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Sunday, March 9, 2008

Bumping the Calgary Ad Club

I've reposted this blog, as the original post from a week ago is starting to vanish off the bottom of the week's blogs.

The reason for starting up the Calgary Ad Club is to create a group similar to the Advertising Club of Toronto. If there is enough interest, then the Calgary Ad Club will organize events that will allow members to meet several times a year to:
  • learn about and discuss ideas and developments in all types of marketing and advertising,
  • provide an interesting forum in which members can network, and
  • have some fun!

The smaller picture is to simply get to know some of the other people in the Calgary advertising community. To help withi this, you can now sign-up with LinkedIn & look for the group called the Calgary Ad Club. Join up!

Also - please feel free to point your friends and colleagues involved in the Marketing and Advertising community in Calgary to the Calgary Ad Club blog and LinkedIn group.

Friday, March 7, 2008

Other Ad Clubs in Canada?

So - I know of a couple. Can you add to this list:


  • The Advertising Club of Edmonton: Edmonton's advertising club is one of the longest running advertising and ad-related groups in the whole country. Formed by a small and feisty group of advertising professionals in 1977, the club welcomed graphic designers, media planners, photographers, printers, production houses, various media and students.
  • The Advertising Club of Toronto: The Advertising Club of Toronto serves the advertising industry and all its related services including media, creative, production, advertising management, and marketing. The Ad Club's mandate is to organize events that will present the newest ideas and developments in the advertising industry and to create social and business networking events for ad industry colleagues.

Know of any others? Please post them and their links in a comment.

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

Seen any good movies lately?

How to get ahead in Advertising? What's your favourite movie featuring "advertising", either with advertising as the 'background', with the plot focused around advertising, with the main characters being involved in the industry, or so on?

Someone out there must have something to say about this. I need a good movie to watch this weekend!

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Read any good books lately?

On the right hand side of this blog is a list of marketing and advertising books. Do you have any that you've read and loved? What sits on your bookshelf at work with dog-eared pages? If you had to recommend one book to a person new in the advertising field, what would it be?

Please add a comment to this blog with the name of the book that you'd recommend, and watch the list grow!

Monday, March 3, 2008

What is the Calgary Ad Club?

Why does the Calgary Ad Club exist?

The big picture is to create a group similar to the Advertising Club of Toronto. If there is enough interest, then the Calgary Ad Club will organize events that will allow members to meet several times a year to:
  • learn about and discuss ideas and developments in all types of marketing and advertising,
  • provide an interesting forum in which members can network, and
  • have some fun!

The smaller picture is to simply get to know some of the other people in the Calgary advertising community. To help withi this, you can now sign-up with LinkedIn & look for the group called the Calgary Ad Club. Join up!

Also - please feel free to point your friends and colleagues involved in the Marketing and Advertising community in Calgary to the Calgary Ad Club blog and LinkedIn group.

Sunday, March 2, 2008

Introducing ... the Calgary Ad Club

Welcome to the Calgary Ad Club's new blog.
What is the Calgary Ad Club? Quite simply it is a place where people involved in all sorts of advertising media (newspaper, tv, radio, out of home, online, etc., etc., etc.) and all sorts of companies (agencies, advertisers, publishers, etc., etc., etc.) can get together and get to know one another.

In Calgary's highly oil and gas driven economy those of us involved in advertising make up a small but vibrant community.

We look forward to meeting you all through this forum.