Magazine Events
Page last updated on February 3, 2012
March 22 - 24, Calgary
Mark your Calendars: 2012 Alberta Magazines Conference
Registration will open early February 2012
The 2012 Alberta Magazines Conference will be held March 22 - 24 at the Carriage House Inn, Calgary. Thursday will feature an afternoon session, cocktail hour, and awards gala. Friday is a day full of sessions with industry professionals, capped-off with a wine and cheese event. A breakfast panel will be offered the Saturday morning. More details coming soon!
Never been to the Alberta Magazines Conference? Get a feel for it with highlights from last year's conference...
February 7 & 9, Edmonton and Calgary
Understanding Alberta's Unique Marketplace: An MRIA Event
Alberta offers big opportunities to those who understand its markets and demographics. Equip yourself with insights and the latest information to maximize your hiring, marketing, research, and business plans with the MRIA's February luncheon event featuring Kristen Cumming.
You will learn:
- New profile of Alberta and the people who live here
- The unique characteristics of each of the major cities and towns in Alberta.
- How the demographics in Alberta will have an influence on everything from employment, access to and availability of services, education and communication.
Kristen's engaging and humourous style will make the statistics behind demographics come to life while offering insight on your employees, your customers, your suppliers, and yourself.
This luncheon will be of interest to marketers, researchers, communicators, and human resource professionals who are developing strategies and communications in targeting Alberta's diverse population.
Edmonton
February 7, 11:15 - 1:45
Hotel MacDonald
Registration deadline: Thursday, February 2, 2012.
Questions? Please call Sandra Johnston 780.637.2878.
Calgary:
February 9, 11:15 - 1:45
Palliser Hotel, Marquee Room
Registration deadline: Monday, February 6, 2012
Questions? Please call Tracy Thompson 403.229.3500
MRIA members: $50
Non members: $60
Students: $25
REGISTER TODAY via the MRIA Portal.
**The discounted rate has been extended to AMPA Members! Enter the code ALBAMPA**
Click here for more information on this event.
February 11, Edmonton
Social Media for Writer: A Writing Works Course
You are a writer. Your ideas can hardly be encapsulated in 140 characters, your message is far deeper than a status update, and the connections you make have nothing to do with LinkedIn. Everyone says you should be using social media, but why? And how?
This course will explore how other writers use social media and how you can, too. It will look at how social media allows you to connect with your audience and spread your work to new audiences. And it will give you some management techniques to ensure you don’t waste your valuable writing time.
WRIT 0253-OP01
$154, noncredit
Saturday, Feb 11, 9:30 am – 4:30 pm
Instructor: Karen Unland
Call 780.497.5000 to register.
February 14 & 15, Calgary, Edmonton and online
Get Your Grammar On with Frances Peck
An Alberta Magazine Publishers Association Event
In Partnership with the Editors' Association of Canada—Prairie Provinces Branch
The Alberta Magazines Publishers Association, in partnership with the Editors’ Association of Canada—Prairie Provinces Branch, presents Grammar Boot Camp (webinar) and Sentences with Style (seminars) with renowned editor, author and speaker Frances Peck:
Grammar Boot Camp
Grammar by instinct—we’re all guilty. Good instincts will get you far, but they’ll also lead you into traps now and then. This webinar runs through the top five grammar and punctuation errors in Canadian publications, teaching you to spot the gaffes and banish them from your publications. Warm up with a grammar exercise (provided in advance) and get ready to retrain your instincts.
February 14, 10:00-11:00am, online
$22 members/students; $32 non-members
Sentences with Style
We all know rearranging a sentence can make it sharper and stronger. Here’s a chance to brush up on that skill. The study of classic syntax (word order) may have gone the way of foolscap and fountain pens, but it has a lot to teach us about clarity, emphasis and rhythm. In this seminar, we’ll dust off the most intriguing old-school syntax techniques and explore how they can punch up your copy.
Calgary
February 14, 1:30-3:00pm
Memorial Park Library, 1221 2nd St. SW
Edmonton
February 15, 9:30-11:00am
Stanley Milner Library (6 floor, Room 7), 7 Sir Winston Churchill Square
$12 members/students; $22 non-members
Register online for Get Your Grammar On events
Frances Peck, a partner with West Coast Editorial Associates, has been an editor, writer and instructor for over 20 years. She has taught sold-out workshops for editors’ associations, magazine publishers, translator groups and other organizations across Canada, and she teaches editing at Simon Fraser University and Douglas College in Vancouver. Frances prepared the Canadian edition of The St. Martin’s Workbook, co-authored the popular HyperGrammar website, wrote the e-book Peck’s English Pointers, and is a regular columnist for the journal Language Update.
February 29, online, 2:00 p.m. EST
Building Great B2B Events: Magazines Canada Webinar
Join the team from Halifax's Progress Media Group as they share their insights for creating must-attend B2B events.
Their Face to Face conference attracts more than 100 entrepreneurs and business leaders annually. Their other events include the Best Places to Work Awards Luncheon, the TOP 101 Companies Networking Tour, and the Fastest Growing Companies Awards & Roundtable--all events that draw the region's business leaders, support and highlight key magazine editorial, and foster stronger ties between the Progress team and their business audiences.
Find out how they make it all come together in this one-hour Magazines Canada webinar.
Magazines Canada Members $25
Non-Members $35.
Register online.
March 24 & 31, Edmonton
Eat Your Words: A Writing Works Course
Do you have a discriminating palate? Do you love to concoct your own recipes? Do you have a nose for food trends? And do you want to get paid for doing something you love?
Food is a hot topic, and editors are always looking for insightful, original, and well-written food and drink articles and recipes. Learn how to take your passion and put it down in words for newspapers, magazines, radio, and the Internet.
WRIT 0155 (OP01)
$174, noncredit
Saturdays, Mar 24 & 31,
9:30 am – 4:30 pm
Instructor: Jennifer Cockrall-King
