QCADFED Trivia Night!

	People & Places:		Quad City Ad Fed Club Trivia Night Challenge ’08 – ’09 Champion in Intellectual Domination and Superiority in All Things Trivial
	Arts & Entertainment:		Riverhouse Bar and Grill, 1510 River Drive, Moline
	History:		Thursday, October 23rd at 6:30p
	Sports & Leisure:		Anyone brave enough to put a team together. No minimum number of persons on a team but the maximum is six. There is no limit to the number of teams from any one organization.
	Wild Card:		Because the sexy trophy (held together with Scotch tape) in your office will be the envy of all.

CLICK HERE for your Registration Form

Return completed registration forms to michele@ncpr.com
$60 registration fee per team
Cash bar and hors d’oeuvres
Team registration deadline is Wednesday, October 22, 5p.

Guerrilla PR
by Leyla Farah, Principal
Cause + Effect PR, San Francisco.

Thursday, September 18th
11:30am Registration
12:00pm Speaker

Arbor Village Clubhouse
890 43rd Avenue, Moline
(located behind Target)
$15 Admission
RSVP to michele@ncpr.com

In today’s media landscape, getting good press for a client takes more than sending out a press release or staging a publicity stunt. It takes true guerrilla techniques: Nimble thinking, unexpected execution, and a willingness to try something that’s never been done before. The one thing that’s not required? A PR firm. This is Do-It-Yourself PR at its finest. And it’s available to anyone, anywhere, anytime.

The Redstone Room
Downtown Davenport

Cash bar and appetizers
$10 for Members and non-members

RSVP to Michele Stoos at michele@ncpr.com
by Monday, August 18th

• August, 2007

  We kicked off August with our annual fall TV preview mixer with cocktails and canapes at the Redstone Room!

• October, 2007

  In October, Dan Merfield and Wes Grubbs of Design Madison road-tripped to the QC to share their insights on the evolution of interactive media.

• November, 2007

  Trivia Night in November exposed us for the greedy hooligans we all really are as we competed for the right to claim the title of “Champions in Intellectual Domination and Superiority in All Things Trivial.”

• February, 2008

  We’d had enough of winter break by the time the Addys rolled around in February, so we went camping!

• March, 2008

  March brought Emmy award winning writer and producer Steve Lance in like a lion from New York, speaking on “Marketers Are From Mars, Creatives From Venus, and How to Solve Your Earthly Problems.” Steve piqued the interest of both marketers and creatives with his engaging presentation on why the two don’t always work well together, and how they can learn to speak the same language in order to produce great work. Thanks to Bandag for their generous contribution to make this event possible!

• April, 2008

  In April, John Besmer, Creative Director of Planet Propaganda in Madison, presented “Simplify Then Amplify: Communicating In A World That Won’t Wait.” Through a mix of process and work, along with a few unintentionally random musings for good measure, John relayed how Planet Propaganda, a print, motion, and interactive firm, has reconfigured itself to deliver integrated, cutting-edge creative in today’s accelerated business and cultural environment.

• May, 2008

  In May, Casey McGarr, former Creative Director of Fossil, and owner of Inky Lips Letterpress in Dallas, took us on a wildly inspirational trip down memory lane as he led us on the creative journey it took to build the Fossil brand, and how it’s influenced all of his successive work. He even gave away several letterpress posters to some lucky audience members in a random drawing!

• June, 2008

  While all the kids began rotting their brains in June, AdFed members couldn’t soak up enough of Peter Meng’s Search Engine Optimization wisdom. Meng, an Interactive Strategist for Woodruff Sweitzer in Columbia, Missouri, shared so many priceless SEO tips and tricks that even our sponsors, Sedona Technologies, learned something new!

So, what’d you think? Hit me, baby! All in all, I’d say it’s been an educational and fun year, and I’ve enjoyed putting on programs for the QC AdFed with the help of my fellow board members! But it ain’t over yet–stay tuned as the fun continues next season!

Ghazala Irshad, Programming Chair

Sedona Technologies is proud to sponsor…

Quad City AdFed Social and Speaker Program
Search Engine Optimization and Tactical Web Strategies for Tomorrow
Speaker Peter Meng of Woodruff Sweitzer, Columbia, Missouri

Click here for the presentation notes from Peter Meng

Wednesday, June 18th
5:30 to 7:30p
Riverhouse Bar and Grill (upstairs) on River Drive, Moline
Heavy Appetizers and Cash Bar

Rsvp to Michele Stoos at michele@ncpr.com by Monday, June 16th

$15 for members, $20 for non-members

Peter Meng, of Woodruff Sweitzer, is an Interactive Strategist with vast experience in providing innovative emarketing solutions for clients. Meng’s background brings an excellent balance of technical knowledge in the PC/Internet market, paired with sales and marketing.

In his 20-year career, he has consulted for the University of Missouri and implemented internet technologies and new media tools to increase communications; worked with Apple, Inc. growing sales at large universities and establishing Apple Campus Resellers and Demo Centers on campuses; and started and grew his own business focused on developing multimedia training materials for the federal government.

Throughout his career, Meng has been a part of software design and development; multimedia design; creation and integration; integrated internet/CD-ROM systems; video, animation, high-resolution graphics creation; CRM systems; and eCommerce web site development and management. He is also a recognized leader in podcasting, having published the first university-sponsored white paper at any institution on podcasting.

Meng received his Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Truman State University.

Click here for the presentation notes from Peter Meng