Do you have an idea for a professional development program? Would you like to mentor a student? How about practicing your tweeting and event photography skills? These are just a few of the ways you can get more involved in your local IABC Detroit chapter in 2012.
The time commitment is not huge. Help just once or help with more than one event or program depending on your time and interest. Either way, it’s a great way to improve your professional network and get more out of your membership while you help support the chapter.
If you’ve got some time right now, here are a few areas where you can jump in.
In case you missed our September program, here are a few highlights from Mona Wehbe’s presentation–Sell Yourself: Use a Digital Portfolio to Brand Yourself in a Tight Job Market.
You can also access her full PowerPoint by clicking here.
Note: Mona does not receive any compensation from Weebly.com. Her opinions are entirely her own and are based on her research and experience with online website creation tools.
IABC Detroit is pleased to announce that Jackie McClure, Director of Marketing Sales for Allegra Marketing Print Mail Headquarters in Plymouth, Mich., has been named 2011 Communicator of the Year at Chapter’s 30th Renaissance Awards celebration, held June 23, at the Renaissance Conference Center in Detroit’s Renaissance Center.
Communicator of the Year is a distinguished honor awarded to a veteran communications professional who exemplifies excellence in professional achievement across several categories of evaluation, including professional achievement, leadership, advancing the profession, encouraging professionalism and integrity, and civic and/or charitable contribution of communications expertise.
“On behalf of IABC Detroit, I want to congratulate…
The year was 1981 and Frank Sopata was president of IABC Detroit. At a Board meeting, Marlene Goldsmith was late arriving and when she did she found that she was charged with designing and chairing an awards competition – and Renaissance Awards was born.
The program has seen many changes over the years, but the one that best defines it occurred in 1992. Recognizing a need to create a brand image for the program, Pangborn Design was enlisted for help. A team of designers, led by then vice president of design and creative director Ted Zablocki, worked to depart from the original Detroit skyline visual, that the chapter used, to create a renaissance theme.
No one knows more the importance of IABC Detroit more than someone who has been the chapter’s president. To help celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Awards program, a video was created to incorporate thoughts from some of the past presidents who are still involved in the organization. Created by Burke Video in Troy, here’s what former IABC Detroit presidents had to say.
June 26th, 2011 by ahichel Posted in News & Events | Comments Off
Renaissance Awards honors communicators with Awards of Honor, Awards of Merit or Awards of Excellence. All of the Awards of Excellence winners are then judged by a second panel to determine the best in each division – the Presidents Award for Communication Management, Best of Show in Communication Skills and Best of Show in Communication Creative.
