President’s Newsletter

October, 2006

What’s in this Newsletter?

1.  Ed Rigsbee at NSA Pittsburgh on October 21

2.  Yahoo! Group – don’t miss out

3.  Welcome Roberta Rollings

4.  NSA Pittsburgh Member News

1.       Ed Rigsbee is coming October 21^st!

If you haven’t registered to hear Ed Rigsbee yet, make sure you do!  You won’t want to miss this program.  You can now register online at www.NSAPittsburgh.org.  

“Paid Association Bookings through Article Publishing”

Ed Rigsbee, CSP will teach you how to sell to trade associations and professional societies by going after their soft underbelly—publication editors. In building a relationship with any association, Ed will teach you how to first build a relationship bridge with the association’s editor by offering articles adapted from your books, keynotes or seminars. Then, you’ll learn how to use the editor relationship to bridge the divide into the meetings department.                

2.       Yahoo! Group

There are things that are shared on the NSA Pittsburgh Yahoo Group that you won’t want to miss.  Don’t be left out…sign up today!  It’s so simple.

HERE’S HOW:

TO JOIN: If you already have a Yahoo ID, click this invitation link

NSAPittsburgh-subscribe@yahoogroups.com and sign in to join.

If you don't have a Yahoo ID (or have forgotten it), go to http://groups.yahoo.com

and create a new account first before coming back here to click

the link and join. After you join, it would be nice if you sent a post

to everyone introducing yourself.

TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE GROUP, write an e-mail to NSAPittsburgh@yahoogroups.com

After you've registered, to sign into our site, go to http://groups.yahoo.com  then

click "Sign In.” After signing in with your Yahoo ID, you should then see a list of

all the groups you belong to and you can click your choice to enter the site of that

group.

After you register, please go to the site and update your personal profile. Click on

"Members" and you can look at mine for an example.

If you will be out-of-town and you plan to use an "auto-responder" e-mail message

telling people you're away, please remember to go to the site and change your

preferences to "NO E-MAIL." Otherwise, every time someone sends mail to the

group, the whole group will continually get your auto-respond message.

Please e-mail the moderator, Barbara Thompson privately with questions at

Barbara@BarbaraThompson.net.  

3.       Welcome Roberta Rollings

Please help me welcome Roberta Rollings to NSA Pittsburgh!  Roberta is our new Association Administrator and will be involved in most aspects of our association so give her a huge welcome when you see her! 

If you want to email Roberta, you can do so at nsapgh@aol.com.  

4.       NSA Pittsburgh Member News

National Award Winner!

Dr. Nancy Mramor’s book Spiritual Fitness has won a national award. The COVR Visionary Awards are judged by retailers and seasoned professionals who evaluate each product based on concept, design, execution and their own knowledge of the spiritual book industry. With so many products in the marketplace, COVR provides a guide to what represents the best mind-body-spirit products with positive energy and flair.  The Dalai Lama was also a finalist awardee this year...... Dr. Mramor is feeling fortunate to be in such good company!

Check out Rebecca Lamperski’s New Book

"Full Bloom; Planting the Seeds for your Future"

You can find it in the bookstore of Trafford Publishing at www.trafford.com (just search by name: Rebecca Lamperski) or at www.AMAZON.COM!

Congratulations Nancy and Rebecca!

Here’s to the best NSA Pittsburgh year ever,

Patty Kreamer 

President - NSA Pittsburgh

National Speakers Association Pittsburgh Chapter  
Your Resource for Experts Who Speak Professionally    nsapgh@aol.com