June 2009

Even if you didn’t register for the sold-out national BMA conference, our six-person soclal-media team will help you learn, relearn and UNlearn with all 382 attendees who’ll be on site at the Drake Hotel starting Wednesday noon.

This team will be live tweeting most conference events, posting blog recaps and posting Flip video interviews with speakers and attendees alike. To learn more about how to follow and engage with conference goers, go to our social-media page.

BMA/Chicago LinkedIn Group

Just six months old, our BMA/Chicago LinkedIn Group is becoming an interesting place to spend time.

It is attracting 50 new members a week and has grown to nearly 1,250 members, making it the largest BMA LinkedIn Group nationally and one of the largest LinkedIn Groups nationwide for discussing all things b-to-b.

Now that we've reached critical mass, I'd like to invite more of you to more regularly visit and engage in the discussions. We have dropped the requirement that you have to be a BMA member to initiate discussions.

Go here to join the BMA/Chicago LinkedIn Group

For those of you in transition, our Jobs board is getting more active, too. Soon, we hope, LinkedIn will add an Events tab.

Subscribe to the BMAIL

Subscribe to the BMAIL, our award-winning e-newsletter, to stay abreast of the latest news about all BMA/Chicago activities and events.

We produce two versions: one for BMA members, which goes to our 500+ members, and one for prospective members, which goes to a list of 5,000 prospective members.

The main difference is that the very first issue of the BMA-member version includes links to the presentation decks, audiocasts, Flickr photo galleries of the previous month’s MarketingMasters Luncheon and Breakfast Roundtable speakers.

Non-members eventually get access to these links in later BMAILs in each promotional cycle, but not as early as do BMA members.

Join BMA

If you are not already a member of BMA, please consider joining today. You can join, register for BMA programs and subscribe to the BMAIL through the BMA Web site.

I hope to see you at our June 10-12 BMA national conference and future BMA and BMA/Chicago events.

Best Regards,