PWAC Regional Seminar - Doing Business with the Government of Canada

Doing Business with the Government of Canada
PWAC Prairies and the North Regional Seminar
Friday September 6, 1:00-3:00 pm
Alternate: Tuesday August 27, 2:00-4:00 pm

Start your fall off right by exploring how to successfully sell your writing services to the federal government.  Darlene Chuka, Supply Team Leader with the Office of Small and Medium Enterprises (OSME), will offer this special free seminar to PWAC Prairies and the North region members who are interested in learning about the procurement process and how to sell goods and services to the Government of Canada. Members, associate members, and student members are welcome to attend.

Each member will be able to log in at his or her computer terminal, at the specified date and time, in a flexible webinar-style setting. At the same time, members from the same chapter will hear the information, have a chance to ask questions that target it to our region, and be able to discuss the information together afterwards, to get maximum benefit from the seminar.

Seminar topics include:

• Overview of the contracting process
• Registering in supplier databases
• Finding key purchasing contacts
• Conducting market research through searching previously awarded contracts
• Searching for opportunities on the Tenders mini site
• Finding subcontracting opportunities
• Obtaining security clearances
• Bidding on opportunities

To register, please send an email with the subject "Seminar registration" including the preferred date, your name, company name, email address, and phone number, to Marie Powell at pwacprairies@gmail.com

Please respond by August 15 so we can set up the seminar details.

PWAC-Sask Professional Development: Freelance Success Secrets

The Professional Writers' Association of Canada (PWAC), Saskatchewan chapter, would like to invite you to an upcoming professional development workshop in Regina.

  

When:  Saturday, Jan 21 · 1pm - 4pm
Where: Room 178 at Riddell Centre

            University of Regina

            Regina, SK

Get the clients, income and lifestyle you want. Learn how to market your artistic services. Make more prospects say “yes” and create new streams of income from your artistic medium. PWAC member, Kelly-Anne Riess is a professional writer who has written for such publications as the Globe and Mail and Canadian Geographic.  She has also written for television, and has several large corporate clients. She is the author of three books and has been shortlisted for a Saskatchewan Lieutenant Governor’s Award. She also received a University of Saskatchewan Outstanding Young Alumni Award.

Cost: PWAC members: No charge (if attending meeting after the workshop)
Non-PWAC-members: $20
IABC and EAC members: $15
Students: $10Space is limited so please register early. To register, please send your name, mailing address, email address, telephone number, and affiliated organization if any, to pwacprairies@gmail.com. Please use "Registration for Jan. 21" in the subject line. Fees will be collected at the door, and receipts issued. Please note: If registrants are unable to attend, please email to cancel in advance or you may be billed for the cost after the date.

Sponsored by the Centre for the Study of Script Development.

To learn more about the Professional Writers' Association of Canada, visit www.pwac.ca.