#10 Connect with your peers. Spending time with your professional peers from across the state is one of the biggest benefits of attending a conference. You’ll have multiple opportunities to make meaningful connections and learn from your colleagues. Among the opportunities are shopping in Carytown and dinner at The Daily on April 27, a networking game during the...
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Experts at the Spring 2017 conference will talk about hosting the vice presidential debate, AP Style and cyber security. AP Style: A Refresher Course Journalists are typically familiar with Associated Press style, but many organizations in corporate America also follow it. With tweeting and texting, American English is evolving at warp speed, so AP is updated...
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Kick off the VPC 2017 Spring Conference by networking with colleagues and friends on Thursday, April 27, in Carytown. We’ll shop from 5-7 p.m. and meet for dinner at 7 p.m. at Baker’s Crust. Please let Cynthia Price (cynthiapricecp@gmail.com) know you will attend the dinner so the appropriate reservation may be made. The conference schedule for Friday, April...
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We’ve consistently heard feedback from members is that there is never enough time at conferences to network. During the spring conference, April 28, we hope to change that. For members who arrive early or stay late, we’ll have two dinner opportunities to network with VPC members as well as members of the National Federation of Press Women, who are in town for their...
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Carytown is a fun, quirky, hip, cool, stylish – you choose the adjective – neighborhood in Richmond where people love to shop, dine and drink. The Huffington Post named Carytown as the one thing you must do in Virginia. It’s the perfect spot for NFPW board members and VPC members to mingle before the spring board meeting for NFPW and the spring communications...
Read MoreVPC’s fall meeting brought together nearly 40 members and guests for a wonderful day of networking, learning, laughing and growing personally and professionally. Keynote speaker Dean Browell, an international expert on consumer behavior with Feedback agency, offered a workshop geared toward any communications professional. Major takeaways from his presentation...
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Bonnie Atwood was named runner-up for the 2016 Communicator of Achievement Award given by the National Federation of Press Women. She was recognized during the organization’s annual conference, held in Wichita, Kansas. The Communicator of Achievement Award is the highest honor bestowed by NFPW upon those members who have distinguished themselves within and...
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A big bumblebee weighing 60 pounds, a dramatic dragonfly with a three-and-a-half-foot wingspan and a soaring seven-foot-tall red rose: these are just a few of the sculptures on display at Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden as part of Nature Connects®: Art with LEGO® Bricks. Created with half-a-million LEGO bricks, the award-winning exhibit by New York artist Sean Kenney feature 27 sculptures in 14 displays throughout the garden.
Learn about the joys and challenges of LEGOs and the branding and communications plans at 5:45 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 18. Beth Monroe, director of public relations for Lewis Ginter, will lead VPC members on a 30-minute tour. Following the tour, tables have been reserved for members to enjoy Flowers After 5 featuring Cook County Bluegrass. For almost two decades Cook County Bluegrass has been providing good times and bluegrass music to the Richmond area and are guaranteed to provide a foot stomping good time!
VPC members should arrive by 5:30 p.m. to the Visitor Center and pay their admission ($13 regular admission, $11 senior admission or free for LGBG members). The tour begins promptly at 5:45 p.m.
Please RSVP to Cynthia Price at cynthiapricecp@gmail.com by Monday, Aug. 15.
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Kayla Solsbak, a sophomore at the University of Richmond, is the recipient of the Virginia Press Women Foundation’s 2016 Agnes Cooke Scholarship. She was announced as this year’s scholarship winner at the annual conference of Virginia Professional Communicators, with which the foundation is affiliated, at the George Washington Inn in Winchester, Virginia, on Friday,...
Read MoreMonday, Feb. 1: Final deadline for entering for the VPC Communications Contest. Visit the NFPW website and enter the all-electronic 2016 professional communicators competition for statewide recognition and the chance to compete against pros in the national contest. The website provides complete instructions.
Members of Virginia Professional Communicators AND professional communicators who live or work in Virginia are eligible to enter. If you are not a member of VPC, and you win first place at the state level, you will be given the option to join VPC and NFPW so that your entry can move to the national level to be judged. Work published from Jan. 1 through Dec. 31, 2015, is eligible for this year’s contest.
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