Thank You - BEST Workshop Ever!

PICA is comprised of some of the best communicators and creative talent in the insurance industry. It is because of you that PICA held such an amazing conference in New Orleans this week:

• Your suggestions for a great location took us back to New Orleans, and boy...was this city ready for PICA to visit. What relevant, moving, inspiring stories New Orleans had to share with us! And how fortnate we all were to be able to listen to and absorb them.




• Your topic requests helped us find extraordinary speakers! Every single one gave us useful information that we can take back to our companies and put to good use.




• Your input, conversations and interactions with each other and our speakers remind us of why we're in this organization anyway - to share ideas, learn new information and fine-tune our skills. Each of your involvement - and your company's involvement - increase the value of our workshops and we appreciate it!

Thank you for an excellent week! Check here next week for speaker recaps, links and photos...they're coming!

Exciting Times for PICA, Inc.

We're currently working on advertising our PICA workshop for the first time ever! We've always relied on word of mouth and repeat attendees to make the PICA workshops a success, and it's worked just fine. But as we try to bring new faces (with new ideas and enthusiasm attached to them) we're also prepared to try new things. This year, that means advertising.

What are some of your favorite insurance publications, either online or print? Go ahead and list them in the comments section and we'll consider them as we look at the best ways to promote PICA...

Thanks!

PICA Workshop 2009!

Your Advisory Committee has spectacular news - we have conference information for you!

The PICA Workshop for 2009 will be held in Austin, Texas, April 27-29. We're working on finalizing our negotiations with a great hotel that is providing us with excellent rates and amenities, and once we do that, we'll give you the details.

Your next question, of course, is, "How can you possibly top the spectacular speakers and presentations from PICA 2008?" After all these years, you know you can trust us to educate, enlighten, inspire and delight all of our attendees, don't you? We're certain you'll enjoy the upcoming conference at least as much as you enjoyed last year's.

And here you thought we'd been sitting by the pool, relaxing all summer long!

Looking forward to sharing more fantastic news as details develop...in the meantime, remember to spread the word about PICA with your insurance communications colleagues or maybe even with a past attendee you've lost track of.

The bottom line is that with a the best speakers, great location, reasonable pricing and fantastic interaction with some truly innovative insurance communicators, why would anyone want to miss another year?

More to come!

Press Release - Exciting!

Good afternoon! Today, our press release went out to our members, friends and industry associates. We hope you'll join us in welcoming our two newest board members - Carol Watson and Becky Marshall. Becky and Carol are enthusiastic and willing to help and we believe that they are going to do great things to help lead PICA, Inc. into the future. A big thank you to both of them for stepping up to the plate and for their willingness to volunteer their time (and their companies' time) to our organization.

Also, our press release asks for people to check out the new and improved PICA homepage as well as this page. Let's hope that our sites will get visitors curious about what we're up to! Remember our goal to increase membership and to expand conference attendance in 2009. The more professional insurance communicators we have, the better the learning. Learning from each other is one of the best benefits to membership!

Your advisory committee will confer next week to talk about the 2009 conference location and topics. More news to follow!