N E W S Volume 29, Number 10, August 2016 Renewals Are Due August Luncheon H HHRenew With Our H The Branding Workshop H H New Network Join us Wednesday, August 17 at port properties for five years. Jessica 11:30 am at Langley’s Restaurant at resides in Waterford with her husband Online System! Great Neck Country Club for our and their three daughters. monthly luncheon meeting. Membership Renewal Notices Jessica Vargas will present “The Network attendees should arrive at have been emailed to members. The Branding Workshop” which is designed Langley’s Restaurant in Waterford at first email contains online instruc - to help business owners learn the ba - 11:30 am for registration and network - tions and the second email contains sics of effectively marketing their com - ing, lunch at 12 noon. The public is your login and password informa - pany, including the four keys of welcome. Reservations are required. tion. You will need this information branding. She will look at various na - H H H H H H H to login. tional companies as case studies and All attendees: please make your reservations or cancellations for the Please use these as your guide to explain how to use the same principles Wednesday, August 17 luncheon on - renew your membership, purchase that big businesses use to grow your line 24/7 by 12 midnight, Sunday, Au - ads, and reserve and pay for the Au - own local business. Learning how to gust luncheon. You can register and gust 14 . https://sectwn.wildapricot continue to grow your businesses .org/events pay for a guest also. through this Branding Workshop is im - * Note change in time for deadline. Please renew today! The new sys - portant in today’s economic climate. Cash or checks for $22 made out to tem and payment processing is ex - Jessica Vargas is the VP/Market Man - the Women’s Network will be collected tremely secure. Even though the ager at Cumulus Media New London at the door. Reservations after 12 deadline to appear in the printed di - (WQGN, WXLM, WMOS). She has been midnight on Sunday will pay $27. rectory is past, you can still be in the in the radio industry for the past nine Reservation no-shows and late can - online directory! years, starting with Cumulus's Bridge - cellations will be billed. Please renew your membership online by clicking the orange link. https://sectwn.wildapricot.org/ Posting to the SECT join-us Upcoming Programs Also, add this link to your contact Women’s Network list to be sure to receive mailings. September 21 Facebook Page If you have problems, contact Speed Networking One fairly untapped member benefit SECTwa_Admin@SECTwomens is the Network Facebook page. We en - network.org . There will also be help Members will participate in two courage you to share your business and to walk you through the process at rounds of speed networking. Join us personal news on the Network page. the August luncheon. for fun and great networking! Members must post their event or infor - No paper renewals will be mailed mation on the Network Facebook page themselves, then their news will be via regular mail. October 19 shared and will reach our 800+ friends. Thank you for your membership and If you have questions about how to your help during this transition! Constant Contact – post, contact Denise Howard, Publicity April Woodcock Chair [email protected] . 2 • Network News • August 2016 www.sectwomensnetwork.org President’s Message Make a Living and a Life “We make a living by what we get, but mind and one dedicated to this year’s we make a life by what we give.” This is a 40th Anniversary. These committees quote from Winston Churchill – how true meet throughout the year to make sure it is. I have this quote on my SECT that the Network is fully supporting all of Women’s Network notebook. I felt the the members’ needs and preparing for fu - quote exemplified the people who have ture members. Once a month the Board continually volunteered for the past 40 of Directors meets for an hour and 15 years to keep the Network moving for - minutes. Each committee comes pre - ward. pared to report their work. Again, all An organization that has existed and volunteers! Save the Date provided services for women and men Thank you to each one of you who vol - “Through the Years” for decades, and is completely run by unteers for the Network or in your com - 40th Anniversary Celebration volunteers, speaks volumes about the munity, because it makes a difference. September 30, 2016 Network membership. The members We would welcome new Network volun - Friday, 6-10 pm volunteer on committees that may take teers. If you are interested, please find hours of dedication each week. There the committee you want and contact the at Langley’s are 16 Network committees: Member - chairperson at this link http://sectwom at Great Neck Country Club ship, Programs, Lunch Registration, Pub - ensnetwork.org/committees.php . Tickets are available to purchase lic Relations, Directory Ads, Newsletter, Enjoy every bit of your summer. Website, Historian, Safe Futures Inter - at the monthly luncheons President $40 per person face, Hospitality, Scholarship, Budget, Cash or check only Woman of the Year, Nominating, Master - Kathy Greene Please see Deb McGrath or...Buy your ticket online at Wawa Report – August 2016 ing: Kathy Pooler, Kathy Greene, Patti www.sectwn.wildapricot.org/events Rodgers-Longo, Andrea Longhi Wolfe What in the world is Wawa, and why are and Susan Dombrowski. 6pm – 7pm Cocktails & Networking we reporting on it? No, it is not the con - Karen has been setting up the lion’s 7pm – 8pm Dinner will be served venience grocery store chain popular in share of the Wawa system. She calls it the family style the South. Wawa is the nickname we have “bones” of the system. She has imported 8pm - Special Awards and Speeches given to Wild Apricot (first dubbed WA), all the membership data and set up elec - • During the entire event there will the new complete online system we are tronic payments. Karen has slowly un - be a Photo Booth and now using for our Network. Among its veiled portions of the system, while lots of Fun, Fun, Fun!!! many features, our new system includes: working out any issues that come up. membership accounts and information; Judy is currently working on setting To purchase Sponsorships or Ads accounting and banking files; online mem - up the website (or “skin” of the site) – for this event, please see the bership renewal and self-service member how the site looks. Schedule Form on page 3. details update; registration for luncheons Karen works with Donna on the bank - and events; and our entire website. Wawa ing/accounting/payments portion of the also allows for payment processing via site, with Kathy P. on the membership credit cards and provides invoices and re - portion, with JoAn on the payments/reg - ceipts. Everything is all in one place – easy istration portion and with Judy on the and convenient to use. Interesting, it does website portion. involve convenience and groceries (the Needless to say, this has been an enor - Like us on Facebook luncheons) after all! mous project. What began as research a A committee of members, headed up by year ago, is now close to being rolled out Phyllis Nelson and Karen Martin, is working in its entirety! Please remember to post your events on this new system. Also on the original This system promises to bring ease of on the Network Facebook page, then committee are JoAn Collins, Donna Par - use, increased benefits and data security email information to Judy to be rotte, Connie Plessman and Judy Ricketts- for all our members. included in the upcoming newsletter, White. The committee has now been Please remember to thank Karen and [email protected] . expanded to include those who will be all our board members for helping to working on and using the system, includ - make this project a reality. Special Insert–for Our 40th Anniversary Celebration SOUTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT WOMEN’S NETWORK MEMBER SPONSORSHIP & AD SCHEDULE 40TH ANNIVERSARY YEAR-LONG CELEBRATION $1,000 Sponsorship Benefits: • Priority reserved table for 10 people at Gala with business name on table • Company logo displayed on PowerPoint presentations during events • Priority recognition with logo in publications and marketing materials • Company logo on event program • Full page ad in event program (5” W x 8” H) ADS: • Full page (5” W x 8” H) Camera ready $80.00 • One-half page (5” W x 4” H) Camera ready $40.00 • Business Card size Camera ready $25.00 Business Name: _____________________________________________ Contact Person: _____________________________________________ Business phone _________________ Cell phone_________________ Address____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ NOTE: All ads and sponsorships DEADLINE: September 9, 2016 Checks Payable to: SECT Women’s Network Send to: Mildred E. Devine Box 42 Quaker Hill, CT 06375-0042 Email: [email protected] Telephone: 860-442-2030 Women’s Leadership Forum “Honoring Our Past, Empowering Our Future” On Sunday, October 2, 2016 the first Women’s Leadership Forum will be Leadership Initiative. held at Leamy Hall at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy (USCGA). Registration The morning program will begin with a brunch in recog - begins at 9:00 a.m., and the main event runs from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. nition of the 40th Anniversaries of women being accepted The title of the forum is “Honoring Our Past, Empowering Our Future.” into the first class at the USCGA, the founding of the SECT Network member, Lisa Giordano is founder of the forum and is co- chairing Women’s Network and the founding of Safe Futures.