Chapter News
Brendan Stanton Advises IABC-LI Meeting on New Media
MELVILLE, N. Y. , November 16, 2011—"The successful use of new media hinges on the understanding that content is no longer delivered to, but hunted by consumers,” said Brendan Stanton, former Suffolk County Executive Assistant for New Media and Communications, before a luncheon meeti...
Body Language Can Offer Real-Time Check on a Person’s Comments
MELVILLE, N. Y. , October 19, 2011— "Body language can offer a real-time visual check on what a person is ’really’ saying,” Carol Schiro Greenwald, Ph. D. and president, MarketingPartners, told a luncheon meeting of the Long Island chapter of the International Association of Business Communic...
Social Media Key Part of Crisis, Employee Communications
Social Media Key Part of Crisis, Employee Communications,
JetBlue’s Dervin Tells IABC-LI Meeting
MELVILLE, N. Y. , September 14, 2011—Social media, such as Facebook and Twitter, are now important components of crisis and employee communications, Jenny Dervin, Vice Presi...
Business Communicators to Honor Peers at Awards Luncheon
Westbury, New York - The Long Island Chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) is pleased to announce the winners of its 2011 ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS. This year’s winners will be honored on Wednesday, June 15th at a special awards luncheon at the Viana Hotel and ...
You're Invited to the Party
Think of ethnic marketing as an engraved invitation. We'd all be much more likely to attend an event if invited personally, by someone who knows us and speaks our language, than to respond favorably to, say, a poster in the elevator. Come one, come all! The all-purpose outreach may be si...
Successful Negotiation Workshop a Win-Win for LI Chapter
Everybody was a winner last night at Linda Berke's workshop on
successful negotiation. Chapter members and guests learned how to
identify their natural negotiating styles and participated in exercises
to learn the skills for achieving win-win outcomes every time.
Linda, Pre...
Marketing Nirvana
SEO/SEM, social media networking, online display and email marketing are now so well established that they are already considered traditional channels. Taking their place on the marketing trajectory is mobile messaging, the most powerful tool ever available, because it enables marketers to reach t...
Meteor Hits IABC-LI January Meeting
Our programs at IABC-LI just keep getting better and better (if we do say so, ourselves). On January 19, a meteor struck the ballroom of The Viana Hotel & Spa (our new meeting venue) as Brian Reich, managing director of little m media and co-author of Media Rules! Mastering Today's Technology to...
Melissa Cornick Embraces Citizen Journalism as Fifth Estate
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Members
and communicators gathered to hear award-winning network news television
producer Melissa Cornick at this month’s IABC-LI meeting, where she expressed
her view on how social media is causing an end to traditional print journalism as the
fourth estate and cultivatin...
We're Off and Running
The chapter's new program year is off to an excellent start!
If you missed our kick-off event this Wednesday, you missed a really good one. Jon
Willard, an expert in using internal communications
to shift organizational culture and drive profitable business outcomes, thoroughly engaged the
room ...
It’s Worldwide Membership Month
It’s never the price. It’s always the value. In September, IABC International is offering even more value by waiving the standard $40 application fee… for brand new members or for those whose memberships have lapsed and wish to rejoin. To pique your interest, IABC is hosting an open house...
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Member Benefit Showcase
IABC-LI is part of an international association of about 16,000 professionals in 100 countries. One of the great things about this is the ability to find people in other places from whom you can learn and share.
To connect with other IABC members worldwide, use MemberSearch, the online directory of...
Fall Web Seminars from IABC
Sharp Thinking From Smart People. Access new learning, interactive discussions and the latest in creative action when you register for any of IABC's Fall Conferences... the most credible resources for your professional success. Register at www.iabc.com/education/conferences.htm.
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International IABC President visits Long Island
International IABC President Julie Freeman was the feature presenter at our monthly chapter meeting on May 19. Her astute discussion of contemporary communications leadership hit on some key points for communicators of all stripes. Julie pointed out that the proliferation of communications tools, fr...
Call for Presentations for 2011
If you are a qualified presenter with new, informative and interactive content to share with professional business communicators, IABC invites you to participate in the Call for Presentations for 2011 conferences. Applications are due July 30. For application guidelines, visit http://www. iabc. com/ed...
Dawn Lego entertains and informs at April IABC Meeting
Dawn Lego of the Lenskold Group spoke about how to improve marketing performance with better ROI measurements at the April IABC-LI meeting in Melville, NY. There has been steady pressure on marketers to measure ROI and become more accountable. But more and more marketing executives are t...
Working Words
Good Writing & Editing: Are They Dying Arts?And, Should We Care?The answer to both questions: "YES!"Like us, you may be dismayed by the growing quantity of poor writing that bombards us. We see it everywhere, in publications, Web sites, newspapers and corporate materials — writing that is ...
Morton's Makes the Most of Social Media
The IABC Long Island chapter has conducted many monthly meetings on the topic of Social Media and it's becoming such an important part of the business model for all of us. Most recently, IABC Long Island hosted a luncheon at Morton's The Steakhouse in November 2009 featuring Social Media industry le...
Interactive Presentations at IABC-LI
2010 has been a tremendous year thus far for IABC Long Island. Exceptional guest speakers Deborah Thomas and Carol Schiro Greenwald informed and entertained on relevant topics for professional communicators, interactive games and the role of emotions in decision making, respectively. Each event wa...
Brand-Building in a Shrinking Economy
When the economy gets tough, smart marketers get tougher. If you don't want the brand you've worked so hard to build to be swept away by the downstream financial current, you've got to put some muscle into shoring it up. Though it may seem counter-intuitive, there is nothing more important than inves...
All-Star Speakers at Recent IABC-LI Events
The IABC Long Island chapter, has already had an extremely impressive and diverse lineup of guest speakers this fall.
Beginning on September 29th, at the 300 Bowling Lanes Private Room in Melville, Dr. Dan Schaefer of Peak Performance Strategies spoke to the audience about Leadership Developmen...