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The ABC List for January 2008
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Jan 31, 2008 15:46 PST
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The ABC List for January 2008
Welcome to the newest monthly edition of the ABC List. The ABC List
serves 702 professional communicators.
This newsletter is a forum for accredited communicators, but more
importantly, those communicators interested in learning more about
becoming accredited, the value of accreditation and the process to
attain accreditation. If you have a question, a topic for discussion or
something you’d like to see in the ABC List, e-mail onu-@iabc.com.
If your chapter is holding a workshop, fun shop, exam prep session, exam
date, pinning ceremony or the like, let me know and I’ll publicize your
event here in the ABC List.
IABC Accreditation: The Global Standard. A Personal Statement.
In this issue:
*** Congratulations to the New ABCs in January
*** Upcoming Portfolio Teleseminar: “Developing your Accreditation
Portfolio”
*** Accreditation Session at Leadership Institute
*** Upcoming Accreditation Exam at Leadership Institute in San Antonio
*** The Challenge and Accomplishment of Becoming an ABC: Marie
Fitzpatrick-Hall, ABC
*** Congratulations to the New ABCs in January
- Ray Atkinson, ABC, from IABC US Heritage Region, member-at-large
- Marilyn Mathis, ABC, from IABC Dallas
*** Upcoming Portfolio Teleseminar: “Developing your Accreditation
Portfolio”
Join Nick Durutta, ABC, on 20 March 2008 for an overview of what makes a
good portfolio. This teleseminar is designed for anyone who is an
accreditation candidate and is still working on their portfolio, as well
as for any IABC member considering accreditation.
For details, please visit:
http://guest.cvent.com/EVENTS/Info/Summary.aspx?e=eb3aa4d3-d0ac-44d2-a638-548bb96be7db.
*** Accreditation Session at Leadership Institute
Does your Chapter’s Accreditation Completion Program have an
accreditation story to tell? Share your success by sending an email to
Gail Pickard, ABC, at gail.p-@iabc.com or Mary Hills, ABC, at
hillsm-@aol.com so we can highlight what is happening in
accreditation around the world.
Join them on Friday, 22 February 2008, from 1:30 – 3 p.m., at the
Leadership Institute in San Antonio to learn about what other chapters
are doing in their accreditation programs. They will also highlight the
groundbreaking findings on The Value of Accreditation during this
accreditation breakout session.
*** Upcoming Accreditation Exam at Leadership Institute in San Antonio
IABC will be holding accreditation exams on 24 February 2008, from 8am –
1pm, in San Antonio. Please contact Olivia Nucum at onu-@iabc.com by
15 February 2008 if you’d like to take your exam during this time.
*** The Challenge and Accomplishment of Becoming an ABC: Marie
Fitzpatrick-Hall, ABC
Pursuing my accreditation with IABC was a very enriching experience both
professionally and personally. Like everyone, you think about going for
it but it takes a great deal of support and initiative for you to take
the next step. Fortunately for me, the Toronto chapter was there with
an experienced mentor and a well-organized program to help me through
the process.
The IABC accreditation process sets the professional bar for
communications. It challenges you in such an important way as it's not
only about strategic communication leadership but it's also about
bringing intelligent and creative ideas to the table and, in this case,
to your portfolio submission and to the exam. The fact that you are
judged by your peers is perhaps the biggest challenge and, frankly, the
ultimate honor.
To be successful in pursuing your accreditation is actually very simple.
Listen to what your mentor and other ABCs tell you to do! Listen and
do it. It’s all right there. In the exam, give real life examples of
how you have succeeded with a project in the past. You lived it, you
succeeded so now tell about it. Do all the practice exam questions
exactly to time. Feel the pressure, get used to it and get writing.
At the end of the day, it's really about the way you see strategic
communications and its application. The ABC designation is recognition
among your peers of this understanding and expertise. For me, to be
recognized by an international organization by my peers for something I
love to do is an honor in itself.
*** About the ABC List:
This list is a forum for accredited communicators, but more importantly
those professional communicators who seek to be accredited and wish to
learn more about the process and the value of accreditation.
I invite candidates, prospective candidates and ABCs to send questions,
comments and observations to onu-@iabc.com.
You can read the back issues on the Web.
Visit http://www.topica.com/lists/ABCList/read. If you are new to this
list, I encourage you to do so.
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The ABC List was created by Ned Lundquist, ABC. It is currently edited
and published by:
Olivia Nucum
International Association of Business Communicators (IABC)
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