Event Shout-Out: National Association of Professional Women Midwest Conference on 11/18
Hey y’all - remember last week when I gave the shout-out to Ms. Career Girl Connect this Thursday and I talked about the importance of networking? I also mentioned I was doing public relations for a great group which was holding a Chicago area conference *the-very-next-day* after MCGC?
Yup well this post is about them: I’ve been working with the National Association of Professional Women to publicize their 1st Annual Midwest Conference in Naperville this coming Friday. NAPW is a national organization which is designed to empower women for professional success. While it’s targeted at mainly those in marketing and sales, NAPW has something to offer and teach all professional women about leveraging “assets” (not what you’re thinking, you pervy monkeys!) they already have (expertise, contacts, skills) to create meaningful business relationships. I know that in the short time I’ve been working with them, I’ve even had my skill-set sharpened (as I’ve had to start thinking again about writing in a completely different way than I do when writing about pop-culture funness like comics and Doctor Who and geek dating).
Here is what our buddies at GeekMom said about NAPW:
“The National Association of Professional Women (NAPW) is a group whose goal is to help professional women overcome those challenges. This nationwide organization holds meetings and events across the country through local chapters and gives women the chance to meet professionals both online and in person to support and encourage their professional success.”
(Thanks Nicole!)
If you’re in the Chicago area and are interested in attending, you can register here: http://www.napwmidwest.com/
If you’re a journalist or blogger and are interested in attending, if you write about the event before Friday or pinky-swear you’ll write about the event FROM the event via your blog or Twitter, you can even attend for free… Granted this is only open to the first five bloggers to hit me up via email.
Plus there will be swag. I know how you jokers love swag. This stuff is GOOD STUFF (including a cashmere scarf courtesy of J. Hillburn, which if you don’t want, I’ll happily divest you of.)
