Background
AWC Powerful Voices gives women in communications a voice – to remember the past and to shape the future. Use your powerful voice to tell us your stories about the history of the Association for Women in Communications (WICI or Theta Sigma Phi), longtime members, a treasured mentor, and your experiences and challenges as a communicator. Communications students are welcome to join the conversation, too. Dust off your pen, dig out your pictures and get your camcorder ready. Everyone has something to share. Together, we shall proclaim our strong voices. Let’s get this conversation started!
Who May Submit
Professional, retired, and student communicators with connections to the Association for Women in Communications (AWC) are invited to submit articles for posting to the AWC Powerful Voices Blog set up to commemorate AWC’s Centennial Celebration in 2009. For more information on the Centennial conference, visit .
The Association for Women in Communications was previously known as Women in Communications, Inc., and Theta Sigma Phi.
Topics to Submit
- The article can be in remembrance or honor of a cherished mentor or family member. It can be ablout a turning point in your career and/or your life.
- The article can be about a professional’s or student’s current or past experiences.
- The article can chronicle history about an AWC chapter.
- The article’s topic should tie in some way to the communications field.
- The article can express opinions and personal thoughts.
- We ask that articles not pick fights, use profanity, or defame others.
Multimedia
We encourage the addition of photos, video, or other media to bring your story to life.
- All video will be uploaded to YouTube and linked to the blog. Visit YouTube’s help page to determine the best format to use.
- Please scan your photos to JPG format and do not send via email anything over 5MB. Resolution should be at least 72 dpi. If there are numerous photos, we will set up an AWC Flickr site to host them and link it to the blog. If your photos are excessively large, they can be sent through a large-file sending service such as yousendit.com.
- We will also accept audio files such as MP3s.
How to Submit
Please send your submissions via email to Blog Ring Leader Amy T. Carr amycarr@austin.rr.com along with your full name, mailing address, preferred email, and daytime phone number. In your cover letter, please indicate your connection to AWC, the time periods of your involvement, chapter involvement, and participation in national or regional activities and leadership positions. Please also send a short one paragraph biographical statement and, if at all possible, a headshot to add to your article.
Links make things interesting and add connections. If your article contains hyperlinks to other sites and you’d like them included within your article, please visit the links to make sure they still work prior to sending them with your article. Pictures and videos are encouraged, but not required.
Submissions may be edited for length and clarity. AWC reserves the right to not publish any submission deemed inappropriate or off-topic.
