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Wowser! CWC Recognized for Best Website at 09 Conference

Creating a new website is not for the faint of heart.

But it was worth it when the Central West Coast Chapter was recognized at conference this year for BEST CHAPTER WEBSITE AWARD. This award was determined by a panel of independent judges.

President Dee Zulauf, APR, led the charge during her term as president; Gravity Free redesigned the site. Several people participated in the creation of the new website - Debby Steele, Emily Sperling, Susie Bowie & Suzane Dameron among others. Webmaster Susie  Bowie and President Debby Steele went together to the stage to receive the award during the Chapter Awards Luncheon on Monday.

Chapter Awards are traditionally announced during lunch on Mondays and followed with the Dillon dessert, a concoction that is unique to each conference but always required to be made of chocolate, a favorite of FPRA founder John Dillon.

In addition to Best Chapter Website, CWC was also recognized for excellence in:

BEST CHAPTER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT. We were recognized for our programming & our collaboration with other organizations.

SPIRIT OF FPRA Award - CWC President Debby Steele won for her excellent work during the past year and her notebook chronicling the year's events of our chapter.

BEST PAST STATE PRESIDENT - Joe Curley, APR, CPRC was bestowed an outstanding honor as his peers across the state distinguished him as Best Past State President.

The Central West Coast Chapter also earned several Image Awards.

Awards of Distinction went to: Julie Platt, APR; Lynn Hobeck Bates, Debby Steele

A Judges Award went to Debby Steele.

The 2008 FPRA Conference Blog also won an Award of Distinction. Suzanne Dameron served as a member of the 6 member blog team headed by Chris Gent, APR.

See more photos on in our CWC Conference photo album, top right.

If you missed conference, you can follow everything on the conference blog at fpra.org.

Suzanne Dameron, Susie Bowie and Emily Sperling participated as blog team members on this year's conference blog team.

FPRA Blog on F.I.R.E.

The 2009 FPRA Conference starts Sunday night. If you aren't going to conference this year, you can follow every presentation and event via the FPRA Conference Blog. Last year, thousands of people visited the blog during conference. You can visit at www.cwcfpra.org. 

This year we have three CWC chapter members on the State Blog team - Emily Sperling, Susie Bowie and myself. Last year we had about half a dozen people on the team and this year, we have twice as many. You'll be able to follow even more of the conference this year. 

The conference celebrates going green this year. I'm a member of the green team and we've spent the past few months figuring out areas where we can recycle, reduce and reuse. One visible major change - conference notebooks are on flashdrives. Several of us are carpooling - our car is packed with CWCers. You'll find out more ways we've gone green at the conference and on the blog.

The opening keynote speaker is Peter Shankman of Help A Reporter Out. Has anyone NOT heard of him? He started an e-blast with reporter's requests for content and stories. It goes out to people who can provide the content and stories - public relations professionals. Brilliant. We'll hear more about this from Shankman on Monday morning. And the blog team will have the coverage for you.

Suzanne Dameron

FPRA is on F.I.R.E.

PR on F.I.R.E. is the theme of state conference this year and the video invitation is - Hot!

http://www.fpra.org/pr_on_fire.asp.

Sign up for our first green conference featuring the founders of EarthSense, a leading edge green marketing firm as our green keynoters, and Peter Shankman of HARO as the opening keynote. The link takes you to the video and you can register on the same page. 

Tranform your e-mail relationships into real time networking at conference - you can't beat meeting and greeting colleagues from across the state in person.

Posted by Suzanne Dameron

Director, Emerging Communications

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