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Page last updated on November 13, 2009.

 

Cha-ching! Just announced - Ad Sales and Money Saving seminars. Register today!

 

Saturday, November 14, 2009

Notebook Magazine Gala & Silent Auction


Planet Ze Design Centre (10055 80 Ave), Edmonton
8:00 pm - 1:00 am

After three years of showcasing the work of hundreds of Edmonton-based artists, writers and curators, and of throwing art parties with little to no cover charge Notebook Magazine is hosting a fundraising gala. It will be a celebration of local art, music and food to be held at Planet Ze Design Centre (an amazing warehouse turned art space).

Bid on over 75 pieces of work created by 50 different visual artists from Notebook's pages. This is an opportunity to find perfect and unique gifts for those on your list or for yourself. Witness the work of video artists projecting their work on the huge walls of Planet Ze Design Centre. Meet and mingle with many of the artists in person! Come to hear four musical acts featured on the Great Northern Revival compilation. Enjoy food by Cafe Leva and a cash bar featuring Alley Kat beers.

Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the door. They are available now at Delta Art Supply, the Paint Spot and all Colours Art Supply stores.

Musicians:
Scott Cook (www.scottcook.net)
ido (www.myspace.com/idovanderlaan)
The Low Flying Planes (www.myspace.com/thelowflyingplanes)
The Dana Wylie Band (www.myspace.com/danawylieband)

Video artists to be announced.

View Handbill here and here.

 

November 16, November 18, 2009

Web Words: How to Engage Both Readers and Search Engines

In this workshop, we’ll explore how and why web readers consume online content differently than they do print, and look at best practices for keeping online audiences engaged, including the essential skills of web writing, editing and formatting, and the importance of optimizing your content for search engines. We’ll also take a look at your magazine sites and collectively discuss what works, what could be better and ways to effectively incorporate multimedia into your online mix. So come ready to perform a hands-on review of actual sites, including your own!

About the Speaker
Lisa Manfield has worked in print and online publishing for 13 years as Managing Editor at Orato.com, Marketing Manager at The Tyee, Contributing Editor for Backbone Magazine, Business & Finance editor at Suite101.com, Associate Editor at CGA Magazine and Editor of REALM Magazine. As a publishing consultant, she has developed print and online content, marketing collateral and courseware for CBC TV, the Knowledge Network, WorkSafeBC, the BC and Alberta Magazine Publishers Associations and Magazines Canada. She teaches “Writing and Editing for the Web” and “Marketing Magazines Online” for SFU Writing and Publishing Program and Summer Workshops respectively. She was a member of the editorial collective of Room for eight years and on the Board of Directors (three as VP) for the BC Association of Magazine Publishers.

Lisa came out to the Alberta Magazines Conference this past March, and will add to what she shared with you then, helping you to maximize your websites.

In Calgary:
Monday, November 16

1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Inglewood Bird Sanctuary, 2425 9 Ave SE

In Edmonton:
Wednesday, November 18

1:00 pm to 4:00 pm
CORRECTION: Strathcona Library, 8331 104 St NW, Strathcona Program Room (2nd Floor)

Register now via ampa@albertamagazines.com or 403-262-0081.

AMPA Members/Students (with valid FT status): $35 afterwards; Non-members: $45.


Payment via cheque must be received PRIOR to event to the AMPA office. If payment is $60 or more, we will accept a credit card.

 

Monday, November 23, 2009

Inject New Life into Your Ad Sales

If you sell advertising for magazines, you need to attend this half-day intensive seminar. Get the goods on developing a sales strategy in this tough economy. We’ll explore how to reach clients, stay on the rate card, handle objections, and build ad sales opportunities inside and outside your magazine. Designed specifically for ad sales people, this seminar ensures you’ll gain a better understanding of how magazine advertising works. Learn the tools of the trade that will help you develop sales strategies—and get the business.

About the Speaker

Gwen Dunant has been in the publishing industry for over 25 years, primarily as an advertising sales consultant. She has sold national and retail advertising space, worked with client publications to develop effective sales tools (such a media kits, rate cards, readership surveys, etc.) and done numerous sales trainings for small to mid-sized publications. She has given seminars at Mags U, MagNet, Ryerson University and many regional associations across Canada. She has played a key role in the development of many professional development programs for Magazines Canada and the Atlantic Magazines Association. She is also the author of “A Short Guide to the Development and Use of Sales Tools for Selling Advertising Space in Canadian Magazines” as well as a contributor to “Small Magazines Advertising – Essentials for Publishers and Sales Representatives”.

Monday, November 23, 2009

1:00 pm to 4:00 pm

Inglewood Bird Sanctuary, 2425 9 Ave SE, Calgary

Travel bursaries are available to qualified out-of-Calgary magazine members.

Register now via ampa@albertamagazines.com or 403-262-0081.

AMPA Members: $25 if registered by Nov. 16; $35 afterwards.

Non-members: $35 if registered by Nov. 13; $45 afterwards.

Cash or cheque is preferred. If payment is $50 or more, we will accept a credit card.

Thursday, November 26, 2009

Starnino and Bök: The Cage Match of Canadian Poetry

Join Mount Royal University for a night of exciting debate between Montreal poet and publisher Carmine Starnino and Griffin Prize-winning poet Christian Bök about the contemporary state of poetry in Canada. The evening promises to be full of intelligent and feisty debates.

7:00 pm

Mount Royal University, 4825 Mount Royal Gate SW, Calgary

Leacock Theatre

View poster.

 

Friday, December 11, 2009

Taking a hard look: Money-saving strategies for publishers
There is money to be saved in most, if not all, magazine budgets. Of course publishers should pursue efficiency whenever they can; but in hard times, it's even more important to trim wisely and well. In this seminar, magazine consultant D. B. Scott will examine the typical magazine budgets and explore the kinds of hard questions that need to be asked by the people who manage them. Where is the greatest potential for saving money? And areas where it is penny-wise, but pound foolish to cut? The seminar will provide an opportunity to talk about attending magazines' particular challenges and to identify at least one area everyone can dig into when they get back to the office.

About the Speaker
D. B. Scott (David), the President of Impresa Communications Limited, has built a solid reputation as a consultant, writer, blogger, teacher, market researcher, publisher and editor. His concentration and specialty is the magazine industry. He has been called on for advice in such critical areas as strategic planning, content development, marketing, launches and relaunches, redesigns, audience surveys and focus groups, meeting facilitation and review and development of production and publishing systems. He is a member of Magazines Canada' professional development committee and its Travelling Consultants program. He teaches The Business of Magazine Publishing at Ryerson University in the Chang School for Continuing Education.

Friday, December 11, 2009

1:00 pm to 4pm

Inglewood Bird Sanctuary, 2425 9 Ave SE, Calgary

Travel bursaries are available to qualified out-of-Calgary magazine members.

Register now via ampa@albertamagazines.com or 403-262-0081.

AMPA Members: $25 if registered by Nov. 30; $35 afterwards.

Non-members: $35 if registered by Nov. 30; $45 afterwards.

Cash or cheque is preferred. If payment is $50 or more, we will accept a credit card.

February 5th and 6th, 2010

The Future of Story

Star gazers, alert! Meet a Gemini Award winner and predict The Future of Story at MacEwan’s School of Communications on Friday, February 5th and Saturday, February 6th, 2010.

What Happens Next? The Future of Story will explore and examine issues that affect the future of storytelling and narrative at a time when the use of social media technologies is exploding, and traditional story forms are struggling to stay current.

The conference will feature Corus Entertainment Distinguished Lecturer Hart Hanson, the Gemini Award-winning Canadian film and television writer and producer, and creator of the long-running Fox Television series Bones. Hanson will speak about the shifting role of narrative in an evolving literary environment.

As well, special guest Jack Hodgins, a Governor General’s Award-winning novelist, will read from his soon-to-be published new novel entitled The Master of Happy Endings.

Hear also from local stars who will share their perspectives about key issues facing the literary, media, and communication professions in the 21st century. A tentative line up of panel discussions includes:

*The Next New Journalism

*Post-Reality TV – Moving Beyond Dog, the Bounty Hunter and Tommy Lee goes to College

*Selling It in Hard Times – The Future of Advertising When the Boom Goes Bust

*Telling It in Cynical Times – The Future of Corporate Narrative

*The 21st Century Writer – Or, How to Chart a Career in Letters through Murky Times

*From Quill Pen to Kindle – The Future of the Book

*Setting the Stage – Stories for Tomorrow’s Theatre

*Alternative Narratives – Breaking with Convention – Advertising, and Corporate Narrative...

Register today at http://www.tixonthesquare.ca/event/run/detail/124 for your opportunity to network with prominent writers, film makers, and other communicators!

Attend Friday evening, all day Saturday or both – there’s flexibility to suit your schedule.

For conference details, visit www.MacEwan.ca/soc .

 

 

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