NOVEMBER 2012 VOLUME 31 NUMBER 11

Inside this issue ƒƒ NOVEMBER MEETING 1 ƒƒ october mixer recap 1 ƒƒ president’s column 2 ƒƒ did you know? 4 ƒƒ Crowd Sourcing 4 ƒƒ British Political Parties 5 Stet ƒ ƒ Dropbox explained 6 ƒƒ calendar 8 Independent Writers of Chicago ƒƒ Welcome new members 8

November Meeting: tote a tablet & learn to create a website /blog October Mixer Scores WordPress Makes It Easy n October, IWocers, guests, and I members of the Alliance of Cre- ative Professionals (ACP) gathered WOC is back to regular program- Crimaldi’s goal is to have IWOC mem- at the North Avenue Marcello’s for ming in November after a suc- bers and guests leave the class feeling a get-to-know-you evening that I cessful mixer with members of comfortable about creating a web- turned out to be heaps of fun. Alliance of Creative Professionals in site, blog, and brand using the tools The setting was ideal: plenty of October. On Tuesday, Nov. 13, room to stroll about and mingle, bring your laptop or iPad and wear Army fatigues and boots, wonderful tidbits to snack on — a (no weapons please), as IWOC b L O lot of praise for the chicken fin- brings you WordPress Setup G gers and the artichoke dip — and, Camp. Our drill sergeant is Nicole of course, a handy bar for the liba- Crimaldi, founder of MCG Media tions of one’s choice. Inc., a Chicago digital content- Though the get-together was creation service. billed as a simple meet-and-greet, Consider this program as ba- at least one IWOCer got a tip on a sic training in WordPress, a free W E B S I T E job. Mostly, though, we met a lot web-based software program of fascinating and truly creative that anyone can use. Originally available through WordPress. She people — photographers, web intended as an easy way to get into promises to tailor the class for free- designers, and other thinkers out- blogging, today’s WordPress is really lance writers and editors and offer side the box. a content management system (CMS) advanced help to those who already Another treat was reconnecting that can be used to build business are familiar with WordPress. Time per- with IWOCers we hadn’t seen in a websites as well as blogs.. For free- mitting she’ll go into more detail on while. The turnout was gratifying, lancers struggling with static web- search engine optimization (SEO) and and everyone left with a smile. If sites that are hard for them to update, attracting readers to your blog. you weren't in attendance, you WordPress Setup Camp promises to Crimaldi is an accomplished teacher, be a life-changing experience that shudda been there.  presenter, and blogger (www.msca- will allow you to take charge of your reergirl.com) who left the comforts web destiny. — Joen Kinnan Continued on page 4.

1 Officers president’s column/dave epstein President David Epstein 708/567-9705 [email protected] Executive Vice President Can democracy afford Betsy Storm 312/421-1510 Treasurer our “free press”? Nancy Solomon 773/262-8070 Secretary Jennifer Lyng 773/769-5291 Parliamentarian ifty years ago President Eisen- “freedom” of the press. Partisan “news Roger Rueff 773/769-5291 hower in his farewell address show hosts,” star columnists, and po- Board of Directors warned that we “must guard litical consultants slide back and forth Jim Hodl 773/777-5710 F against the acquisition of unwarrant- between media “journalism,” political Ann Kepler 773/761-1858 ed influence, whether sought or un- candidacy, campaign management, Joen Kinnan 708/366-8573 Catherine Rategan 312/266-8146 sought, by the military-industrial com- and punditry. Will Sarah Palin star on Laura Stigler 773/248-0158 plex.… We must never let the weight Fox TV or run for office again? Just of this combination endanger our lib- when did Al Sharpton morph from a Committees erties or democratic processes.” Even civil rights leader into a news anchor? Public Relations though the birth of campaign media Does this faintly resemble the military- Katherine Mikkelson 847/253-3681 chair over-hype might be traced to the Ken- industrial merry-go-round, where the Membership nedy-Nixon TV debates of 1960, Ike same folks migrate smoothly from aca- Brent Brotine 312/214-2907 chair Jeff Steele 773/481-0010 could not foresee that half a century demia to defense companies (Ike used Programs later what might be called the media- the franker term “armaments”) to poli- Stewart Truelsen 847/962-1393 chair political complex might be an equal tics to lobbying and back again? Karen Schwartz 708/386-3044 threat to American democracy. Jim Kepler 773-761-1858 In those diminutive islands east of the Social Media Just how “free” is the American press? Atlantic, whose tyrant King George III Roger Rueff 773/769-5291 chair Actually, very costly. The two Presiden- inspired our Founders to strike out for Jim Kepler 773/761-1858 tial candidates are on track to spend Liberty or Death, they later learned Writers’ Line as much as $2.5 billion between them, to hold elections—from us. They held chair open and at least a third of that is going to one in 2010. The entire campaign took Karleen McAllester 847/644-2524 TV, radio, and other media. By late Sep- four weeks. The campaign began on Web Site: www.iwoc.org tember, according to Doug Mataconis April 12, polling day was May 6, and on Roger Rueff, webmaster in outsidethebeltway.com, presiden- May 11 the new Prime Minister, David [email protected] tial campaign ad spending alone had Cameron, took office, even though he reached $700 billion. Now it is climb- had first to negotiate a (bipartisan) co- Stet is published 11 times per year by Writers of Chicago, ing past $900 billion. alition with the Liberal Democrats. 332 S. Michigan Ave., Suite 1032, #W686, The cost? From official British electoral Chicago, IL 60604-4434, 800/804-4962. Internet address: www.iwoc.org. Copy figures, all parties combined—Labour, submissions are due by the 15th of Tories, Liberal Democrats, plus minor the month preceding publication. All parties—spent £31 million ($49 mil- submissions and ideas will be consid- lion) to elect 650 Members of Parlia- ered. Copyright ©2012 by Independent ment. That’s more candidates than our Writers of Chicago. 2-for-1 President-plus-VP, 535 Senators Stet Editor Joen Kinnan and Representatives, and 30-odd gov- [email protected] ernors (some of them really quite odd). Contributors: David Epstein, Joen Kinnan, Stewart Truelsen Ah, you say, but our Great Republic is so much grander than “Great” Britain, so we must spend vastly more. Be- That doesn’t count the additional sides, the Supreme Court ruled that multi-millions of “free” promotion campaign spending is protected Free that TV, radio, and newspapers give Speech (there’s that brave word “free” away daily by presenting campaign again, which hath so many dollars in it). ads and claims as “news.” That’s truly Continued on page 3.

2 Can democracy afford our “free press”? Continued from page 2.

Our campaign spending is 118 times more than the UK spent on its 2012 elec- tion. Factoring in the population difference, that’s 23 times more per voter.

The Center for Responsive Politics, a to secede. The campaign would have “catastrophic drought,” “hundred-year nonpartisan research group, calculates. lasted 100 weeks (4 x 25), so it would (or even thousand-year) storm.” Mayor that party and candidate spending in be no shorter, but the parties might Bloomberg just said we’re getting a 2012 for Presidency, Senate, and House have had only one or two Presidential hundred-year flood or storm about ev- (excluding spending by PACs, etc.) will debates, and citizens would have been ery two years now. total $5.8 billion, maybe more. Our spared the endless Republican pri- The media’s addiction to crises that campaign spending is 118 times more mary debates and probably the grin- pump up ratings leads them to inflict than the UK spent on its 2010 election, and-grimace bout between Biden and on us a sense of perpetual anxiety. but our population of 311 million-plus Ryan. This approach would drastically News media obsessively cover one is only 5 times larger than the UK’s 63 curtail the demand for the services of story for days on end and show visible million. Proportionately, according to America’s news media owners, star an- disappointment when the current di- the BBC News Magazine of August 1, chors, columnists, journalists, adver- saster begins to fade or turns out to be 2012, we spend 23 times more per vot- tising and PR experts, not to mention less disastrous than expected. Some er. That’s true Dollar Democracy. many others whose livings depend on news anchors have said, “What will be the advertorial industry. To achieve Britain’s miracle of electoral our big story tomorrow?” Luckily for frugality—and to keep the democratic Many, including media pundits, them, something always turns up— playing field as level as possible—Brit- blame our costly, ex- or down. Just last week, there was a ish law strictly limits how much parties hausting, increasingly very promising “tsunami heading for and individual candidates can spend nasty and polarizing Hawaii.” There was a visible letdown and advertise. In 2010 the two main campaigns (though when the waves came in barely three parties were allowed four or five party elections were even feet high. Fortunately, Hurricane San- political broadcasts each in England, dirtier 100-200 years dy churned in very slowly, giving them and six split between Scotland and ago) on politicians, days to agonize about impending di- Wales. In just the first three weeks of campaign managers, saster and mull over possible effects October, as reported in the Chicago lobbyists, corporations, on the election. How thrilling: they got Tribune on October 28, US voters were unions, SuperPACs, sinister creatures to blend an all-too-real and painful hu- deluged with 112,730 pro-Obama (e.g., Karl Rove, the Koch brothers), man catastrophe with a “cliff-hanger” commercials vs. 97,407 pro-Romney and the Supreme Court’s decision election. ads, although Romney and allies spent sanctioning limitless anonymous cam- Could all this media hype be “incentiv- about $87 million, almost $10 million paign spending as “free speech.” But ized” (love that word!) by the prospect more than Obama and his PACs. few—certainly not the media stars— of $1 billion in political advertising mention the role of our “free” press in The British electoral rules would never and untold billions more from super- nurturing Dollar Democracy. fly in the US. But just for fun, let’s apply charged ratings? Traditional journalists their rules to our 2012 elections, only Listen to the frantic, super-fast speech at least tried to cover “all sides” of a sto- multiplying everything by 25 to adjust of TV anchors and reporters. Look for ry in what was considered fair and bal- for our 5-times-larger population and the editorializing injected into so many anced reporting. Today’s “news show our vast landmass, plus distances to news stories where past editors would hosts” (the new incarnation of “news Hawaii, Alaska, Puerto Rico, and Guam. once have sternly red-penciled opin- anchors”) seem to consider “balance” Multiplying by 25, Republicans and ion or bias. Hear the rising crescendo to be inciting partisans from each side Democrats would each have been al- of exaggerations designed to increase to yell and yammer at each other in lowed 100-125 political broadcasts for drama—and boost ratings: “fiscal cliff,” verbal gladiatorial combat. Besides the the mainland 48 states, plus 150 to cov- “world changed forever,” “end of an $1 billion in political ad revenue, may- er Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam— era” (death of a world leader—or a and any states, like Texas, threatening drugged-out pop star), “historic flood,” Continued on page 8.

3 Continued from page 1. Did you WordPress: An Easy Route to a Website or Blog of the commercial banking world a IWOC members, $15 for nonmem- know... few years ago to pursue her inter- bers who pay at the door and $10 ests in writing and digital market- for nonmembers who register at ing. She readily admits that blog- the IWOC website, www.iwoc.org., ging itself and blogging through where you will see the upcoming WordPress changed her life. events box. “WordPress allowed me to learn Social hour with snacks and bever- technology, learn social media ages begins at 5 p.m. The program and have a side-hustle,” she said. ccasionally, we like to delve will start promptly at 6 p.m. and into the origins of unusual The side-hustle soon became her O runs approximately an hour. After phrases. Below are a few more for new career when she left banking the meeting, attendees are invited your amusement and edification. to work in community marketing to reconvene at a nearby restau- for a daily-deal start-up. Kick the bucket (to die): Though rant for a buy-your-own dinner to evidence is sparse, the phrase may arise from a suicidal pen- Don’t miss this opportunity to continue the conversation and re- chant for standing on a bucket, advance your freelance writing lax. By the way, we were just kid- putting a noose around one’s career. The IWOC meeting is Tues- ding about wearing Army fatigues, neck, and then kicking the bucket day, November 13, at National and no one will make you drop away in order to hang oneself. Louis University, 122 South Michi- down and do push-ups. Just come Beat around the bush (to avoid gan Ave., Room 5033, in Chicago to learn, network, and have a good the obvious topic): This comes — across the street from the Art time.  from a hunted boar’s practice of Institute. Admission is free for hiding in a bush. Beaters were — Stewart Truelsen hired to beat the bush to chase the boar out, but not being fools, beaters wanted to avoid the boar’s fearsome tusks and gener- ally beat around the bush instead. : What Is It & Is It a Writer’s Bury the hatchet (to make peace): North American Indians sealed Job Source or a Threat to Livelihood? a peace treaty by burying their weapons, which not only showed CLIENTS BENEFIT GREATLY FROM A POOL; WRITERS NOT SO MUCH good faith but also made it im- possible to keep on fighting. he term crowdsourcing was Forerunners in the crowdsourcing coined by journalist JeffH owe in game have been program developers Always a bridesmaid, never a a 2006 article for Wired magazine. who use “open source” coding, i.e., the bride (to be perpetually excluded T from one’s goal): Oddly, this one Briefly, the word is a combination of coding isn’t copyrighted by companies comes from a Listerine mouth- “crowd” plus “outsourcing,” and it is the like Microsoft and Apple, so anyone wash ad from the 1920s, in which practice of businesses making an open can develop programs and add-ons us- “poor Edna” never walked down call to a broad community (usually on ing it. Big names are the Mozilla Firefox the aisle because she had bad the Internet) to solve a problem, either browser and the Apache HTTP server. breath, and nobody told her. through competition or collaboration. (How’s that for enduring ad copy!) Now, however, all sorts of uses for Flash in the pan (short-lived suc- The concept isn’t new. Think barn- crowdsourcing are springing up. Wiki- cess): In the 1700s, the pan was raising in colonial times, when fami- pedia, for example, is not your father’s the part of the musket that held lies banded together to help a farmer encyclopedia, which was written and the gunpowder. When the gun- erect a barn on newly acquired land. edited by teams of paid experts in their powder was lit, the flame was supposed to the bullet Today’s superconnections through the fields. Wikipedia contributors are vol- out of the gun. When that failed Internet and social media, however, unteers who don’t get a dime for their to happen, there was just a “flash have made crowdsourcing a hot mar- postings, nor do those who edit them. in the pan.” ketplace for established businesses Since anyone can post a topic on Wicki- and entrepreneurs alike. — Joen Kinnan CONTINUED ON PAGE 7.

4 British Political Parties — A Selective List 2010 UK general election — Campaign expenditures

ou think we have political con- Party Name fusion in the US? Try Great Brit- Total Spending (£) ain. It’s widely known that they Animals Count 0.00 Y Apolitical Democrats have three major parties: Labour, Lib- 0.00 eral Democrats, and Conservatives— Best of a Bad Bunch 0.00 or “Tories,” whom we Yanks think we Church of the Militant Elvis 0.00 got rid of in 1783. Citizens for Undead Rights and Equality 0.00 Common Sense Party (Do we need one in the US?) 0.00 Many people outside the UK are also Conservative Party 16,682,874.00 aware that there is a Scottish National English Independence Party 0.00 Party, which wants an independent Fancy Dress Party 0.00 Scotland, and which is staunchly sup- Get Snouts Out of The Trough Party 0.00 ported by Sean Connery, the only Green Party 325,425.00 genuine and authentic James Bond. Labour Party [The] 8,009,483.41 That’s why he refuses to be knighted Landless Peasant Party 0.00 by the Sassenach Queen and become Liberal Democrats 4,787,595.00 Sir James. Libertarian Party (See, they have these too) 0.00 Magna Carta Party (“Hooray for the Magna Carta!”) 0.00 The or Party of Wales, Matriarchal Party Great Britain 0.00 which wants an independent Wales - The Party for Cornwall 50.00 and would presumably fire Prince Movement for Active Democracy (M.A.D.) 0.00 Charlie as Prince of Wales, is also quite Official Monster Raving Loony Party [The] 368.00 well known. UK 0.00 Plaid Cymru - Party of Wales [The] That makes five parties. 144,933.00 Revolutionary Communist Party Britain (Marxist-Leninist) 0.00 Heck, buddy, that don’t even scratch Save King George’s Hospital 0.00 the surface. At the last general elec- Scotland Against Crooked Lawyers 0.00 tion in 2010, the Electoral Commis- Scottish Jacobite Party No response sion of Great Britain listed 128 duly 315,776.00 registered and legitimate parties. One True English (Poetry) Party,The 0.00 of them is the UK Independence Par- UK Independence Party (UK I P) 732,780.00 ty (UK I P), which spent £732,780, or Virtue Currency Cognitive Appraisal Party 0.00 nearly $1,200,000, which ain’t chump Workers Revolutionary Party 0.00 Your Right to Democracy Party Ltd. change. Oh, there’s also an English In- 0.00 dependence Party, which apparently Total: £31,154,792.68 spent £0. Do they want to be indepen- dent from Scotland, Wales, and North- ern Ireland—or, more likely, from the It makes perfect sense that the Scottish Jacobite Party did not file their electoral European Union? expense return. After all, they do not recognize the government of the Hanove- Anyway, for your enlightenment, de- rian usurper who now sits on the English throne. It would be equally logical for lectation, and consolation—i.e., the Her Majesty’s government to fine them heavily for not reporting--or even behead Brits suffer from even more political them--since they are clearly self-confessed traitors to the Crown. chaos than we do—here is a small se- Each of you is encouraged to vote for your favo(u)rite party from the list above. lection of some of the more intrigu- We will then endeavo(u)r to found an American branch of the party that gets the ing of the 128, along with their total most votes.  campaign expenditures (the final total — D ave Epstein expenditure is more than spent by the parties shown because many are omit- Editor’s note: Surely nothing rivals the Get Snouts Out of the Trough Party for ted): sheer beauty and eloquence.

5 Other Syncing Options

hough Dropbox is an Editor’s T Choice in PC Magazine, there are other good options for file synchro- nization. SugarSync is also an Editor’s Choice, and it gives you 5GB for free. If “free” is your operative word, you might also check out CX, which offers a generous 10GB for zero bucks. CX doesn’t support as many devices as ei- ther of the others, but if you need more free GBs, it could be the one for you. Both Dropbox and SugarSync save on bandwidth because either downloads only changes made to previously saved files, while CX downloads the whole file again. We give the nod to Dropbox because it works on virtually any de- vice, and it's really easy to use. — The editor

Cloud storage and instant Syncing/sharing with one free program Dropbox: Access Your Files Anywhere from Any Device

e've mentioned Dropbox 100GB. Even larger plans are available If you like, you can also make folders (dropbox.com) briefly in a pre- for additional fees. available to the public and/or create vious issue of Stet, but it's such photo galleries viewable by anyone W More options with Dropbox mobile a handy tool, we thought you might like you choose. Many people also share Having the Dropbox mobile app means to know more about it. Dropbox is one music files this way. Or using your that your files are with you when you’re method of backing up all your files — Public folder, you can send a link to on the go. You can edit files from your text, photos, music, whatever — on the any file in your Dropbox. phone and easily upload photos and cloud, but it's much more than that. videos to Dropbox. The beauty of this Dropbox is very easy to use, and it’s Access your files from anywhere is that you don’t have to e-mail any- popular. We should point out, however, Install Dropbox, and any file you save one the latest picture of your adorable that you need to install the program on to it instantly saves to all your comput- puppy chewing the legs off your table. all the devices you want to sync togeth- ers, smartphones, and the Dropbox Dropbox allows you to designate with er. Also, if you want to share files with website. Presto! Instant access to a file whom you want to share files and pho- others, they also have to have Dropbox from any device. Dropbox works with tos. Then these folks can access them installed. But since Dropbox is free for Windows, Mac, Linux, iPad, iPhone, An- from the Dropbox site. two gig, that shouldn’t be a problem. droid, and Blackberry. You can even ac- The ability to share also allows people Here’s another plus: Unlike other cloud- cess it offline, so you always have your to work together on the same proj- storage companies, Dropbox doesn’t files whether or not you have a con- ects or documents. For example, say automatically back up your entire nection. You can even set bandwidth you’re working with other IWOCers to hard drive; it only saves what you put limits so Dropbox won’t hog your con- prepare a press release for an IWOC in Dropbox, so if you’re nervous about nection. event. Instead of endless back-and- having your tax forms on the cloud, Free or pretty cheap subscriptions forth e-mails, you can all collaborate don’t save them to Dropbox.  A Dropbox subscription is free for 2GB, using Dropbox, and you can see their — Joen Kinnan but for only $9.99/month, you can get changes instantly.

6 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 4 Crowdsourcing: What Is It, and Is It a Good Job Source for Writers or a Threat to Livelihood?

pedia, how does one know the infor- million works have been paid between thought was a munificent sum. mation is accurate? The site relies on $1 and $2 billion for crowdsourcing Other sites require writers to bid on projects. jobs, thereby virtually guaranteeing Payment comes in that the job will go to the lowest bid- a couple of flavors: der. In some cases, the price that hirers Some crowdsourcers are willing to pay is listed along with offer prizes for the win- the job requirements. Not surprisingly, ning ideas or problem hirers here included college students solutions. Others are who were frantically seeking “a de- looking to hire free- tailed treatise on the works of Samuel lancers or contractors Johnson, and I need it by Wednesday.” for particular projects. (Actually, I made that one up, but there Still others are brokers were similar, equally hysterical re- for particular skills, in- quests from kids unwilling or unable to cluding writing, edit- do their own work.) its mass audience (crowd) to contain ing, and proofreading, and some pay experts who will spot errors and cor- Lamentably, overall, I found almost no for simple projects that computers can’t rect them. sites that paid enough to keep a canary do, such as identifying items in a photo- in birdseed, let alone make a dent in That there will be experts among the graph or skimming real estate listings anyone’s actual bills. To take a site with crowd who reply to any solicitation for unquantifiable data. which most of us are familiar, by name at contributes to the use of the method. Risk takers can even join the group at- least: Elance is about as good as it gets. So, according to at least one com- tempting to purchase Pabst Blue Ribbon mentator on crowdsourcing, a whole The wonder is that we do as well as we Brewing Company. People can pledge bunch of people are neither smarter, do, given the increasing prevalence of money toward the $300M asking price more innovative, or more creative these sites, but maybe we should take and receive a percentage ownership of than a single individual, but one or a page from the labor union playbook the company. Here, obviously one has two people who respond might be. In and make a preemptive strike. Perhaps to pay for potential future gain, but it is other words, it’s more like separating as legitimately professional writers, we a novel way to raise cash. the wheat from the chaff thanG roup- ought to be blogging, tweeting, and think, though some projects actually There are many websites with whom a otherwise getting out the word that are collaborative. freelance writer, editor, or proofreader clients won’t find people who provide can sign up and then have an oppor- the quality of work they want on most What sorts of tasks are crowdsourced? tunity to browse available jobs. These crowdsourcing sites. Well, Amazon invites readers to review sites typically offer fantastic deals — for its books, iStockPhoto solicits photos, My research did turn up one site you the client. In the 30-odd sites I perused, and DuPont even uses crowdsourcing might want to check out: crowd- I found that nearly all touted how inex- in its R&D. One might even say that SPRING is a site that specializes in nam- pensively one could find a top-notch “Like Me” on Facebook is a form of ing, logo design, tag-line creation, and professional freelance writer. crowdsourcing. In that case, it would fun things like that. Pay could be up be known as fansourcing, which is also In those that had fixed payment rates to $1000 for a name or a tag line. It’s popular among touring rock groups. for writers, the rate ranged from about not great pay for things like that, but seven-and-a-half cents a word for it’s brain work, not work-work, and you Enough about the free stuff. Now that bloggers to $10 to $20 an hour for can think creatively while doing dishes we’re clear on the concept, what we even technical writing. On the page or walking the dog. If you win — yes, all want to know is: Can anyone make for writer-sign-up, one site boasted it’s a competition — you’ve made a money by being a crowdsourcee? that a writer could make up to $18/ nice piece of change. Overall, estimates are that roughly one hour, which the site hosts apparently — Joen Kinnan

7 Can democracy afford our “free press”? Continued from page 3.

be the siren call of glamo(u)r, wealth, frenzy contributes to increasing po- polls, “likability” contests, and ath- fame, and the thrill of influencing litical polarization and gridlock. How letic metaphors like “horse races” and the nation’s future tempts star media much does media craving for scandal, “ground games.” personalities and journalist-authors. rumor, and innuendo help to increase The original slogan of The Daily Show They get to ride on the candidates’ the already grave erosion of trust and was, “When news breaks, we fix it!” planes—maybe even Air Force One— respect for our institutions? Fixing the media-political complex and the producers, cameramen, and Let’s not pretend that our elections would mean getting the media-po- gophers enjoy well-paid jobs and get in some golden past had the purity litical complex to kill the goose that to fly on the press planes. of Athenian democracy (which was lays their golden eggs. I don’t know Whether we think American democ- actually not so pure), but politicians, how to do that, but I can tell you that racy can afford—or survive—this kind media people, and pollsters are in- my opponent is at the root of the of press freedom depends on how creasingly shifting our elections away problem.  much we believe the media-political from issues and policy debates to

November 13, IWOC Meeting Happy IWOOP Lunch, December 4 IWORP Breakfast, December 6

December 11 IWOC Holiday Party January 8, 2013 IWOC Monthly Meeting Thanksgiving In the next issue. . .

ƒ ƒDecember 11 Holiday Party: Al- ways a terrific event and a great way to end the year. Details to come. ƒƒPresident’s column: You always IWOC Welcomes learn something interesting in this New Members often surprising column. ƒƒPreview of January 8 Meeting: Terri Yablonski Stat Learn about how to get a copyright and Erin Wright and when you need one. ƒƒTips and tricks you can use to work smarter and better.

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