MARCH 2008 NEWSLETTER

ALBUQUERQUE PRESS WOMEN E-GRAM

International PR Service Works Western Hub in Albuquerque

JOINT luncheon with PRSA and APW:

Janine Caldwell, Western Director of Operations of PR Newswire will talk about the company's worldwide public relations efforts and their newly created Western hub in Albuquerque.

Organizations use PR Newswire to reach a variety of critical audiences--news media, the investment community, government decision-makers, and the general public with their up-to-the- -minute, full-text news.

PR Newswire is 54 years old, has offices in 14 countries and routinely sends its customers' news to outlets in 135 countries and in more than 40 languages. It uses cutting edge techniques for communications technology and is a well-used resource by news reporters, investors and individuals who seek breaking news from the source. www.prnewswire.com

The Albuquerque Press Women/Public Relations Society of America joint luncheon will be held Monday, March 10 at 11:45 a.m. at the MCM Elegante, 2020 Menaul Blvd NE, just east of University Blvd. Lunch meetings are open to the public for the nonmember price of $21 or the low member price of $15. For reservations, call Doug Swift at 296-3564 by Wednesday, March 5.
** State Conference x Mail your early-bird registration by March 31 and save $20 for the April 11-12, 2008 NM Press Women annual conference in Albuquerque. The statewide event will be held at the Courtyard by Marriott, Journal Center. Your brochure will be in the mail, but if you cannot wait, go directly to http://newmexicopresswomen.org/ and click to see the details. or go to http://www.newmexicopresswomen.org/NMPW2008Conference.pdf

Our Saturday workshops will feature Julie Dunlap presenting a writing workshop. Dunlap has 30 years' experience as an editor guiding news, feature and investigative coverage at the AP, The New York Times, and The Oregonian.

Kirk Ellis, of Santa Fe, will give a workshop on scriptwriting and Troy Simpson, Albuquerque Journal videographer and podcaster will also speak Saturday. Doug Fine, a journalist, author, humorist and outdoor adventure writer is our keynote speaker at the Friday awards dinner held the same evening as the auction.

Please call or email your willingness to serve on the conference committee: dmayfield@abqjournal.com<mailto:dmayfield@abqjournal.com>, 823-3921.

** Silent Auction at State Conference--Donate Autographed Books, gift certificates, new or gently used books, or other things you are planning to buy in the next few months. When you do, you'll help the scholarship fundraising auction at the Friday April 11 Awards Banquet. NM Press Women's annual silent auction helps to raise the money to award two $750 scholarships to students in NM colleges and universities studying communications. Bring your items to the March 10 Luncheon for Susan Walton (auction organizer for the year) or drop them at her work, Sandia Prep School, Edith and Osuna in the Valley, and she'll give you a receipt and a BIG Thank You! from the students. Scholarship Chair Laurie Mellas says there are more early application this year than she has seen before. The demand is great and these are our potential new members! Thanks for your help with this project.

** 2008 meeting location. The luncheon meetings from now through June, 2008 will be held (same day & time but new location) at the MCM Elegante, the former Holiday Inn Midtown, 2020 Menaul Blvd NE, just east of University Blvd.

** May Luncheon--Save the Date: May 12 for the next Press Women luncheon.

** Drawing for a Prize--The February drawing winner was our own member, Dean Smith! And pat yourself on the back for helping us to raise $65 for the NMPW scholarship fund.

** Members' Dues News--2008 Dues are overdue. As of January's luncheon meeting, those not current with dues have been paying nonmember prices. Dues are just $35 a year for ABQ-only membership, or $10 a year if you are also an NFPW and NMPW member! Join us for our luncheons to support the group and to network. Please feel free to invite friends and associates to attend! Prospective members that current members bring to the lunch may receive the $15 member price at the door.

** Fashionable Pens--We have really professional pens as gifts for our speakers. They carry our message: www.apqpw.org<http://www.apqpw.org/> in the new typeface and have a great balance and soft grip surface. They are available for sale at the sign-in table at meetings. For just $10, they are an appropriate gift for the writer in your life, and you help our chapter at the same time.

** Member perks--Check out our Web site (abqpw.org) and remember, members may link to their own Web sites, if they wish, at no charge.

** You have news for this EGRAM, you know you do, so please send it to Susan Walton, swalton@sandiaprep.org<mailto:swalton@sandiaprep.org> I'm doing my last one in May, so please feel free to deluge me with details, news, fun stuff, everything you like to see in copy!

*** Albuquerque Press Women supports professional men and women in print, web, and broadcast journalism; writing; publishing; public relations and marketing; graphic arts and photography; and teaching. Meeting monthly for a lunch and invited speaker, and annually for a state conference and communications contest, Albuquerque Press Women is a chapter of New Mexico Press Women<http://newmexicopresswomen.org/>, which is an affiliate of the National Federation of Press Women<http://www.nfpw.org/>.

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