Upcoming IABC Events

Teleseminar: 7 Secrets to Marketing Success
September 21st
Paul Mlodzik, ABC, MC, The Co-operators
Teleseminar

IABC Southern Region Conference
September 24th-26th
Kansas City, Missouri
IABC Southern Region

Web Seminar: Why Can’t a Woman Talk More Like a Man and Visa Versa
September 27th
Raleigh Mayer, MK Coaching, and James E. Lukaszewski, ABC, APR, Fellow PRSA
KRM Website (September)

Web Seminar: Finance for Non-financial Communicators
October 4th
James K. Gentry, Professor, University of Kansas School of Journalism and James E. Lukaszewski, ABC, APR, Fellow PRSA
KRM Website (October)

IABC Heritage Region Conference
October 8th-10th
Washington, D.C.
IABC Heritage Conference

Business Writing Conference
October 12th and 13th
Allerton Crowne Plaza, Chicago
Business Writing

Research & Measurement Conference
October 25th-27th, New York City
Research & Measurement

EuroComm Conference
November 13th and 14th Dublin, Ireland
EuroComm

2006 Iris Awards - Call for Entries

NJ/IABC is currently accepting entries from New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania for the 2006 Iris Awards. Hurry, the deadline is October 1st.

(The following information can be found at NJ/IABC's official website.)

ARE YOU READY TO BE RECOGNIZED?
Enter the 2006 IRIS Awards Competition

Both members of NJ/IABC and other communication professionals can compete for 2006 IRIS award honors by their entering work in one of two major categories:

Communication Skills includes pieces that highlight technical skills and expertise such as editing, writing, design and photography.
Communication Management Campaigns includes events, programs and campaigns defined by a communications plan.

Three Ways to Stand Out
There is a "Best in Show" award for each of the two major categories. In addition, Awards of Excellence and/or Awards of Merit are given in the following subcategories: communications campaigns, electronic and interactive communications, audiovisual communications, non-subscription publications, design, publication redesign, special project design, writing, photography and special purpose communications.

Entries are evaluated on innovative and effective use of media, overall quality of writing, design, execution, and successful achievement of communications objectives.

Recognizing Excellence
"IRIS is about recognition of excellence in communications," says Rich Ecke, President, NJ/IABC.

All entries must be the original work of the entrant and must have been produced and distributed between Oct. 1, 2005 and September 30, 2006.

Winners will be announced and celebrated at the annual IRIS Awards Ceremony.

PLEASE CLICK ON THE ABOVE TITLE FOR A PDF COPY OF THE ENTRY FORM.

Designing Our Chapter's Logo

The board is currently in the process of approving a logo to represent NJIABC's student chapter. Please note, the following design may need to be modified to meet IABC guidelines. However, we'd still appreciate your feedback.

Here is a brief description of the logo design...

I choose to use a crest which I feel is reminiscent of the traditional university shield. As you know, every item within the shield should possess relevant meaning. They are as follows:

Statue of Empedocles: Greek philosopher 444 BCE considered the inventor of the study of rhetoric.
Laurel Wreath: Symbolic of the victory gained through the pursuit of knowledge in the context of shared community.
Defero: Latin translation of "communicate."
The tagline I've created is "Connecting Students and Practitioners." (which works great with our new “networking” theme)

I look forward to your comments!

Email from eBay

Net Neutrality and the eBay Community: A Call to Action

Dear holdencb,

As you know, I almost never reach out to you personally with a request to get involved in a debate in the U.S. Congress. However, today I feel I must.

Right now, the telephone and cable companies in control of Internet access are trying to use their enormous political muscle to dramatically change the Internet. It might be hard to believe, but lawmakers in Washington are seriously debating whether consumers should be free to use the Internet as they want in the future.

Join me by clicking here -- http://www.ebaymainstreet.com/netneutrality -- to send a message to your representatives in Congress.

The phone and cable companies now control more than 95% of all Internet access. These large corporations are spending millions of dollars to promote legislation that would allow them to divide the Internet into a two-tiered system.

The top tier would be a "Pay-to-Play" high-speed toll-road restricted to only the largest companies that can afford to pay high fees for preferential access to the Net.

The bottom tier -- the slow lane -- would be what is left for everyone else. If the fast lane is the information "super-highway," the slow lane will operate more like a dirt road.

Today's Internet is an incredible open marketplace for goods, services, information and ideas. We can't give that up. A two-lane system will restrict innovation because start-ups and small companies -- the companies that can't afford the high fees -- will be unable to succeed, and we'll lose out on the jobs, creativity and inspiration that come with them.

The power belongs with Internet users, not the big phone and cable companies. Let's use that power to send as many messages as possible to our elected officials in Washington. Please join me by clicking here right now to send a message to your representatives in Congress before it is too late. You can make the difference.

Thank you for reading this note. I hope you'll make your voice heard today.

Sincerely,

Meg Whitman
President and CEO
eBay Inc.

P.S. If you have any questions about this issue, please contact us at government_relations@ebay.com.

BRAVO Yahoo! BRAVO

Congrats to yahoo! on their corporate blog launch yesterday, August 1, 2006. Click on the link above and check it out. In my opinion, it's a shining example of a successful blog in the making. The first posting has a video podcast tour of the company's campus--not a bad day at the office.