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Spring Season:
Jan Topic: Networking for Dynamic
Results: Turning Contacts into Clients and Referral Partners
Speaker: Matt Anderson – The Referral Authority
Feb Topic: Life Is a Balancing Act: 5 Steps to a More Balanced
Life
Speaker: Mary Kay Aide – Certified Life Coach
March Topic: What’s deal-io with Milio? – An Identity
Change Case Study
Speaker: Big Mike Liautaud, Milio’s Sandwiches
April Topic: Little Steps Fill Big Shoes: Networking to Keep
Your Career Moving Forward
Speaker: Martha Carrigan, Big Shoes Network
May Topic: Video: More Than a Document Tool
Speaker: Jeff Blankenship, Complete Video
Fall Season: TBD - Click here.
Spring Season:
Jan Topic: What’s New in E-marketing?
Speaker: Dan Early, President of Ascedia
Feb Topic: CowParade Wisconsin 2006
Speakers: Claire Varrelmann & Becky Kronberg, Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board
Mar Topic: Reaching a Growing Latino Marketplace
Speaker: Dante Viscarra, Publisher, La Comunidad Newspaper
April Topic: What’s the Best Medium for Your Message?
Speaker: Maureen Kennedy Boelter – Momentum Marketing Communications
May Topic: Starting a Small Business – Entity Options
and Beyond
Speaker: Josh Kopp, Lathrop & Clark, LLP
Fall Season:
Sept Topic: Talent Search – Calling in the Pros for Your
Marketing
Speaker: Raquel Repka, owner and president of The Rock Agency
Oct Topic: Buy Me! How to sell anything without selling
Speaker: Dan Paulson – President, InVision Business Development and Marketing
Nov Topic: Communication Across Ethnic and Food
Cultures
Speaker: Larry Johnson, Market Manager of the Dane County Farmers’ Market
Dec Topic: Get Tuned in to Web Video Trends
Speaker: Dan Presser – Tweedee Productions
Spring Season:
Jan Topic: 2004 Election: Radio Pros and Cons
Speaker: Mitch Henck, WIBA-AM Radio
Feb Topic: Merging Creative into the Marketing Mix
Speaker: Laura Moberly, Sleeping Dragon Graphics, LLC
Mar Topic: Your Space is Talking - Do You Know What it is Saying?
Speaker: Susan Eaton Mendenhall, Spatial Impact
April Topic: Organized E-mail As Easy As 1-2-3
Speaker: Nancy Kruschke McKinney, Successful Organizing Solutions
May Topic: Your Turn to “Ask Larry” about his work
at MAPD
Speaker: Larry Kamholz, Outgoing Public Information Officer at MAPD
Fall Season:
Sept Topic: Covering Business in the Capital Region:
An Editor's Perspective
Speaker: Teryl Franklin, Business Editor, WSJ
Oct Topic: Play Ball! A Look at the Mallards’ Marketing
Game
Speaker: Vern Stenman, General Manager, Madison Mallards
Nov Topic: Blogging for Fun and Profit
Speaker: Gordon Smith – Professor, University of Wisconsin Law School
Dec Topic: The Magic of Sales
Speaker: Tom Krzystof, Magician
Spring Season:
Jan Topic: Doin’ the Dells...Marketing
Speaker: Romy Snyder, Wisconsin Dells Visitor & Convention Bureau
Feb Topic: Public Image - Growing Your Business
Speaker: Big Mike’s Super Subs
March Topic: Communication Strategies & the Public
Speaker: Disaster Services Public Information Officer
April Topic: Predictive Index (PI) – A diagnostic tool
that provides business leaders with a clear look at their people and how they
work.
Speaker: Jim Klunick, Wipfli Young
May Topic: Writing the Perfect Business Plan
Speaker: Jacqui Sakowski, Sakowski Consulting
Fall Season:
Sept Topic: How to Motivate Your Staff / Co-workers
Speaker: Ann Sherman, GE Healthcare Information Technologies
Oct Topic: Overture: A Prelude to Downtown Expansion
Speaker: Michael Goldberg, Overture Center for the Arts
Nov Topic: Professional Presence: Inside and Out
Speaker: Susan Smedley and Amy Grant, The Next Level Training, LLC
Dec Topic: GMCC: A Year in Review
Speaker: Jennifer Alexander, GMCC President
Spring Season:
Jan Topic: It's a New Year – Get Organized!
Focus: How to Manage Multiple Projects
Speaker: Michael Tobis, Ducks-in-a-Row
Feb Topic: Conflict Resolution / Coping with Difficult Situations
Speaker: Stephen Pearson
March Topic: Understanding How the News Media Work, Focus: How
to help your clients and organizations by better understanding the needs
of various news media
Speaker: Tom Still, Wisconsin Technology Council
April Topic: The Road from Communications to the Cabinet
Speaker: Roberta Gassman
May Topic: The War in Iraq; A Historian Offers some Preliminary
Assessments
Speaker: James Baughman, Professor of Mass Communications & Journalism, UW-Madison
Fall Season:
Sept Topic: Transition from Journalism to P.R.
- A Panel Discussion
3 Speakers: Ken Syke - Madison School District, Michael Flaherty - Flaherty & Associates,
and Melanie Conklin - Mayor Dave
Cieslewicz’s Office
Oct Successful Internet Communications: It’s about Usability,
naturally!
Speaker: Jim Franck, Token Ridge LLC
Nov Topic: Finding Good Freelancers and Managing the Freelancing
Process
Speaker: Harriet Brown, Wisconsin Trails Magazine
Dec Topic: Think. Laugh. Live.
Speaker: Tom Farley, The Chris Farley Foundation
Spring Season:
Jan Topic: Beware of Cybersquatters
Speaker: Lydie Arthos Hudson, Lathrop & Clark
Feb Topic: Life in the Bigs: Madison is Closer than you Think
Speaker: John Roach, John Roach Projects
March Topic: Let’s Get Digital: The Camera of the Future
Speaker: Michael Springer, The Camera Company
April Topic: Milking the State for all it’s Worth
Speaker: Michael Jacob, C.O.W.S.
May Topic: Communication Etiquette
Speaker: Kay Moore, Moore Business Perspectives
June Business Card Exchange
Fall Season:
Sept Topic: Crisis Communication & the Media: How to Take
and Maintain Control of the Situation When Things Get Tense
Speaker: H. Carl Mueller, Mueller Communications
Oct Topic: Image is Power! How visual branding programs effect
our human culture from sporting venus to retail stores
Speaker: Mark Schmitz, Z•D Studios
Nov Topic: Marketing a Franchise - How do you succeed?
Speaker: Barbara Behling, Culver Franchising System, Inc.
Dec Topic: (re)Invigorate Your Organization! By... getting to
yes!
Speaker: Jodi Cohen
Fall Season:
Sept Topic: Handling the Media (before it handles
you)
Speaker: Marshall Cook
Oct Topic: What’s in a Name? Naming Rights: The Alliant
Energy Center
Speaker: Tim Heinrich, Alliant Energy
Nov Topic: Consider Diversity: Important for today’s marketing
efforts
Speaker: Janet Kelly, MATC
Dec Topic: Communication: Are you really Listening?
Speaker: Van Nutt, Improvability
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