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In this email: Announcements, Reminders, Links to Videos and Pictures and the upcoming meetings.

Our very own Dan Diamond went to help in Haiti. Please take peek of the video footage an articles from our favorite doctor.

Get on stage!

Do you have a Show & Tell to share with your fellow NSA Community? Email your idea to us.

Did you attend the Winter Conference? Share with us an idea you found helpful.

Make your PowerPoint Presentations Pop!

It takes years creativity and skill to make a presentation come alive! But a lack of PowerPoint creativity and skill can derail your presentation in seconds.

You will take away techniques and skills that you can immediately apply to improve the effectiveness of your PowerPoint’s including the following:

• 7 ways to use PowerPoint to engage and build trust with your audience
• 7 PowerPoint Pitfalls to avoid.

This is not a PowerPoint 101 class and will be totally different than what you expect. If you have to use PowerPoint and want to improve your presentations, this class will provide you instant value!

David Ashcraft’s expertise is taking normally tortuous financial subject matter and converting the content to be educational, engaging, and entertaining. He learned early on that a bad PowerPoint can persecute an audience and kill a presenter’s message. While working at Boeing Employees Credit Union (BECU) as a Financial Educator and teaching audiences about money he had to incorporate both presentation and PowerPoint skills to motivate audiences to take action. At BECU he created the Stock and Roll Game, Savertooth’s Amazing Saving Adventure, Better Budgeting, and other interactive financial educational programs.

Meeting Details: Saturday March 13, 2010 8:00am – 12:00pm at the Coast Hotel in Bellevue, Washington.

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• Get involved online. Here are a few comments about the last meeting.

“I have been involved with the National Speakers Association for quite some time, but in the last 8 years I haven’t had  chance to come out to these meetings. But I recently made a goal to get back involved with NSA Northwest. This meeting I went today was fantastic. Meeting the 4 meeting planners and having them pull back the curtain and have them share what they see and experience on the other side of the phone line was absolutely fantastic.“

Patrick Snow, Creating Your Own Destiny

If you missed the last event, below are the featured meeting planners.

Behind the scenes of meeting bookings

• Shelly Tolo – Expert- Tolo Events – Non-Profit Events
• Melissa Jurcan – Expert – International Society of Special Events – Associations and Corporate
• Julie Manheim – Expert- Milliman, Inc, Director of Meetings – Corporate Events

Click here for biographies on our experts

Successful meetings begin in partnership between a skilled meeting planner and an outstanding speaker. The National Speakers Association invites both planners and speakers to a special session on the MEETING/EVENT MERGER…ideas on how to be and how to select the very best speakers for every kind of special meeting event. This format will be a discussion format style, different from our standard meeting.

Book now!

• March 13, 2010 – Saturday – Make your PowerPoints Pop!
• May 8, 2010 – Saturday – Sam Horn
• June 12, 2010 – Saturday
• July 2010 – Summer Party
• September 11, 2010 – Saturday
• November 11, 2010 – Saturday
• December 3, 2010 – Friday, Holiday Party

If you missed out on any meetings, you can see pictures from the events.

Have you been to the website lately? We update it weekly with videos, pictures, links, and pages. To get the value from membership, make sure to peruse our new website often. We have many ways you can get involved.

Jolene Jang,The Meeting Maximizer

President of NSA Northwest