Tom Browning on Vote Yes on 110

Vote Yes on Proposition 110 to protect our Arizona military installations. This is a great message from my friend and former boss, Brigadier General Tom Browning, USAF (Retired). Tom is a Veteran and former POW, as well as the former commander of Luke Air Force Base, and the retired CEO of Greater Phoenix Leadership.

Joan Koerber-Walker Named CEO of the Arizona BioIndustry Association

Date:
3/23/2011

Contact: 
Christine McAuliffe, Chairman of the Board
cmcauliffe@polsinelli.com | (602) 650-2061
Joan Koerber-Walker, President and CEO
JKW@AZBio.org | (480) 332-9636
Arizona BioIndustry Association
SkySong
1475 N. Scottsdale Road, Suite 200
Scottsdale, AZ 85257
480.884.1575 | www.azbio.org

Catalyst for Growth – AZ Bio moves forward with new CEO and an aggressive agenda

Joan Koerber-Walker announced as CEO of the Arizona BioIndustry Association
 

Scottsdale Arizona

March 23, 2011

Joan Koerber-Walker

The Arizona BioIndustry Association, the unified voice of Arizona’s growing bioscience industry, today announced the hiring of Joan Koerber-Walker who joins the state-wide organization as President and CEO of AZBio effective immediately. “As its new leader, Joan Koerber-Walker brings a fresh perspective, leadership and the experience needed to move our organization forward faster” shared Christine McAuliffe, AZBio Board Chair and shareholder at Polsinelli and Shughart in Phoenix. “The board was in unanimous agreement that Joan has the right combination of experience, skills and talent needed to support our organization and our members as together we grow.”

With a mission to make Arizona a place where bioscience organizations can grow and succeed, AZBio is comprised of member organizations in business, research and education, economic development, government, and other professions involved in the biosciences. AZBio provides a forum for the bioscience community to join together with a unified voice, educating policy makers and the public, influencing public policy, and advancing the economic interests of individual organizations as well as the sector as a whole. By enabling private sector innovation, collaborating with Arizona’s universities and research institutions, and supporting economic growth throughout the state, AZBio provides the catalyst for growth of Arizona’s bioindustry organizations and through them the opportunity for more high quality job opportunities for Arizonans.

No stranger in Arizona’s leadership community, Koerber-Walker became active in Arizona’s business community in 2002, when she left a successful career as an executive at Avnet, Inc. to found CorePurpose, Inc. where she continues to serve as Chairman. For the past nine years she has been active in the community, working with businesses of all sizes to create focused business strategies and resource networks required to execute successfully. In addition to active participation in her own company and as an Executive in Residence at Callaman Ventures, her leadership experience includes past service as a board member and treasurer for RiboMed Biotechnologies, Inc., two years as CEO of the Arizona Small Business Association, on the Board of Trustees of the NSBA in Washington D.C., Chairman of the Advisory Board to Parenting Arizona, the state’s largest parent education and child abuse prevention organization, service on the Board of Directors of the Arizona Technology Council and as Chairman of the Opportunity Through Entrepreneurship Foundation – the host organization for the Arizona Entrepreneurship Conferences which connect Arizona’s entrepreneurial and investor communities with each other and with nationally recognized thought leaders.

“We welcome Joan’s energy and leadership to AZBio” Nina Ossanna, Ph.D., Director, Business Development at the BIO5 Institute, immediate past Chair of AZBio and Chair of the Search Committee, “With her leadership, we look forward to expanding AZBio’s programs that support our member organizations to grow and thrive here in Arizona.”

“Throughout my career, I have been lucky enough to have the opportunity to work with great people and great organizations to achieve goals that others might have thought were difficult or even impossible. Together with the team at AZBio – our employees, our members, and our community partners - we can accelerate the growth of Arizona’s biosciences community and our overall economy.” Koerber-Walker stated. “Opportunity begins with conversations and builds with action. That’s why I am looking forward to asking our biosciences community what they need to get the job done and with their help and support using AZBio as a catalyst to help them make things happen.”

“Our search committee was fortunate in having excellent, well-qualified candidates and finding Joan in that mix,” shared Jack Dean, PhD, Special Advisor, sanofi-aventis and an AZBio Board Member who was instrumental in the search and selection process. “Joan brings to us great experience working with large and small business throughout our state and a passion for success. I anticipate that Joan will re-energize Arizona’s bioindustry and help create a culture that allows us to be recognized for our contribution to biotechnology and translational medicine.”

AZBio will be hosting a number of great events where members of the community can connect, join the conversation and engage including the AZBio Expo, May 6, 2011 at the Sheraton Wild Horse Pass. To learn more visit www.AZBio.org.

Support Local Business - Get Ideas & Help to Grow Yours!

Here is a great way to promote your business for a very low cost! If you're not a business owner… please forward this to your friends who could benefit.

The YOB Fair (Your Own Business Fair) is taking place on March 18th from 8:00am to 4:00pm. Last year this event attracted 1,000 people and this year we are expecting even higher numbers!

This, all-day, FREE event will have tables for vendors, educational forums on current topics, round tables for in-depth discussion and time for networking. This event is being collaboratively put together by the Arizona Commerce Authority, the City of Phoenix, Greater Phoenix SCORE, ASBA, Data Doctors, Franchise Resource Company, Growth Nation, Mojo Video Marketing, NetworkingPhoenix.com, Pivot Productions, Inc., Three Dog Marketing, Urman Enterprises, SBA and SBDC.

Table prices:

• Vendor Exhibition Space: $250 
• Exhibition space with 1/2 day Roundtble: $350
• Exhibition space with full day Roundtble: $450
• Round table only for 1/2 day: $200  full day: $300.

To register or to purchase Exhibition Space, please visit www.scorephoenix.org. For Roundtable Space or further information, call 602-745-7250 (Monday - Friday from 9:00am to 1:00pm) or email Maryanne@gustare.com.

REGISTER HERE!

 



If you can't join us as an exhibitor, please join us as an attendee! Click on the flyer below for more info.

Barbara Daniels named a finalist in the Social Media AZ Awards (SMAZZIES)!

Congratulations! You are a finalist in the Social Media AZ Awards (SMAZZIES)!

The SMAZZIES are part of the Social Media AZ (SMAZ) conference, and celebrate the new and exciting things going on around Arizona in the online world. You were nominated in one of our categories by someone who thinks you're doing something pretty exciting, and we're thrilled to help share that exciting work.

The SMAZ conference is happening on September 9th at the MADCAP Theaters in Tempe. The final voting is happening via a panel of independent judges, and winners will be announced that night. As a finalist, you receive a pair of tickets to the conference so you and a guest can spend the day meeting local news media professionals, enjoy the great sessions we have planned, and attend the award ceremony.

You can learn more about SMAZ at http://socialmediaaz.org and more about the SMAZZIES at http://smazzies.com. We hope to see you at SMAZ, and thank you for all your great work representing Arizona online!

The SMAZZIES Team - Jennifer Maggiore, Jeff Moriarty and Fred Von Graf

FINALISTS:

Must Follow – The blog, twitter, or online presence you can’t get enough of

• Arizona Highway Patrol Association
• CenPho.com
• WeBuildYourSocialMedia
• Museum Association of Arizona

Business That Gets It – Non-industry company (not a social media/marketing entity) who demonstrates creative and proficient use of social media

• The Farm at South Mountain
• Eric Neitzel
• Lumension
• KOLD News 13
• Liberty Market
• Mesa Historical Museum

Most Social Use Of Social Media – Best/most innovative use of technology to connect to people in person

• The Heard Museum
• Rustler’s Rooste
• Katie Fox
• Liberty Market

Trailblazer – Out there doing cutting edge things, changing the way people work or think in the social media space

• Kevin Gawthrope
• Jessica Northey
• Bulbstorm
• Barbara Daniels

Up and Coming – Most notable freelance individual or agency that is notably improving its offering

• Cesar Gamez
• Blue Sky Interactive Group, LLC
• Ashley Oakes
• Villageous LLC

Homegrown Can Of Awesome – Most interesting / promising start up business, technology or tool from right here in AZ

• Phoenix Zoo
• Twestival Phoenix
• Lily Wang & Braden Andreas
• Eric Neitzel
• Bulbstorm
• Michael Tucker

Connecting is in our DNA

Someone asked me the other day, what is it that I love about Social Media? Well, I guess I love the connecting part to start off with - it's in our DNA. I've always been a networker, and I enjoy meeting new people. I've tried to make a point of staying connected with people I've had the opportunity to collaborate with over the years, which is probably why my social network is so large. I also like the engagement aspect of Social Media. I enjoy listening to the conversations that go on in the social web and the opportunities that are created for engagement in the conversation. I find people fascinating and I think it's great how openly they share their passion with others in online discussions. I also like the opportunities for collaboration that Social Media presents in both our personal lives as well as in business. The sharing of best practices, ideas and energy between people is phenomenal. People are more willing to share their successes and failures now more than ever before. The educational value from this alone, is tremendous. Consider the hundreds of thousands of dollars that companies have paid to consultants over the years, to tell them what their customers will tell them now for free, all they have to do is listen. This is the power of Social Media.


I believe that together, we can achieve more than any one could achieve alone; therefore, only by working together, can we produce the best possible results. Social Media is simply a set of tools that creates the possibility to get there. I love it!

Thanks for reading and hope you enjoyed the post.

JOB ALERT - Are you an Arizona Web Developer looking to excel at an amazing company?

Metro Studios is seeking an individual who will be instrumental in the growth and success of our Phoenix, Arizona web operations.

This opportunity is aimed at the person who takes pride in a quality product by providing intense problem solving skills and thrives when working closely with great clients.

As a full-time position in our Phoenix, Arizona office, we seek the candidate with 3+ years of experience in Web Development, with advanced knowledge of PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, CSS and XHTML.

Your professional approach with our valued customers and your creative ideas will be valued by all of us at Metro Studios.

Email Resume to Kirk Hayden, VP/Co-Owner, Metro Studios: kirk@metrostudios.net

Little things to do every day - just keeping it fun!

Have you you added your social media profiles to your email signature?  Do you use it when you comment on blogs?  Have you added video to your website?  ...your Facebook?  ...your blog?  Do you upload and share your latest presentations?  Did you remember to tweet about them?  There are tons of little things you can do every day to enhance your presence in the social web.  Developing routines can help make the day-to-day challenges of keeping up in the social web a little easier, while leaving you more time to just have fun making connections and keeping them.

A tool I really love that helps keep me organized is XeeSM. It allows me to keep all of my Social Media profiles stored in one easily accessible place.  I just use my personal XeeSM url to direct my connections to a single place to find me. It is an amazing time-saver!

2010 Recruitment Strategies for Success hosted by Jobing.com

Social Networking for Today's Phoenix Employment Marketers
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010
8:00am - 5:00pm

With over 350 million active users on Facebook and Twitter growing exponentially, social media and its power as a recruiting tool has become too large to ignore. Although creating a recruitment strategy that incorporates these new tools can seem like a daunting task, we've compiled the most experienced professionals in social media to ensure that you succeed in this process. Integrating Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms into your recruitment process can seem overwhelming.
Join fellow Phoenix industry leaders at the Social Networking for Today's Phoenix Employment Marketers Recruitment Symposium to learn:

• How-to Use Social Media to build relationships and recruit top talent
• The importance of online employment marketing and branding to your recruitment strategies
• How to monitor and manage online conversations
• Current recruitment and employment marketing trends in Phoenix

In Phoenix's competitive recruitment world, any advantage could mean the difference between finding a perfect candidate in a timely fashion and spending months sifting through unqualified resumes. You can't afford to miss this local and cost effective opportunity to learn from local professionals, leaders and experts in your community about social networking and how to make it a successful and measurable tool to find great local talent.

Keynote Speaker

Jeff Hunter
Vice President of HR Solutions, Dolby Laboratories - BOSE

Jeff Hunter is an award-winning technologist, strategist, author, and entrepreneur. He currently serves as the vice president of HR Solutions at Dolby... (more...)

Social Media for Nonprofits

Presentation given at:

AVACA Meeting
October 8, 2009
Phoenix, AZ
Social Media for Nonprofits

View more presentations from Barbara Daniels.

LinkedIn Live Phoenix!

Join Me For LinkedIn Live Phoenix! Thursday, July 9, 2009, 5:30-8:30 pm at Crowne Plaza

Barbara A. Daniels, LION™ TopLinked™ [3,500+] is attending LinkedIn Live Phoenix on LinkedIn Events and thought you might be interested in going!

http://events.linkedin.com/LinkedIn-Live-Phoenix/pub/83111

LinkedIn Live Phoenix
Thursday, July 9, 2009
5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.

Crowne Plaza
4300 E. Washington Street
Phoenix, AZ 85034

Event website: http://www.phoenixsocialmediaevents.com

US Keywords: LinkedIn, Marketing, Social Media, Phoenix, Twitter, Business, Networking, Mesa, Chandler, Scottsdale, Tempe, Glendale, Facebook, Chris Kokalis

Come and join us for LinkedIn Live. Our goal is to connect as many people as possible and show them the power of LinkedIn. Networking, LinkedIn tips, and much more!

This is a great way for you to network and build relationships with other LinkedIn users. Featuring FREE professional head shots for attendees.

http://events.linkedin.com/LinkedIn-Live-Phoenix/pub/83111

Hope to see you there!

"Together we will prosper only when we are willing to reach out and help each other; Social Media is the road that can get us there."

Your thoughts? ... What role do you believe social media will play in the future of nonprofits and fundraising?

- Barbara A. Daniels, Managing Director/CEO for The Caffe Publishing Group, LLC


COMMENTS:

“Great statement Barbara. I just saw this here. I like the analogy of the read. Like with all reads it is ours to take it and use it to. It is up to us to share it with others and keep it safe. And if somebody strands on the side it is up to us to help each other. But we all have to walk it ourselves. We may take wrong exits take wrong routes and will get lost. So we help each other to find our goals.

Like with all roads they only get us to a target location if we know where we want to go.”
- Axel Schultze, Creating a better customer experience - one ecosystem at a time.

Thank you, Axel, for your very insightful comments. I like the way you think. I am truly looking forward to getting to know you better and learning more about your vision through the Social Media Academy.

Signed, your humble student
- Barbara Daniels, Managing Director/CEO for The Caffe Publishing Group, LLC

“I love this statement and this philosophy. As a business lecturer at San Francisco State University, I have been blessed with the opportunity to immerse myself in the SMM [Social Media Marketing] Revolution/Evolution. It has been exciting and rewarding to bring this knowledge to my students who will make IT all happen as they enter the Business World.

To help me spread the word, many Bay Area professionals in advertising, marketing, and PR have graciously given their time to speak in my classes. We all seem to believe that this Conversation is (a) what social media is all about and (b) exactly the change of direction we need to move us all forward into a brighter future.”
- Shari Weiss, Consultant for Social Media Marketing

“Thank you, Shari, for your wonderful comments and feedback. I'm so glad to hear that you are teaching the ways of Social Media to the next generation; although at times, I believe they are teaching us... Young people seem to "get it" all too well, and they are fearless. I'm always surprised when I run into intelligent business people, at meetings, conferences, etc. that seem so afraid of Social Media. I really do believe it is the wave of the future... and not taking advantage of the opportunity will only hold them back. I am so impressed with the new Mindshare Report - finally, something tangible that really quantifies the impact of social media on business. I am highly recommending it to everyone I know, especially the ‘non-believers’."
- Barbara Daniels, Managing Director/CEO for The Caffe Publishing Group, LLC

“We need concerted efforts to unite and take full advantage of the role of the media, use of the media to the platform called for more people to join our ranks at the same time, also let them know that people in difficulty and for those in need of help people will do more to help themselves! “
- Bluse Lin, Student

“Hello Bluse Lin, thank you for your comments. I totally agree.”
- Barbara Daniels, Managing Director/CEO for The Caffe Publishing Group, LLC

“Social media will play a major role in the future of nonprofits and fundraising. It is a way to reach the masses quicker than traditional forms of communication. Also through the use of social media you are able to extend your reach through your network.”
- Jody McPhearson, Relationship Manager at Scottsdale Area Chamber of Commerce

“Thank you, Jody, for your response. I agree that Social Media will play a major role in the future of nonprofit fundraising, as well as event promotion, volunteer coordination, garnering resources and support, and long-term sustainability. We have become a virtual society. The speed with which we may communicate through the Internet and Social Media has become a pipeline that will continue to grow and become the ‘standard’ for doing business in the future.”
- Barbara Daniels, Managing Director/CEO for The Caffe Publishing Group, LLC

“Barbara, I totally agree, I don't look at social media as first playing in my economic future but in society's economic future. Without building up society's economic future nobody's economic future will be enhanced.

The beauty of TRUE SOCIAL MEDIA is we the people have the power to actually empower and invoke change, with our talents in this uncertain economic time, with our talents not only in social media but in every industry we have been lucky enough to prosper in the past.

We cannot depend on Government to build jobs or an economy to secure our future, all of us who are fortunate enough to be where we are at must do this by training; building and creating solutions/services that jump start our economy once again.

Most of us on here are from the days when we saw this happen at one point and all it will take is another cycle and now it is our turn to be at the forefront and to rely on those who are veterans from the past "cycles" to get us all rolling.

Social Media is one aspect that can instigate this but we cannot ignore our predecessors that have lived through past historic times like these....one thing I know is that I don't know because I lack experience that cannot be taught it has to earned and learned through time. So many companies have cut the most valuable resources, those seasoned people who hold something money or the next new ''fad" cannot replace...and that is experience.

What is unique about Social Media is we can promote and recruit faster but not forget those who truly know what we don't and integrate the two and meet in the middle. The technology and tools change but basic concepts and “revolutions don’t.” I.E. Agricultural Revolution, Industrial Revolution, Technology Revolution, this one we are in not named yet buy sociologists

This same concept holds true in society, we have put our most experienced members of society out to pasture and diluted the respect level down to nothing. With this practice, the concept of "love thy neighbor" and "protect the innocent" has lost a lot of meaning. Companies put these most experienced members out to pastures as well, except at the very top and again created a sub culture that our inexperience and lack of mentorship didn't prepare us for. We forgot about humanity and allowed ourselves to get into this situation.

In summary, Respect and Loyalty has changed, companies lay off at the direction of wall street, and families uproot and move for jobs only to be out of work sometimes six months later....sometimes causing total destruction of these families. When was it that we put all our eggs in an entity and not our generations of family? When was it we stopped caring about those who really had it worse off than us? When was it that we forgot what community was because the companies that let go of employees in the thousands, due to wall street reactions, pushing jobs overseas or worse yet, bad behaviors that made a false sense of economic safety net...that was never a community and wow did that go away quickly and what was left? How many people have suffered emotional breakdowns because their "sense of community" was that company that had what loyalty to them?

I think this is what you are trying to say in your post, once we are willing to reach out and help one another...Again, we have a wonderful tool to use: Social Media but the Recipe to properly engage in your wonderful concept needs a few more "ingredients" from our Society.....and the great news is:

All of the ingredients are in the pantry, waiting to be pulled out, they are already there....go outside today and look around...because Barbara Daniels is correct: Social Media is the road/tool/cake where each of us will prosper personally, spiritually and make our world a better place. Naturally then the economy too will follow.

We just need to use all of the ingredients and feed it to all of society.”
- Bonnie Murphy, Marketing Professional specializing in online & traditional marketing, Real Estate and software branding.

“Thank you, Bonnie, for your very thought provoking response. It is clear that you took the time to sincerely consider my quote and question. I believe that Social Media is a means to bring people together and mend the broken fences between us. I believe people are beginning to understand through Social Media how working together benefits the whole. I am inspired by your comments.”
- Barbara Daniels, Managing Director/CEO for The Caffe Publishing Group, LLC

“I completely agree. We have to in today's world. It is an evolution back to our roots of how the nation and economy was built. Social Media is a catalyst to fast track where we have lost contact and the ability to see the people we need to see to grow.”
- Cheri Hull, Leader, team player, business developer with entrepreneurial spirit

“Thank you, Cheri, for your great comments! We're all in this together... working together - growing together. It's about building relationships. We are all connected in some way - social media is about keeping that connection open, and keeping our economy thriving. It's teamwork at its best!”
- Barbara Daniels, Managing Director/CEO for The Caffe Publishing Group, LLC

“Barbara - Interesting question and I actually do not agree entirely if by "social media" you mean the typical technologies of Web 2.0 that foster collaboration and community, online.

Lest you think I'm a Luddite, I joined LinkedIn on March 13, 2004 (less than a year after launch) and more than 20 years ago wrote an email program that also allowed for instant messaging.

We’re in 100% agreement that "we will prosper only when we are willing to reach out and help each other". I think social media is a phenomenal tool that dramatically accelerates what happens naturally and has happened for millennia, which is that a community (or tribe, or network) is more resilient and powerful when it grows and each member prospers.

However, it is still just a tool, and since it is computer-based it is limited just as any other technology (even phone) that does not allow for face-to-face communications.

Personally, I think you need both social media for Fast networking, and face-to-face channels for SLOW networking. Fast networking are actions that give you breadth and numbers, whereas SLOW networking gives you depth and quality.”
- Raoul Encinas, Business & Organizational Transformation Executive - Technology, Services, Projects

“Thank you, Raoul, for sharing your thoughts on Social Media. I look at Social Media as a tool as well, and I totally agree that it does not replace face-to-face communications - only that it helps to make the opportunity of face-to-face communications more available and more reachable. The 'tool' as you explained, is only a means in which we may use to connect to each other; yet still a very powerful means.”
- Barbara Daniels, Managing Director/CEO for The Caffe Publishing Group, LLC

Thank you to all who responded to the LinkedIn™ discussions – let the conversation continue…

- Barbara Daniels, Managing Director/CEO for The Caffe Publishing Group, LLC