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October 2009
Editor: Jessica Franken; Web: Lani Payette; Copy editor: Patrice Johnson
Welcome, new members!
A special shout-out to new (and returning) members Allison Gahlon, Amy Leslie, Amy Leyden, Andrea Szalay, Andy Merrill, Angie Hoffmann-Walter, Ann Bechtell, Aron Khoury, Carolyn Marinan, Chris Coughlan-Smith, Deborah Hudleston, Elizabeth Kaestner, Jennifer Benson, Jessica Mooney, Karl Raschke, Kathe Wilcoxon, Katie Fornasiere, Margaret Miller, Margie O'Neill, Marie Martin, Mary Roberson, Paul Bernhardt, Rachelle Hernandez, Sara Bielawski, Sarah Harper, Susan Geller, Timothy Cronin, and Wendy Volkman. Welcome to the forum!
Register for Web 2.0: When is it worth doing?
October 27, 3:00 to 4:30 p.m., 101 Walter Library
Is a blog worth the time it will require? Can I reach my audience on Twitter? Will Facebook work for my department? What are the U policies on these things, and what social media are other communicators at the U using successfully? Get some insight at the next Forum program, Tuesday, October 27 at Walter Library.
* Register now
* Bring a guest for free using this guest pass (.pdf)
Other area events
Sustainability lecture by Wendy Jedlicka et al.
MCAD
October 22, 6:30 p.m.
The Show
AdFed
October 23, doors at 5 p.m.
Epic Night Club, Minneapolis
Cocktails with Creatives
AIGA
November 5, 6 p.m.
OM, Minneapolis
Driving Traffic: The constant challenge to acquire and convert
MIMA
November 11, 7:30 a.m.
The Depot, Minneapolis
Forum blogness
The inchoate Communicators Forum blog has all sorts of delicious nuggets for you. Go explore it - you'll make a poor editor's day. October posts include:
Link roundups
Forum members curate articles and items of interest:
Social networking and gender and more
Writing links and more
Who "else" hates "unnecessary" quotation marks? and more
Polls and queries
How networked are you?
How do you relieve stress?
How many browser tabs do you have open?
Interviews and profiles
Interview: Office of Classroom Management site redesign
For more Communicators Forum goodness, head over to the blog.