2006 Katie Awards May Not Have Been Judged

According to a story in the April 20 online Dallas Business Journal:
The new president of the Press Club of Dallas says he no longer believes the 2006 Katie Awards were judged at all. And the 2005 edition of the journalism and mass communications contest also is in question, club President Tom Stewart said Friday.

The club now plans to hire an attorney and seek a sworn statement from its former president, Elizabeth Albanese, Stewart added.
The Dallas Business Journal first reported April 14 that the Press Club of Dallas could not identify who judged the 2006 contest. The Katie program is the marquee event for the Press Club, which uses proceeds from the function to provide journalism scholarships to college students through the Press Club of Dallas Foundation, a nonprofit corporation.

Stewart late last week attempted to reach judges from a list of e-mail addresses provided to him by Albanese, who was chiefly in charge of finding judges to review the 2006 Katies entries.

"I received an e-mail back from one of them today," Stewart said following an executive session of the Press Club board of directors Friday. The e-mail, he added, said: "Yes, I did that. I helped participate in the process. And I'd be happy to do it again. Probably not to the extent that we did it last year."
Stewart said the e-mail contained the phone number of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn.

"When I asked for the person, they indicated that no one worked in that particular building at St. Jude's by that name," Stewart said.

Contacted about identifying the judges Friday, Albanese said she was in meetings all day but would contact the judges herself, and "hopefully have an answer" by this weekend. In earlier interviews, she told the Dallas Business Journal that she couldn't name a judge and had not kept records of the judging but was working to reconstruct a list.

Besides hiring a law firm to take sworn statements, the Press Club also is hiring a forensic accountant to review its books, Stewart said Friday.

A review of Press Club records shows that a Press Club Foundation credit card in Albanese's name included charges from the W New York hotel, the Barton Creek Resort in Austin and Saks Fifth Avenue in Dallas.
Posted by ASBPE Dallas-Fort Worth on Thursday, April 26, 2007 @ 3:24 PM
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May 9 meeting reminder

If you've been job-hunting and having difficulties getting hired, there may be some reasons. Our featured speaker for the May 9 meeting will highlight these and tell you how to overcome them!
Janet White, author of Secrets of the Hidden Job Market: Change Your Thinking to Get the Job of Your Dreams and president of You’re Hired Enterprises, will present a talk titled, “Six Secrets of the Hidden Job Market” that may be unlike any job hunting program you’ve ever heard.
When: Wed. May 9, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Where: NOTICE LOCATION UPDATE: Southern Recipes Grill, 2715 N. Collins Street in Arlington. Restaurant phone number: 817-469-9878
What: Six “hidden” job hunting secrets to help you realize that when you change your thinking, you change your life.
Cost: $20 for the meeting and lunch.
RSVP: Tonie Auer, 817-925-2013 or tonieauer@gmail.com
Posted by ASBPE Dallas-Fort Worth on Wednesday, April 25, 2007 @ 8:05 AM
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B2B Networking Flourished

Our April 18 meeting was awesome. We had about a dozen people present to listen to Women's Enterprise Magazine Editor Brenda Matamoros talk about dealing with advertising and finding B2B topics with a fresh approach.
Our wonderful past president Jyme Mariani recapped some of the main points in dealing with advertisers:
Embrace advertisers. We are in B2B. They are great sources.
Don’t let advertising influence who you write about.
Go a step beyond press releases to find angles for your market.
Pick your own products. Don’t let advertisers influence your choices. Go for what is best for your readers.

Brenda gave some great points in finding and choosing B2B topics, too, including:
Again, go beyond the press release. Find your angle for your audience.
Find an association that you can work with outside of the industry that can help you find a subject or information.
Try to approach editorial topics broadly.
Concept issues work for readers (e.g., an issue devoted to leadership).

A few other topics that we talked about roundtable style:
Keeping content fresh and timely is hard when you’re a monthly. Look for the angle that no one else will try.
Try working with an association that is outside of your industry for ideas.
Work with trade shows and associations to get a list of ideas from attendee comments on what THEY want to see or speakers that they want to hear. We partner with OFA, ANLA, etc., they might be willing to share survey results in the attendee comments section if we promise to use them for ideas, not publish them.
Use the Web for sources. You can find a lot about people and companies from Web sites.
http://www.profnet.com/ is a great source to find freelancers and it’s FREE to us.
Thanks to all the guests and members at the meeting for attending. Our next meeting is set for May 9 at Southern Recipes Grill, 2715 N. Collins St. in Arlington. Please come and join us. It will be great!
Posted by ASBPE Dallas-Fort Worth on @ 7:56 AM
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May Meeting Scheduled: Six Secrets of the Hidden Job Market

We have a fabulous meeting scheduled now for May 9 to follow our wonderful April 18 meeting. If you've been job-hunting and having difficulties getting hired, there may be some reasons. Our featured speaker for the May 9 meeting will highlight these and tell you how to overcome them!

If you are having difficulty getting hired, chances are it’s for two reasons:

1) You’re using traditional job-hunting methods that either don’t work or work against you, such as reading want ads and job posting websites, going to job fairs, networking with everyone they know, relying on executive recruiters and contacting companies through their Human Resources departments, and

2) You're holding self-defeating false beliefs and assumptions like:

§ Job hunting is a full-time job and no one ever said it was easy.
§ You’re considered a nuisance if you contact a company that didn’t place an ad or called if the ad said, “No calls.”
§ Interviews are personal interrogations.
§ It’s hard to get a good job if you’re past 40.
§ You have to settle for whatever you can get.

These actions, combined with negative thinking, typically result in a job hunt becoming extraordinarily difficult, exceptionally tedious and one of the most stressful experiences in a person’s life. The truth is that none of this is necessary.

Janet White, author of Secrets of the Hidden Job Market: Change Your Thinking to Get the Job of Your Dreams and president of You’re Hired Enterprises, will present a talk titled, “Six Secrets of the Hidden Job Market” that may be unlike any job hunting program you’ve ever heard. These “secrets” are actually different ways of thinking, which will help your members shift from being job seekers to job finders easily and virtually effortlessly. You see, when you change your thinking, you change your life.

When: Wed. May 9, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Where: NOTICE LOCATION UPDATE: Southern Recipes Grill, 2715 N. Collins Street in Arlington. Restaurant phone number: 817-469-9878

What: Six “hidden” job hunting secrets to help you realize that when you change your thinking, you change your life.

Cost: $20 for the meeting and lunch.

RSVP: Tonie Auer, 817-925-2013 or tonieauer@gmail.com
Posted by ASBPE Dallas-Fort Worth on Monday, April 02, 2007 @ 3:07 PM
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Spring Meeting Scheduled for April 18

UPDATE 4/16/07: MEETING LOCATION CHANGED

The original venue for our April 18 meeting, Saltimbocca's Italian Bistro, called us today and told us they have closed. We have a new location for our April 18 meeting:

Italianni's Restaurant, 1601 Precinct Line Road in Hurst (it's about a block of SH 183)

Do you cover businesses? As a member of the B2B press, I’m sure you answered YES! Would you like to find out how to cover businesses even better? Then join the DFW Chapter of the American Society of Business Publication Editors for the spring meeting at 11:30 a.m. on April 18 at Saltimbocca’s in Arlington.

When: Wed. April 18, 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Where:

Italianni's Restaurant
1601 Precinct Line Road
Hurst (about a block from SH 183)

What: Finding interesting B2B article topics and managing that fine line between satisfying advertising and maintaining an your journalist ethics will be the topic presented by Women’s Enterprise Editor Brenda Matamoros.

Cost: $20 for the meeting and lunch.

RSVP: Tonie Auer, 817-925-2013 or tonieauer@gmail.com

Our guest speaker, Brenda Matamoros, is the current editor of Women’s Enterprise USA magazine. She has been a professional writer for 10 years and has interviewed the likes of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Maya Angelou, George W. Bush, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Colin Powell and Stephen Hawking, to name a few. She is a 2000 graduate of Southern Methodist University where she received her degrees in journalism and psychology.
She co-authored “Seeds of Success, How a Few Women Changed the Landscape of American Business,” about the plight of women business owners and their need for a certification process which eventually led to the formation of the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council.
Posted by ASBPE Dallas-Fort Worth on @ 12:13 PM
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