Regional Azbee Award Winners Named

The names of the winning publications in the Midwest-South region have been announced.

National winners will be revealed Aug. 2.

Editors gathered July 19 at the stylish Hotel Monaco to celebrate the Midwest-South regional Azbee Awards banquet.

These are the magazines that won regional awards.

National Awards

National award winners will be announced at a banquet during our National Editorial Conference in New York City on the evening of Aug. 2.

Here are the national finalists.

Workshops for Medical Writers
Offered in Chicago Area

Core and advanced workshops enable participants to earn medical writing certificates.

The Greater Chicago Area Chapter (GCAC) of the American Medical Writers Association (AMWA) will offer three core workshops and one advanced workshop at its 2007 conference on Friday, Aug. 3, from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., at the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management in Lake Forest, Ill. The workshops are open to both AMWA members and nonmembers.

“Writing Abstracts” is a core workshop that presents an overview of the purpose and structure of the medical or scientific abstract, with emphasis on abstracts prepared for publications. It is recommended for medical writers and editors with up to five years’ experience.

“Making Effective Slides,” another core workshop, provides beginners and those with some slide-making experience the opportunity to learn ground rules for writing and designing medical slides; critique examples of good and bad slides, discuss production concerns; and evaluate slides created as homework assignments.

The core workshop “Tables and Graphs (Pharmaceutical Approach)” provides instruction on how to create and edits tables and graphs for technical documents.

The advanced workshop, “Understanding Sample Size & Study Power,” explores how various factors, particularly sample size and study power, influence a study’s ability to detect a measured and statistically significant effect and examines the role that precision and confidence intervals play in interpreting and reporting a study’s power, and is designed for experienced writers and editors.

Workshop fees range from $85 to $110 for members and from $185 to $210 for nonmembers. Registration for the all-day event, which costs $55 for members and $95 for nonmembers, includes breakfast and lunch. The registration form and fees must be received by July 2, 2007.

To receive credit toward a certificate, registrants must be enrolled in a curriculum program and submit completed homework by July 6, 2006 for the advanced workshop and by July 20, 2006 for the core workshops. The core curriculum enrollment fee, good for six years, is $125 for AMWA members and $235 for nonmembers. The advanced curriculum enrollment fee, good for eight years, costs $150 for AMWA members and $260 for non-members.

The registration form for the 2007 GCAC/AMWA Conference is available at www.gcac-amwa.org/education/education1.html. For more information, contact GCAC Education Chair Caryn Kim at caryn.kim@tap.com or (847) 582-5882 or GCAC Conference Registrar Kerry Flory at kerry.flory@tap.com or (847) 582-4941

To Learn More About ASBPE

For additional information, contact Renee Pas, ASBPE Chicago chapter president, at (630) 832-8313 or any of the ASBPE chapter board members. You may also e-mail the chapter at reneepas@ameritech.net or visit our Membership Page. Membership is individual, not corporate.

Download Information from Past Events

Fall 2005 Half-Day Workshop

• The Top 10 Ways to Work Better with Communications Professionals
  (52 KB Word doc)

How to Win Awards/Brand Extensions

Our Sept. 17 event was a very informative joint meeting with the American Business Media, part of its Year of the Editor program.

If you attended that event, you might want to download these copies of these PowerPoint presentations from speaker Brian Ward. And if you didn’t attend, you may want to look them over to see some of the points made.

• How to Win an Editorial Award (124K PowerPoint file)

• Brand Extensions: Creating New Revenue Streams (68K PowerPoint file)

Facilitating Workflow Between Editorial and Production

Here are tips from the May 13, 2003, meeting, provided by Carol Davis and Linda Cowls at Tree of Life Graphics.

To help facilitate workflow between editorial and production, the provided a guide with tips about the issue-planning process and a sample production timeline for periodicals.

Download the workflow facilitation tips (700K PDF).

Linda Cowls also forwarded this newsletter production “cheat sheet.” It contains:

• approximate word counts for full and fractional pages, with and without art;

• a guide to ad sizes to help you mark off ad space; and

• a chart showing total square inches of space in various newsletter sizes, to compare to total ad space for postal regulations.

Download the newsletter cheat sheet (8K PDF).

Tips on Establishing an Awards Program for Readers

At the chapter’s April 2003 event, Dan Murphy, former editor of Meat Marketing & Technology, gave his advice on how to launch a successful awards program that recognizes professional success among your readers.

Here are his tips. (Word document)

Slide Presentation on Interactive Content Management

At the ASBPE Chicago Chapter’s Feb. 12 dinner meeting, attendees learned about Interactive Content Management Concepts and Fundamentals. The speaker was Fred Maurer, vice president and principal of Glen Ellyn, Ill.,-based Go Media.

The presentation provided a nontechnical overview of Internet content management for business publications, including:

• techniques for getting content from the writer’s/editor’s desktop to the Web.

• data storage and content-maintenance tools.

You can download the slides from Maurer’s presentation here (28K PDF file).

Get Notes on ‘Successful Magazine Launch’

Here are the presenters’ notes from our Jan. 15, 2003, event, The Successful Magazine Launch.

Download Jim Carper’s outline of his presentation (Word document).

Download Brian Ward’s notes for his speech (Word document).

Call for Board Members

ASBPE’s Chicago Chapter is seeking board members to help organize meetings, workshops and other events for the chapter. It's a great way to get more involved in the organization and meet other business publication editors — and it can be a lot of fun! If you are interested in running for a position. Contact Tina Grady Barbaccia or any of the ASBPE Chicago Chapter officers or board members.

Chicago Chapter Officers

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