Monday, 12 February, 2007: St Pete Chamber Business Showcase of 2007 is Thursday, March 1, from 5 to 7 pm at the Hilton St. Petersburg, downtown at 333 First St South. Steve Traiman will preregister any BAPWG member who is coming, and you pick up badge at door for $5 - you can bring brochures, biz cards, etc., to display on our joint table. There will be free food and snacks from the Hilton and other top area restaurants, free water and a cash bar, plus chances to win a lot of door prizes in exchange for your biz cards at the check-in and individual booths.
Monday, 24 July, 2006: Member Lary Crews has been hired as a St. Petersburg Beat Reporter for both the Tampa Bay Sun and Tampa Bay Scene bi-weekly newspapers.
Friday, 23 June, 2006: With approval by your Executive Committee, BAPWG will be sharing an exhibit table at the Multi-Chamber Business Showcase, Thursday, July 27, 5 to 8 pm at Tropicana Field, St. Pete, through Creative Copy by Steve Traiman’s membership. Save the date for what should be an excellent networking opportunity, with joint sponsorship by Clearwater, Dunedin, Gulfport, Largo, Seminole, Tarpon Springs, St. Pete Area and Greater Tampa Chambers of Commerce.
Tuesday, 13 June, 2006: Member Chrissy Jackson's daughter, Charity, writes to say that Chrissy is doing better with her cancer treatment and nearing the finish line to being cancer free. "I’m sure a note or card would be appreciated.
Friday, 10 March, 2006 Jeff Corydon's interview with General Norman Schwarzkopf is in the March issue of Tampa Bay Illustrated.
Thursday, 26 January, 2006: Jeff Hardison has been promoted to Senior Writer for the St. Petersburg Post newspaper.
Friday, 6 January, 2006: Marty Martindale's Food Site of the Day receives 2005 international award from Cordon d'Or Gold Ribbon Culinary Arts Awards
Wednesday, 16 November, 2005: Miriam Goodspeed wrote the screenplay for Blood Lust, A Biting Comedy. The movie is about a salesman who is attending a convention in Tampa. He decides to go to Ybor City for a night of fun and excitement, but he gets more than he bargains for when he wanders into a vampires' nightclub. The 20 minute short will be shown at 4 p.m., Nov. 20, at Clearwater's Cinema Cafe. 24095 U.S. 19 at Sunset Point Road.
Thursday, 22 September,
2005: The Editorial Freelancers
Association cordially
Invites You To Our 2005 National Conference:
"Be a Better Freelancer: Take
Your Business to New Heights," the 2005
national conference of the Editorial Freelancers Assn. (EFA), will be held
on October 8 in NYC and is open to non-EFA members. For more information
or a downloadable PDF with details about the program, speakers, costs and
registration, go to www.the-efa.org.
Wednesday, 18 May, 2005: Stephen Morrill has taken on, as a part-time freelance job, editing Savvy Executive magazine, a bimonthly business profile publication.
Tuesday, 17 May,
2005: Rick
O'Keefe reports
that he has been creating ads, marketing materials, documents and
forms for Center for Inquiry-Florida, writing for various organizations'
newsletters, compiling and laying out the BAPWG member brochure, taking
classes at Speak Out Tampa Bay (public access TV), developing a study of
public reporting of bad publishers ..., creating a Power Point presentation,
... and other fun work-for-pay cover the time taken to write long term
projects.
Tuesday, 12 April, 2005: Bonnie Quick is currently working on a story with photos for Construction Equipment Guide (CEG) about a repair to an embankment in Tennesee and an overview of the Honda Grand Prix of St. Petersburg for M+M (Makes and Models Magazine.) Quick also recently completed two stories with photos about Bay Front Times Arena and Shoppes at Pinellas Park for CEG. Every two weeks Quick produces 4-5 articles for St. Petersburg Post, a bi-monthly newpaper.
Thursday, 31 March,
2005 Jeff
Hardison has recently had four different stories (two
with photos) published in four different
local newspapers:
- In the Beach Beacon, we see a story
and photo related to firefighters saving
four people from drowning.
- In the Belleair Bee, we see a story about
members of an oversight committee
learning about a fire district.
- In the Largo Leader, we see a story about
the new fire chief reorganizing the department there.
- In the Clearwater Citizen, we see a story
and photo about Harrison's Grill & Bar.
Wednesday, 9 March, 2005 Miriam Goodspeed recently taught a scriptwriting class to members of the Tampa public access channel, Speak Up Tampa Bay.
Thursday, 27 January, 2005: Marti Martindale's web site http://www.FoodSiteoftheDay.com/ continues to cook. Martindale, a Food & Cruise Writer, is a member of both the James Beard Foundation and the International Association of Culinary Professionals.
Thursday, 27 January, 2005: Adele Woodyard is working on assignments for Premier Essentials, including one on traveling to Greece..
Thursday, 27 January, 2005: Adele Woodyard is working on an article for the AAA magazine Northern New England Journey.
Thursday, 27 January, 2005: Adele Woodyard has completed an article for Auto Week on Oldsmar, Florida and its history in relation to Ransom Eli Olds, founder of the Oldsmobile auto company.
Thursday, 27 January, 2005: Steve Morrill just completed a reference work for local owners of historic properties, for the Hillsborough County government. The 128-page book's title is A Guide to Historic Architectural Resources and Historic Preservation in Unincorporated Hillsborough County. The title says it all. Steve assembled much of the information, wrote some of it, then wrote about 90 site descriptions and photographed them too. He also did the layout and pre-press.
Thursday, 27 January, 2005: Steve Morrill just completed, for the city of Daytona Beach, an amended application for historic tax credits for the Jackie Robinson Ball Park in Daytona Beach.
and let him
know what you are working on or what you have just completed.