MEETINGS
The program wheels are turning. For sure, there’s food.
Time & date: 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 25
Place: City Club, 301 Commerce St.
Cost: with reservation, members $15, nonmembers $20, students $10; without
reservation, members $30, nonmembers $35, students $20
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Ask the Editors
What’s the best way to connect with area editors and reporters? Attend the media
panel with Lois Norder and Mari Estrella, Star-Telegram; Robert Francis, Fort Worth Business Press; and Paul Harral, Fort Worth, Texas magazine, on Wedneday, Jan. 12, and find out.
Topics will include the changing landscape of information distribution (news
releases as well as social media, videos and photography), methods of
communication preferred by editors, and other trends for 2011.
Time & date: 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 12
Place: Colonial Country Club, 3735 Country Club Circle
Cost: $25 members, $30 nonmembers, students $20, walk-ups add $5
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A meeting may be in the works. If it’s a go, you’ll know.
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STRAIGHT STUFF
Local language czar Paula LaRocque will lead a discussion of linguistic toxic assets — words and phrases that should be banished in 2011 — at the Friends of the Arlington Public Library meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan.
18, at the George W. Hawkes Central Library. Think shovel-ready words and their
deserved demise. LaRocque will use this teachable moment to offer tips on
making the language more transparent. In tough economic times, even your words
need a stimulus. Refreshments will be provided. ...
The exhibit “Apron Chronicles: A Patchwork of American Recollections,” at the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame, Jan. 7-April 3, tells the
stories of more than three dozen men and women who have unique memories about
aprons and the people who wore them. Contributors include a 111-year-old mother
and her only child; a Holocaust survivor; a biology professor from Mali,
Africa; and a preteen and her grandmother. Area restaurants have donated aprons
autographed by their chefs, with raffle ($1 a ticket) proceeds benefiting the
museum’s education programs. More from
Melissa Rogers, 817-773-2788 or mkrmarketinggroup@gmail.com. ...
A star-studded lineup will hold autobiographical court on “What Women Write” at the Writers’ Guild of Texas meeting at 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 17, at the Richardson Public
Library. Kim Bullock, Pamela Hammonds, Susan Ishmael-Poulos, Julie Kibler, Elizabeth Lynd and Joan Mora, a.k.a. whatwomenwritetx.blogspot.com, joined together in a quest to enhance their writing lives. They will reveal
how they have collectively and individually benefited from the collaboration.
Writers’ events calendar: Feb. 26-27, DFW Writers’ Conference, agents and acquisition editors, keynote Sandra Brown, American Airlines Training and Conference Center in Fort Worth. WGT
third-Monday early-birds: Glen Pourciau on publisher rejection, Feb. 21; Janet Doleh, March 21; Susannah Charleson on the query and pitch, April 18; SPJ member Carmen Goldthwaite on creative nonfiction, May 16; WGT All-Stars Read-In, June 20. ...
When is a foreclosure not a foreclosure? Is there a difference between
percentage and percentage point (and why should it matter)? What does all this
business jargon mean in understandable terms? Answers will be forthcoming from
The Dallas Morning News’ Christopher Wienandt at a free Reynolds Center interactive webinar at 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. Tuesday,
March 29. Info here. Meanwhile, if face-to-face learning is more your style, USA Today database
editor Paul Overberg and Arizona State University Knight Chair Steve Doig will pinpoint local business stories in census and other government data at a
Reynolds Center free daylong Dallas workshop Thursday, April 7. The workshop
precedes the annual Society of American Business Editors and Writers
Conference, April 7-9. Info here. ...
Deadline is Jan. 10 to apply for a Phillip D. Reed Memorial Award for
Outstanding Writing on the Southern Environment, sponsored by the Southern
Environmental Law Center. Material will be judged in book, newspaper and
magazine, and online categories. Prizes of $1,000 are awarded. Submissions must
have been published in 2010. More at southernenvironment.org. ...
National Investor Relations Institute CEO Jeff Morgan; Virgil Scudder with Virgil Scudder & Associates; Joanna Horton, Capital Institutional Services; and Joe Parsons, AT&T, will lead a one-day seminar, “Diary of the Multi-Tasking Investor Relations Officer,” 8 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 28, at the Dallas Lincoln Center Hilton.
Presentations will explore, among other topics, the art and science of earnings
calls, and SEC actions now and in the future. Register here. ...
Senior-level chief marketing officers Mike McCalley (Dresser Industries) and Ann Davids (Rent-A-Center) with moderator Brice Campbell, executive in residence at the SMU Temerlin Advertising Institute, will discuss
“Marketing in Uncertain Times” at a Dallas-Fort Worth American Marketing Association members-only meeting
Wednesday, Jan. 12. More from Ivan Rodriguez, ivanmrodriguez@mavs.uta.edu.
IABC local update: Bonnie Caver, head of Caver Public Relations, a virtual strategic communications and
reputation management firm in Austin, will discuss “When It Comes to Guiding Reputations, Communicators Take the Lead … Are You Ready?” at the IABC Dallas luncheon meeting Tuesday, Jan. 18. Info here.
