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Increase Your Network Efforts on Linked in

If you’re looking to increase your networking efforts, I certainly recommend Linked in. Below is a screenshot from my PC. I put in the keyword, “communication” in search of groups. The search found over 3,200 groups to choose from. Obviously a lot to sort through. I would suggest that you skim through the pages and select the group(s) which interest you the most and fit within your career objectives.

Hint: try to seek out groups which maybe located and/or focus on your local area. This might give you the chance of meeting other communication professionals in-person.

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A Message from the LPH President

I came across this website, Work In Sports.com. If you’re considering a career in the sports and/or entertainment industry, a communications degree can certainly help.

Work In Sports.com has a variety of communications-related and P.R. positions with sports organizations across the country. There is a membership fee for the service, but the website does provide some good information on pursuing a career in this industry.

Derrick Robertson-President

Lambda Pi Eta

Chi Omicron Chapter

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Featured Communication Expert List

Here is a short listing of some of the featured experts in various areas of communication. To request additional experts, or find experts in other areas of communication, please contact the communications office.

Contact the Communications Office

Mark Fernando

Senior Manager, Communications

202-534-1105 (mobile) 202-657-8623

media@natcom.org

Jennifer Glicoes

Specialist, Communications

202-534-1112 media@natcom.org

African American Communication and Culture

Erika Molloseau Pryor, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Denison UniversityPryor completed her undergraduate work at Western Michigan University and received her Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh, August 2008. Her primary areas of research investigates the ways in which African Americans are represented within popular media; the ways African Americans and dominant audiences talk about the representations of African Americans; as well as cultural phenomenon and artifacts intended for African American and dominant audiences. Pryor also considers cultural phenomenon related to the intersections of race, gender, and citizenship performance, experiences, and enactments.

Jannette L. Dates, Ph.D., Dean, Howard UniversityJannette L. Dates is the Dean of the John H. Johnson School of Communications at Howard University, where she served as a faculty member in the Department of Radio, Television and Film and Associate Dean before becoming Dean. Dates has been a frequent speaker and panelist on national television and radio programs where she discussed images of African Americans in the mass media. She has appeared on “Both Sides with Jesse Jackson,” “Booknotes with Brian Lamb” on CSPAN,” “All Things Considered” on NPR, “Close Up” on NPR, “Our Visions” on BET, and “On the Media” on NPR, among others. Prior to her career at Howard, Dates served as anchor and executive producer of a weekly television magazine for the Baltimore, Maryland, NBC affiliate, WBAL-TV, and as executive producer and host for a distance learning television series for Morgan State College students studying African American history and culture. She served as a panelist on a weekly public affairs television series for the Baltimore, Maryland, ABC affiliate, WJZ-TV, in a weekly series entitled “Square Off,” and as the co-anchor of the weekly television series “North Star” for the NBC affiliate in Baltimore, WBAL-TV. In the 1990’s Dates served as a Fellow at the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center at Columbia University where her research focused on media images and effects, media treatment of African Americans and similar multicultural groups and women. Dates co-edited the book, Split Image: African Americans in the Mass Media, authoring six of the ten chapters. She has written chapters for numerous other books, authored seventeen peer-reviewed articles and many general publication articles. Dates is featured in the March 2007 edition of the Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media as one of the nation’s communication research pioneers. Her recent research includes service as guest editor of the Summer 2005 edition of the Journal of Popular Film & Television that focused on “African Americans in Film & Television: Twentieth Century Lessons for a New Millennium.”

Davis Houck, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Florida State UniversityDavis Houck received his Ph.D. in Speech Communication from the Pennsylvania State University. As an All-American intercollegiate athlete, Houck brings to the issueof race a unique blend of the academic, the personal and the athletic. His scholarship has garnered some of the highest prizes in the communication field, and one of his books was submitted for thePultizer Prize in History. His recent work in recovering the many diverse voices of the movement has taken him to dozens of archives around the country, and he's consulted with more than one hundred archivists in hisefforts to fill out a broader history of the movement and its participants. In addition, his work on the media, race and sport has been anthologized and is being taught in classrooms around the country.

Health Communication

Jennifer B. Gray, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Appalachian State UniversityJennifer B. Gray, Ph.D., is a communication teacher and researcher, currently an assistant professor at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. Her teaching and research expertise includes several areas of health communication, or communication in the context of health, including how health issues are presented in entertainment programming and news, how patients and healthcare providers communicate, as well as how to improve the way messages about health are designed. Gray currently teaches courses in health communication and research methods and has taught courses in interpersonal communication, public speaking, and college-level writing. Prior to, and then during, her graduate studies, Gray was a medical public relations professional at the University of Kentucky Medical Center in Lexington, KY, and a medical editor with Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans, LA, and the American Board of Family Medicine in Lexington, KY.

Austin S. Babrow, Ph.D., Professor, Ohio UniversityProfessor Babrow teaches, conducts research, and writes in the areas of health, interpersonal, and mass communication; persuasion; and research methods. He has conducted and advised health communication research in the areas of pregnancy and childbirth, HIV/AIDS prevention, smoking cessation, patient-provider relationships, breast cancer, information seeking, explaining illness, aging, advance care planning and communication at the end of life, and the role of spirituality in human suffering. In the area of public health and safety, he has done work on media coverage of bioterrorism and the social construction of various risks. He has also been involved in persuasion research on issues such as the use of teasing as a means of influence, the bases of reasoned action, and the effects of various forms of argument (such as metaphor, statistical and narrative evidence). He has written extensively about communication theory and research methods, and is known in particular for developing Problematic Integration theory, which focuses on communication in particularly challenging situations, such as those involving significant uncertainty, ambivalence, and/or impossible desires.

Linda Godbold Kean, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Acting Director, East Carolina UniversityLinda Kean is an Associate Professor in the School of Communication at East Carolina University. Kean also has an adjunct appointment in the Department of Public Health in the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University. Kean’s main area of research is health communication with a focus on the mass media. One facet of her research is designing and evaluating mass media campaigns that promote the adoption of positive health behaviors. Kean is interested in what types of audiences respond to particular messages and how we can be most effective in disseminating effective health messages and encouraging healthy behaviors. Kean has investigated campaign effectiveness in the areas of smoking, adolescent alcohol use and AIDS public service announcements. Kean is also interested in how advertising and entertainment media messages influence individual’s perceptions, attitudes and behaviors regarding health topics. A recent publication, Kean, L.G. and Prividera, L.C. (2007) “Communicating about race and health: A content analysis of print advertisements in African American and general readership magazines,” published in Health Communication, looks at the messages in print advertisements regarding food and weight loss products aimed at African American and more general audiences. Kean is also conducting research investigating the link between exposure to media and individual’s decision making regarding food consumption and physical activity.
Communication and Listening

Graham Bodie, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Louisiana State UniversityGraham Bodie is a leading researcher in listening as communication and has published extensively in the International Journal of Listening. His primary research interests include how individual predispositions influence the listening process and listening-related outcomes. Currently he is working toward a general theory of the listening process as it plays out in conversation between two individuals, especially in conversations that involve the provision and receipt of social support. His work draws on research from psychology, linguistics, communication, and discourse studies. Graham is also active in developing scales to measure listening in its many varieties. Graham has been active in the International Listening Association since 2001. He currently is serving on the Nominating Committee and has served as Chair of the ILA’s Research Committee and as Member-at-Large Special Projects. He received his PhD in 2008 from the Department of Communication at Purdue University. His dissertation research focused on the varied ways people listen to messages intended to make them feel better during times of stress.

Family and Interpersonal Communication

Paul Schrodt, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Texas Christian University
Paul Schrodt specializes in interpersonal communication, family communication, and instructional communication. His primary research interests include studying the communicative cognitions and behaviors that facilitate family relationships, with a particular interest in the message strategies and behaviors that facilitate stepfamily functioning. Schrodt is an active member of the National Communication Association (NCA), the Central States Communication Association (CSCA), and the International Association for Relationship Research, and he currently serves on the editorial boards of Communication Monographs, Communication Education, Journal of Family Communication, and Communication Reports. In addition to several Top Paper awards, Schrodt was awarded the inaugural, 2005 Sandra Petronio Dissertation Award from the Family Communication Division of the NCA, as well as the 2006 Outstanding New Teacher Award from the CSCA. Along with several book chapters, Schrodt has published more than 30 articles in several leading journals, including Communication Monographs, Human Communication Research, and Communication Education, among others.

Freedom of Speech Issues

Donald Fishman, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Boston College
Donald Fishman specializes in Freedom of Expression and Intellectual Property. He has taught at Northwestern University and Boston College. He is the author of over 40 articles in the field of communication. He is the recipient of the 1998 Haiman Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Freedom of Expression and 2001 Phifer Award for outstanding Scholarship in Parliamentary Procedure. He is the past president of the Faculty Senate at Boston College and past president of the Eastern Communication Association. He was chairman of the Department of Communication at Boston College for nine years.

Interpersonal Communication

Jennifer A. Samp, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator, University of GeorgiaJennifer A. Samp (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1999) is Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator in the Department of Speech Communication at the University of Georgia. Her programmatic research on conflict and problematic discussions in close relational contexts centrally locates her within scholarship on interpersonal communication. Broadly construed, her research focuses on how communicators’ thoughts about themselves and their relationships influence what they say during conversations with close friends and romantic partners. Additionally, some of her current work examines how couples manage challenges to commitment, intimacy, and relational satisfaction. Her research has been acknowledged by several top paper awards at national conventions and publications in a variety of journals within the communication discipline. Samp teaches undergraduate and graduate level courses on interpersonal communication, personal relationships, conflict, communication theory, and quantitative research methods.

Elizabeth Ribarsky, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Springfield Elizabeth Ribarsky is a professor at the University of Illinois at Springfield who teaches courses in interpersonal communication. Ribarsky has an active line of research in which she examines how people construct their individual and relational identities. Specifically, she has conducted numerous studies examining recent changes in dating behaviors and dating communication, such as speed dating, dating through the Internet, the increased prevalence of long-distance relationships, and reality-dating television’s portrayal of dating and how reality-dating television influence on how women construct what it means to date in the 21st century. Ribarsky argues that because research has shown that people still desire traditional dating behaviors reminiscent of the 1950s but engage in dating behaviors that violate these expectations, there is an increased sense of ambiguity surrounding dating and the process of relational escalation. Thus, she contends that researchers must continue to explore how people make sense of these recent changes in and ambiguity surrounding dating behaviors and communication.

Janet K. (Jess) Alberts, Ph.D., President’s Professor, Arizona State UniversityJess Alberts is President’s Professor and faculty member in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ. Currently she serves as Director of the Conflict Transformation Project and Associate Director for Research Development at the Institute for Social Science Research. Alberts’ research focuses on romantic relationships as well as conflict in personal and professional relationships. She has studied flirting, relational maintenance through daily interaction, humor and teasing. Her current work examines marital conflict and the division of domestic labor, married couples’ conflict and daily interaction, workplace bullying, community mediation, and work/life conflict. She is a popular speaker and has provided keynote addresses, presentations and workshops for the (national) Association for Conflict Resolution; the Arizona Association for Conflict Resolution; the Arizona Labor Employment Relations Association, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (forthcoming), as well as the Phoenix Zoo; the Internal Revenue Service, Arizona; the University of California, San Diego; Argosy University, the University of Phoenix and the Self Sufficiency Participant Conference, among other organizations and corporations. She was named the Jeanne Lynd Herberger Professor in 2007. She was selected by the undergraduate association for the Last Lecture Series Award, by the graduate student association for a Mentor Appreciation Award, and by Commission on the Status of Women for the Outstanding Achievement and Contributions Award. She also received special recognition by the ASU Parents’ Association for her contributions to undergraduate teaching in 2008.

Norah Dunbar, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Communication, University of OklahomaNorah Dunbar has a Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Arizona (2000), an M.A. from California State University Chico, and a B.A. from the University of Nevada Reno. Professor Dunbar's research interests include interpersonal deception and nonverbal expressions of power and dominance in interpersonal relationships. Methodologically, she uses behavioral observation techniques to examine verbal and nonverbal communication displays. Her recent publications include articles in Interpersona: An International Journal on Personal Relationships, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Journal of Family Communication, and Communication Reports. She has also written chapters on nonverbal dominance and influence in The Persuasion Handbook, Beyond Words: A Sourcebook of Methods for Measuring Nonverbal Cues, and The Sage Handbook of Nonverbal Communication. Currently, Professor Dunbar is working on several projects including a study on the nonverbal expressions of dominance in work relationships and a study on the detection of deception in relationships of unequal status. She teaches undergraduate and graduate classes in Interpersonal Communication, Nonverbal Communication, Deception, and Communication Theory.

Mass Communication

Michael D. Murray, Ph.D. ,University of Missouri Board of Curators’ Distinguished Professor in Media Studies, University of Missouri-St. LouisMichael D. Murray (Ph.D. University of Missouri, Columbia) teaches and writes about the history of broadcast news. He is the editor-in-chief of “The Encyclopedia of Television News,” the author of “The Political Performers: CBS Broadcasts in the Public Interest” and also the college textbook, “Media Law and Ethics,” with Roy L. Moore. He also published “Television in America” with Don Godfrey and “Indelible Images: Women in TV News” with Mary Beadle. And he also edited two books on mass media education: “Teaching Mass Communication” with Anthony J. Ferri and “Mass Communication Education” with Roy L. Moore. He recently served as the review and criticism editor of the “Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media.”

Political Communication

Craig Smith, Ph.D., Professor, California State University, Long Beach
Craig R. Smith was a full-time speechwriter for President Gerald Ford and a consulting writer for George H. W. Bush. He has served as consultant to CBS News for convention, election night and inaugural coverage. He has written 14 books and over 50 book chapters and scholarly articles. He received his Ph.D. from Pennsylvania State University. He has taught at San Diego State University, the University of Virginia, the University of Alabama, Birmingham and for the last 20 years at California State University, Long Beach.

Kelly McDonald, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Arizona State University
Kelly McDonald is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Arizona State University. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Kansas and is co-author of the forthcoming book: THE THIRD AGENDA IN U.S. PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES: Debate Watch and Viewer Reactions, 1996–2004. He served as Director for ASU’s national award winning speech and debate team and has served as a media analyst for television, print and radio on presidential debates, campaigns and political communication for over a decade. He helped lead the research team that directed the DebateWatch voter education initiative, funded through a Ford Foundation Grant. He is active in the Consortium for Strategic Communication, an initiative focused on national security and terrorism-related questions from a message-based perspective.

Sports and Communication

Paul Turman, Ph.D., Director of Academic Assessment, South Dakota Board of Regents
Paul D. Turman (Ph.D. University of Nebraska, Lincoln 2000) is the Director of Academic Assessment with the South Dakota Board of Regents. Prior to his work with the Board he held an assistant/associate professor position at the University of Northern Iowa where he had been recognized for excellence in teaching at the institutional, state and regional level. His research interests focus on the examination of communication and sport across a variety of coaching and family context and has been published in journals such as the Journal of Applied Communication Research, Communication Education, Small Group Research, Journal of Sport Behavior, and Communication Research Reports.

Quarterly Journal of Speech: 95th Anniversary Celebrations

This year is the 95th anniversary of the Quarterly Journal of Speech.

To celebrate this landmark anniversary we are offering you 95 days free online access to the journal’s archive from 2008 back to volume 1, issue 1.

Receive access to this outstanding archive of content by contacting Jennifer Roberts at jennifer.roberts@tandf.co.uk

Submit Your Research

There are now four volumes left before the journal’s next major anniversary and the Editor is inviting submissions, to be included within the remaining four volumes before its centenary in 2014, and beyond.

The Quarterly Journal of Speech (QJS) accepts articles through Manuscript Central making the submission process quick and simple: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rqjs

Read more about QJS, including the Instructions for Authors, at: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/qjs

Free Articles Series

Throughout this anniversary year we have been regularly adding articles to the Free Articles Series offering you the chance to read some new and classic research that highlights the journal’s commitment to publishing the best scholarship being produced under rhetoric’s broad purview, including work that advances and enriches long standing intellectual traditions, as well as theory and criticism that seeks to forge new intellectual frontiers.

This month we would like to share with you two more articles from the most recent issue of the Quarterly Journal of Speech:

Review Essay: Post-Traumatic Memories around the Globe

Debra Hawhee and Ekaterina V. Haskins
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a914140446

Constructing Ethics through Rhetoric: Isocrates and Piety
Kenneth R. Chase
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content%7Edb=all%7Econtent=a914140400

Read the full Free Article Series at: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/pdf/rqjs_free_articles_2009.pdf

Kaplan Career Resources Assistance

Kaplan Career Resources Assistance

The Kaplan Career Resource Center would like to congratulate you on your pending graduation and thank you for completed and returning the Career Resources Questionnaire in such a timely manner.

Because you may have indicated that you are in search of Career Resources assistance, we would like to let you know that we are here to give you advice and assist you now or in the future so you can have a better understanding of the job search process, resume building, interviewing etiquette and help on industry and occupational direction. Attached is a schedule of our optional monthly seminars we offer for free as an additional tool to help students and alumni in their career development.

Below is some general information that will initially assist:

For career services help, please go to Kaplan KuNet Campus site where you will find a section that says “University Info.” This is where you will find the link to the Kaplan Career Resources website which has an abundance of resources to assist you further with your career development.

For further assistance with your job search, please go to our web based jobsites links below and register for an account if you have not done so in the past:

Kaplan Corporate Connect

Additional job boards can be found on our Career Resources website which can be found on your student portal on the top page which says university information; under the link job search websites.

In addition, we have discovered a few other less used job boards that you might want to check out!?

Indeed.com (look up job opportunities by zip code): http://www.indeed.com/
After College: http://www.aftercollege.com
Simply Hired: www.simplyhired.com
Quintessential Careers: www.quintcareers.com
Careerlink.com America: http://america.careerlink.com
Snag A Job: http://www.snagajob.com/
Goliath Jobs: http://www.goliathjobs.com/
Doostang: http://www.doostang.com/

If you would like your career specialist to review your resume and cover letter, please follow the guideline below:

Create a resume (if you do not have a current resume)
If you have a current resume, review some resume samples which you will find on our website. This will help generate additional ideas before you send your resume draft for review.

Kaplan Career Resources has a great resume development tool along with a skills assessment, interviewing practice, and job search tool, OPTIMALRESUME, and we would like to invite you to try it.

BENEFITS:

◊ Improves resume formatting and quality
◊ Easy to get started
◊ Faster
◊ Better final resume
◊ Contains suggestions and examples
◊ Allows you to create a personal resume website
◊ Skills Assessment helps you analyze your skills and experiences and present them in an

attractive format on the professional website you create with the Website Builder.
◊ Interview Prep helps prepare you for even the toughest of interviews with real-to-life multi-

media interview scenarios that were developed by seasoned employment professionals.
◊ Job Resource link

To register for a new Optimal Resume account, please go to the link:

http://kaplanu.optimalresume.com/, and go to “new users click here.”

Use your Kaplan student email when registering, which is your Kaplan studentid@student.kaplan.edu. Once you have submitted your registration, you will be asked for an access code. That access code will be sent to the email account you used to register for an Optimal Resume account. If you do not see the email verifying your email in the inbox, check your spam and junk mail too. Sometimes it winds-up in there for some reason. Once you find the email, please read it and follow the directions by clicking on the link. Once you do that (verifies your email), you may log into your account. If you forgot your student ID, please contact the student support desk at 866-522-7747 for further assistance.

Also, please check out this link which will to teach you how to be able to transfer the skillsyou have gathered through various jobs, volunteer work, hobbies, sports, or other life experiences in your next job or new career. This will assist you when putting your resume draft together.

When your resume draft is completed in Optimal Resume, you need to submit it into the Optimal Resume Review Center before you will be allowed to submit it into GPS Resume. By submitting it into the Resume Review Center, your resume will be reviewed by your Career Specialist within a 2 business day time frame.

Once your resume review is completed, you will be contacted by your career specialist with suggested revisions on your resume and answer any other career related questions or concerns you may have.

Your career specialist will work together with you to create a resume highlighting your best skills while at the same time preparing you for job searching, applying for interviewing consideration, and the actual interview itself.

Our center is looking forward to assisting you in developing your skills so you may move forward and begin your job search.


Regards,

Kaplan University
Career Resources Center
550 W. Van Buren, Suite 600
Chicago, IL 60607

866-522-7747 ext 46131
careercenter@kaplan.edu

www.kaplanuniversity.edu

CSCA - 2010 Call for Papers - Deadline is October 2, 2009

September 24, 2009

Convention E-Bulletin

2010 Convention

Colleagues: The deadline for submissions for CSCA is fast approaching! I'm writing today to encourage all of you to submit your work by October 2, 2009 (please see calls from individual planning units for details about submission guidelines and contact information). The theme for 2010 is Communication and Civic Engagement: Challenge, Engage, and Change. This theme offers a wonderful opportunity to focus on the role our discipline plays in the development of civic engagement practices and research at student, community, and societal levels. Please feel free to contact me personally if you have any questions about the convention and I look forward to seeing you in Cincinnati!

Sincerely,

Dr. Stephen K. Hunt, First Vice-President and 2010 Primary Program Planner

Central States Communication Association

skhunt2@ilstu.edu

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NCA 95th Annual Convention Newsletter

NCA 95th Annual Convention Newsletter
September 16, 2009
Volume 1, Issue IX

In This Issue: First Vice President Greeting • Hotel Incentive • Education Supplement • Five Years Out • Program Participant Registration • Swine Flu Precautions • Knowledge Community Corner • Things You Need to Know • Convention Contacts

Welcome from Dawn O. Braithwaite, NCA First Vice President
Greetings Tonie! I have been working at the NCA National Office in Washington DC these past days and have witnessed firsthand all of the different preparations for our convention coming up in Chicago. I am energized and excited about the convention. Attendees will be joining over 5,000 NCA members and other people in the Communication discipline in one of America's great cities. The convention offers over 1,200 sessions that will inform and educate us as scholars, teachers and professionals. Along with guest speakers and special events, there will be ample opportunities to meet in both small groups and one-on-one to learn from each other and exchange ideas. Come to Chicago to see old friends and mentors and to meet new people who share your passion for the study and practice of communication.
- Dawn O. Braithwaite, NCA First Vice President, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Convention Hotel Reservation Incentive Announced
As an incentive to book a room at one of the official NCA Annual Convention hotels, the Hilton Chicago and the Palmer House Hilton, Hilton is offering complimentary in-room Internet access during your stay. Reservations must be made by the October 20th deadline to qualify. Attendees who have already made reservations also qualify. There is no need to ask for the Internet access or provide a group code; the access will be automatically delivered for all qualifying reservations. Visit the Hotel and Travel Information Web page for more information on making your hotel reservation.
Please note that the discounted group block at the Hilton Chicago is currently 70% full and single bed rooms are no longer available. Guests requesting a single standard room will be given a double standard room at the same rate. The discounted room block at the Palmer House Hilton is 50% full at this time.

Communication Education Supplement
The Educational Policies Board (EPB) Convention Program Supplement identifies convention programming that addresses communication education and may be of interest to communication educators. The supplement is available online and copieswill be available upon request at the NCA registration desk.

A Glimpse of the Past and Future: Five Years Out Series
NCA's upcoming Centennial presents an opportunity to consider the past, present, and future of our association and discipline. The Five Years Out series, sponsored by Routledge, Taylor & Francis , is a collection of sessions from the NCA Knowledge Communities and affiliated organizations. Learn more about the Five Years Out series and how to search for the sessions in the online program.

Program Participant Registration Deadline is September 17th
To guarantee inclusion in the online and printed convention programs, program participants must register by September 17th.
If you have any questions on whether this policy applies to you, please contact Katie Karsnak at kkarsnak@natcom.org.

2009 H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu) and You
We've all heard the stories and predictions about the H1N1 Swine Flu virus for the upcoming flu season. Below are some facts regarding the virus and a few easy steps to protect yourself at the convention, in your home and institutional environment.

How does 2009 H1N1 virus spread? Spread of 2009 H1N1 virus is thought to occur in the same way that seasonal flu spreads. Flu viruses are spread mainly from person to person through coughing or sneezing by people with influenza. Sometimes people may become infected by touching something - such as a surface or object - with flu viruses on it and then touching their eyes, mouth or nose.
Take these easy steps for prevention:

*Cover your nose and mouth with a tissue when you cough or sneeze. Throw the

tissue in the trash after you use it.
* Wash your hands often with soap and water or hand sanitizer especially after you

cough or sneeze. Hand sanitizer will be available for your use at the NCA

Registration Desk.
* Avoid touching your eyes, nose or mouth. Germs spread this way.
* Try to avoid close contact with sick people.
For more detailed information on the H1N1 virus, visit the CDC H1N1 Web site.

Knowledge Community Corner Presents Select Topics in Nonverbal Communication
The Nonverbal Communication Division is pleased to present programming exploring nonverbal communication in a variety of contexts, including media and politics. The Knowledge Community Corner is highlighting two special back-to-back sessions scheduled on Friday, November 13 from 2:00pm - 3:15pm and 3:30pm - 4:45pm. These two sessions promise to generate some fascinating discussion about the study of deception and nonverbal communication. The sessions Lie to Me: An Analysis of Media Representations of Communication Behavior (co-sponsored with the Mass Communication Division) and Advances in the Study of Deception: What the Research Tells Us (co-sponsored with the Interpersonal Communication and Social Cognition Divisions) feature some of the top researchers in communication and psychology.
To learn more about these sessions and other division programming, go to All Academic, and select the division name from the unit drop down menu.

Things You Need to Know...
•Send any content or ideas for items you would like to see included on the NCA Convention Facebook Fan Page to the convention fan page editor.
• Convention Registration -If you are an attendee (not a presenter) and miss the early bird registration deadline on September 17 you can still register up until October 28 at a discounted rate. Check out the Registration Information page.
• Travel Information -Don't forget that NCA has agreements with several airlines to offer our convention attendees special discounted fares. Information on the airlines as well as ground transportation and car rentals can be found on the Hotel and Travel Information page.
Convention Contacts
Michelle Randall, CMP Senior Manager, Convention and Meetings(202) 534-1106mrandall@natcom.org
Katie Karsnak Specialist, Convention and Meetings(202) 534-1113kkarsnak@natcom.org
Dawn O. Braithwaite, Ph.D. NCA First Vice President and Primary Convention Plannerbraithwaitenca@unl.edu

Inspirational Quotes for Thought...

10 Inspirational Quotes to get you Movin’
This was my twitter quote of the day:

ATTITUDE
People can alter their lives by altering their attitudes.
~William James

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
~Marianne Williamson

ADVERSITY
Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
~African Proverb

CHARACTER
The true measure of a man is not how he behaves in moments of comfort and convenience but how he stands at times of controversy and challenges.
~ Martin Luther King Jr.

COACHING
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
~Henry B. Adams

COMMITMENT
The difference between where you are and where you want to be is your commitment to getting there.
~Michael Clapier

DISCIPLINE
Bad habits are like a good bed; easy to get into but difficult to get out of.
~Unknown

EDUCATION
I will study and prepare myself . . . and someday my chance will come.
~ Abraham Lincoln

GOALS
An obstacle is what you see when you take your eyes off the goal.
~Unknown

LEADERSHIP
Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
~Harold S. Geneen


The quotes above were retrieved online at: http://homepage.mac.com/gdemarco1/WA/MotivationalSayings.html#anchor1125810
The images above were retrieved from Google Images online at:
http://images.google.com/

April is National Poetry Month

In honor of National Poetry Month, we invite members to share your poetry with us, or works by some of your favorite poets.