5. Sales and Events
Deb Tewell
Sales/Events Manager


9/16–10/14

NIW.
• Made arrangements for volunteer cloisonné pin and speaker NAI keychain
• Arranged for book signings for keynote speakers
• Arranged for UPS shipping after auction
• Verified volunteer needs with volunteer chair
• Created BEOs and sent to CC contact
• Finalized F&B with CC contact
• Began looking at keynote, special events and off-site session recommendations - NIW 06
• Reviewed program guide
• Put together room monitor notebooks with information and speaker bios
• Replenished room monitor boxes
• Cancelled preworkshop sessions (7) with presenters
• Contacted hotels (Mobile) re: room blocks
• Made list of checks to have on-site for Marsha
• Made list of what to take & posted it in training room
• Copied Exhibit Hall Evaluations
• Made list of what goes into registration packet
• Made copies of Call for Papers 06
• Developed exhibitor reservation form for 2006
• Selected decorator for NIW 06
• Set rate for exhibit booths NIW 06 ($675)

Certification Planning/Logistics.
• Contracted with hotels for CIP (PHX) and CIHT (Cottonwood, AZ) for December
• Cancelled and re-scheduled for April (PHX and Sedona)
• Scheduled CIHT for TX for December; cancelled Sedona in April
• Made meeting and F&B arrangements for Definitions Project, January (FTC)

Training Room.
• Arranged for food and clean up for RMRP Planning Meeting
• Training Room Use:
• Brown Bag lunch 9/20
• RMBO (9/21)
• NorCo Collaborative (9/21)
• Rocky Mtn. Raptor Program (10/8)

Ad Sales.
• Called potential members and advertisers to solicit membership and advertising
• Renewed expiring ad contracts and wrote new ad contracts
• Called new members and NIW 04 exhibitors who had not reserved booths for NIW 05
• Revised ad rate card for 2006

Commercial Members.
• Sent table tents and ad packets to new members
• Sent email and fax re: NIW 05 booths still available

Library & Archives.
• Separated previous media awards by category
• Shelved John Hanna donations
• Assigned Dewey Decimal numbers to books
• Input library book information
• Organized shelves acc’d to Dewey number

Media Awards.
• Participated in conference calls for VisCom and MAC
• Sent finalist list to Paul for multi-media presentation and Marc Blackburn for VisCom web site

Other Stuff.
• Looked over Strategic Plan and updated Paul on progress
• Ordered food for Netluck, October 20 with CSU student chapter and FTC interp com-munity