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Promoting Usability Within Your Organization
Special offer:
Bring a boss or other management colleague for free, when you both pre-register. Send a single e-mail to rsvp@nycupa.org, providing your name and your manager's (or managerial colleague's) name. This pre-registration e-mail is required for the special offer and you MUST mention the free offer when registering!.
Speakers: Ilise Benun, Marketing Mentor

Ilise Benun is the founder of Marketing Mentor and the author of several books including, "Designing Websites:// for Every Audience, "Self Promotion Online" and the forthcoming "Stop Pushing Me Around: A Workplace Guide for the Timid, Shy and Less Assertive". She is a national speaker for organizations such as the UPA, AIGA and the American Marketing Association. She presented her ideas on "Personal Usability" at the World Usability Day, 2005 and is the Publicity Director for the NYC UPA chapter. More info here: www.marketing-mentor.com.

Date: May 16, 2006
Time: Registration: 6:00pm to 6:30pm (refreshments served)
Presentation: 6:30pm to 8:00pm (includes Q&A)
Networking: 8:00pm to 8:30pm
Dinner: 8:30pm to whenever
Please note that dinner is an optional, post-event social activity and is not included in the event fee. It will be the responsibility of each individual who chooses to attend the dinner to pay for their own food, drink and any other expenses that may be associated with the dinner.
Location: Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, Laura Parsons Pratt Conference Center, 281 Park Avenue South (at 22nd Street). Ring the "Night Bell" which may have a sign saying NYC-UPA next to it.
Cost: $10 for NYC-UPA members if pre-registered, $15 if not pre-registered
$20 for non-members if pre-registered, $25 if not pre-registered
$5 for full-time students if pre-registered, $10 if not pre-registered (please provide valid ID)
(payable, by cash or check only, at the door only)

Please note: there is a $5 additional charge if you do NOT pre-register by 5:00pm the day BEFORE the event; this applies to NYC-UPA members, non-members members and students equally. See the next section for registration information. If you do not get a registration confirmation e-mail (this usually takes no more than a day or two) then you are not pre-registered.

Note: members of our parent organization, the Usability Professionals' Association, are not automatically considered members of the NYC Chapter and will be required to pay the full non-member event fee. Please view our membership information if you wish to join.
Reserve: Reserve your space by sending an email to rsvp@nycupa.org with the subject: NYC-UPA Event RSVP (to pass our spam filters). Include your name, your company name (if applicable), the event name and date in the body. Please send the RSVP in plain text.

You will get an e-mail confirmation. If you have not received this confirmation within 2 days, please register again to insure your place at the event.

Seats are limited and reservations are first come, first served. We advise you to register early as previous events have sold out and we had to turn people away.
Questions?: If you have any questions, e-mail the Web Site Director at webdirector@nycupa.org.
View Ilise Benun's zipped presentation slides (a 934KB .zip file).

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