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November ’07

11.21.07
November General Meeting
Meeting starts promptly at 11:30 a.m.

Birth of a New Media: Wireless and Mobile Marketing 101
AAFT welcomes Pierre Barbeau, CEO and co-founder of Mobilco:
Visionary, entrepreneur and inventor. This visionary presentation offers an intimate view of current and emerging technology and market trends you need to know.
Learn how mobile will impact future advertising and marketing.


• Who are mobile data users?
• What do mobile date users do with their phones?
• What is the interest of mobile data users for mobile marketing and advertising?

As an added bonus to this luncheon, AAFT is inviting you to be a part of the hands-on aspect of the Mobile Marketing presentation by providing your cell number to receive several text messages from Pierre. The luncheon presentation will also be interactive for those who chose to opt-in. To do so, please provide your cell number with your RSVP. (standard text messaging rates apply)

Where: Holidome - Topeka Room, 605 SW Fairlawn
When: Wednesday, November 21, 11:30 a.m.
Admission: Members - $15, Guests/Others - $18
RSVP: Kevin.mott@coxmedia.com


11.07.07
November Board Meeting

Where: Frances O’Dooley’s
When: 12 noon.

October ’07

10.17.07
October General Meeting
Meeting starts promptly at 11:30 a.m.

It’s an Inside Job!
Facilitator Lori Keegan will focus on how managing your insides and identifying your passion will launch you off on a whole new exhilarating experience of personal & professional profitability.
For Owners, GM’s, and Account Executives: How do you manage the relationship inside yourself?---and the relationships of your sales team?---and the larger organization/system which drives your profitability? Lori will give us not just words, but a real experience of moving forward, that we will never forget.
Don’t miss her: BE THERE or REMAIN UNAWARE!


Presenter’s Bio: Lori Keegan, “Three Professionals in One”, founded Transition By Design in 1998, blending her own family history, education, and careers of:
1) Family business/hospital administration & organizational development
2) Career development strategies
3) Therapeutic marriage and family “systems work” into a company providing business & career strategies for profitability.

She is all about helping her clients on the journey through innovating and accelerating their personal & professional prosperity. She takes her audience on a multi-disciplinary journey from the “inside work” to the “outside profitability”---opening the way to a satisfaction that sets prosperity apart from and beyond “just” profitability.
Lori encourages you to try out her life motto, find your passion, and “Enjoy the ride!”
Snoop on her website: www.TransitionByDesign.com 
 

Where: Holidome - Topeka Room, 605 SW Fairlawn
When: Wednesday, October 17, 11:30 a.m.
Admission: Members - $15, Others - $18
RSVP: Kevin.mott@coxmedia.com


10.03.07
October Board Meeting

Where: Frances O’Dooley’s
When: 12 noon.

September ’07

09.19.07
September General Meeting
Meeting starts promptly at 11:30 a.m.

Fall TV Preview event
TUNE IN! Find out what's new in this fall's TV line up hosted by these local networks:

Where: Holidome - Topeka Room, 605 SW Fairlawn
When: Wednesday, September 19, 11:30 a.m.
Admission: Members - $12, Others - $15
RSVP: Kevin.mott@coxmedia.com

September meeting sponsor:

09.05.07
September Board Meeting

Where: Frances O’Dooley’s
When: 12 noon.

August ’07

08.15.07
August General Meeting
Meeting starts promptly at 11:30 a.m.

As a member of TAF, how can you help your community be a better place to live??
It's by helping make Topeka the "Safest Capital City in America".
Barry Feaker with Safe Streets will educate the club about
their program and our commitment to this community project.
Then, we'll figure out how to make it happen!!
How creative are you??
Bring your brain to the August TAF meeting and make a difference in Topeka!!

Where: Holidome - Topeka Room, 605 SW Fairlawn
When: Wednesday, August 15, 11:30 a.m.
Admission: Members - $12, Others - $15
RSVP: Kevin.mott@coxmedia.com
 

08.01.07
August Board Meeting

Where: Frances O’Dooley’s
When: 12 noon.

Topeka Advertising Federation Hall of Fame Luncheon
Where: Emerald Room, Capital Plaza Hotel
When: Wednesday, May 9, 11:30 a.m.

The Topeka Advertising Federation Hall of Fame Luncheon is in
Honor of individuals who have distinguished themselves in the field of advertising and volunteer efforts in the Topeka community.

2007 TAF Hall of Fame Inductees:
Charles “Charlie” Cutler – former advertising manager for Ed Marling’s Furniture
Sam Dietz (posthumous) – former advertising manager for Capitol Federal Savings
Vince Frye – partner at FryeAllen, Inc.

The TAF Hall of Fame Luncheon is a fundraiser for the annual TAF scholarship program. This year three college students will each be awarded
a $1,000 scholarship in the name of our 2007 Hall of Fame Inductees.

Speaker: Mitch Holthus, voice of the Kansas City Chiefs

He has been named "Kansas Sportscaster of the Year" eight times in his career. He has also been named the top play-by-play sportscaster in Kansas nine times by the Kansas Association of Broadcasters. As a result, he is the youngest sportscaster in Kansas history to receive every major sports casting award. Mitch will bring a high-energy, motivational presentation mixed in with a bit of humor that will add to our own Hall of Fame celebration.

$30 per person or
$240 table for 8.

Please respond by Friday, May 4
RSVP and payment can be sent to:
Topeka Ad Fed Hall of Fame
PO Box 1251, Topeka, KS 66601

Topeka is a great place to live...
TAF Public Service Campaign
Frank Chaffin is looking for TAF members who would be interested in creating a PSA campaign touting Topeka. If you would like to serve on this committee please contact Frank at 271-7003 or by e-mail at frank@fccadvertising.com.

March ’07

03.21.07
March General Meeting
“Manage Your time, Manage Yourself”
Rich Drinion, Drinion and Associates

As we move further into the high-tech, global, information era, workers are swamped with overwhelming demands, high expectations and too many e-mail messages! If you're looking for ways to enhance your work style, increase productivity and improve total life quality, this program will introduce you to proven ways of managing yourself in these challenging times. This program examines the habits of healthy, productive people while showing you how to apply front-edge approaches to total self-management.

Where: Holidome - Topeka Room, 605 SW Fairlawn
When: Wednesday, March 21, 11:30 a.m.
Admission: Members - $12, Others - $15
RSVP: Kevin.mott@coxmedia.com

03.01.07
March Board Meeting

Where: Frances O’Dooley’s
When: 12 noon.

January ’07

December ’06

Join us for the TAF Holiday Party!!!
When: Thursday December 14th, 4PM–7PM
Where: O’Dooley’s Emerald Room

• Bring a white elephant gift for a gift exchange
• Invite your significant other or a guest

What:
Time with Friends
Ad Wars game…prizes all night long!
Feast on great food

RSVP: by December 11th to Kevin Mott
Kevin.mott@coxmedia.com
(785) 215-6853

November ’06

11.15.06
November General Meeting

It's time to start thinking about your entries into the 2007 TAF ADDY Award competition. Join us at our November meeting for a more in-depth look at both our local ADDY Awards and the national AAF ADDY competition.

• Judges' Comments & highlights of last year's local ADDY Awards

• Highlights of the national ADDY Award winners

• A preview and Q&A session on entering the 2007 TAF ADDY Awards

Where: Holidome - Topeka Room, 605 SW Fairlawn
When: Wednesday, November 15, Networking - 11:30 a.m., Lunch - Noon
Admission: Members - $12, Others - $15
RSVP: by Friday, Nov 10th to Kevin.mott@coxmedia.com
 

October ’06

10.18.06
October General Meeting
“Discover Your Hispanic Audience”
Elias Garcia, Executive Director of the Kansas Hispanic and Latino American Affairs Commission for the State of Kansas

Elias will discuss the cultural differences in the Latino community and how our marketing strategies should be influenced.

Find out why and how the Hispanic population is your audience, your customers and the impact the Hispanic community will have on the growth of your business.

Where: Holidome - Topeka Room, 605 SW Fairlawn
When: Wednesday, October 18, 11:30 a.m.
Admission: Members - $12, Others - $15
RSVP: Kevin.mott@coxmedia.com

10.04.06
October Board Meeting

Where: Frances O’Dooley’s
When: 12 noon.

September ’06

09.20.06
September General Meeting
“The Value of Advertising”
Rich Delany, Owner
20/20 Marketing

Through his entertaining, yet meaningful presentation, Rich will teach you how to gain support for your advertising budget and win over skeptics as to the value of your ad campaigns.

• See how clear goals and expectations set the base for a solid ROI approach.
• Learn how to implement easy steps to gain increased support by top management to your advertising programs.
• Learn what metrics can do to improve your career.
• Find out what over 60% of marketing professionals don’t do which could increase their credibility.
• Discover why 25% of your peers are doing it right.

Where: Holidome - Topeka Room, 605 SW Fairlawn
When: Wednesday, September 20, 11:30 a.m.
Admission: Members - $12, Others - $15
RSVP: Kevin.mott@coxmedia.com

09.06.06
September Board Meeting

Where: Frances O’Dooley’s
When: 12 noon.

August ’06

08.16.06
August General Meeting
Fall TV Preview Event

Find out what’s new in this fall’s TV line up hosted by these local networks:

Where: Holidome - Topeka Room, 605 SW Fairlawn
When: Wednesday, August 16, 11:30 a.m.
Admission: Members - $12, Others - $15
RSVP: Kevin.mott@coxmedia.com

May ’06

05.24.06
May General Meeting
Curtis Kitchen
SCCA Public Relations Manager

Since joining SCCA (Sports Car Club of America) as Public Relations Manager in May of 2003, Curtis Kitchen has been instrumental in the continued outreach of SCCA and its competition programs on a national and international level. His event coverage appears regularly on web sites like SPEED Channel’s speedtv.com and motorsport.com.

Curtis has also been a guest on national radio shows like Motortrend Radio and promoted several SCCA series on local and regional broadcasts through media outlets including ESPN, ESPN The Magazine, Autoweek, Car and Driver and ABC’s Good Morning America.

Curtis is a Kansas native raised in Oskaloosa and received his B.A. in Mass Media from Washburn University in 2002.

Where: O’Dooley’s Emerald Room
When: May 24, 11:45 a.m.
Admission: Members - $12, Others - $15

05.16.06
TAF Board Meeting

April ’06

04.26.06
April General Meeting
Business Etiquette – Jolene Savage

In the high tech get it done NOW world we live in, we are trained to work quickly and proficiently while simple courtesies and civilities are often overlooked. Jolene Savage, Executive Director of Social Graces and Co-author of Power Tools, "Top Executive Coaches Put You on the Fast Track to Success" will share dos and don'ts and other tips to refine your business social skills.

Check out Jolene’s web site: http://www.socialgraceks.com/.

Where: O’Dooley’s Emerald Room
When: March 29, 11:45 a.m.
Admission: Members - $12, Others - $15

04.13.06
It seems like only yesterday...
Remember Pat Piper from Barkley & Evergreen?

Oh, yeah. He rocked. And not just a little. Smart guy. Brilliant creative.

Just in case you didn't ask Pat that burning gosh-I-wish-I'd-asked-him-that question, do it now: ppiper@beap.com.

March

03.29.06
Special Guest Speaker:
Pat Piper from Barkley & Evergreen

Pat’s the creative behind the Sonic account and he will be speaking about how the current campaign came to fruition.

Where: O’Dooley’s Emerald Room
When: March 29, 11:45 a.m.
Admission: Members - $12, Others - $15

 

February

02.08.06
TAF Board Meeting
 

02.01.06
The 2006 ADDY Awards.
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January

01.28.06
The 2006 ADDY Awards.