OFFICIAL PROGRAM 50,000 Watts of NABE Goodness Live from Nashville!!!

NABECOMM Oct. 18 - 21, 2011 Welcome to Music City, U.S.A. Tune into the latest in communications, network with your colleagues — and hit the honky-tonks at the National Association of Bar Executives Communications Section Workshop Thank You To Our Sponsors The NABECOMM 2011 Workshop would not be possible without the support of our sponsors.

Fastcase returns as our PLATINUM sponsor, the leading sponsorship for the NABE Communications Section Workshop. A long-time supporter of the Section, Fastcase this year will co-sponsor our Wednesday night event at the Loveless Café and is also our exclusive sponsor for the Luminary Awards and Luminary Awards Luncheon.

Legal Directories Publishing Company, a continuing NABE supporter, this year will co-sponsor our Wednesday night event at the Loveless Cafe.

We are also fortunate to have the support of LawPay and the Walsworth Print Group as Silver Level Sponsors and Elections Online, the State Bar of Texas and the Tennessee Bar Association as in-kind sponsors.

Please take a minute to show your appreciation to all of our generous sponsors. Tuesday, Oct. 18 Noon – 6 p.m. Early Registration ...... Ballroom Foyer 3:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Communications Section Council Meeting ...... Davidson NABECOMM 6 p.m. – 7 p.m. Welcome Reception at Tennessee Bar Center ... 221 Fourth Ave. North 7:30 p.m. Council Dinner ...... Flyte, 718 Division St. 7:30 p.m. Early Arrivals Dinner..... Puckett’s Gro. and Restaurant, 500 Church St. 2011 Workshop Table of Contents Wednesday, Oct. 19 Sponsors ...... 1 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. Registration ...... Ballroom Foyer Event Schedule ...... 1 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Welcome and Introduction of First-Time Attendees Tuesday ...... 1 PLENARY ...... Salon C/D How Nashville Rebuilt its Brand: Wednesday ...... 1 Communication in Crisis and Recovery When devastating floods forced thousands from their homes and left some of Thursday ...... 2 the city’s landmark facilities under water, Nashville faced the daunting task of Friday ...... 3 rebuilding the city and rebuilding its brand among the 11 million visitors who come to Music City each year. Speaker Bios ...... 5 Nashville Mayor Karl Dean tells the story, joined by high-profile business and Links ...... 11 community leaders who were on the front lines: Butch Spyridon, president and CEO of the Nashville Convention & Visitors Bureau; and David Kloeppel, president Downtown Map...... 12 and COO with Gaylord Entertainment. Doubletree Hotel Map...... 13 2:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. Break ...... Ballroom Foyer 2:45 p.m. – 4 p.m. Knowledge-Building Breakout Sessions Track 1: Presentation Skills Workshop ...... Salon A/B Whether you are on camera or in front of your board, you need to be polished and professional. Veteran journalist and public relations consultant Mimi Bliss leads this hands-on session where you will get the practical tips and guidance you need to be a better communicator. Track 2: Web Redesign 2.0 ...... Salon E Websites are evolving as the public and bar members’ use and expectations change. What are the current demands on your site? What are the best prac- tices to meet those demands? Discussion, using bar association websites as examples, will be led by Janan Compitello, senior project manager with a web and software consulting firm, who has extensive experience with non- profit and professional organizations. 5 p.m. – 10 p.m. Music City Roots — Live From The Loveless Sponsored by Legal Directories Publishing Company and Fastcase From the tunes and buck dancing of Nashville’s earliest settlers to the pop, rock, bluegrass, jazz, classical and soul sounds that now emerge from Nashville studios, music has always been the common thread connecting the life and soul of the city. The best way to celebrate that music, of course, is to hear it live. We’ll leave downtown and journey west to the landmark Loveless Cafe, where classic Southern cooking is paired with Americana music live on stage to create the weekly Music City Roots radio show. 5 p.m. Load Bus ...... 4th Ave. hotel entrance (Motor Lobby) 5:15 p.m. Leave for The Loveless Cafe

1 Thursday, Oct. 20

8 a.m. – 4 p.m. Registration ...... Ballroom Foyer NABECOMM 8 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Breakfast ...... Ballroom Foyer 8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. PLENARY ...... Salon C/D The Crazy New World of Publishing: 2011 Workshop Report from the Front Lines News organizations across the country have been trying to find the right Schedule formula to succeed in a radically changed media landscape. In Nashville, Chris Ferrell and his partners at SouthComm Inc. have designed a strategy that This year’s program comes about through blends old media with new, ties in niche publications with established brands the hard work of an active team of your and keeps a steady target on matching content with reader and advertiser colleagues and reflects the broad demands. We’ll get a report from the front lines, as Ferrell fills us in on what interests and work performed by NABE has worked, what hasn’t and what it means to us. Communications Section members. 9:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m. Break ...... Ballroom Foyer

Thanks go to Program Committee members 9:45 a.m. –10:45 a.m. Knowledge-Building Breakout Sessions Kelley Jones King of the State Bar of Texas, Track 1: Content Strategy: ...... Salon A/B Ann Murphy of The Bar of San Francisco, Deploying a Content Hub Jenna Grubb of the Toledo Bar Association, Good content is a finite and expensive resource, so how do you optimize its use Steve Boeckman of the Iowa State Bar across various communications channels to extend your association’s reach? Association, Joyce Hastings of the State Join Angela Brady of Stratton Publishing & Marketing Inc. in Decatur, Ga., the Bar of Wisconsin, Pamela Labbe of the State Bar of Wisconsin’s Publications Director Joyce Hastings and The Bar Association of San Francisco’s Director of Communications & Public Relations Baton Rouge Bar Association, Ken Brown of Ann Murphy to learn: the Ohio State Bar Association, Marsha • how they set the stage for their content hubs Wilson of the Knoxville Bar Association, • what information is distributed through which channels Dan Wise of the New Hampshire Bar • how to integrate multimedia into the content mix Association, Anne Roth Strickland of the • where to look for content North Carolina Bar Association, Brad Carr of • how bars of all sizes can develop and use these strategies the State Bar of Alabama, Alexa Giacomini • what lessons they discovered along the way of the Illinois State Bar Association, Gary Toohey of the The Missouri Bar, Rick Track 2: Spielberg, Hitchcock and You: ...... Salon C/D When and How to Produce Great Bar Videos DeBruhl of the State Bar of Arizona, Naseem This session will look at what type of topics make great videos for your bar Stecker of the State Bar of Michigan, association. There will be advice for the novice on how to get started, as well Heather Clark of the Colorado and Denver as suggestions for those already using video in ways to make them look and Bar Associations, Steven Valdez of the sound better. This session is not about producing CLE video. It is about finding Louisville Bar Association, Mariana Pannell new, visual ways to tell great stories about your members and your bar. Join of the Atlanta Bar Association, Tricia Oliver Rick DeBruhl, chief communications officer for the State Bar of Arizona, and of the Massachusetts Bar Association and Stephanie Beougher, communications and online media associate for the Tennessee Bar Association staff members Ohio State Bar Association, as they explore these issues. Suzanne Robertson, Landry Butler, Stacey 10:45 a.m. – 11 a.m. Break ...... Ballroom Foyer Shrader, Therese Byrne and Barry Kolar. 11 a.m. – 12 Noon Knowledge-Building Breakout Sessions Track 1: The Title Fight: Print vs. Digital ...... Salon A/B Many bars are searching for the right mix of print and digital to meet their members’ needs and their bars’ communications goals. This no-holds barred interactive program will throw provocative questions into the ring to bring everyone into the conversational melee. Round by round, we will take up various issues that bar communicators face. The audience will score points with punchy solutions, not random jabs. Too lively an event for a moderator, Dan Wise of the New Hampshire Bar Association will emcee. Assisting ring- side will be Brad Carr, Alabama Bar Association; Marilyn Cavicchia, ABA Divi- sion for Bar Services; Kerstin Firmin, Contra Costa Bar Association; and Anne Strickland, North Carolina Bar Association. 2 Track 2: Today’s Mad Men (& Women): Advertising and Marketing Techniques Dine-Arounds that Produce Results ...... Salon C/D Thursday, Oct. 20 Whether you are selling steak or sizzle, the key test for advertising and 6:30 p.m. marketing is whether they generate results. Alexa Giacomini, director of marketing & membership at the Illinois Bar Association, Tennessee Bar Association Publications Coordinator Landry Butler and Patricia Woods, senior Boscos director of membership services for the New York State Bar Association will Located in Hillsboro Village between share their experiences with both new and tried and true techniques, and Vanderbilt and Belmont universities, this is reveal where they’ve found success. Nashville’s premier craft brew pub. Noon – 1 p.m. Buffet Lunch ...... Salon E 1805 21st Ave. South Join your colleagues for lunch. Sit wherever you like, including with some of Nashville, TN 37212 the morning speakers for continued discussion on Content Strategy, Marketing (615) 385-0050 and the Future of Print/Electronic Publications. Brewery, Fast Casual, Pizza Host: Barry Kolar, (615) 522-1291 1:30 p.m. -3:30 p.m. PLENARY ...... Salon C/D Songwriter Session: Don’t Just Tap Your Foot, Tap Your Creativity Stuck trying to think of a new way to market membership or report about an Germantown Café annual meeting? Learn how to get creative from people who do it for a living. Located in Nashville’s historic Germantown Veteran songwriter and performer Jim Photoglo and a team of accomplished neighborhood, this local favorite offers a writers including Gary Burr, Mike Reid and Victoria Shaw will show you their great view of the state capitol and creative processes in this hands-on session. They’ll walk you through the Bicentennial Mall. writing of a hit song, sing a little, and break up the group into songwriting 1200 5th Ave. North #100 teams that will each emerge with a potential chart topper. (Please note that Nashville, TN 37208 Workshop participants will hold no rights to creative content produced (615) 242-3226 through this session.) Contemporary Host: Suzanne Robertson, (615) 430-8853 3:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. Break ...... Ballroom Foyer 3:45 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. Knowledge-Building Breakout Sessions Koto Sushi Bar Located just steps from the DoubleTree Track 1: Lessons From the Music Industry: Hotel, Koto gets four stars from sushi Reaching Customers in Today’s Marketplace ...... Salon A/B afficionado Landry Butler. Rapid changes in technology, shifting consumer behavior, tough economic times 421 Union Street and an explosion of 24-7 content makes reaching customers more challenging Nashville, TN 37219 than ever before. Marketers and communications professionals working in the (615) 255-8122 music business will examine how one industry has responded and provide Japanese, Sushi lessons that can apply to us all. Panelists include MTSU recording industry Host: Landry Butler, (615) 461-0667 professor Charles Dahan, and music marketers Jim Flammia, David Macias and Jennie Smythe. Sambuca Track 2: The “UnConference” ...... Salon C/D Located in the heart of “The Gulch,” a former The “unconference” trend is spreading across the country as organizations downtown rail yard that has emerged as one look for fresh ways to meet and learn. Join the Tennessee Bar Association’s of Nashville’s trend setting regions. CLE Director Mindy Thomas-Fulks as she brings details about this new concept 601 12th Ave. South — where attendees can come and go for free, where speakers compete to get Nashville, TN 37203 time slots and draw a crowd, and presentations are more than a panel and a (615) 248-2888 Powerpoint. Contemporary, Fusion 6:30 p.m. Dine-Arounds Host: Stacey Shrader, (615) 714-3195 Gather with colleagues for dinner at one of Nashville’s great restaurants. Afterwards, meet up to go Honky-Tonkin’ on Lower Broad and Historic Second Avenue, home to cold beer, great live music, and some of the best people Sign up for one of these options at the watchin’ in the country. NABE registration table. Signups will close at 1 p.m. Thursday. See Sidebar for locations, contacts and types of food.

Friday, Oct. 21 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. Registration ...... Ballroom Foyer 8 a.m. – 9 a.m. Breakfast ...... Ballroom Foyer 3 9 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. PLENARY ...... Salon C/D Dine-Arounds Meet ‘n’ Three Sampler Friday, Oct. 21 Alabama State Bar Communications Director Brad Carr will set the table then 6:30 p.m. let you fill up on a full menu of new ideas, emerging technologies and bar- tested projects. Just like the classic Southern “Meat and Three Platter,” you’ll be able to choose a sampling of topics from the menu below to satisfy your Eastland Café hunger for knowledge: Located in historic East Nashville, Eastland • Show Me Your Apps & I’ll Show You Mine, B.Y.O.A. Café is a vibrant neighborhood restaurant. — John Sirman, State Bar of Texas 97 Chapel Rd. • How to Get New Sponsors Nashville, TN 37206 — Paula Portner, New Jersey State Bar (615) 627-1088 • Working with Reporters Cafe, Contemporary — Gary Toohey, The Missouri Bar Host: Landry Butler, (615) 461-0667 • Membership for Voluntary Bars — Alexa Giacomini, Illinois State Bar Association Mafiaoza’s • The Value of RFPs Located in the emerging 12South District, — David Simms, D.C. Bar Mafiaoza’s offers stone-oven pizza and • Social Media/Tweeting Italian fare in a warm, inviting atmosphere. — Molly Kilmer Flood, ABA Division for Bar Services 2400 12th Ave. South Nashville, TN 37204 10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Break ...... Ballroom Foyer (615) 269-4646 10:45 a.m.– 11:45 a.m. Knowledge-Building Breakout Sessions Italian, Pasta, Pizza Host: Stacey Shrader, (615) 714-3195 Track 1: Adapt Your Writing ...... Salon A/B Good writing is good writing, no matter what the platform. But that doesn’t mean that we can ignore the challenges and opportunities being brought our Sign up for one of these options at the way through social media and other emerging platforms. Veteran award- NABE registration table. Signups will close winning-reporter-turned-college-professor Leon Alligood gives hands-on at 1 p.m. Friday. guidance on how to adjust ... so you won’t appear as old as you are. Track 2: What’s New in Visual Design ...... Salon C/D What should you be looking to as you tackle your next design project? Let Nashville Honky Tonks these cutting-edge designers help. A veteran creative director with experi- ence at both advertising agencies and publications, Michael Nott is now After dinner or anytime, join your colleagues creative director for Nashville’s Parthenon Publishing, where he works to on “Lower Broad” (that’s Nashville speak for ensure projects carry the visual punch clients demand while still conveying Broadway down near the river) and experi- the tone and mission of their organizations. He will be joined by the ence one or all of Music City’s honky tonks! Tennessee Bar Association’s Landry Butler, who will talk about an exciting There is rarely a cover charge, but be sure to new tool called the QR-Code. put a little something in the tip jar when it is Noon – 2 p.m. Luminary Awards Lunch ...... Salon E passed. Celebrate the good works of your colleagues during the annual Luminary Awards Luncheon where awards will be given for the top communications See a listing and map of the Honky Tonks projects from the past year as judged by your peers. on page 12. 2:15 p.m. – 3 p.m. Mingling with the Stars ...... Salon C/D Luminary Stars, that is! View some of the winning projects and hear the stories behind the entries from previous and current winners of the auspicious Luminary Award. 3 p.m. – 4 p.m. Social Media Boot Camp ...... Salon A/B After reading and hearing about all of the new social media tools out there, isn’t it time to test how they might work for you and your association? Before the Workshop gets underway, you’ll get a list of social media tasks to perform during the week. On Friday, we’ll come back together to see what worked, what didn’t and what everyone learned. 6:30 p.m. Dine-Arounds & Honky-Tonkin’ For those die-hard NABE-ers still in Music City, we’ll hit the town for another night. See Sidebar for locations, contacts and types of food. 4 Stephanie Beogher Gary Burr Speaker Biographies Communications & Online Media Associate, Artist/Songwriter/Producer, Nashville Ohio State Bar Association, Columbus, Ohio From his first pop hit, Leon Alligood Stephanie Beogher is the “Love’s Been a Little Bit Assistant Professor of Journalism, Middle communications and Hard On Me” by Juice Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro online media associate for Newton in the early In August 2008, veteran the Ohio State Bar Associ- 1980s, to his induction reporter Leon Alligood ation. Her responsibilities into the joined Middle Tennessee include writing feature Songwriter’s Hall of Fame stories, creating social in 2005, Gary Burr’s career State University as an Gary Burr media messaging and has spanned pop, country assistant professor in jour- Stephanie Beogher nalism. His courses producing web videos, and even Latin hits. With 33 “Top 40” hits, 24 include reporting, feature including a number that were honored with a top 10 hits and 14 number one hits, it is no writing and multimedia NABE Communications Section Luminary Award surprise that Burr has been honored with Song- Leon Alligood skills. While at The in 2010 for excellence in public relations. writer of the Year awards by Billboard Maga- Tennessean in Nashville, Alligood was a war Beogher previously worked as a television and zine, ASCAP and the Nashville Songwriter’s correspondent, with assignments in Afghanistan radio news reporter, as communications director Association of America. His songs have been and Iraq as an embedded reporter with the for a statewide drug prevention program and as recorded by country artists , Garth 101st Airborne Division. His writing has won spokesperson for the office of the Ohio Attorney Brooks, Mary-Chapin Carpenter, Billy Ray Cyrus, numerous state, regional and national awards. General. She earned a bachelor of science in , George Jones, , Tim He can be reached at [email protected] communication and public advocacy from Ohio McGraw, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Reba McEntire, Jo or (615) 898-2205. University. She can be reached at (614) 487- Dee Messina, , LeAnn 4415 or [email protected]. Rimes, , Ricky Skaggs, , , , Mimi Bliss and Wynonna as well as such diverse artists as Angela Brady Owner, Bliss Communications, Nashville , Neil Diamond, Night Ranger, Senior Consultant & Publishing Strategist Ringo Starr and B.J. Thomas. Over the years, Whether preparing clients Stratton Publishing & Marketing Inc./Stratton Burr has kept his hand in as many musical for media interviews, Research, Decatur, Ga. adventures as possible including singing lead in public speaking or high- the country-rock group Pure Prairie League, impact presentations, or Angela Brady is senior consultant and playing on tour for , playing and consulting with leaders publishing strategist for Stratton Publishing & singing for Ringo Starr in his band The Round- during a corporate crisis, Marketing Inc./Stratton Research, which heads, producing an for Olivia Newton Mimi Bliss uses her provides custom publishing, marketing and John and forming the band Blue Sky Riders with communication skills, vast research for associations, universities and Mimi Bliss . He can be reached online at experience and industry corporations. Since joining the company in www.garyburr.com. knowledge to help clients speak with confi- 1997, Brady has directed a variety of consulting dence and credibility. Since founding Bliss and research projects, managed and edited Communications in 1997, Bliss has worked with association print and electronic publications, Landry Butler developed website content, and created companies in the health care, manufacturing, Publications Coordinator, specialized supplements, direct mail and other utilities and financial services industries, as Tennessee Bar Association, Nashville well as nonprofit and government entities. Prior marketing pieces. Her area of expertise is devel- to founding the agency, Bliss was an on-camera oping practical solutions for association As publications coordi- news reporter for ABC and NBC television affili- publishing challenges. Before joining the nator at the Tennessee Bar ates and a freelance field producer for the company, Brady worked as special projects Association, Landry Butler Today Show and NBC Nightly News. In other editor for the Washington Business Journal, manages the many print small business editor/interim managing editor and online products previous positions, she served as corporate Landry Butler spokesperson for a major restaurant chain and at the Atlanta Business Chronicle and editor of produced by the associa- managed media relations for a hospital. Bliss the Business Journal of Tri-Cities, TN-VA. She is tion, including the Tennessee Bar Journal, earned a degree in public policy from Duke a former board member of Association Media & section newsletters, continuing legal education University. She can be reached at Publishing and editorial advisor to Associations marketing pieces, and program and event [email protected] or (615) 297-3656. Now, a publication of the American Society of brochures. Before joining the association, Butler Association Executives. She can be reached at worked as a graphics and design professional (703) 914-9200. for more than 10 years, spending time at the Nashville Scene newspaper, as well as two Nashville firms involved in health care educa- tion and intelligence. He graduated from Trevecca University with a bachelor of science degree in management and human relations. 5 Butler is active in the Nashville arts community, Janan Compitello promoter. In 2003, he founded Larchmont having served on the board of the Plowhaus Senior Consultant, NimbleUser, Pittsford, N.Y. Recordings Inc., an independent Artists’ Co-op and as a founding member of the and production company dedicated to American Untitled Artists’ Group. He also helped form the Janan Compitello is a roots music. Other projects include editing a Tennessee Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, senior consultant at textbook on music business, writing for which pairs lawyers with members of the arts NimbleUser, a company AllAboutJazz.com and speaking on the history community who need legal advice, and sat on that provides associations of jazz and indie music. Dahan has been nomi- the group’s recruitment committee. He can be with smart, integrated nated for two Grammy Awards and has won reached at [email protected] or (615) 383-7421. technologies to manage two (nominated for five) “Indie” Awards from membership tasks, the American Association of Independent streamline member Music. He can be reached at [email protected] Brad Carr Janan Compitello communications and or (615) 494-7704. Director of Communications, Alabama State Bar, increase website functionality. Working with Montgomery, Ala. leading software developers such as Salesforce, iMIS, Ektron and Umbraco, NimbleUser helps Karl F. Dean Brad Carr is a child of the clients implement, integrate and support associ- Mayor, Metropolitan Government of Nashville tube — no, not the test ation management systems. Compitello helps to and Davidson County tube! He is known as the guide the development and implementation of “dean” of bar association Karl F. Dean is the sixth technology solutions and has more than 12 public relations. For the mayor of the Metropolitan years of experience working with businesses, past 40 years he has Government of Nashville nonprofit organizations and associations. Before worked in public relations and Davidson County. He joining the company, she was the executive capacities for lawyers in was elected on Sept. 11, Brad CArr director of two nonprofit arts organizations in four state bar associations 2007, and was re-elected Vermont and worked in Amsterdam, London and — Missouri, Georgia, New York, and now the this fall to a second term. Cannes on various web-based projects. She can Alabama State Bar where he is director of During his time in office, be reached at [email protected] or (585) Karl F. Dean communications. Carr also has worked for the Dean has led Nashville 586-4750. American Bar Association in both its Wash- through two big challenges — a deep national ington D.C. and Chicago offices. He is a grad- recession and a 1,000-year flood — as well as uate of the University of Missouri School of Charles B. Dahan pursuing his priorities of reforming education, Journalism and has been a guest lecturer at Associate Professor, increasing public safety and expanding journalism schools throughout the United Middle Tennessee State University, economic development. Dean was first elected States. He can be reached at Murfreesboro to public office in 1990 as Nashville’s public [email protected] or (334) 269-1515. defender, and was reelected to the post in 1994 Charles B. Dahan is an and 1998. He also worked as an adjunct associate professor in the professor of law at Vanderbilt University Law Marilyn Cavicchia Recording Industry Depart- School. Dean was named Metro law director in Editor, Bar Leader Magazine, Chicago ment at Middle Tennessee 1999 and served in that office until January State University where he Marilyn Cavicchia has 2007, when he resigned to run for mayor. He teaches “Survey of the worked for 10 years as a earned his law degree from Vanderbilt Law Recording Industry” and periodicals editor in the School in 1981 and completed the program for “Record Production.” This publishing unit at the Charles B. Dahan senior executives in state and local government semester he also is co- American Bar Association. at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at teaching a class on Cyber PR, which is designed Though her primary focus Harvard in 1999. He can be reached at (615) to maximize a client’s exposure on blogs, is Bar Leader, she now 862-6000. podcasts and Internet radio stations, as well as assists with other publica- Marilyn Cavicchia Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites. tions, including Student Dahan earned his bachelor of arts in history Rick DeBruhl Lawyer. Cavicchia earned a bachelor of arts in from the University of North Carolina in 1992 Chief Communications Officer, English, with a creative writing focus, and a and a master of music in 2000 from Purchase State Bar of Arizona, Phoenix master’s degree in journalism from Ohio Univer- College. From 1996 to 2001, he guest lectured sity in Athens. Cavicchia is also a poet, and her Rick DeBruhl is chief at Purchase College and served as an advisor to poems have appeared in several print and communications officer for the school-run record company. From 2000 to online literary publications. She can be reached the State Bar of Arizona. 2001, he was an adjunct faculty member at at [email protected] or (312) Before joining the associa- Marymount College, and from 2001 to 2007, he 988-6071. tion, he spent 32 years taught in the Music Industry Department at working in local news, Oneonta State University. In addition to devel- winning three Rocky oping an academic career, Dahan worked as a Mountain Emmys and a talent agent — scouting and signing artists of Rick DeBruhl host of other awards. all genres, including blues, folk, jazz, ska, rock Though he works for the association, DeBruhl and Cajun — a booking agent and a concert 6 continues his television career by covering auto racing for ABC, ESPN and SPEED. DeBruhl is a Kerstin Firmin media efforts surrounding album releases and graduate of the University of Missouri where he Communications Coordinator, tours by Johnny Cash, Elvis Costello, Willie received a master of arts in journalism, with a Contra Costa County Bar Association, Nelson, Ryan Adams, Van Morrison, Ryan concentration in media management. He can be Martinez, Calif. Bingham, Hayes Carll, Tift Merritt, The reached at (602) 340-7335 or Jayhawks and Lyle Lovett among others. In his [email protected]. Kerstin Firmin is the role as director of media relations for Universal communications coordi- Records in New York, Flammia created and nator for the Contra Costa managed campaigns for Godsmack, Blue Chris Ferrell County Bar Association in October, 3 Doors Down and 98 Degrees. CEO, SouthComm Inc., Nashville the San Francisco Bay Flammia worked for several private public rela- area. Since joining the Chris Ferrell founded tions agencies before joining the labels, repre- association in 2010, Firmin SouthComm Inc. in 2007 senting , John Lee Hooker, Brad has helped launch an to develop and acquire Kerstin Firmin Mehldau, Natalie Merchant, Buddah Records online companion to the niche media properties in and Wynton Marsalis at the Brooklyn, N.Y.- bar’s print publication, the Contra Costa Lawyer, the southeast. In less than based Shore Fire Media. He also handled public and expanded social media and multimedia two years, SouthComm relations for musical and corporate clients while communications. Originally from Germany, has acquired the Nashville at JLM Public Relations in New York City. Firmin moved to the San Francisco Bay area Post, Business Tennessee, Flammia is a graduate of Long Island Univer- Chris Ferrell more than 10 years ago. Before joining the Music Row Magazine, The sity/CW Post College. He can be reached at association, she worked in the nonprofit field, City Paper, Medical News Papers Inc. (with 11 (615) 227-2770 or [email protected]. managing publications and marketing for health newspapers in circulation) and Louisville, Ky.’s and human service and advocacy organizations. LEO Weekly. Other publications in the South- She has a background in art and literature, and Molly Kilmer Flood Comm family are Creative Loafing Charlotte, is currently working on a degree in communica- Information Coordinator, Creative Loafing Tampa, Kansas City Pitch and tion technology. She can be reached at ABA Division for Bar Services, Chicago Nashville Scene. Ferrell also conceived and [email protected] or (925) 686-6900. launched Her Nashville. In addition to managing Molly Flood has been a these publications, the company operates staff member in the Amer- SouthComm Publishing, a custom publishing Jim Flammia ican Bar Association’s and map producer that serves the largest Founder & President, All Eyes Media, Nashville Division for Bar Services customer base of chambers of commerce in the since 2005. In addition to country. Prior to founding SouthComm, Ferrell Jim Flammia is the maintaining the division’s served as publisher of the Nashville Scene. He founder and president of Information Clearing- holds a bachelor of arts from Furman University All Eyes Media, a house, Flood manages the Molly Flood and a master of divinity from Vanderbilt Univer- boutique media relations division’s website and sity Divinity School. In addition to his profes- firm that specializes in social media efforts, and plays an active role in sional career, Ferrell is active in the local campaigns for music the planning of the annual ABA Bar Leadership Nashville community. In 1995, he was elected to clients. Flammia’s current Institute. She also is a weekly contributor to the roster includes acts from the first of two terms on Nashville’s Metropol- Jim Flammia division’s blog: Behind Bars. Prior to her work itan Council. While a councilman at-large, he multiple genres (Lucinda with Bar Services, Flood researched, wrote and was known for his work launching the city’s Williams, Widespread Panic, Flogging Molly, presented on technology trends for the ABA affordable housing initiative and for advocating Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears, Jason Isbell Legal Technology Resource Center. She is a expansion of Nashville’s anti-discrimination & The 400 Unit, Mason Jennings, and Jason member of the Special Libraries Association and ordinance. Ferrell also serves as a board Boland & The Stragglers) special projects (“O the National Association of Bar Executives. She member of the Nashville State Tech Community Brother, Where Art Thou” 10th anniversary can be reached at [email protected] College Foundation and the Baptist Healing soundtrack) and music events (Next BIG or (312) 988-5362. Trust, and is a member of the Downtown Rotary Nashville’s SoundLand). All Eyes Media’s list of Club. He can be reached at cferrell@south- previous artists includes Tom Jones, Jamey Mindy Thomas-Fulks comm.com or (615) 244-7989. Johnson, Robert Earl Keen, , Ryan Bingham and Johnny Flynn. With nearly 20 Director of Continuing Legal Education, years of media experience, Flammia has worked Tennessee Bar Association, Nashville on all levels of print, television and digital Mindy Thomas-Fulks is campaigns, from booking artists on major director of continuing network television shows to press interviews to legal education for the supervising photo shoots. He has created and Tennessee Bar Associa- overseen Grammy Awards campaigns as well as tion. In this role, she over- created crisis management strategies for sees a staff of three and artists. As vice president of media and artist produces the association’s relations at Lost Highway Records/Universal weekly live educational Music Group in Nashville, Flammia oversaw Mindy Thomas-Fulks webcasts. Fulks 7 also has been on the cutting edge of bar associ- Joyce Hastings David Macias ation programming using educational games to Publications Director, State Bar of Wisconsin, President, Thirty Tigers, Nashville reach a new generation of lawyers. She recently Madison, Wis. gave a presentation to the Association for David Macias is a 30-year music industry Continuing Legal Education on game theory and As the State Bar of veteran whose career has included marketing, how it can be applied in a legal education Wisconsin’s publications distribution, production and management serv- setting. She has been the driving force behind director, Joyce Hastings is ices. Born and raised in Lakeland, Fla., Macias development of “unconference” programming, responsible for delivering worked in local record stores and began which allows for a more relaxed agenda, round- information and knowl- managing a band named Mr. Crowe’s Garden, table discussions and opportunities for hands- edge that helps associa- which eventually would become The Black on learning. Fulks earned her bachelor’s degree tion members excel in Crowes. He landed a job with Arista Records in their practice and delivery Atlanta in 1987 and soon was promoted to New from Middle Tennessee State University. Prior to Joyce Hastings joining the TBA she worked as a program coor- of legal services to their York working as a marketing manager. By the dinator and facilitator for alternative sentencing clients. Hastings and her team serve as the age of 24, he was marketing manager for BMG programs in Middle Tennessee. She has spent organization’s “content hub,” delivering tradi- Distribution’s New York branch. He left that post 14 years in Central America and has worked as tional and multimedia content through various in 1990 to become the regional marketing a Spanish language interpreter in a variety of communications channels, including the director for EMI Records. By 1992, Macias court and government settings in the Nashville Wisconsin Lawyer magazine, the WisBar Inside- moved on to the Arista's Nashville division area. She can be reached at [email protected] Track e-newsletter, various section and division where he oversaw sales and marketing for the or (615) 277-3216. newsletters, WisBar.org and social media. Hast- western half of the US. Nine years later, he ings is a former chair of the NABE Communica- decided to launch his own company based on tions Section and the 2002 recipient of the the belief that major label consolidation and Alexa Giacomini section’s E.A Wally Richter Leadership Award. advances in technology would result in the Director of Marketing & Membership, She and her publications team also have earned growth of independent artists, and that these Illinois State Bar Association, Springfield, Ill. several NABE Communications Section and artists would need resources previously International Association of Business Communi- provided by the labels. In 2001, Macias co- Alexa Giacomini is the cators awards for excellence in print and elec- founded Thirty Tigers, which provides artists director of marketing and tronic publications, website development and with management, traditional retail sales, new membership for the Illinois communications activities. She can be reached media and digital sales, publicity, project State Bar Association, at [email protected] or (608) 250-6126. management and radio promotion services. where she is in charge of Clients include The Avett Brothers, Matisyahu, membership campaigns Elizabeth Cook, Those Darlins, Trampled By and communications, David C. Kloeppel Turtles, Flogging Molly, Low and The Josh marketing for internal President & COO, Gaylord Entertainment, Alexa Giacomini Abbott Band. In 2004, the company created its programs and events, and Nashville own label and partnered with American Roots assisting with external marketing and public Publishing for the inaugural release of “Beau- relations. Prior to joining the state bar associa- David C. Kloeppel joined tiful Dreamer: The Songs of Stephen Foster.” tion, Giacomini worked for the American Bar Gaylord Entertainment in The album, co-produced by Macias, included Association for nine years. Her last position 2001 and currently serves cuts by Beth Nielson Chapman, Alison Krauss, there was director of the General Practice, Solo as president and chief Yo-Yo Ma and John Prine. The work won critical and Small Firm Division. Before working in asso- operating officer. He previ- acclaim and a Grammy for Best Traditional Folk ciation management and marketing, she was an ously worked as a vice Album. He can be reached at (615) 664-1167 or elementary school teacher teaching music and president for Deutsche Bank in New York, where [email protected]. gifted education to third and fourth graders. A David C. Kloeppel former newsletter editor for the NABE Commu- he was responsible for nications Section, Giacomini also is active in the mergers and acquisitions in the lodging, leisure Ann Murphy and real estate sectors, and with Bankers Trust American Society of Association Executives Director of Communications, Co., where his responsibilities included where she received Certified Association Execu- The Bar Association of San Francisco tive (CAE) status in 2009. Outside of work, managing a team that administered more than Giacomini is involved with musical theater, the $600 million in defined contribution assets. Ann Murphy has served as the director of Springfield Muni Opera and the Hoogland Kloeppel serves on the board of FelCor Lodging communications for The Bar Association of San Center for the Arts. She is a member of the Trust Inc. and Vanderbilt University’s “Shape the Francisco since May 2005, overseeing print Muni’s Backstagers Committee, which is Future” campaign. He also is president of the publications, public relations, electronic commu- responsible for marketing and fundraising, and Nashville Chamber Orchestra’s Board of Direc- nications, website development and social the Hoogland’s Gala Silent Auction Committee. tors. Kloeppel earned a master’s degree in busi- networking, as well as RSS feeds, videos and She’ll be on stage this November as part of the ness administration from Vanderbilt University’s podcasts. She also manages marketing, adver- cast of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Owen Graduate School of Management in 1996. tising and technology projects, and is a frequent Dreamcoat.” She can be reached at He graduated with an economics degree from speaker on social media. An active member of the university in 1991. He can be reached at NABE, she is currently serving as chair of the [email protected] or (217) 525-1760. (615) 316-6000. group’s Website/Knowledge Management 8 Committee and as a council member for the Communications Section. A graduate of Purdue in 1980 and “Fool in Love With You” in 1981. House.” He was named ASCAP Country Song- University, Murphy began her career in San After Fox was hit with financial troubles, writer of the Year in 1985. Reid’s stock as a Francisco in retail advertising and then moved Photoglo went out on the road singing back-up songwriter rose during the 1990s with artists into nonprofit work as one of the main organ- for Andy Gibb and concentrating on songwriting. such as Alabama, Tim McGraw, Bonnie Raitt, izers of NetDay’96 — a worldwide effort by His work paid off with cuts by Kenny Rogers, Collin Raye and Wynonna hitting the top of the volunteers to equip classrooms with Internet Marty Robbins, Gary Morris and Brenda Lee. charts with his songs. Other artists cutting his access. Before joining the bar association, Photoglo moved to Nashville in 1984 to pursue a songs included Marie Osmond, Tanya Tucker Murphy was director of communications and full-time career as a songwriter. His music has and Conway Twitty. Reid eventually signed with public relations for San Francisco Theological been recorded by Alabama, , The Columbia and began his own recording career. Seminary. Outside of work, she is involved in Everly Brothers, Faith Hill, Patty Loveless, Kathy He later tried his hand in a new field, several community groups and recently started Mattea, Neil McCoy, The Oak Ridge Boys, Leroy composing songs for operas and musicals. an Internet-based small business. She can be Parnell, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Dusty Springfield, reached at [email protected] or (415) 782- , and Tanya Tucker. After Victoria Shaw 9000 x8792. recording two solo in 1993, he co- Producer/Artist/Songwriter, Nashville founded the band Run C&W, which performed classic soul songs of the ’60s and ’70s as blue- Michael Nott Victoria Shaw’s songs grass tunes (and developed a cult following), have been staples on the Creative Director, Parthenon Publishing, Nashville and later founded the band Vinyl Kings. charts since the early Michael Nott is creative Photoglo continues to record and perform, while 1990s. Her number one director at Parthenon also managing his own record label and hosting compositions include “The Publishing, a custom songwriter workshops across the country. He River” and “She’s Every publishing company in can be reached at [email protected]. Woman” recorded by Nashville. Prior to joining Garth Brooks, “I Love the Victoria Shaw Parthenon, he was a Paula Portner Way You Love Me” by founding partner at John Michael Montgomery and Boyzone, “Too Director of Marketing & Member Services, Hammock Publishing, Busy Being In Love” by and “So’lo Michael Nott New Jersey State Bar Association, New where he spent 10 years Quiero Amarte” by Ricky Martin. Other cuts Brunswick, N.J. as creative director. Previously, he served as include “Where Your Road Leads” recorded by creative director at the Buntin Group, a Paula Portner is the director of marketing and Garth Brooks and , and Nashville ad agency. He also has designed for member services for the New Jersey State Bar “Nobody Wants To Be Lonely” by Ricky Martin Texas Monthly, Houston Home & Garden and Association and has 25 years of experience in and Christina Aguilera. Shaw has won the Houston City. Nott received a fine arts degree marketing professional services for a variety of Academy of Country Music’s Song of the Year from the University of Texas. Believing that first training and consulting firms. Since joining the Award, two daytime Emmy Awards for impressions count, Nott makes sure that association, she has revitalized the member Outstanding Original Song, four Emmy nomina- Parthenon’s client publications pack a visual services group, increased membership and tions, and numerous ASCAP and SESAC awards. punch — and convey the tone and mission of created innovative sponsor packages that have She has performed throughout the world, the organization through aesthetics. From attracted new sponsors, expanded opportunities opening for Garth Brooks in Central Park, redesigns to new projects, whether a client with existing sponsors and partners, and opened playing the London Palladium and most recently, wants to push the envelope with an edgy look the door for new programs and events that help touring with her frequent collaborator, Jim or establish authority with a more subdued distinguish the association. She can be reached Brickman. In addition to writing and performing, design, Nott’s keen eye and more than 25 years at [email protected] or (732) 565-7560. Shaw co-produced Lady Antebellum’s debut CD, of experience enable him to find the most for which she won a 2009 Country Music Asso- creative and compelling design solution. ciation Award. She can be reached online at Mike Reid www.victoriashaw.com. Artist/Songwriter, Nashville Jim Photoglo While playing football in the NFL, Mike Reid Artist/Songwriter, Nashville David Simms also played music with local bands, and in the Web Developer, District of Columbia Bar, Jim Photoglo has spent off-seasons performed as a classical pianist Washington, D.C. four decades as a song- with symphony orchestras in Dallas, Cincinnati writer and artist, bringing and Utah. While recovering from an injury, he David Simms, a Macromedia Certified ColdFu- his creative voice to the met Larry Gatlin, who encouraged him to sion MX developer and Macromedia Certified R&B, pop and country continue pursuing music. In 1975, after under- website developer, has managed the website of genres. Growing up in Los going knee surgery, Reid left football and trav- the D.C. Bar for more than 11 years. He also has Angeles, Photoglo began eled the country playing lounges and served as an adjunct faculty member at George- playing in bands as a developing as a songwriter. He moved to town University’s Center for Professional Devel- Jim Photoglo teenager but never consid- Nashville in 1980 and signed with ATV opment teaching Dreamweaver, HTML and CSS. ered music as a career until he was in his early Publishing. He soon moved to Milsap Music, In 2002, he founded and remains president of 20s. His solo career took off when he signed where he provided a string of hits for Ronnie ElectionsOnline (www.electionsonline.us) — with 20th Century Fox in 1979, culminating in a Milsap, including the number one single and pair of pop hits: “We Were Meant To Be Lovers” Grammy-award winning “Stranger in My 9 the “world’s leading innovator in web-based Butch Spyridon Anne Strickland election services.” Away from work, he’s likely President, Nashville Convention & Visitors Assistant Director of Communications for either fly fishing, scuba diving, kayaking, hang Bureau, Nashville Publications & Print Media, North Carolina gliding, motorcycling, shooting or training for a Bar Association, Cary, N.C. triathlon. He can be reached at Butch Spyridon has served [email protected] or (202) 737-4700. as president and CEO of Anne Strickland joined the the Nashville Convention North Carolina Bar Associ- & Visitors Bureau since ation in 2007, and in 2008, John Sirman 1991. Under his leader- was named assistant Web Manager, State Bar of Texas, Austin ship, Nashville has director of communica- evolved from being a tions for publications and John Sirman is web manager and strategic theme park and summer print media. Her responsi- planning director for the State Bar of Texas as Butch Spyridon travel destination, to a bilities include managing well as technology editor of the Texas Bar Anne Strickland year-round host city for convention, business the NC Lawyer and over- Journal. He holds a law degree from Texas Tech and leisure travelers. Almost immediately after seeing a staff of volunteer editors for 32 section University School of Law and a bachelor of he arrived in Nashville, the city experienced an and division newsletters, related online content science in Radio-Television-Film from the identity crisis as media and music industry and an active graphics department. Strickland is University of Texas at Austin. Sirman serves on veterans were asking if Branson, Mo., was a graduate of the MS Technical Communication the boards of Austin Free-Net and the Austin becoming the new Nashville. Spyridon Department at North Carolina State University. Advertising Federation. He can be reached at responded, successfully leading the city to She can be reached at [email protected] or [email protected] or (512) 736-4885. embrace its diverse music community and (919) 677-0561. growing reputation as a meeting destination. In Jennie Smythe 2006, he organized the area’s first citywide Gary P. Toohey Founder & President, Girlilla Marketing, Nashville branding campaign to pitch Nashville as “Music Director of Communications, The Missouri Bar, City.” That effort included establishing the Jennie Smythe began her Jefferson City, Mo. Music City Walk of Fame and turning events like career in the mid 1990s July 4th and New Year’s Eve into musical cele- Gary P. Toohey is director working for Elektra Enter- brations. Spyridon also worked with the County of communications for The tainment, Spivak-Sobol Music Association to move the CMA Music Missouri Bar, a position he Entertainment and Festival (formerly known as Fan Fair) to the has held for 27 years. Prior Disney’s Hollywood downtown area. In 2010, the city again faced a to joining the association, Records. In the early crisis as major flooding impacted a number of he worked as a reporter, 2000s, she moved to Jennie Smythe tourist destinations. The city’s “We’re Back” editor and publisher at YAHOO! Music as director campaign, which Spyridon and the Nashville newspapers in Missouri, of marketing and promotion, which eventually Gary P. Toohey Convention & Visitors Bureau spearheaded, was Tennessee and Georgia. led her to move to Nashville to work for Warner instrumental in restoring public confidence in Toohey has been a NABE member since 1984, Bros. Records’ New Media Department and as traveling to Nashville. A native of Pascagoula, and has been particularly active in the Commu- Clear Channel’s senior director of content and Miss., Spyridon graduated from Vanderbilt nications Section, serving as co-chair of the marketing. In January 2008, Smythe launched University with a bachelor’s degree in business Publications Committee (1987-1988), co-chair of Girlilla Marketing. By early 2009, the agency administration. His love for Nashville brought the Communications Audit Committee (1993- was acquired by Beverly Hills-based ROAR LLC him back to the city after serving as travel and 1995), member of the Executive Council (1988- and is now home to a diverse roster of clients conventions manager at the Mobile (Ala.) 1989 and 1995-2002), secretary-treasurer including the Zac Brown Band, Nickelback and Chamber of Commerce, and as executive (1997-1999), chairperson-elect (1998-1999), and Sugarland as well as corporate clients Jack director of the Baton Rouge (La.) Area Conven- chairperson (1999-2000). In addition, Toohey co- Daniels, Green Apple Restaurant Group and tion & Visitors Bureau. He can be reached at chaired the 1999 section workshop in Chicago Premiere Global Services Inc. A full-service [email protected] or (615) and chaired the 2003 workshop in St. Louis. He strategic digital marketing company, Girlilla 259-4760. also was the 2003 recipient of the section’s E.A. specializes in social networking optimization, “Wally” Richter Leadership Award. He gradu- mobile and email communication, and influ- ated from the University of Missouri School of encer outreach. It also focuses on fan relations Journalism in 1978 and is a member of Kappa with the goal of increasing loyalty between Tau Alpha, the national journalism honor clients and customers. Smythe is active in the society. He can be reached at [email protected] National Academy of Recording Arts and or (573) 635-4128. Sciences, Country Radio Broadcasters and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. She loves reading, writing and most importantly, has a huge soft spot for four-legged friends who need homes. She can be reached at (615) 770-9995 or [email protected]. 10 Dan Wise Communications Director, QR-Code Maps New Hampshire Bar Association, Concord, N.H. Dan Wise is communica- tions director of the New Hampshire Bar Associa- Tennessee Bar Center DoubleTree Hotel tion, having joined the bar http://www.tba.org http://tinyurl.com/3tqzzpx 221 Fourth Avenue North, Suite 400 315 4th Avenue North world on April Fool’s Day (615) 383-7421 (615) 244-8200 1996. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago and a New Hampshire Dan Wise resident since 1986. 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1. Bootleggers Inn 4. Legend’s Corner 7. Second Fiddle 10. The Wheel 207 Broadway, (615) 457-3983 428 Broadway, (615) 248-6334 420 Broadway, (615) 248-4818 421 Broadway, (615) 742-1675 Bootleggers is brand new and features Hundreds of classic country album covers Antique radios and music memorabilia While this bar hasn't quite achieved true two floors of "bootlegging," live music, and memorabilia adorn the walls of this line the walls of this real deal country honky-tonk status, the beer is cold and moonshine, whiskey barrels, Mason jars classic Nashville honky tonk, including music honky tonk, which locals and the music is nearly always flowing. It's a and more. five original 78 RPM Elvis Presley Sun tourists alike have come to love. fine addition to the sometimes-over- Records and a 12-string autographed looked south side of Broadway. 2. Full Moon Saloon once owned by Johnny Cash. 8. The Stage 423 Broadway, (615) 259-3765 412 Broadway, (615) 726-0504 11. Whiskey Bent Saloon Located on the southern side of 5. Nashville Crossroads The Stage features Nashville's hottest 306 Broadway, (615) 401-2580 Broadway, across the street from the 419 Broadway, (615) 313-8012 up-and-coming country stars. For a bird's The drinks are stiff here, which has led more established honky-tonks like One of Nashville's only live music venues eye view of the action, check out the more than one person to brag they “got Robert’s and Tootsie’s, this upstart to combine classic country and southern balcony and don’t miss the painting of bent at Whiskey Bent.” The stage is welcomes a young crowd that likes its rock-n-roll, Crossroads has the atmos- the Highwaymen that the owner bought always rockin’ and the music isn’t strictly music loud and its beer cheap. phere of a neighborhood bar. from Waylon Jennings himself. country, offering a nice alternative.

3. Layla’s Bluegrass Inn 6. Robert’s Western Wear 9. Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge 12. Wildhorse Saloon 418 Broadway, (615) 726-2799 416 Broadway, (615) 244-9552 422 Broadway, (615) 726-0463 120 2nd Ave. N., (615) 902-8200 The Bluegrass Inn has a reputation of A boot store by day and a honky tonk by As other music venues have come and The only honky tonk located on 2nd being a favorite spot for the locals. Don't night, Robert’s is pure Nashville. The bar gone, this historic honky tonk has Avenue, the Wildhorse Saloon is the let the name fool you though; the bands launched the career of BR549 and is remained and it has decades’ worth of place to be for line dancing. It’s not the play plenty of traditional country and currently home to Brazilbilly, which publicity shots on the wall to prove it. dingy, dark haunts of Broadway, but it tunes as well. serves up traditional country music with Many a star hung out here between sets offers lots of space to dance the night a Latin flair. when the Ryman was home to the Grand away. 12 Ole Opry. DoubleTree Hotel — Ballroom Level

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