Customized media relations training for nonprofit organizations, NGOs and municipalities in Alberta.
Featured Client 
Gale Katchur
Mayor City of Fort Saskatchewan
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Media relations and social media workshops and private training for groups from one to ten.
Featured Client
 Newell Further Education Council in Bassano, Alberta is sponsoring a full day workshop on developing strategic social media plans for nonprofit organizations in their area. Workshop scheduled for February 15, 2013. Fees $90 and include lunch. Call 403-641-3444 or see www.newellfurthered.ca for more info and to register.
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Wordpress & Joomla! Websites
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I specialize in showing nonprofit organizations and individuals how to design, build and maintain websites in Wordpress or Joomla!, both award winning free and open source content management systems that anyone can learn in a day. Some organizations (such as the YWCA) contract me to design and build their website to their specifications and then train them how to maintain it thereafter. Featured Client
 set to launch on January 31 Total cost: $2500 including training. Call me if you have a website project you'd like some help with.
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Alberta Media News
 Beginning in January 2013, Dragons' Den producers will hit the road for an audition tour, with more than 40 stops in various Canadian cities. Entrepreneurs from across the country have another chance to face the Dragons. Read more Alberta media news |
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Alberta Media Events
 Words in 3 Dimensions, a conference to serve writers, editors & publishers in Alberta is scheduled for May 24 - 26, 2013. Co-hosted by Get Publishing Communications Society, the Writers' Guild of Alberta and the Editors' Association of Canada-Prairie Provinces Branch. Read more Alberta media events |
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Alberta Media Moves
 Must be the weather...Stephanie Barsby has expanded her role as meteoroligist for CBC TV Edmonton to include the radio side. Craig Larkins, formerly with CTV Morning Live Edmonton, is now weatherman for CBC National. Read more Alberta media moves |
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Alberta Media Awards
 The 2013 Alberta Magazine Awards will be presented at a gala dinner at the Alberta Magazines Conference. March 14 in Calgary. Five award categories open to anyone and Showcase Awards open to AMPA members. Read more about the AMPA Gala & Awards |
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Alberta Media Personality: Fish Griwkowsky
 Fish Griwkowsky is a journalist and filmmaker based in Edmonton. He's shot and directed numerous videos including two for Corb Lund & documentaries with Trevor Anderson. He's now the visual arts columnist at the Journal. Read more about Fish Griwkowsky |
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Alberta TV Spotlight: Citytv rebrands as City
 Continuing the momentum of expanding its footprint in key Canadian markets, Rogers Media in rebranding their Citytv stations in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Saskatchewan and soon to be Montreal.
Read more about City rebranded
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Alberta Radio Spotlight: CKFT/Mix 107.9 FM Ft Sask
 On November 27 Golden West Broadcasting launched the first radio station in Fort Saskatchewan. CKFT / Mix 107.9 FM broadcasts a classic hits/classic rock format and plans to find talent, news and ad revenue in the Fort. Read more about Mix 107.9 FM |
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Alberta Magazine Spotlight: Domus
 Source Media Group out of Calgary launched DOMUS magazine on June 2012. It runs three times a year so they're getting ready to publish their third issue. The magazine features ads and articles on exclusively $1million-plus homes.
Read more about Domus Magazine
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Alberta Newspaper Spotlight: Windspeaker
 Windspeaker, Canada's National Aboriginal Source for news, issues and culture is a magazine published by the Aboriginal Multi-Media Society (AMMSA) based in Edmonton, Alberta. Read more about Windspeaker |
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Alberta Film Spotlight: The Liquidator
OLN, a specialty channel operated by Rogers, has ordered a third season of the The Liquidator series from Anaid Productions. Viewers will see even more wheeling and dealing as the series expands in 2013 from 13 to 26 episodes.
Read more about the Liquidator
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Alberta Book Spotlight: Canadian Folk Art
John Fleming, Michael Rowan, and James Chambers have made use of their extensive networks, word of mouth, and even fortuitous accidents to discover and record well over 425 distinctive examples of Canadian folk art.
Read more about Canadian Folk Art
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Alberta Website: YWCA Women of Distinction
This website is scheduled to launch on January 31, 2012 along with the announcement that nominations are now open for the 2013 YWCA of Edmonton Women of Distinction Awards. The site is under construction but you can take a peek. Read more about of the YWCA website |
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From the editor
 If you know of an Alberta newspaper, magazine, radio station, television station, blog, website, film, video or nonfiction book that you would like to see included in our next issue of mediamag ezine, send me a note at marilyn@mediamag.ca. |
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Publisher, Editor, Media Trainer & Social Media Strategist
Marilyn Jones
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ph: 780-695-5675
marilyn@mediamag.ca Delivering media + marketing + epublishing + social media training + communications in Alberta
mediamag.ca | mediainalberta.ca |mediatraininginalberta.ca RiverCity Productions |
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Questions, Comments or Suggestions?
 If you have questions, comments or suggestions about this newsletter, our services or prefer to register for a workshop over the phone, please call 780-695-5675. We offer free over the phone consultations on your upcoming media relations, social media or epublishing project. |
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