ACES regional meeting coming

It's time to sign up for the ACES Southeast Chapter workshop on Sunday, Jan.28, in Chapel Hill, NC. Signup information, as well as driving directions and hotel information, can be found at:

http://www.jomc.unc.edu/executiveeducation/ACES/

Attendance is limited to 100, so get your application in early to be sure of a spot. There will be lots of interesting sessions, including a panel discussion on the Internet.

Look forward to seeing you all there!

Holly Kerfoot
chapter coordinator

Members: The registration fee is $15 before Jan. 14 and $25 after, which includes a boxed lunch.

Non-members: The registration fee is $25 after, which includes a boxed lunch.

9:30 – 10 am.
Check in.

10 – 11:15 a.m.
Design – Daryl Pitman, The News & Observer
Numeracy – Doug Fisher, University of South Carolina
Critiques – Maurreen Skowran, The News & Observer

11:25 a.m. – 12:40 p.m.
Improving Teamwork Across Departments – Panel from The News & Observer: Chuck Small, Deborah Jackson, Craig Jarvis, Teresa Kriegsman
Gun Terminology – Tony Brown, The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C.
Critiques – Maurreen Skowran, The News & Observer

12:45 – 1 p.m.
Welcome
Melanie Sill, The News & Observer
Holly Kerfoot, Winston-Salem Journal
Maurreen Skowran, The News & Observer

1 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
Box lunches

1:45 – 3 p.m.
One large-group session – Evolving News Media
Michael Belcher, The Roanoke Times, Va.
Daniel Conover, The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C.
Doug Fisher, University of South Carolina, moderator
Laura Ruel, UNC
Philip Meyer, UNC

3:10 – 4:25 p.m.
Health, Fitness and RSI – Emily Burch Harris, News & Record, Greensboro
Sticky Style Issues – Andy Bechtel, UNC

4:35 – 5:50 p.m.
Grammar Slammer game – Emily Burch Harris, News & Record, Greensboro
Editing When You Don’t Have Time – Bill Cloud, UNC


(Your humble correspondent has not been blogging a lot lately given preparations for this and some other seminars and for the new semester -- while trying to get the book finished. We're almost done. Look for "Principles of Convergent Journalism" By Jeff Wilkinson, August E. Grant and Doug Fisher from Oxford sometime this summer - I hope!)