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Rochester Chapter

The Association for Women in Communications is a community of professional writers, editors, journalists and broadcasters providing educational programs, career development opportunities, and mentoring to colleagues and students.

Events

Next meeting:

6:30 p.m., Wednesday, January 27 , Card Room, 2500 East Avenue (in the Renaissance apartment building; entrance on Penfield Road; free and valet parking). Details at right.


Contact us...

information@
awc-rochester.org

AWC-Rochester, Post Office Box 10659, Rochester, NY 14618; phone: 585-234-2807

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Upcoming meetings

January 2010

January 27 - Get the new year off to a good start by learning about social networking - Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook - at the first 2010 meeting of the Association for Women in Communications (AWC)-Rochester, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. on Wednesday, January 27, in the Card Room of the Renaissance. Speaker to be announced. Bring your laptop so you can set up your own account(s)!

If there are enough RSVPs, dinner will be provided by the Flour City Diner at $15/person for AWC members and $20/person for non-members. Otherwise, AWC-Rochester will provide light munchies and the meeting will be $5/person for members and $10/person for non-members. Payment may be made onsite by cash or check.

RSVP by 5 p.m. on January 25; cost details will be confirmed on January 26, based on RSVPs. RSVP to AWC-Rochester at (585) 234-2807 or information@
awc-rochester.org

Be sure to join us!

Chapter news ...

Getting back in gear

With AWC celebrating its 100th year of service to women in all aspects of the communications profession, not to mention the continuing need to advocate for workplace parity for women and to provide networking opportunities in today's challenging economy, it would be a shame to let AWC-Rochester founder. Let's bring the chapter back to life! I've just come back from the national centennial conference, held in October in Seattle, WA, and am fired up with ideas for getting us back into action on behalf of colleagues. Please consider pitching in to bring AWC-Rochester back to its former glory.

One idea from the centennial AWC conference is to share officerships, so no one person is burdened with more work on behalf of the chapter than she can manage. If you have hesitated to take on a leadership role, now is the time to step up and offer to share one of those roles!

Officers needed!

We're still looking for board and committee volunteers. If you're interested in serving on the AWC-Rochester board or a committee, please contact current president Ruth E. Thaler-Carter at president@awc-rochester.org. To reduce the responsibilities and time commitment of officership, some positions may be shared between two volunteers. Rebuilding our committees also will help make volunteering more manageable.

The current officers and committees of AWC-Rochester are as follows. More committee members are always welcome. To volunteer, call AWC-Rochester at (585) 234-2807 or send a message to info@awc-rochester.org.

President - Ruth E. Thaler-Carter
Vice-President for Membership - open
Vice-President for Programs - open
Vice President for Communications/interim - Ruth E. Thaler-Carter
Treasurer - open - urgent!
Secretary - open

Committees

PR Committee

Membership Committee

Website/Job Bank

Newsletter

Program Committee

Online connections

AWC-Rochester has a group at LinkedIn. To join the group, go to:

http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=167523

We also are looking at converting the chapter website into a blog format, to allow members to participate in online discussions here. We'll keep you posted.

Annual picnic

Coming up in June 2010. Details to come.

Community events

Be sure to check our Community Events page for non-AWC events that may be of interest to our members. If you have a communications-related event you'd like to see listed, please send details to web@awc-rochester.org.

Rochester Skyline Banner

The glorious panorama of the Rochester skyline at the top of this page is the work of Hoss Firooznia. A future site update will include an "About this photograph" page with more information about the picture and a link to Firooznia's online gallery. He's given us permission to use his photograph on our website and in print publications. Please respect his copyright.

The Fine Print

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