We hope this note finds you ready for Christmas both spiritually and mentally ... considering all the consumer, career and relationship stresses that this season is loaded with!
And a happy holiday season to everyone who may not be celebrating Christmas, but has other celebrations to observe or just enjoy over this period.
Here is a Christmas gift that you can give to me ...
Send this blog to a fellow MSVU grad, make a comment or a posting or donate a pair of tickets or something so that we can or have a contest or draw and get some folks together in January!
If you are interested in being a contributing author to this blog, please leave a comment and we will be in touch!
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Mark Sitter moves from Edelman to Sherritt International
This is a short note to let you all know that Friday, December15, will be Mark Sitter's (hey Mark ... I know you are a PR grad, but what year?) last day at Edelman. He has taken a corporate affairsposition with Sherritt International, a diversified resources companybased in Toronto. His first day will be January 8, 2007. Good luck getting settled Mark, congrats on the new gig and please pass along your contact dets when you move in.
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If you are interested in being a contributing author to this blog, please leave a comment and we will be in touch!
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
What Might Be Valuable to MSVU Toronto Alumnae
I have started to think about this, wondering how to activate and engage this group in a meaningful way.
I have started to borrow the brains of a few friends asking questions like ...
What is the best women's networking group in Toronto? What do they do for their members?
What are some of the best activities that alumnae associations from U of T, Western, etc. offer?
What do you get from you alumnae association?
What does it take for people to make a break from their locked in routines (busy yes, but isn't all about what actually makes it onto your priority list? Grey's Antatomy or meeting people who do not have an apparent, immediate impact on career and/or family.)
Can you add some questions or answers to this list?
One consistent answer that I get back, and have experienced for myself, is that Toronto is a difficult place to get settled in. This stretches from the basic challenge of getting a job and figuring out where you want to live ... to meeting people, to some of those aspirational goals like developing a social network of consequence that can help orchestrate business relationships, contribute to fundraising help to spread buzz about an event or new resturant.
There are 700 MSVU alumnae in the GTA. No one can answer the question ... what is the geographic distribution of this population, unless we start to share this information voluntarily.
There must be at least 100 Public Relations grads (of which I am one) out there. This should be a group that can see the benefits of getting together and is positioned to make the organising as painless as possible.
Anywhoo ... the bottomline is, I wonder how could we do something together that is cool?
If you are interested in being a contributing author to this blog, please leave a comment and we will be in touch!
I have started to borrow the brains of a few friends asking questions like ...
What is the best women's networking group in Toronto? What do they do for their members?
What are some of the best activities that alumnae associations from U of T, Western, etc. offer?
What do you get from you alumnae association?
What does it take for people to make a break from their locked in routines (busy yes, but isn't all about what actually makes it onto your priority list? Grey's Antatomy or meeting people who do not have an apparent, immediate impact on career and/or family.)
Can you add some questions or answers to this list?
One consistent answer that I get back, and have experienced for myself, is that Toronto is a difficult place to get settled in. This stretches from the basic challenge of getting a job and figuring out where you want to live ... to meeting people, to some of those aspirational goals like developing a social network of consequence that can help orchestrate business relationships, contribute to fundraising help to spread buzz about an event or new resturant.
There are 700 MSVU alumnae in the GTA. No one can answer the question ... what is the geographic distribution of this population, unless we start to share this information voluntarily.
There must be at least 100 Public Relations grads (of which I am one) out there. This should be a group that can see the benefits of getting together and is positioned to make the organising as painless as possible.
Anywhoo ... the bottomline is, I wonder how could we do something together that is cool?
If you are interested in being a contributing author to this blog, please leave a comment and we will be in touch!
Monday, November 20, 2006
MSVU Toronto Alumnae - Count Me In
I think it's a great idea to see if you can gather us all up in one place! Let me know if you need volunteers to help coordinate things.
What to do? What to do? What 2Do?
Hey ... so a few months back, during the course of work, I noticed the feature on business networking site LinkedIn that let's you find people who went to your school.
I surfed around there for a bit and came across an old friend that I had completely lost touch with. We have exchanged some email, caught up on family & biz info and she has introduced me to a colleague of her's that lives around the corner from me.
Not too long later I received an invitation to a MSVU alum event at the Bata Shoe Museum. I went, drank a few glasses of wine with a bunch of people I had never met before, but who had gone to the Mount and had a pretty good time.
And a couple of weeks ago I ran into someone from the Mount in the subway. Someone who I knew, though we never really travelled in the same circles while we were at school, but who apparently lives about four blocks from me ... I was supposed to text my email addie to her, but I screwed up when I tried to save her phone number.
Anywhoo ... apparently there are about 700 MSVU alum in the GTA. So this blog is a bit of a flyer to see who is out there, start to generate some conversation and see what happens.
I went recently to a couple of the Toronto Alumnae Association meetings. As you probabably have envisioned, these meetings are steep with the history of the Mount. There is a small group of women who have been involved for years. What strikes me most about the group dynamics is that you have a group who come from a very wide variety of backgrounds, yet who are connected in someway. Over the years they appear to have shared a part of their lives.
This seems valuable to me.
I would appreciate it if you forward this around to anyone who went to the Mount so that we can eventually spread it virally to as many in Toronto as possible.
Take care.
If you are interested in being a contributing author to this blog, please leave a comment at we will be in touch!
I surfed around there for a bit and came across an old friend that I had completely lost touch with. We have exchanged some email, caught up on family & biz info and she has introduced me to a colleague of her's that lives around the corner from me.
Not too long later I received an invitation to a MSVU alum event at the Bata Shoe Museum. I went, drank a few glasses of wine with a bunch of people I had never met before, but who had gone to the Mount and had a pretty good time.
And a couple of weeks ago I ran into someone from the Mount in the subway. Someone who I knew, though we never really travelled in the same circles while we were at school, but who apparently lives about four blocks from me ... I was supposed to text my email addie to her, but I screwed up when I tried to save her phone number.
Anywhoo ... apparently there are about 700 MSVU alum in the GTA. So this blog is a bit of a flyer to see who is out there, start to generate some conversation and see what happens.
I went recently to a couple of the Toronto Alumnae Association meetings. As you probabably have envisioned, these meetings are steep with the history of the Mount. There is a small group of women who have been involved for years. What strikes me most about the group dynamics is that you have a group who come from a very wide variety of backgrounds, yet who are connected in someway. Over the years they appear to have shared a part of their lives.
This seems valuable to me.
I would appreciate it if you forward this around to anyone who went to the Mount so that we can eventually spread it virally to as many in Toronto as possible.
Take care.
If you are interested in being a contributing author to this blog, please leave a comment at we will be in touch!
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