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If not, it's time to join the conversation! You can now follow the Northeast Wisconsin Chapter of PRSA on Twitter, become a fan on Facebook or connect with us on LinkedIn. We hope using social media will enhance communication and connections between some of the best PR pros in the area (our members!), keep you more informed about meetings and national PRSA information and help recruit students and new members.

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Register Today for our March and April Meetings: Take Your Pitch Nationwide & Constructing a PR Message

Join us for our upcoming programming sessions. As a reminder, our PRSA meetings are almost always – there are no guarentees in PR, right? – the fouth Tuesday of the month (we take a break in the summer and the month of December).

We have some great lunch-time programming coming up in the next two months:

March 23 (De Pere): Take Your Pitch Nationwide: Tips to Achieving More Media Attention with Thomas Kunkel, St. Norbert College Present and former journalist. Kunkel will talk about recognition for your place of business, how to lift your company's bushel basket and achieve more media recognition, not only locally, but regionally and nationally, as well. Please register by March 19.

April 27 (Green Bay): Constructing a PR Message: The PR of a Major Road Construction Project with Kris Schuller, US 41 Project communication manager. Schuller will address the challenges of getting the message of the project to a variety of audiences, including the general public, the traveling public and businesses affected by road closures and detours. Please register by April 23.

We're always looking for programming ideas. If you have a topic or a speaker that others might find interesting, please share them with Roz Barker, our president.

Pancakes with the PRos: Susan Finco, President of Leonard & Finco Public Relations

Did you ever wish you could tap into the mind of a seasoned PR Pro to learn from his or her experience? Join the members of the Northeast Wisconsin PRSA Chapter for our first members-only event, Pancakes with the PRos. Our kickoff breakfast, which includes a pancake breakfast buffet, will feature Susan Finco, president of Leonard & Finco Public Relations. Chat with Susan about her career, get insights into her personal PR path, and apply her life experience to your own PR journey.

Date: Friday, April 9
Time: 7:15 a.m. registration; 7:30 a.m. program and breakfast
Location: Schenck SC, 2200 Riverside Drive, Green Bay (be alert to Hwy 172 exit/entrance ramp closures, if driving from the west side)
Cost: $20 payable at the door

Members only! Please register through our Web site. A maximum of 25 can attend, so reserve your seat while it's still hot.

Driving Our PR Goals with Social Media

Al Krueger, the founder, partner and right brain of Comet Branding + PR in Milwaukee, joined us Feb. 23 to talk about the ownership of social media by PR and how it can best be leveraged in strategic PR activities. He also discussed the skills that are needed for today’s new style of “PR in the era of Now.”

About 50 PR practitioners joined the discussion, which included several laughs, some aha-moments and the introduction of a new word: fleximizable!

Al has made is PowerPoint slides available to us on SlideShare. The photos from the event are also available on the Northeast WI PRSA Web site. Click on a photo to enlarge it and select Next to run through the slideshow.

If you attended the program, please complete a short survey.

Converging Strategic Communication and Social Media
If you're interested in hearing more about social media and how it can influence the way to practive PR, consider attending the PR + Social Media Summit at Marquette University in Milwaukee on April 8. Comet Branding will be presenting along with other influence leaders in the business, such as George Wright of BlendTec, Sarah Evans of Sevans Strategies, Jason Kintzler of Pitchengine.com and much more.

The full-day event costs only $75. All after-expense proceeds for the event will be given to the PRSSA Chapter at Marquette University for a scholarship to attend the regional and national PRSSA conferences.

Writing Tips from Mark Twain

To help celebrate our chapter's 10th Anniversary, each month we bring you a Top Ten. And for March...top ten writing tips from Mark Twain. Richard Nordquist posted these tips in his Grammar & Composition Blog recently.  While some can easily be applied to the 21st century and the work place, others might make you go "hmmm...I wish."

If nothing else, it's good for a chuckle.

March

12 Years
Lisa Cruz

9 Years
Becky Bestul
Jennifer London

4 Years
Katie Eastman
Adam Hardy
Aaron Popkey

3 Years
Lisa Evenson
Dana Kohlbeck

1 Year
Michelle Meyer