars! &lt;/strong&gt;Join us&amp;nbsp;for our&amp;nbsp;upcoming programs on April 5, May 3 and June 7.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7379220441015058950-2343716307761250420?l=www.iabcrichmond.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.iabcrichmond.com/feeds/2343716307761250420/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.iabcrichmond.com/2012/01/mark-your-calendarssave-date-mark-your.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7379220441015058950/posts/default/2343716307761250420'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7379220441015058950/posts/default/2343716307761250420'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.iabcrichmond.com/2012/01/mark-your-calendarssave-date-mark-your.html' title='March Program and Luncheon'/><author><name>Larand Lancaster</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/16684009056816807920</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Y2M8XYZQ9f8/TyDEEa3r-TI/AAAAAAAAABc/hIj1lZA1mqQ/s72-c/drpettit.bmp' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7379220441015058950.post-1626137636682669481</id><published>2012-01-25T21:32:00.020-05:00</published><updated>2012-02-06T11:01:09.313-05:00</updated><title type='text'>February Program and Luncheon</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Topic:&lt;/strong&gt; Part 2: Corporate Marketing Integration: Merging Traditional and Digital Media&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Speakers:&lt;/strong&gt; Jesson Zafar and Sara Lowery Anderson&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Date:&lt;/strong&gt; Thursday, February 2, 2012&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Time:&lt;/strong&gt; 11:45 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cost:&lt;/strong&gt; $25 for members and full-time students; $30 for non-members.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Location:&lt;/strong&gt; H&amp;amp;A Architects &amp;amp; Engineers, 4800 Sadler Road, Suite 300, Glen Allen, VA 23060 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Description:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt; Corporate Marketing Integration: Merging Traditional and Digital Media&lt;br /&gt;In our evolving "digital world" - companies and organizations are faced with how to integrate traditional marketing methods with the many new digital media resources that continue to appear on the web.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;During our February luncheon, come for an expanded follow up on last month's program on Search Engine Optimization and Social Media marketing and learn how your firm or organization can make the most of this new digital marketing technology.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;About Our Speakers:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Jesson Zafar &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5701766304570682562" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-S-9gDe45aoQ/TyC-Pqg6LMI/AAAAAAAAAA4/t8ZuYBKpUwQ/s320/jesson.bmp" style="float: left; height: 133px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 115px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Jesson has over seven years of marketing experience with a focus on new media and digital technology. He previously worked for several companies in the architecture, engineering and construction industries in marketing and business development roles. Currently, he serves as the SEO Specialist for Southern States Cooperative, Inc., a billion dollar company with over 900 retail locations in the United States. His responsibilities include managing corporate strategy and production for all Search Engine Marketing &amp;amp; Online Advertising.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;In addition, he is the Owner &amp;amp; Creative Director of The Orange Marketing Group, a marketing consulting company for small to mid-sized businesses. Jesson has a BA in Business Communication from James Madison University. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Sara Lowery Anderson&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XNddakOWl7o/TyC_AmdZxEI/AAAAAAAAABQ/lD6sn0yTNk8/s1600/sarah.bmp"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5701767145295823938" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XNddakOWl7o/TyC_AmdZxEI/AAAAAAAAABQ/lD6sn0yTNk8/s320/sarah.bmp" style="float: left; height: 132px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 120px;" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;So the story goes, Sara has been comfortable talking to and in front of strangers since she was a chatty and curious child. Perhaps this explains her passion for communication in any and all forms. In her roles as a marketing professional, Sara has coordinated initiatives for the production of marketing collateral and proposals, strategic teaming communication, business development, market research, and more. A social media advocate, Sara enjoys driving the initiatives for a substantial social media marketing strategy for forward-thinking firms and organizations.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Sara is the acting Online Community Coordinator for Southern States Cooperative and enjoys managing the corporate Social Media Initiatives and helping to drive the related marketing strategies that push Southern States’ positive messages out to their current and potential customers. She holds a Bachelor’s of Business Administration in Marketing with a concentration in Business to Consumer and a Minor in Conflict Analysis and Mediation Studies from James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;View the Presentation:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="__ss_11445939" style="width: 510px;"&gt;&lt;strong style="display: block; margin: 12px 0px 4px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.slideshare.net/IABCRichmond/corporate-marketing-integration-merging-traditional-and-digital-media" target="_blank" title="Corporate Marketing Integration: Merging Traditional And Digital Media"&gt;Corporate Marketing Integration: Merging Traditional And Digital Media&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;object height="426" id="__sse11445939" width="510"&gt; &lt;param name="movie" value="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=iabcpresentationfeb2012-120206094842-phpapp01&amp;stripped_title=corporate-marketing-integration-merging-traditional-and-digital-media&amp;userName=IABCRichmond" /&gt; 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font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span id="zw-1328545446469gFlgdH" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial Narrow&amp;quot;; font-size: 0.9em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;style id="styletagtwoforeditor" type="text/css"&gt;table { font-size:10pt; } table p, li p { margin:0px; }&lt;/style&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Switch:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="zw-1328545446469is4lZq" style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial Narrow&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt; What It Takes to Create Change Within Your Company&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Speaker:&lt;/strong&gt; Adam Preston, senior consultant at TCSC&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Date:&lt;/strong&gt; Thursday,&amp;nbsp;April 5, 2012 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Time:&lt;/strong&gt; 11:45 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cost:&lt;/strong&gt; $25 for members and full-time students; $30 for non-members&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Location:&lt;/strong&gt; H&amp;amp;A Architects &amp;amp; Engineers | &lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=4880+Sadler+Road,+Suite+300,+Glen+Allen,+VA+23060&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;amp;sspn=66.66237,106.787109&amp;amp;hnear=4880+Sadler+Rd+%23300,+Glen+Allen,+Virginia+23060&amp;amp;t=m&amp;amp;z=17" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0b5394;"&gt;Click here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to view map&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Register:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="https://vrs.varetire.org/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.iabcrichmond.com/p/rsvp.html"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Cl&lt;span style="color: #0b5394;"&gt;ick here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;to register&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;by Tuesday, April 3&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;In order to grow a company into a successful business, it’s undeniable that one thing must occur many times along the way: change. And, if your company is like most, changing the behavior of employees may sound a lot like mission impossible. Luckily, it doesn’t have to be that way – all you need is a clear path and people will follow.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Attend our April program with guest speaker &lt;a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidapreston" target="_blank"&gt;Adam Preston&lt;/a&gt;, senior consultant at TCSC, to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;learn how to make even the toughest changes within your company seem less challenging: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Shifting the organizational culture &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mandating new business processes &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Introducing new software or technology &lt;/li&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div&gt;In this program, you’ll learn a mix of communications and psychology techniques that you can use to ensure important changes within your organization are a success. These techniques also apply to situations we face on a regular basis in our communities and personal lives.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;This topic is based on the #1 &lt;em&gt;New York Times &lt;/em&gt;bestseller, &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.heathbrothers.com/switch/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0b5394;"&gt;Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;, by Chip and Dan Heath, authors of &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.heathbrothers.com/madetostick/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0b5394;"&gt;Made to Stick&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;. Inspired by this popular book, Adam will share the basics of how even one person – you – can create change in your company.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;strong&gt;About our speaker:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-u_UKCsYks5Y/TzAtLwMUdqI/AAAAAAAAFUg/OZ52e6eZNHo/s1600/Adam.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-u_UKCsYks5Y/TzAtLwMUdqI/AAAAAAAAFUg/OZ52e6eZNHo/s200/Adam.jpg" width="132" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidapreston" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0b5394;"&gt;Adam Preston&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; is a Senior Consultant at TCSC specializing inthe administration and configuration of SharePoint, Microsoft’s enterprisecollaboration software. At &lt;a href="http://www.tcsc.com/Pages/home.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0b5394;"&gt;TCSC&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Adam enjoys helping his clients and theirbusinesses succeed by improving internal communications and collaborationthrough SharePoint. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Adam holds several Microsoft certifications, includingMCITP: SharePoint Administrator 2010, and is the Vice President of the &lt;a href="http://www.richmondsharepoint.org/SitePages/Home.aspx" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #0b5394;"&gt;RichmondSharePoint User Group&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Despite being a lover of all things“techy,” Adam alsohas experience in web design, public relations, and marketing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Adam graduated from Radford University in 2004, where heearned his Bachelor of Science in Information Science and Systems and minor inBusiness Administration Management.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7379220441015058950-5090747612108701726?l=www.iabcrichmond.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.iabcrichmond.com/feeds/5090747612108701726/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.iabcrichmond.com/2012/02/april-program-and-luncheon.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7379220441015058950/posts/default/5090747612108701726'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7379220441015058950/posts/default/5090747612108701726'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.iabcrichmond.com/2012/02/april-program-and-luncheon.html' title='April Program and Luncheon'/><author><name>Elle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14552430268183388997</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_x5BwIWhb6DM/S3M-yA7iHrI/AAAAAAAAErI/NFixWZn6jqM/S220/DSC02055.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-u_UKCsYks5Y/TzAtLwMUdqI/AAAAAAAAFUg/OZ52e6eZNHo/s72-c/Adam.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total><georss:featurename>4880 Sadler Rd #300, Glen Allen, VA 23060, USA</georss:featurename><georss:point>37.665809 -77.577156</georss:point><georss:box>3.905306000000003 -137.342781 71.426312 -17.811531000000002</georss:box></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7379220441015058950.post-6159987497966783139</id><published>2011-11-29T20:20:00.007-05:00</published><updated>2012-02-06T11:14:14.942-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='traditional and digital media'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='2012'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='corporate marketing'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='january'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='communication'/><title type='text'>January Program and Luncheon</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Topic:&lt;/strong&gt; Corporate Marketing Integration: Merging Traditional and Digital Media&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Speaker:&lt;/strong&gt; Jesson Zafar&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Date:&lt;/strong&gt; Thursday, January 5, 2012&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Time:&lt;/strong&gt; 11:45 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cost:&lt;/strong&gt; $25 for members and full-time students; $30 for non-members.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Registration Deadline:&lt;/strong&gt; Wednesday, January 4 at 5pm&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Location:&lt;/strong&gt; H&amp;amp;A Architects &amp;amp; Engineers, 4800 Sadler Road, Suite 300, Glen Allen, VA 23060 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;About our Speaker:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-io0zPKWaJK4/TwR5DqEMSaI/AAAAAAAAAAo/K-582_tGHGM/s1600/headshot.jpg"&gt;&lt;img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5693808932641589666" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-io0zPKWaJK4/TwR5DqEMSaI/AAAAAAAAAAo/K-582_tGHGM/s320/headshot.jpg" style="float: left; height: 133px; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; width: 105px;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;Jesson Zafar has over seven years of marketing experience with a focus on new media and digital technology. He previously worked for several companies in the architecture, engineering and construction industries in marketing and business development roles.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Currently, he serves as the SEO Specialist for Southern States Cooperative, Inc., a billion dollar company with over 900 retail locations in the United States. His responsibilities include managing corporate strategy and production for all Search Engine Marketing &amp;amp; Online Advertising. In addition, he is the Owner &amp;amp; Creative Director of The Orange Marketing Group, a marketing consulting company for small to mid-sized businesses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mr. Zafar has a BA in Business Communication from James Madison University.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;View the Presentation: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div id="__ss_11446546" style="width: 510px;"&gt;&lt;strong style="display: block; margin: 12px 0px 4px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.slideshare.net/IABCRichmond/corporate-marketing-integration-merging-traditional-and-digital-media-11446546" target="_blank" title="Corporate Marketing Integration: Merging Traditional And Digital Media"&gt;Corporate Marketing Integration: Merging Traditional And Digital Media&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;object height="426" id="__sse11446546" width="510"&gt; &lt;param name="movie" value="http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=ss-merging-traditional-digital-media-120206100412-phpapp01&amp;rel=0&amp;stripped_title=corporate-marketing-integration-merging-traditional-and-digital-media-11446546&amp;userName=IABCRichmond" /&gt; 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Luncheon with IABC Chair Adrian Cropley</title><content type='html'>&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #254061; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;Topic:Making Managers Better Communicators&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 14.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"&gt;---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 14.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Date:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Thursday,October 6, 2011&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 14.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Time:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;11:45a.m. – 1:30 p.m.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 14.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Location:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;H&amp;amp;AArchitects &amp;amp; Engineers | 4880 Sadler Road, Suite 300, Glen Allen, VA 23060|&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=4880+Sadler+Rd,+Glen+Allen,+VA+23060&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;amp;sspn=68.344727,107.138672&amp;amp;z=17&amp;amp;iwloc=r4"&gt;Clickhere&lt;/a&gt; to view map &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 14.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Cost:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;$25for members and full-time students; $30 for non-members.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 14.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 14.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Register:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://iabcrichmond.blogspot.com/p/rsvp.html"&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;to register now.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 14.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"&gt;---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Managersare our key channel for communications in any organization today; are theyhowever the best equipped to deliver effective communication? Do we train them?Do we actually support our managers?&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Inthis session we look at how as communicators we can improve the communicationskills of our line managers in their business. You will gain an understandingof the key role managers play in organizational communication and develop theknowledge and skills to build a compelling business case for line managertraining.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;In this session you will explore:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;what employees expect from their managers&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;a concise model of employee communication needs&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;building a business case for manager communication skills training&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;how you can take a lead role in improving manager communication skills&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"&gt;Speaker: Adrian Cropley, ABC,IABC Chair, Melbourne, VIC, Australia&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RydSLk2R2ME/Tkk2R868cHI/AAAAAAAAFQc/VLGdBgdgWRg/s1600/Cropley.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RydSLk2R2ME/Tkk2R868cHI/AAAAAAAAFQc/VLGdBgdgWRg/s200/Cropley.jpg" width="199" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Adrian is the Principal for CropleyCommunications in Melbourne. Australia and has over 20 years communicationexperience in the private and public sectors. Adrian has been in roles from HRManagement, Change and Organizational Development Manager to heading upcorporate Internal Communications.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Adrian works with a variety of clients onchange and internal communication strategies and programs. He is also anexecutive coach working with organizations including Ernst &amp;amp; Young, Shell,as well as universities and various government organizations. He is a soughtafter facilitator, lecturer coach and has spoken across the globe at variousconferences and forums. He is widely published with a number of articlesappearing in industry magazines globally.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Adrian is currently the Chairman of theInternational Executive board of IABC and has held a number of voluntary roles.He was named IABC’s Volunteer Chapter Leader of the Year in 2008 and has beeninstrumental in the growth and development of chapters across the Asia/PacificRegion. Adrian is passionate about the communication profession and IABC,however in his spare time Adrian loves to perform, working as an extra ontelevision and film.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7379220441015058950-5717844452453874075?l=www.iabcrichmond.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.iabcrichmond.com/feeds/5717844452453874075/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.iabcrichmond.com/2011/08/october-program-luncheon-with-iabc.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7379220441015058950/posts/default/5717844452453874075'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7379220441015058950/posts/default/5717844452453874075'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.iabcrichmond.com/2011/08/october-program-luncheon-with-iabc.html' title='October Program &amp; Luncheon with IABC Chair Adrian Cropley'/><author><name>Elle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14552430268183388997</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_x5BwIWhb6DM/S3M-yA7iHrI/AAAAAAAAErI/NFixWZn6jqM/S220/DSC02055.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RydSLk2R2ME/Tkk2R868cHI/AAAAAAAAFQc/VLGdBgdgWRg/s72-c/Cropley.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7379220441015058950.post-8664331256959891679</id><published>2011-09-04T03:32:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-09-17T03:36:28.152-04:00</updated><title type='text'>November Program &amp; Luncheon with Chip Tarkenton</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: #254061; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Topic: A Trifecta of Communications—TV, Radio &amp;amp;Print Media&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;----------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 14pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Date:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Thursday,November 3, 2011 &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;/&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Register:&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;By Tuesday, November 1&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 14pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Time:&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;11:45 a.m. – 1:30p.m. &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;/&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Location:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Owens&amp;amp; Minor &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 14pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Cost:&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;$25 for membersand full-time students; $30 for non-members.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.0pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;----------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;Learnabout the best practices for communicating in three different areas of mediafrom someone who spent his career in these areas before recently joining alocally headquartered corporation.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;Find outthe unique flavor of each medium and how change is a constant for each.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;You’ll learn about how the internet andtechnology as well as our changing world have made a difference incommunicating.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;We’ll explore:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Wingdings;"&gt;§ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;The similarities &amp;amp;differences of media&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Wingdings;"&gt;§ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;The effectiveness of media&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Wingdings;"&gt;§ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;The future of media&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-size: 10.0pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Wingdings;"&gt;§ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial;"&gt;The impact forcommunicators of so many communication vehicles&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Tahoma; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 14pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Speaker: Chip Tarkenton, Director of CommunityRelations&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EhpijG5Ez2M/TnRNvH64atI/AAAAAAAAFRM/fozwhvblqcE/s1600/Chip+headshot.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EhpijG5Ez2M/TnRNvH64atI/AAAAAAAAFRM/fozwhvblqcE/s200/Chip+headshot.jpg" width="176" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Chip Tarkenton joined Owens &amp;amp; Minor in June 2011from WRIC TV8, where he was weekday sports anchor for 8 News At 6PM and 8 NewsTonight at 11PM. He joined WRIC TV in September 1988.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;A native of Athens, Georgia, Chip completed hisundergraduate studies from the University of Georgia where he received a B.A.in Speech Communication.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Chip started in the communications business at agefifteen, when he worked at family-owned radio stations in Georgia. He went onto be a sportswriter for Athens newspapers for almost two years. Prior tojoining WRIC TV, Chip began his television career as a weekend sports anchor atWDEF TV, Chattanooga, Tennessee. From there he moved to sports director atWBMG, Birmingham, Alabama, and WLOS, Asheville, North Carolina.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7379220441015058950-8664331256959891679?l=www.iabcrichmond.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.iabcrichmond.com/feeds/8664331256959891679/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.iabcrichmond.com/2011/09/november-program-luncheon-with-chip.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7379220441015058950/posts/default/8664331256959891679'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7379220441015058950/posts/default/8664331256959891679'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.iabcrichmond.com/2011/09/november-program-luncheon-with-chip.html' title='November Program &amp; Luncheon with Chip Tarkenton'/><author><name>Elle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14552430268183388997</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_x5BwIWhb6DM/S3M-yA7iHrI/AAAAAAAAErI/NFixWZn6jqM/S220/DSC02055.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EhpijG5Ez2M/TnRNvH64atI/AAAAAAAAFRM/fozwhvblqcE/s72-c/Chip+headshot.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7379220441015058950.post-3898415853535820210</id><published>2011-09-02T11:16:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-09-02T13:31:47.935-04:00</updated><title type='text'>End of Summer Social - September 8 | 6-8 p.m.</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c_P3VR_NdsM/Tkk2_AXL2xI/AAAAAAAAFQg/llpGol411no/s1600/Banditos.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="95" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c_P3VR_NdsM/Tkk2_AXL2xI/AAAAAAAAFQg/llpGol411no/s400/Banditos.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Members and non-members are invited to network with othercommunications professionals at Banditos Burrito Lounge, just one block west ofBoulevard on Patterson.&amp;nbsp; Come meet others and find out what they've beendoing as well as reconnect with fellow communicators you haven't seen for awhile. Since this is a cash bar event, there is no additional meetingregistration fee.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 14.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Date:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Thursday,September 8, 2011&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 14.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Time:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;6– 8 p.m.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 14.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Location:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;BanditosBurrito Lounge | 2905 Patterson Avenue, Richmond, VA 23221 | &lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?rls=com.microsoft:en-us&amp;amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;amp;startIndex=&amp;amp;startPage=1&amp;amp;safe=active&amp;amp;um=1&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;amp;cid=0,0,16289573738343660512&amp;amp;fb=1&amp;amp;hq=banditos&amp;amp;hnear=0x89b141ac03dbca5f:0xf4157f3321d1c98a,Wyndham,+VA&amp;amp;gl=us&amp;amp;daddr=2905+Patterson+Avenue,+Richmond,+VA+23221-1710&amp;amp;geocode=17858820764914251799,37.559729,-77.473591&amp;amp;ei=HUFFTvG6AYrKgQe9k_2fBg&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;oi=local_result&amp;amp;ct=directions-to&amp;amp;resnum=1&amp;amp;ved=0CCgQngIwAA"&gt;Clickhere&lt;/a&gt; to view map&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 14.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Cost:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Cashbar for food and drinks, so no registration cost but please register!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 14.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 14.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Register:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;RSVPto &lt;a href="mailto:mad82wm@msn.com?subject=RSVP%20-%20IABC/Richmond%20End%20of%20Summer%20Social"&gt;MaryAnn Delano&lt;/a&gt; by Tuesday, September 6.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 14.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 14.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7379220441015058950-3898415853535820210?l=www.iabcrichmond.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.iabcrichmond.com/feeds/3898415853535820210/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.iabcrichmond.com/2011/08/end-of-summer-social-september-8-6-8-pm.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7379220441015058950/posts/default/3898415853535820210'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7379220441015058950/posts/default/3898415853535820210'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.iabcrichmond.com/2011/08/end-of-summer-social-september-8-6-8-pm.html' title='End of Summer Social - September 8 | 6-8 p.m.'/><author><name>Elle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14552430268183388997</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_x5BwIWhb6DM/S3M-yA7iHrI/AAAAAAAAErI/NFixWZn6jqM/S220/DSC02055.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c_P3VR_NdsM/Tkk2_AXL2xI/AAAAAAAAFQg/llpGol411no/s72-c/Banditos.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7379220441015058950.post-4878923689134306980</id><published>2011-08-15T11:06:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-08-15T11:06:44.373-04:00</updated><title type='text'>September is Worldwide Member Month</title><content type='html'>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10.0pt;"&gt;September 2011 is a Worldwide MembershipMonth. This means that for new or lapsed members who join or re-join IABC,we'll waive the application fee (US$40 for faxed/mailed/phoned enrollments;US$30 for Internet enrollments). Applications must be &lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;received&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt; at the SanFrancisco headquarters office during the month of September to qualify. &lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10.0pt;"&gt;This promotion does not affect renewingmembers, transitional members or students, who are not required to pay theapplication fee anyway. There's an additional bonus—we'll be hosting an openhouse of the members-only section of the IABC website in September, and we'reincluding access to Discovery.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;sans-serif&amp;quot;; font-size: 10.0pt;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.iabc.com/about/membership/"&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; to learn more aboutbecoming an IABC member!&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7379220441015058950-4878923689134306980?l=www.iabcrichmond.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.iabcrichmond.com/feeds/4878923689134306980/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.iabcrichmond.com/2011/08/september-is-worldwide-member-month.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7379220441015058950/posts/default/4878923689134306980'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7379220441015058950/posts/default/4878923689134306980'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.iabcrichmond.com/2011/08/september-is-worldwide-member-month.html' title='September is Worldwide Member Month'/><author><name>Elle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14552430268183388997</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_x5BwIWhb6DM/S3M-yA7iHrI/AAAAAAAAErI/NFixWZn6jqM/S220/DSC02055.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7379220441015058950.post-1601292223473355221</id><published>2011-08-14T13:29:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-09-02T13:30:33.028-04:00</updated><title type='text'>2011 Heritage Region Conference</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-q8LdQzmFrXY/TmERl2zJ1LI/AAAAAAAAFRE/t_6m0h3vmLw/s1600/Shifting+Gears.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="148" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-q8LdQzmFrXY/TmERl2zJ1LI/AAAAAAAAFRE/t_6m0h3vmLw/s320/Shifting+Gears.png" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Don’tmiss out! Be sure to reserve your spot at the &lt;a href="http://www.iabcshiftinggears.com/" target="_blank"&gt;2011 IABC HeritageRegion Conference&lt;/a&gt;, October 9-11, in Detroit, Michigan.&amp;nbsp;Early-birdregistration has been extended through September 14.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Joinhundreds of your colleagues in Detroit for this premier professionaldevelopment conference. You’ll gain new tools and strategic insight in morethan 20 sessions, covering branding, employee communications, leadership,social media, measurement and strategy development. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;Click&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.iabcshiftinggears.com/?page_id=351" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;toregister now.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7379220441015058950-1601292223473355221?l=www.iabcrichmond.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.iabcrichmond.com/feeds/1601292223473355221/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.iabcrichmond.com/2011/09/2011-heritage-region-conference.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7379220441015058950/posts/default/1601292223473355221'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7379220441015058950/posts/default/1601292223473355221'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.iabcrichmond.com/2011/09/2011-heritage-region-conference.html' title='2011 Heritage Region Conference'/><author><name>Elle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14552430268183388997</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_x5BwIWhb6DM/S3M-yA7iHrI/AAAAAAAAErI/NFixWZn6jqM/S220/DSC02055.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-q8LdQzmFrXY/TmERl2zJ1LI/AAAAAAAAFRE/t_6m0h3vmLw/s72-c/Shifting+Gears.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7379220441015058950.post-9107125963939011980</id><published>2011-05-15T15:15:00.034-04:00</published><updated>2011-06-13T10:20:35.030-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IABC/RICHMOND'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT'/><title type='text'>June Program / Luncheon</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Thank you so much to our speaker, &lt;b&gt;Sean Stewart&lt;/b&gt;, and all of the guests who came to our June program!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"&gt;------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #b45f06;"&gt;&amp;gt;&amp;gt; Interested in viewing Sean's presentation?&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AbiXBfC77whPZDRtNDMzeF83MnNoYmY4bWZw&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;authkey=CMTyrZMN"&gt;Click here!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"&gt;------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Am I blogging or is this therapy? Best practices in blog writing and promotion.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Date:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;Thursday, June 2, 2011&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Time:&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;11:45 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Location:&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: black;"&gt;Owens &amp;amp; Minor, 9120 Lockwood Blvd. Mechanicsville, VA23116 |&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;amp;source=s_q&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;q=owens+and+minor&amp;amp;sll=37.644413,-77.408638&amp;amp;sspn=0.060894,0.1684&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;t=h&amp;amp;rq=1&amp;amp;ev=zi&amp;amp;split=1&amp;amp;radius=5.53&amp;amp;hq=owens+and+minor&amp;amp;hnear=&amp;amp;ll=37.644413,-77.408638&amp;amp;spn=0.060894,0.1684&amp;amp;z=13&amp;amp;iwloc=A"&gt;View map&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="color: black; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Cost:&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;$25 for members and full-timestudents; $30 for non-members.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"&gt;------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Fora beginning blogger, the initial lonely posts can seem like you’re just talkingto yourself. And without the right promotion techniques, you’ll probably bedoing just that for a long time. Successful blogs, created for personal orbusiness purposes, rarely rocket to the top search results and set trendsonline without a strategy.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Thisdiscussion will include examples of businesses that use blogs well (along withsome that could use some help), techniques for improving blog traffic andreader interaction, and some unexpected benefits of business blogging.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Speaker:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;Sean Stewart, Public RelationsProfessor and Media, Art, and Text Ph.D student at VCU.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KEN_dXRIk6E/TcGnILpA-NI/AAAAAAAAFPo/DeEw6AeWANk/s1600/speaker.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KEN_dXRIk6E/TcGnILpA-NI/AAAAAAAAFPo/DeEw6AeWANk/s200/speaker.jpg" width="199" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;b&gt;Speaker Sean Stewart&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Sean Stewart has degrees in public relations andadvertising from Marshall University and has worked in communications forgovernment and corporate agencies.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;He is currently an instructor and Media,Art,&amp;nbsp;and Text Ph.D. student at Virginia Commonwealth University.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.375in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999;"&gt;----------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7379220441015058950-9107125963939011980?l=www.iabcrichmond.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.iabcrichmond.com/feeds/9107125963939011980/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.iabcrichmond.com/2011/05/june-program-luncheon.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7379220441015058950/posts/default/9107125963939011980'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7379220441015058950/posts/default/9107125963939011980'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.iabcrichmond.com/2011/05/june-program-luncheon.html' title='June Program / Luncheon'/><author><name>Elle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14552430268183388997</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_x5BwIWhb6DM/S3M-yA7iHrI/AAAAAAAAErI/NFixWZn6jqM/S220/DSC02055.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KEN_dXRIk6E/TcGnILpA-NI/AAAAAAAAFPo/DeEw6AeWANk/s72-c/speaker.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7379220441015058950.post-5894482127667892444</id><published>2011-05-04T03:24:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-05-04T15:24:02.511-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IABC/RICHMOND'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT'/><title type='text'>May Program &amp; Luncheon</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Join us for our&amp;nbsp;May Program &amp;amp; Luncheon!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal;"&gt;---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;b style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-size: 11pt;"&gt;Date:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;span style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-size: 11pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Thursday, May 5, 2011&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 12pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;b style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #073763; font-size: 11pt;"&gt;Time:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;11:45 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;b style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #073763; font-size: 11pt;"&gt;Location:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Owens &amp;amp; Minor, 9120 Lockwood Blvd. Mechanicsville, VA 23116 |&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11pt;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;amp;source=s_q&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;q=owens+and+minor&amp;amp;sll=37.644413,-77.408638&amp;amp;sspn=0.060894,0.1684&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;t=h&amp;amp;rq=1&amp;amp;ev=zi&amp;amp;split=1&amp;amp;radius=5.53&amp;amp;hq=owens+and+minor&amp;amp;hnear=&amp;amp;ll=37.644413,-77.408638&amp;amp;spn=0.060894,0.1684&amp;amp;z=13&amp;amp;iwloc=A" style="color: #333333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;click to view map&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;amp;source=s_q&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;q=owens+and+minor&amp;amp;sll=37.644413,-77.408638&amp;amp;sspn=0.060894,0.1684&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;t=h&amp;amp;rq=1&amp;amp;ev=zi&amp;amp;split=1&amp;amp;radius=5.53&amp;amp;hq=owens+and+minor&amp;amp;hnear=&amp;amp;ll=37.644413,-77.408638&amp;amp;spn=0.060894,0.1684&amp;amp;z=13&amp;amp;iwloc=A" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;b style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #073763; font-size: 11pt;"&gt;Cost:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;$25 for members and full-time students; $30 for non-members.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"&gt;Register :&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://iabcrichmond.blogspot.com/p/rsvp.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"&gt;Click here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;to register now.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"&gt;---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Topic: "The Art of Communications"&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 14.25pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="ecxapple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"&gt;Attend our May Program &amp;amp; Luncheon to learn why Linda Bell Sinclair passionately believes that communications is an art!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="ecxapple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14.25pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 14.25pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="ecxapple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-style: normal;"&gt;---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 12pt;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;Speaker: Linda Bell Sinclair&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vPnmvvjeIVQ/TbmjDykdjYI/AAAAAAAAFPk/gR01kppPsmg/s1600/Bio-Picture.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vPnmvvjeIVQ/TbmjDykdjYI/AAAAAAAAFPk/gR01kppPsmg/s200/Bio-Picture.JPG" width="160" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;LindaBell-Sinclair, IT Project Management Specialist for Virginia InformationTechnologies Agency (VITA), has performed project management, business analysisand IT change management for more than 15 years.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;She is diversified in hertechnical training and has a wide range of professional experiences to pullfrom as she began with a 20 year career in the United States Air Force andlater entered corporate America in late 1998 working in the banking industry.&amp;nbsp; Linda completed her Bachelor of Sciencedegree in Management Studies in 1996 from the University of Maryland UniversityCollege and then went on to obtain her Masters degree in Information Systemsand Management from the University of Phoenix in the summer of 2006.&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal"&gt;Lindais an advocate for continuing education and makes time to assist otherprofessionals advance their careers as an Adjunct Professor at Bryant andStratton College in the Information Technology Studies Department.&amp;nbsp; As a certified Project ManagementProfessional (PMP), she facilitates informational sessions on projectmanagement topics for the local chapter of the Project Management Institute(PMI).&amp;nbsp;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7379220441015058950-5894482127667892444?l=www.iabcrichmond.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.iabcrichmond.com/feeds/5894482127667892444/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.iabcrichmond.com/2011/03/may-program-luncheon.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7379220441015058950/posts/default/5894482127667892444'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7379220441015058950/posts/default/5894482127667892444'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.iabcrichmond.com/2011/03/may-program-luncheon.html' title='May Program &amp; Luncheon'/><author><name>Elle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14552430268183388997</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_x5BwIWhb6DM/S3M-yA7iHrI/AAAAAAAAErI/NFixWZn6jqM/S220/DSC02055.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vPnmvvjeIVQ/TbmjDykdjYI/AAAAAAAAFPk/gR01kppPsmg/s72-c/Bio-Picture.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7379220441015058950.post-7479551928361510574</id><published>2011-04-15T16:52:00.000-04:00</published><updated>2011-03-29T16:01:44.648-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT'/><title type='text'>April Program / Luncheon</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Join us for our April Program &amp;amp; Luncheon!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: #333333; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal;"&gt;---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;b style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-size: 11pt;"&gt;Date:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;span style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-size: 11pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Thursday, April 7, 2011&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 12pt;"&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;b style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #073763; font-size: 11pt;"&gt;Time:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;11:45 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;b style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #073763; font-size: 11pt;"&gt;Location:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Owens &amp;amp; Minor, 9120 Lockwood Blvd. Mechanicsville, VA 23116 |&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11pt;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;amp;source=s_q&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;q=owens+and+minor&amp;amp;sll=37.644413,-77.408638&amp;amp;sspn=0.060894,0.1684&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;t=h&amp;amp;rq=1&amp;amp;ev=zi&amp;amp;split=1&amp;amp;radius=5.53&amp;amp;hq=owens+and+minor&amp;amp;hnear=&amp;amp;ll=37.644413,-77.408638&amp;amp;spn=0.060894,0.1684&amp;amp;z=13&amp;amp;iwloc=A" style="color: #333333; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;click to view map&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;amp;source=s_q&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;q=owens+and+minor&amp;amp;sll=37.644413,-77.408638&amp;amp;sspn=0.060894,0.1684&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;t=h&amp;amp;rq=1&amp;amp;ev=zi&amp;amp;split=1&amp;amp;radius=5.53&amp;amp;hq=owens+and+minor&amp;amp;hnear=&amp;amp;ll=37.644413,-77.408638&amp;amp;spn=0.060894,0.1684&amp;amp;z=13&amp;amp;iwloc=A" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;b style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: #073763; font-size: 11pt;"&gt;Cost:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #333333; font-size: 11pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;$25 for members and full-time students; $30 for non-members.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"&gt;Register :&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://iabcrichmond.blogspot.com/p/rsvp.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"&gt;Click here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;to register now.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"&gt;---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Topic: "Social Media for Business from a VCU Student's Perspective"&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Attend our April program to learn the do's and don’ts of the "big three" (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://facebook.com/"&gt;Facebook&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://twitter.com/"&gt;Twitter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt; and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://foursquare.com/"&gt;Foursquare&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;) and how to connect with your customers using these tools. You’ll also learn how to use social media to grow sales and foster brand loyalty as well as leverage social media as a PR tool and manage your business's online reputation using social media from our guest speaker, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.trevordickerson.com/"&gt;Trevor Dickerson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Join us for an informative session to find out which tools to use and other best practices from a young business owner! &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin: 0px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-7ZSN-wnD2-A/TWvvAgAyaKI/AAAAAAAAFMg/ant80z7VxmQ/s1600/headshot.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; font-size: 19px; font-style: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; text-align: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-7ZSN-wnD2-A/TWvvAgAyaKI/AAAAAAAAFMg/ant80z7VxmQ/s1600/headshot.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; display: inline !important; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="192" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-7ZSN-wnD2-A/TWvvAgAyaKI/AAAAAAAAFMg/ant80z7VxmQ/s200/headshot.png" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Trevor Dickerson&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Speaker: Trevor Dickerson&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.trevordickerson.com/"&gt;Trevor Dickerson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;, 22, is the owner of &lt;a href="http://www.rvamediaworks.com/"&gt;RVA MediaWorks, LLC&lt;/a&gt;, a small media services company specializing in web design, video production, voice work and print design. He has designed, developed and/or managed such popular local websites as Richmond BizSense (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://richmondbizsense.com/"&gt;richmondbizsense.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;), Richmond Mom (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://richmondmom.com/"&gt;richmondmom.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;) and Tobacco Avenue (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://tarichmond.com/"&gt;tarichmond.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dickerson also edits and publishes Downtown Short Pump (&lt;a href="http://downtownshortpump.com/"&gt;downtownshortpump.com&lt;/a&gt;), an online newsmagazine for Richmond's Far West End featuring news and development updates, a restaurant and shopping guide and weekly columnists. The site receives upwards of 35,000 page views per month.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Dickerson has become a resource on social media best practices and has spoken in mass communications classes at &lt;a href="http://www.vcu.edu/"&gt;Virginia Commonwealth University&lt;/a&gt;, been a panelist in a number of social media-oriented discussions including &lt;a href="http://socialmediaclub.org/chapter/richmond-va"&gt;Social Media Club&lt;/a&gt;'s educational program series, as well as made numerous television appearances on all three local news stations as a resource for social media-related stories.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-style: normal;"&gt;---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7379220441015058950-7479551928361510574?l=www.iabcrichmond.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.iabcrichmond.com/feeds/7479551928361510574/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.iabcrichmond.com/2011/02/save-date.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7379220441015058950/posts/default/7479551928361510574'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7379220441015058950/posts/default/7479551928361510574'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.iabcrichmond.com/2011/02/save-date.html' title='April Program / Luncheon'/><author><name>Elle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14552430268183388997</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_x5BwIWhb6DM/S3M-yA7iHrI/AAAAAAAAErI/NFixWZn6jqM/S220/DSC02055.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-7ZSN-wnD2-A/TWvvAgAyaKI/AAAAAAAAFMg/ant80z7VxmQ/s72-c/headshot.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7379220441015058950.post-3537994230066931633</id><published>2011-04-12T16:41:00.005-04:00</published><updated>2011-04-12T16:54:06.630-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Recap'/><title type='text'>Recap of April's Program</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #134f5c; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-style: normal;"&gt;Wow! What an excellent meeting! It was a pleasure to have &lt;b&gt;Trevor Dickerson &lt;/b&gt;speak about growing your business using the "big three" social media avenues - Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black;"&gt;Let's recap!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;April's Presentation:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;iframe height="565" src="http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&amp;amp;pid=explorer&amp;amp;chrome=true&amp;amp;srcid=0B4Xtmqm9jzWkMzA1YmE1YWEtOGIxNi00MzAzLWFkNTYtNWE3ZTM0ODY3N2Nm&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;embedded=true" style="border: none;" width="550"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;ABOUT TREVOR DICKERSON&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;He may only be 22 years, but this kid has it going on.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Here's a (brief) bio:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Owns RVAMediaWorks, which specializes in website design, print designs and voice work&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Founded and maintains blog that attracts more than 35,000 visitors per month on average (www.downtownshortpump.com)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Voted Richmond's 2010 Up-And-Comer by RVA Magazine&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Sophomore at VCU (currently not enrolled in classes but is planning to return in the fall)&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XHDJPbhXY1Y/TaS5a4xE2ZI/AAAAAAAAFPg/06Ny20C0U0U/s1600/DSC_0047.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="293" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XHDJPbhXY1Y/TaS5a4xE2ZI/AAAAAAAAFPg/06Ny20C0U0U/s400/DSC_0047.png" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;ABOUT THE PRESENTATION&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most of us already know about Facebook and Twitter, but it was really interesting to learn more about Foursquare, which as Trevor put it, is the "little brother of the three."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Instead of listing content that can be found in the PowerPoint presentation available below, here's a list of noteworthy ideas Trevor mentioned during his presentation: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;People like the fact that you're being you.&lt;/b&gt; Find your inner voice and let your personality shine online. Oh, and people remember really nice people.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;You can use social media for small things&lt;/b&gt;, like asking your friends which pizza place is the best, &lt;b&gt;or for bigger things like changing the world&lt;/b&gt;.&amp;nbsp;People are now asking questions like "How can I change my country? - and using social media to make it happen.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Use social media to put ideas in people's heads&lt;/b&gt;. Then, post regularly and consistently to make sure you stay on top of their minds. (genius)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;Like, and be liked.&lt;/b&gt; By liking or recommending people, places or things, you're really endorsing that person, place or thing. It's stamp or seal of approval, and it has the power to influence.&amp;nbsp;It's really important to make it &lt;i&gt;as easy as possible&lt;/i&gt; for people to like your service or product. The easier you make it, the more they'll do it. Kudos!&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;What are your thoughts? If you attended this Program &amp;amp; Luncheon, what did you take away? Did you learn anything new, or have anything to add?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7379220441015058950-3537994230066931633?l=www.iabcrichmond.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.iabcrichmond.com/feeds/3537994230066931633/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.iabcrichmond.com/2011/04/recap-of-aprils-program.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7379220441015058950/posts/default/3537994230066931633'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7379220441015058950/posts/default/3537994230066931633'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.iabcrichmond.com/2011/04/recap-of-aprils-program.html' title='Recap of April&apos;s Program'/><author><name>Elle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14552430268183388997</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_x5BwIWhb6DM/S3M-yA7iHrI/AAAAAAAAErI/NFixWZn6jqM/S220/DSC02055.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XHDJPbhXY1Y/TaS5a4xE2ZI/AAAAAAAAFPg/06Ny20C0U0U/s72-c/DSC_0047.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7379220441015058950.post-1127462472405669693</id><published>2011-03-07T16:42:00.015-05:00</published><updated>2011-03-16T13:13:53.103-04:00</updated><title type='text'>*Extended Deadline* IABC World Conference Scholarship</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Great news! The deadline has been extended!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 19px;"&gt;---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-size: large;"&gt;The deadline to apply is Friday, March 25, 2011.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #333333; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;About the scholarship:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://heritageregion.iabc.com/"&gt;The Heritage Region&lt;/a&gt; is offering a scholarship opportunity so two motivated IABC members from the Heritage Region —who otherwise would find it difficult to go to the &lt;a href="http://www.iabc.com/wc/"&gt;IABC World Conference&lt;/a&gt; in San Diego, CA— can attend this premier event on June 12 – 15, 2011.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The World Conference scholarship program was started 11 years ago as a way to expose future leaders to the IABC World Conference and help secure their commitment to IABC. We hear continually that the World Conference experience inspires enthusiasm and puts the “I” in IABC by introducing members to our growing global network.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;T&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"&gt;wo scholarships will be awarded:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) One IABC regular conference registration that the Heritage region expects to have available from IABC Headquarters (a $1,235 value)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2) A maximum of $400 toward travel/accommodation expenses (provided by the Heritage Region). The IABC Heritage Region will grant a total of two scholarships to the World Conference.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;How to apply:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;If you are interested in applying for either of these scholarships, please contact Victoria Rickman, Chapter President, to request an application.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Victoria L. Rickman&lt;br /&gt;Owens &amp;amp; Minor&lt;br /&gt;(804) 723-7728&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:victoria.rickman@owens-minor.com"&gt;victoria.rickman@owens-minor.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Good luck!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7379220441015058950-1127462472405669693?l=www.iabcrichmond.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.iabcrichmond.com/feeds/1127462472405669693/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.iabcrichmond.com/2011/03/iabc-world-conference-scholarship.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7379220441015058950/posts/default/1127462472405669693'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7379220441015058950/posts/default/1127462472405669693'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.iabcrichmond.com/2011/03/iabc-world-conference-scholarship.html' title='*Extended Deadline* IABC World Conference Scholarship'/><author><name>Elle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14552430268183388997</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_x5BwIWhb6DM/S3M-yA7iHrI/AAAAAAAAErI/NFixWZn6jqM/S220/DSC02055.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7379220441015058950.post-7903144087481284798</id><published>2011-03-02T11:37:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-03-02T12:37:21.475-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT'/><title type='text'>March Program / Luncheon</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Join us for our March Program &amp;amp; Luncheon!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 14pt;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-size: 15px; font-weight: normal;"&gt;---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;b style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11pt;"&gt;Date:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-size: 11pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Thursday, March 3, 2011&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;b style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt;"&gt;Time:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;11:45 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt;"&gt;Location:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Owens &amp;amp; Minor, 9120 Lockwood Blvd. Mechanicsville, VA 23116 |&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;amp;source=s_q&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;q=owens+and+minor&amp;amp;sll=37.644413,-77.408638&amp;amp;sspn=0.060894,0.1684&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;t=h&amp;amp;rq=1&amp;amp;ev=zi&amp;amp;split=1&amp;amp;radius=5.53&amp;amp;hq=owens+and+minor&amp;amp;hnear=&amp;amp;ll=37.644413,-77.408638&amp;amp;spn=0.060894,0.1684&amp;amp;z=13&amp;amp;iwloc=A" style="color: #333333;" target="_blank"&gt;click to view map&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&amp;amp;source=s_q&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;q=owens+and+minor&amp;amp;sll=37.644413,-77.408638&amp;amp;sspn=0.060894,0.1684&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;t=h&amp;amp;rq=1&amp;amp;ev=zi&amp;amp;split=1&amp;amp;radius=5.53&amp;amp;hq=owens+and+minor&amp;amp;hnear=&amp;amp;ll=37.644413,-77.408638&amp;amp;spn=0.060894,0.1684&amp;amp;z=13&amp;amp;iwloc=A" style="color: #333333;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;b style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt;"&gt;Cost:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt;"&gt;&lt;b style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;$25 for members and full-time students; $30 for non-members.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"&gt;Register:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://iabcrichmond.blogspot.com/p/rsvp.html" style="color: #333333;" target="_blank"&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;to register now.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"&gt;---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #073763;"&gt;Topic: "Is Freelancing for You?"&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"&gt;Thinking about venturing out on your own as an independent communications consultant? Not sure what’s involved? Gain some insight from Carol Gentry of carolgentry communications, llc as she discusses her experience in moving from the corporate world to consulting. Carol will tell you how she got started and offer some tips for survival and lessons learned.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #073763;"&gt;Speaker: Carol Gentry&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="color: #073763;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;After 25 years in the corporate world, Carol Gentry took the leap into independent consulting (ok, maybe not entirely by choice). As a communications manager for a Fortune 500 company, Carol was responsible for creating and coordinating an internal communication program for a nationwide audience of 10,000 employees. In 2009, she launched carolgentry communications to help companies in the Richmond area connect to their employees with thoughtful, strategic communication efforts.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Carol holds a BA in English from Wake Forest University. She’s currently the Director, Internal Communications at Mondial Assistance, USA. Carol is an active member of the Richmond Chapter of the Society of Human Resources and a past officer of IABC Richmond.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNormal" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: #333333; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 11pt;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-style: normal;"&gt;---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7379220441015058950-7903144087481284798?l=www.iabcrichmond.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.iabcrichmond.com/feeds/7903144087481284798/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.iabcrichmond.com/2011/02/march-program-and-luncheon.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7379220441015058950/posts/default/7903144087481284798'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7379220441015058950/posts/default/7903144087481284798'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.iabcrichmond.com/2011/02/march-program-and-luncheon.html' title='March Program / Luncheon'/><author><name>Elle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14552430268183388997</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_x5BwIWhb6DM/S3M-yA7iHrI/AAAAAAAAErI/NFixWZn6jqM/S220/DSC02055.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7379220441015058950.post-5417539233961043791</id><published>2011-02-28T15:25:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2011-03-02T11:36:22.603-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Website Upgrade In Progress</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"&gt;You may have noticed that our website is currently unavailable.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;Don't worry!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt; It's only for a short time while we upgrade our website to Blogger. In the meantime...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Stay connected to IABC/Richmond in multiple ways!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;1. Website /&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Until the upgrade is complete, you can access our website by visiting &lt;a href="http://www.iabcrichmond.org/"&gt;www.iabcrichmond.org&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;While you're visiting the site, go ahead and bookmark it!&lt;/i&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;After the upgrade is complete, you'll be able to visit our site using either of these web addresses: &lt;a href="http://www.iabcrichmond.com/"&gt;www.iabcrichmond.com&lt;/a&gt; or &lt;a href="http://www.iabcrichmond.org/"&gt;www.iabcrichmond.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;2. Facebook /&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;T&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;here's two ways to connect with us on Facebook - "like"our page and / or join our group! We invite you to do both!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/IABCRichmond/172650009438476"&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; to view our page and / or &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=53391182915"&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to view our group.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;3. Twitter /&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Tw&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;itter is a wonderful way to find tons of interesting information! Start following us and join in the conversation today! &lt;a href="http://twitter.com/iabcrichmond"&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; to view our Twitter page.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;4. Email /&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Have&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt; a question about IABC/Richmond? Send one of our friendly board members an email and we'll get back with you as quickly as we can. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://iabcrichmond.blogspot.com/2010/12/officers.html"&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt; to view our board member's contact information.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-weight: bold;"&gt;Thanks for staying connected, and w&lt;/span&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"&gt;e look forward to seeing you at an upcoming event!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7379220441015058950-5417539233961043791?l=www.iabcrichmond.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.iabcrichmond.com/feeds/5417539233961043791/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.iabcrichmond.com/2011/02/website-upgrade-in-progress.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7379220441015058950/posts/default/5417539233961043791'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7379220441015058950/posts/default/5417539233961043791'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.iabcrichmond.com/2011/02/website-upgrade-in-progress.html' title='Website Upgrade In Progress'/><author><name>Elle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14552430268183388997</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_x5BwIWhb6DM/S3M-yA7iHrI/AAAAAAAAErI/NFixWZn6jqM/S220/DSC02055.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7379220441015058950.post-2742204530474425788</id><published>2010-12-05T20:17:00.002-05:00</published><updated>2010-12-05T20:23:54.211-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IABC/RICHMOND'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ACCREDITATION'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IABC'/><title type='text'>The Value of Accreditation</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #555555; line-height: 20px;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Take it to the next level.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="color: #555555; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 15px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;Take the first step to advance your career through IABC’s globally recognized professional credential program. In this video, hear Accredited Business Communicators talk about their experiences with the ABC accreditation process and what it has meant to them from a career and professional development standpoint.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_jkDJsoewMQ?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/_jkDJsoewMQ?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7379220441015058950-2742204530474425788?l=www.iabcrichmond.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.iabcrichmond.com/feeds/2742204530474425788/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.iabcrichmond.com/2010/12/value-of-accreditation.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7379220441015058950/posts/default/2742204530474425788'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7379220441015058950/posts/default/2742204530474425788'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.iabcrichmond.com/2010/12/value-of-accreditation.html' title='The Value of Accreditation'/><author><name>Elle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14552430268183388997</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_x5BwIWhb6DM/S3M-yA7iHrI/AAAAAAAAErI/NFixWZn6jqM/S220/DSC02055.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7379220441015058950.post-388297271839723797</id><published>2010-12-05T17:00:00.009-05:00</published><updated>2011-09-07T18:31:45.128-04:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IABC/RICHMOND'/><title type='text'>Meet The Officers</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"&gt;IABC/Richmond Board&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;Have questions about IABC/Richmond? Feel free to contact one of our friendly board members listed below. Don't forget - you can also find us on Facebook &amp;amp; Twitter!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;President&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;Victoria L. Rickman&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;Owens &amp;amp; Minor&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;(804) 723-7728&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:victoria.rickman@owens-minor.com"&gt;victoria.rickman@owens-minor.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Vice President, Programs&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;Elle Dmytryszyn&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;H&amp;amp;A Architects &amp;amp; Engineers&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;(804) 521-7041&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:elle.dmytryszyn@gmail.com"&gt;elle.dmytryszyn@gmail.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Vice President, Membership&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;Allison Moore&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;PLANIT Technology Group&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;(804) 270-4900&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:allison@techead.com"&gt;allisonmccallum@yahoo.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Vice President, Communications&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;Larand Lancaster&lt;br /&gt;Virginia Retirement System&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;804-771-7366&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:llancaster@varetire.org"&gt;llancaster@varetire.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Executive Secretary and Acting Treasurer&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;Mary Ann Delano&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;IABC/Richmond&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;(804) 360-0936&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:mad82wm@msn.com"&gt;mad82wm@msn.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7379220441015058950-388297271839723797?l=www.iabcrichmond.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.iabcrichmond.com/feeds/388297271839723797/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.iabcrichmond.com/2010/12/officers.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7379220441015058950/posts/default/388297271839723797'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7379220441015058950/posts/default/388297271839723797'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.iabcrichmond.com/2010/12/officers.html' title='Meet The Officers'/><author><name>Elle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14552430268183388997</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_x5BwIWhb6DM/S3M-yA7iHrI/AAAAAAAAErI/NFixWZn6jqM/S220/DSC02055.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7379220441015058950.post-2842676795903880843</id><published>2010-12-04T18:58:00.005-05:00</published><updated>2010-12-05T17:16:52.652-05:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IABC/RICHMOND'/><title type='text'>IABC/Richmond Monthly Meetings</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;The Richmond chapter of IABC offers professional development meetings on the first Thursday of each month,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;except during the months of July and August&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"&gt;. The meetings are usually held from 11:45 a.m. until 1:30 p.m.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 16px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 10px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"&gt;Unless specified, cost is $25 for members and students; $30 for non-members. &lt;a href="http://iabcrichmond.blogspot.com/p/rsvp.html"&gt;Click here&lt;/a&gt; to register for upcoming meetings and events.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7379220441015058950-2842676795903880843?l=www.iabcrichmond.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.iabcrichmond.com/feeds/2842676795903880843/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.iabcrichmond.com/2010/12/iabcrichmond-monthly-meetings.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7379220441015058950/posts/default/2842676795903880843'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7379220441015058950/posts/default/2842676795903880843'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.iabcrichmond.com/2010/12/iabcrichmond-monthly-meetings.html' title='IABC/Richmond Monthly Meetings'/><author><name>Elle</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/14552430268183388997</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='24' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_x5BwIWhb6DM/S3M-yA7iHrI/AAAAAAAAErI/NFixWZn6jqM/S220/DSC02055.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
