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Newsletter of the New Mexico Press Women
July 2010
From The Desk of The President Sharon Niederman
New Mexico Press Women concluded a very successful state convention in April. Members and guests alike took advantage of workshops to improve skills and knowledge. Our Communications Contest drew 137 entries. The list of winners is at the bottom of this newsletter. The New Mexico Beef Council sponsored our Zia awards luncheon.
Abigail Ramirez and Florencio Olguin received our Doris Gregory scholarship and Gabriela E. Campos received the Cary Herz scholarship. As you know these scholarships are funded by our silent auction, which this year raised nearly $1,000. The Albuquerque Press Women donated $500 to each of these scholarship programs.
In September, we will release our 60th Anniversary history book. The book release and signing event will take place at the Albuquerque Press Club. Space is limited at the club, so RSVPs will be first come-first serve. Look for your invitation later this summer.
We continue to investigate and entertain a change of our name. We’ve received comments from other NFPW affiliates about their chapter’s name changes. Most have had a favorable response to broadening the scope of the name -- from Press Women to Professional Communicators, Media Network, or some other gender-neutral name. However, there may be legal ramifications to a change of name and we continue to
investigate those. We will keep up apprised of our research and will schedule discussion and possible vote at next year’s state convention in Las Cruces.
Our New Mexico High School Communications Contest was concluded with winners from 168 entries from six high schools in Albuquerque and Los Lunas. Congratulations to these young journalists.
Please welcome Sherri Burr to our board. Sherri has signed on as chair of the First Amendment committee.
Tuition Support for Attending NFPW Chicago Conference
Members who would like to attend the August 26-28 NFPW conference in Chicago can take advantage of financial support by the New Mexico Chapter. NMPW will cover half the registration fee. Go to the NFPW web site -- www.nfpw.org/conference.htm -- and complete the registration form. If you are paying by credit card, only half the fee will be charged to it. NMPW will pay the rest. If you are mailing in the registration with a check, pay half the amount and note NMPW will cover the rest. Early bird discounts end July 21. So, don’t delay. Questions: Contact Sandy Schauer, Treasurer, at [email protected].
Northern Chapter
R. Thomas Berner, President
Scholarship awardee talks about her photo projects
Gabi Campos, a UNM student who received this year’s Cary Herz scholarship, talked about her photo projects and her philosophy at the June meeting of the northern chapter. Campos displayed eight photographs and explained the back story for each one. She explained that while she submitted some of the photographs as part of her application for the scholarship, she does not consider the projects completed. Her two major projects—abandoned buildings and the homeless—are ongoing.
Gabi Campos describes one of her photos.
EBA Pizza Party Scheduled for August
For its August meeting, the chapter is considering a pizza social at a private residence. Meanwhile, a two-person nominating committee is rustling up candidates for office, since the current officers have served two years. EBA, by the way, stands for everything but anchovy.
Albuquerque Press WomenSusan Walton reporting
!Luncheon Speakers Offer Informative Talks
In May, T. J. Williams, director of Public Safety Communications, and Darren White, director, Public Safety ... which oversees Albuquerque’s police and fire departments, Emergency Management Office, and Safe City Strike Force, spoke about their new positions with the city.
Nadine Scala from the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History was the featured June speaker. She gave an informative and provocative talk about the current station of nuclear activity around the world and updated members on what’s happening at the museum.
Officers Elected; President and Vice President Sought
APW elected Chris Burroughs secretary and Doug Swift treasurer at the June meeting.
The chapter currently is seeking members to serve as president and vice president. The luncheon on September 13 will be devoted to discussing the future of the chapter, which has been impacted by the changes in professional communications affecting media everywhere.
Las Cruces Press Women Cheryl Fallstead, President
Press Women Shutterbugs Update Technique At Workshop
Las Cruces Press Women have been busy since summer arrived, beginning with a photo workshop in late May. NMSU profession Pam Porter lead a group of about 25 through the historic Alameda district. While Prof. Porter gave pointers on composition and technical advice on digital photography, local historian, Linda Harris, filled in participants with the backstory on each historic residence. After the walk-through, Pam analyzed a number of photos, using Photo Shop, and taught participants some of the many tools in the software.
Networking Basics And Strategies To Be Explored
July brought the first of three workshops on social networking using Facebook, Twitter, and other media. During the July meeting, LCPW member Gabe Vasquez ran through the basics for those who were still uncertain how to set up accounts, how and when to post information, and what value these new communications media are to professional communicators. A follow-up workshop is scheduled for September and will focus on using Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube as marketing tools for communicators, whether freelance or employed in a company. A third workshop on blogging is scheduled for the fall.
Doing What We Can To Boost Membership
When not running workshops this summer, LCPW is sponsoring informal get-togethers, inviting members, prospects, and guests. The idea behind the socials is to let communicators make friends and find value in the Press Women. LCPW encourages attendance by buying the first round of appetizers.
NMPW 2011 Conference Update
! Las Cruces Press Women is eager to show the rest of our state members a good time when they come to See the Stars in Las Cruces in 2011. The conference will be held April 8 and 9, the same weekend as the White Sands International Film Festival and week after the Border Book Festival. The conference theme lends itself to focusing on filmmaking in New Mexico, exploring Spaceport America, and perhaps even doing some stargazing. So mark your calendar and get ready to visit Las Cruces in 2011.
TECH TIPS: SURVIVING AND THRIVING IN THE ONLINE WORLDMerilee Dannemann Reporting About using LinkedInMessage from Robin Anderson (no longer a PW member):(Note: If you are on LinkedIn, you can look up Robin’s profile as an example of what she is telling us.)Robin says: I do have one suggestion: Sign up on LinkedIn, which is a professional site I believe could help the society. LinkedIn is a professional site excellent for networking in freelance writing and editing. I garnered one freelance job from that site and have tapped into other contacts throughout the United States. (In fact, I was able to get back in touch with several people from newspapers I worked on back East.) It's also a networking site that encourages professional organizations to post conferences and monthly events for professionals. Working as a freelance writer and editor during an economic downturn was more challenging than expected in the past two years. In my search for new business and clients, I tapped the usual contacts of former employers, friends, acquaintances and even my ex-husband. Yet what I mostly heard despite an extensive background in journalism, desktop publishing, graphics and experience with technical and medical editing was: "We're sorry, but we receive more than 80 resumes the first day from experienced
individuals. It's overwhelming right now." In other words, a lot of: "Don't call us. We'll call you." About the time when getting new business seemed impossible, a former colleague sent an invitation to be added as a "Contact" on LinkedIn, a business networking site. I accepted and created a page that includes most of my professional experience, recommendations from several coworkers and a former boss and other information relevant to the business side of writing and editing for me. I also joined several "groups" that include job sites. With my background in medical writing and editing, a natural fit was the "Medical Writers" group. Through this connection, and the e-mails that go out weekly from the group, I found freelance work editing for a medical communications company. The site allowed the potential employer to see immediately whether my experience and recommendations worked for them. The contract continues, along with several other contracts I found the old-fashioned way.
About posting your e-mail address online -- DON’T DO IT!From Marilee Dannemann
I was recently reminded by a professional web site developer: DO NOT put your e-mail address (or anybody else’s) directly on a web site. You will end up with so much spam your address may become unusable. There are software programs that roam the Internet searching for unprotected e-mail addresses, collect those addresses and sell them to spammers. If you are developing your own web site, you can put protective coding around the e-mail address so these programs won’t find it or use other devices to protect the address. I’m just learning about this. Another alternative is to have a “contact me” box on your web site. I have a brand new web site, www.triplespacedagain.com. Click on “contact Merilee” and you can send me an e-mail through the contact message box. You can also send an e-mail through [email protected]. While the e-mail address looks like ordinary text, it is surrounded by javascript that protects it from these web crawlers. The work was done my my web consultant but I’m going to learn how it’s done -- one of these days!
How to send a PDF fileFrom Connie Gotsch
Talking to people whose computers decide not to open your files? Send them a PDF. It's easy to do. On a PC go to save as and find the marker for PDF files. On a Mac go to print. There you will find a prompt to use if you want to make PDFs. PDFs rarely will not open across computer types. If you're working on a Mac, and you want to open a jpg on a PC, make sure you write the file this way: name.jpg.
Making good use of FacebookFrom Tom Berner When I was asked to write something about how New Mexico Press Women could use Facebook, I first checked out the NMPW Facebook page and then tried to come up with a practical example. Because it was the day before the next meeting of the Northern Chapter, I decided I would post some photographs of our speaker, Gabi Campos, a UNM student who is this year's Cary Herz scholarship awardee. And within an hour of our meeting's conclusion, I posted two photos. The next logical step would be to post a brief summary of what Gabi said, but I was too busy taking photographs to take notes and our secretary is on deadline elsewhere. But, of course, as we gear up we can do this in the future. The length of posts are limited, but you are able to attach links, say, to a blog that can be much longer and more informative. (I just put in a link to my latest blog essay.) Clearly our Facebook page is a place for chapters and members to post information. For example, if one publishes a book, announce it on our Facebook page and link your post to more detailed information, say your publisher or your website. As I was writing this, I counted only six posts on our page. One of them, linked there by Laurie Mellas, enables members to say if they're going to the convention in Chicago. I RSVPd. Right now the page's only shortcoming is it has only eight friends. Members need to become a friend on Facebook to get benefits from the page. To find the page on Facebook, search for New Mexico Press Women. Don't forget to check out my photos of Gabi Campos and my latest blog entry. How can you ignore an essay titled "Body Parts"?
Communications Contest Draws Entries From Across The State
Here are the results of the 2010 New Mexico Press Women Communication Contest. Congratulations to all this year’s winners. If you don’t see you name here, think about entering your best work in next year’s competition.
Category 1-A News Reporting Non-Daily Paper 1st Marisa Damarco Weekly Alibi 2nd and Honorable Mention Megan Kamerick The New Mexico Business Weekly
Category 2, Continuing Coverage or Unfolding News1st Marisa Damarco The Weekly Alibi2nd Megan Kamerick The New Mexico Business Weekly 2nd Megan Kamerick The New Mexico Business Weekly
Category 3 Investigative Reporting1st Marisa Damarco The Weekly Alibi
Category 4 Enterprise Reporting1st Marisa Damarco The Weekly Alibi2nd Carolyn Gonzanes Richard Schaefer UNM Today Alumni Profile Blog
Category 5 Special SeriesHonorable Mention Megan Kamerick
Category 6-B Editorial Opinion Daily Newspaper1st Sherri Burr Albuquerque Journal
Category 7-A Feature Story Non-Daily Paper1st Erin Adair-Hodges The Weekly Alibi2nd Megan Kamerick The New Mexico Business Journal2nd Yvonne Lanelli Vamanos Raids News3rd Bud Russo Southwest SeniorHonorable Mention Iris Aboytes Sandia Lab News
Category 7-B Feature Story Daily Paper1st Emily Drabanski Santa Fe New Mexican
Category 7-C Feature Story Publication/magazine/supplement for general or specialized circulation, including internal publications1st Mara Kerkez Mirage Magazine UNM2nd Kate Faguy ASRT Scanner3rd Chad Johnson ASRT ScannerHonorable Mention Kay Grant Carnival Cruise
Category 8-B Personality Profile More than 500 Words1st Lisa Kisner ASRT Scanner2nd Marisa Damarco The Weekly Alibi3rd Michelle Stephens ASRT ScannerHonorable Mention Arin McKenna Santa Fe New Mexican; Bud Russo Southwest Senior; Kathryn Cordova La Herencia; Tania Casselle Local Flavor
Category 9-A Special Articles Business1st Megan Kamerick New Mexico Business Weekly2nd Sherry Robinson Innovation
Category 9-C Special Articles Arts and Entertainment2nd Arin McKenna Santa Fe New Mexican Santa Fe Monthly3rd Erin Adair-Hodges The Weekly Alibi
Category 9-D Special Articles Physical Health, Fitness, Mental h]Health, Self-help 2nd Place Teresa Odle ASRT Scanner
Category 9-E Special Articles Education2nd Iris Aboytes Sandia Lab News
Category 9-G Special Articles -- Food1st Ari LeVaux The Weekly Alibi2nd Arin McKenna The Santa Fe New Mexican
Category 9-I Special Articles -- History1st Yvonne Lanelli Vamanos Raids News2nd Connie Gotsch Four Corners Free Press
Category 9-M Special Articles -- Reviews2nd Emily Drabanski New Mexico Magazine3rd Anne Hillman Albuquerque Journal
Category 9-O Special Articles -- Sports1st Yvonne Lanelli Vamanos Raids News
Category 9-Q Special Articles -- Travel1st Yvonne Lanelli Vamanos Raids News2nd Yvonne Lanelli Vamanos Raids News3rd Tania Casselle Latitudes
Category 10-B Columns General1st Jim Gordon The Santa Fe New MexicanHonorable Mention Kathryn Cordova Taos News
Category 10-C Columns Informational1st Sherri Burr Southwest Writers2nd Kathryn Cordova Silver City Daily Press2nd Nancy Marano Petroglyphs
Category 10-D Columns SpecializedHonorable Mention Alex Limn; Anne Hillman
Category 11-A Single Page(s) Regularly Edited by Entrant Non-Daily Newspaper1st Laura Marrich The Weekly Alibi
Category 13-A Section Edited by Entrant Frequent or Regular Sections Non-Daily Newspaper1st Erin Adair-Hodges The Weekly Alibi
Category 15-A Publication Regularly Edited by Entrant Non-Daily Newspaper1st Laura Marrich The Weekly Alibi
Category 15-C Publication Regularly Edited by Entrant Publication/magazine/supplement for general or specialized circulation, including internal publications1st D. D. Wolohan ASRT Scanner2nd Richard H. Rogers and Alena Hart Sun Magazine3rd Nancy Marano Petroglyphs
Category 15-D Publication Regularly Edited by Entrant Newsletters1st Ruth Friesen Southwest Sage
Category 16-C Page Layout Publication/magazine/supplement for general or specialized circulation, including internal publications1st Loren Stacks ARST Scanner2nd Barbe Awalt Tradition Revista
Category 22 Photographer Writer1st Mary Alice Murphy
Category 24-A Prepared Report Radio1st Connie Gotsch KSJE Public Radio2nd Chellis Glendinning KUNM Public Radio2nd Connie Gotsch KSJE Public Radio2nd Megan Kamerick KUNM Public Radio
Category 25-A Special Programming Radio1st Connie Gotsch KSJE Radio2nd Bud Russo KSNM Las Cruces
Category 28-A Interview Radio1st Tania Casselle KRZA Radio 2nd Connie Gotsch KSJE Public Radio2nd Connie Gotsch KSJE Public Radio2nd Megan Kamerick KUNM Public Radio2nd Megan Kamerick KUNM Public Radio
Category 32-G On-line Newsletter2nd Emily Drabanski New Mexico Magazine3rd Laurie Mellas University of New Mexico
Category 41 Television Single Commercial or Campaign Built Around One Subject1st Tricia Holser Ellen Castello New Mexico State University
Category 42 Community or Institutional Relations1st Laurie Mellas University of New Mexico
Category 43 Public Service1st Iris Aboytes Sandia National Labs2nd Kathryn Cordova Taos News
Category 45 Marketing Program or Campaign for Existing Service or Product1st Tricia Holser and Ellen Castello New Mexico State UniversityHonorable Mention Jeany Llorente-Antivirus and Ellen Castello New Mexico State University
1st Sherry Robinson Albuquerque Economic Development
Category 49-B Megapaper Tabloid Four Color2nd Sari Krosinsky Jana Fothergill Carolyn Gonzales University of New Mexico Communication and Marketing
Category 54 Manuals and Handbooks 1st Jana Fothergill John Sumrow Ellen Biderman University of New Mexico
Category 55-B Feature Release1st Linda Thornton University of New Mexico Gallup
Category 57 Media Kit Tools to Gain Media Coverage2nd Kathryn Cordova Taos News
Category 58 Speeches2nd Sherri Burr Statistics Conference University of New Mexico
Category 72-A Non Fiction Book General1st Anne Hillman Harper Collins2nd Sharon Niederman Countryman Press
Category 72-B Essay or Chapter in Book1st Ruth Friesen University of Oklahoma Press2nd Tania Casselle 2010 Story & Novel Writer’s Market
Category 72-C Non Fiction Book Biography and Autobiography2nd Martha Shipman Andrews LPD Press
Category 72-D History1st Lois Manno
Category 72-E Non Fiction Book Cookbook1st Anne Hillman Gibbs Smith Publishing
Category 72-G Non Fiction Book Instructional2nd Rose Marie Kern Outskirts Press
Category 72-H Religious or Inspirational1st Judith McLaughlin LPD Press
Category 73 Fiction Novel Full Length 40.000 Words and Up1st Nancy King Tessera Books
Category 74-A Children’s Books FictionConnie Gotsch Margaret Cheasebro, Artemesia Pulishing
Individual Sweepstakes Winners are:First Megan KamerickSecond Connie Gotsch3rd Yvonne Lanelli
Organizational Sweepstakes Winners are: First The Weekly Alibi2nd Vamanos Ruidoso News3rd The New Mexico Business weekly
NMPW Board Members & Contacts
Sharon Niederman, President [email protected] Krosinski, Vice-president [email protected] Hillerman, Secretary [email protected] Schauer, Treasurer [email protected] Berner, President, Northern Chapter [email protected] Fallstead, President, Las Cruces PW [email protected]
Connie Gotsch [email protected] Sandoval, Communicator of Achievement [email protected] Burr, First Amendment [email protected] Drabanski, Mentorship [email protected] Walton , Communications Contest, Auction [email protected]
Please send chapter and member news to Bud Russo, editor, at [email protected]. Next issue will be October. Copy deadline is September 17.