Becky Murway, computer artist extraordinaire, is leaving Frank Haxton’s Digiman Photography to join Skagen Design as Staff Photographer.  Digiman is the Reno-Tahoe AMA’s official photographer, and Frank or Becky document our monthly meetings and take portraits of AMA members during our semi-annual membership drives. **

Besides being an all-around great person, Becky has been a long-time supporter of and friend to the Reno-Tahoe AMA.  Becky is also very active in A2N2 and was Show Chairperson for the Art Slaves 2006 Show and Sale.

All of us at the Reno-Tahoe AMA are going to miss her, and wish her well at Skagen.  Meanwhile, check out her work here.

** Thanks to Becky’s computer artistry, people looking at my photo don’t realize that I’m bald, overweight and 85 years old…   PS:  Comments such as, “Yes, we did.” are NOT welcome.Â

Today’s Reno Gazette-Journal has an interesting Associated Press story about how some folks are becoming dissatisfied with online social networking. Entitled “Faceless communications isn’t all it’s cracked up to be,” it recounts how some people are cancelling their MySpace accounts and instead opting for face-to-face interaction.

As someone who spends much of their day glued to a computer and/or Blackberry, and generates far more than my fair share of electronic communications, it’s a thought provoking article. Give it a look!

The following press release was distributed today:

Reno, NV (October 4, 2006) — The International Headquarters of the American Marketing Association honored the AMA’s Reno-Tahoe Chapter this week with the “Programming Excellence Award” for the best overall programming in 2005-2006. The Reno-Tahoe Chapter was selected from 75 different chapters across the U.S. and Canada.

“I am proud of, and I appreciate, all the hard work of the Reno-Tahoe AMA’s board and committee members who made last year such a success,” said President Dave Archer. “The future success of our chapter rests on the innovation and commitment of member-volunteers who focused on delivering the very best educational and networking opportunities to Northern Nevada’s marketing professionals and business leaders.”

Archer added, “Special recognition belongs to Dave Roberts for his work with each of the AMA lunches as well as this year’s new half-day seminar for small businesses; Mike Rainey for creating the new “AMA in the AM” breakfast seminars, and Angela White for the “ACE Awards” competition and awards gala. This award is the recognition of their good, old-fashioned hard work and dedication, and the work and dedication of the entire Reno-Tahoe AMA chapter.”

AMA International Headquarters created the Chapter Excellence Awards (CEA) program to commend outstanding achievements in AMA chapter leadership and operations. Criteria for the Programming — Overall Excellence award included superior programming communications, regular programming, alternative programming, special events and programming satisfaction.

Past presidents of award-winning CEA chapters and members of AMA’s Professional Chapters Council served as volunteer judges for the awards process.

The Reno-Tahoe chapter of the American Marketing Association has over 140 members. For scheduled luncheons and meetings, as well as leadership information, please visit www.RenoTahoeAMA.com.

The American Marketing Association, one of the largest professional associations for marketers, has 38,000 members worldwide in every area of marketing. For over six decades the AMA has been an essential resource providing relevant marketing information that experienced marketers turn to every day.

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