tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57835871456667551872011-04-21T21:30:00.697-07:00Let's explore ways to improve genealogy society programs. Topics will include developing a speaker calendar, combining speakers with creative topics, writing compelling topic introductions for the newsletter, creating a program committee, good speaker agreements, Publicity, and other needs.Program Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13023219050075076975noreply@blogger.comBlogger51100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5783587145666755187.post-40986337495733971932009-02-20T15:02:00.000-08:002009-02-20T18:28:21.706-08:00

Last month I discussed finding speaker leads using exchange newsletters from other Societies. There are other good sources for speakers. Let's explorer some of those.Once I had a speaker give a talk on the Genealogy of Our American Flags. He and his wife displayed about 25 different U.S. flags that he and his wife researched and had commercially sewn at a local Flag Shop. They were willing to

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This is an addendum to my post on Finding Speakers - Part 1.I was going to wait a month before posting again but Gena Philibert Ortega, who has been a speaker at WAGS, posted to her blog Gena's Genealogy at http://philibertfamily.blogspot.com an article titled "Getting the Most out of Your Genealogy Society Speaker" that is quite appropriate to think about for finding and keeping speakers. I

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Happy 2009 New Year. Let's start talking about finding good speakers for monthly meetings. My greatest resource is other society exchange newsletters. Every month I receive a stack of them to look through. WAGS participates in a newsletter exchange that makes this possible. You can also Google other societies to see if they have a Web presence and electronic newsletter. From these newsletters I

Program Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13023219050075076975noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5783587145666755187.post-23499444779196690792008-12-06T22:56:00.001-08:002008-12-27T21:18:56.837-08:00

In my last post I introduced myself as the program director for the Whittier Area Genealogical Society or WAGS and ended with the importance of creating a permanent email address such as Yahoo.com or Gmail.com that does not change everytime you change your Internet Service Provider or I.S.P.In this post I will talk about how I created my speaker calendar in my email program. I have set up several

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Local Southern California genealogy speakers are a regular monthly feature of our organization, the Whittier Area Genealogical Society or WAGS. I am responsible for lining up 10 months of speakers and 2 months of member Show and Tell programs every calendar year for our General Meetings. We also have classes that alternate monthly between Computers and General Interest. And also a Beginner

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