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February 18, 2008
In This Issue:
Negotiation Tools Can Teach Us To Play Our Winning Game
Achieving a Beautiful Life
The Heart Truth - A Tool to Enhance Women’s Lives
Think you’re eating lunch at your desk alone?
Join the AWN Ambassador Corps
Spotlight on Members
Networking Tip on negotiating a date for follow-up with new business contact
This monthly online publication is produced by the Atlanta Women's Network Marketing & Communications Committee.
We welcome your comments, suggestions and questions at awn@atlantawomensnetwork.org. |
Cynthia Good
Upcoming Speaker - February 26, 2008
Achieving A Beautiful Life, Career And All
Early registration pricing for this luncheon ends Feb. 21. Register today.
 Cynthia Good, CEO, founding editor and co-owner of award-winning PINK magazine and founder of Atlanta Woman magazine, is uniquely positioned to give women the inside scoop on what it takes to succeed in business while overcoming mistakes and balancing our family and business life:
Success secrets - from America’s most successful women
Mistakes women have made, & how they overcome them
Balancing what's most important
Learn more about Cynthia Good, and register for this meeting.
This exciting luncheon program is on Tues., Feb. 26 at 103 West.
Register now.
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Special News
Learn negotiating secrets at WomenUP 2008 - Register here.
Think you’re eating lunch at your desk alone?
According to our exclusive anonymous survey of almost 600 working women in Atlanta, 67 percent say they spend lunchtime at their desk. Get a sneak preview of the survey results.
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AWN Updates
Inside WomenUP 2008
A closer look at the Keynote Speaker
Negotiation Tools Can Teach Us To Play Our Winning Game
 Carol Frohlinger (www.negotiatingwomen.com), keynote speaker at Women UP 2008, will give us more than the tools to move to our next professional level; she’ll teach us to negotiate on every level. And, she tells us, we must pass the tools on to others.
At WomenUP 2008, in a special "before and after" format, Carol will show us a real-life negotiation as it is typically conducted by women, teach us negotiation skills we need, and then show the same negotiation and its outcome using those skills. Read our exclusive interview with Carol here.
Join the AWN Ambassador Corps
Would you like to be on the inside track in networking, and help AWN at the same time? You can do both, taking an exciting role for Women Up 2008, by being an AWN Ambassador during the event and, later, by playing a direct role in helping AWN to grow.
Membership Director Carol Bunn invites 10-to-15 volunteers to join the Ambassador Corps at Women UP 2008 to connect and welcome new AWN members, network with guests, encouraging them to become members and to serve as great examples of the AWN Woman – a welcoming, interesting, savvy networker. For more information, contact Carol at cbunn@advantageperformance.com or 770-410-0838.
AWN Member Spotlight
AWN members are making their mark:
Jackie White and Jill Pullen discussed negotiation skills on Business Radio 1160, February 8.
Amy Whitley was a recent panelist at Atlanta Woman magazine’s Workforce Revolution breakfast. Amy discussed the corporate world’s response to women leaving the workforce.
Karla Sinclair will serve on the Advisory Committee for CONNECT magazine, a woman-owned quarterly publication for the hospitality and services industry.
Click here for this month's Networking Tip on negotiating a date for follow-up with new business contact
We salute our WomenUP 2008 Sponsors
Edelman - Providing public relations counsel and strategic communication services to clients worldwide
The Coca-Cola Company - The Coca-Cola Company is the world's largest beverage company with Coca-Cola® recognized as the world's most valuable brand.
Kaiser Permanente - Kaiser Permanente is the state’s largest nonprofit health plan, serving the health care needs of Atlanta metro area residents for 22 years.
Georgia Power- Investor-owned, tax-paying utility serving 2.25 million customers in Georgia
Atlanta Daybook - A local news distribution channel sharing information daily about what's going on in Atlanta with hundreds of local media professionals and journalists.
Atlanta Woman magazine - Atlanta's only magazine, web site and events designed exclusively for professional and civic-minded women in all stages of their corporate or entrepreneurial careers.
The Haystack Group - Providing consumer and marketing research, account planning, brand strategy and internal and external communications to clients spanning a broad range of industry and purpose.
Business Radio 1160 - Atlanta's only all-business and financial talk radio station.
Pike's Family Nurseries - An Atlanta institution since 1958, Pike Family Nurseries specializes in the highest quality lawn and garden products and is focused exclusively on gardening and growing in Atlanta
Seitz Photography - Capturing the beauty of life through the art of photography in their historic Norcross studio.
AWN members, have you recently received honors or been recognized for your leadership, community service or other efforts?
Let us celebrate with you by sharing your honors in the AWN newsletter. Send your news to news@atlantawomensnetwork.com
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A Tool to Enhance Women’s Lives
February is American Heart Month, and Atlanta Women’s Network supports the American Heart Association in promoting awareness of heart health for women. We’re joining the AHA’s Go Red campaign, by wearing red to indicate our solidarity.
Although promotion of health-oriented charities is not a traditional part of AWN’s mission, this connection does fit our goal: to provide Atlanta’s professional women with tools that will promote and enhance our overall success and enrichment. We believe information about heart health for women is a tool that saves and enhances lives every day of every year.
Here are some facts:
- Heart Disease is the Number 1 killer of women in America; heart attack, stroke and other cardiovascular diseases kill more women than the next five causes of death combined. In 2006, only 57% of women understood this and, surprisingly, that is up from only 34% in 2000.
- Women are less likely than men to receive specialized diagnostic testing and treatments, such as angioplasties and stents, for cardiovascular diseases.
- The effectiveness of drug and medical devices may differ in women and men, yet doctors and researchers for women as they would for men.
Please check out the links below, for more information.
Because we know that Atlanta Women’s Network members can be influential in raising awareness of heart health for women we are expressing our support for the Heart Association’s Go Red campaign in three ways:
1. We invite attendees at our February 26th luncheon, (link) featuring Cynthia Good, to wear something red for a photograph showing our support.
2. We will be featured at the Red Dress Exhibition -- a free, public display of red fashion contributed by area leaders (thank you Elizabeth Wilson) to raise awareness and to celebrate the energy, passion and power of women, to wipe out heart disease.
3. We ask all women to inform other women about heart disease as our Number 1 killer, and our need to take charge of our heart health.
Joining together, AWN reaffirms: We are able, we have the tools, and we can change our futures. See you on the 26th!
Jackie White
AWN President
2007-2008
Learn more at:
Heart Attack Warning Signs
Nat'l Women's Health
Information Center
What is the Heart Truth?
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