MEETINGS
Strategic Planning 101
IABC/Fort Worth past president Robin McCasland will explore "Strategic Planning for Dummies" at the October meeting.
Time & date: 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 25
Place: Petroleum Club, Carter-Burgess Plaza, 777 Main St., 39th floor
Parking: $2.50 in parking garage at Seventh and Commerce streets
Cost: $20 members, $25 nonmembers
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Before the Crisis: A Crisis Plan
Two highly experienced PR professionals will present a comprehensive crisis communications program at the Oct. 12 professional development seminar and lunceon.
Dan Keeney, APR, president of DPK Public Relations in Houston, will headline the morning session as he mixes fundamentals about crisis communications planning with interactive scenarios on how to make split-second decisions, develop key messages and deliver them on camera. NASA has engaged Keeney to build support for extending human exploration back to the moon and beyond.
Daniel K. Carpenter, NASA deputy chief of staff, at lunch will describe what the space agency's public affairs director did to prepare the office and then how those plans worked during the space shuttle Columbia disaster. Other major events on Carpenter's watch include media relations for the International Space Station and NASA participation in both the World Space Congress 2002 (6,000 attendees) and the 2004 NFL Super Bowl in Houston.
Time & date: seminar 9-11:30 a.m., lunch noon-1 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 12
Place: Petroleum Club, Carter-Burgess Plaza, 777 Main St., 39th floor
Parking: free valet in parking garage at Seventh and Commerce streets
Cost: seminar and luncheon, members $52, nonmembers $75, students $32; seminar only, members $32, nonmembers $57, students $18; lunch only, members $25, nonmembers $30, students $20
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Get on the Bus!
From the July 2002 eChaser: "That was a jolly band, 30 strong, of drinkers, grazers, gazers and near-geezers who made the excursion June 22 to peruse the Pulitzers at the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas. It was like the senior trip to play Odessa Permian, except the tuba section didn't grope the color guard. Instant charter-bus chums, the riders drank most of the soft drinks and bottled water and ... beer on board, ate all the pretzels and Goldfish that Kay Pirtle packaged in little Ziploc bags, uniformly pronounced the pictures stunning and still were back at their cars with two hours of daylight left. What a time. Surely we will do this again."
And so the chapter shall, on Saturday afternoon, Oct. 22. Three years ago the payoff was a traveling show of Pulitzer Prize-winning photos. Same destination this time, but with a different slant on the craft.
"Covering Chaos" packages historic film, artifacts, two videos and highlights of the museum's oral history collection to painstakingly narrate the four days of continuous coverage of the Kennedy assassination, Nov. 22-25, 1963. It gives voice to the more than 300 reporters present in 1963, among them Peter Jennings, Dan Rather, Bob Schieffer, Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer. An interesting angle compares the technologies of 1963 and today, helping visitors visualize the Stone Age nature of the bulky equipment -- a medium in its infancy.
The bus will leave the Interstate 30/Trinity River Pappasito's parking lot at 1 p.m., then advance to Arlington and add a second batch of folks at the new Shady Oak Barbeque and Grill on Copeland Road. Everyone returns to God's county by 6.
Onboard the Cowtown Charters coach, expect soft drinks, munch items and sufficient other beverages for those so inclined to get happy but not plowed (don't expect a bathroom). BYOB, if you like, and add it to the big cooler being arranged by the ad hoc libations committee. No glass containers or frowns allowed.
Date: Saturday, Oct. 22
Times: bus leaves promptly at 1 p.m. from Pappasito's on I-30 and the Trinity River (park near the Pappasito's sign on the south side of the lot) and approximately 30 minutes later from Shady Oak Barbeque and Grill in Arlington on Copeland Road and Nolan Ryan Expressway (park near the access road, Copeland, between the big Shady Oak and Mexican Inn signs) -- be on time!
Place: up and down I-30 and at the Sixth Floor Museum, downtown Dallas
Cost: $15 cash at the bus door
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STRAIGHT STUFF
A passel of Texas Radio Hall of Fame 2005 inductees -- Ann Arnold, Vesta Brandt, Al Caldwell, George Carlin, Caroline Devine, Sam Donaldson, Milo Hamilton, Vann Kennedy (deceased), Ken Knox (deceased), Hugh Lampman (deceased), Steve Lundy (deceased) and Wes Wise -- will be honored Saturday, Nov. 5, at the Dallas/Addison Marriott Quorum by the Galleria. Also recognized will be 2005 Hall of Honor instatees Bill Bradford, Bob Bruton and Bill Enis (deceased). More at texasradiohalloffame.com. ...
The East-West Center is accepting applications for the winter 2006 Jefferson Fellowships, which will bring Asia-Pacific journalists to the U.S. and send American journalists to India and Pakistan. Both groups will convene in Honolulu to share impressions and ideas. Applications are due Oct. 21. Fellows will be expected to travel Feb. 5-26. Go to eastwestcenter.org/Jefferson. ... Applications are due Oct. 7 for the expenses-paid seminar "Finding Hidden Secrets in Financial Documents" at the University of California, Berkeley's Western Knight Center for Specialized Journalism, wkconline.org. The seminar will be Nov. 15-18.
IABC local update: It's not too late to register for the IABC Southern Region Conference, "005: Communication -- Shaken, Not Stirred," Oct. 16-18 in College Station. Organizers vow that participants will be inspired by Rudy Ruettiger, subject of the movie "Rudy," and learn from CNN Headline News senior VP Rolando Santos about connecting with an international audience; from Jane Cook, former White House webmaster, on communication secrets from presidential shake-ups; and from, well, a real-life spy, Dudley Latimer, on clandestine communications. More at iabc-bv.org/2005conference/index.html.
IABC local update II: IABC/Dallas has blocked an entire day -- Friday, Oct. 7 -- to clebrate its Bronze Quill Awards and 35th reunion at the Renaissance Hotel and adjacent Eisemann Center in Richardson. "From Cacophony to Clarity" is the theme, and it's all about creating simplicity out of complexity -- taming chaos -- what great communicators do when they're at the top of their game. Communicator heavyweights Charles Pizzo, Charles Pizzo Public Relations; Jeff Herrington, Jeff Herrington Communications; Mitch McCasland, Moroch Partners Advertising; and Dusty Crocker, TCU professor and professional trainer, will lead four 2 1/2-hour seminars on strategy and tactics, sandwiched around the Bronze Quill presentation and address by Southwest Airlines senior VP Ginger Hardage. More here.
