Upcoming Events Archived Events Before and After: Oct 20 - Oct 19 - Sept 29

SME Morning Workshop & Luncheon

Location: Metropolitan Ballroom, 5418 Wayzata Blvd. Minneapolis
Directions: www.damicocatering.com

Contributor Roundtable: Want to contribute an article to Ventures magazine? Managing editor Catherine Conlan will talk to potential contributors about how to make that happen. She also will talk about her column, the popular Real Life, which closes each issue.

Financial Roundtable: Melissa Metzler, associate editor of research, writes Finance This and Private Eye every month in Ventures, two popular columns that offer how-to advice for business owners searching for financing. She'll talk about how she covers the money beat.

Tech Roundtable: Liz Brissett, staff writer and web editor, is well-known in Twin Cities tech circles for her column, The Circuit, and for coverage of tech companies in every issue's tech section. You'll want to be in her Palm Pilot.

Industry Focus Roundtable: staff writer Benno Groeneveld reports different industry trends, from technology to human resources to meetings to education, each month in the Focus section. Hear how to make Chat Room; his question-and-answer column that opens the Focus, and discusses how your company might fit into one of his feature articles.

Luncheon Presentation
The Truth About Media Jackals: How to get reporters and editors to write about your company
Beth Ewen, editor-in-chief, Ventures Magazine

Editor-in-Chief Beth Ewen will demystify the process of getting business reporters and editors to cover your company, a process that attendees can put to work at any publication.

Veteran business journalist Beth Ewen is editor-in-chief of Ventures magazine, CityBusiness, and Fact Book, where she directs all editorial operations. She was founding editor of Ventures magazine, launched in 1998. She has created and launched other original publications and projects, including 100 Years in Minnesota Business: A History of Local Companies, and Great Places to Work, the only statistical ranking of Minnesota's best employers.

She was assistant managing editor for business and consumer news at the Chicago Sun-Times, the eighth-largest daily newspaper in the United States. Prior to that she was editor of CityBusiness, where she helped to lead its transformation from biweekly to weekly frequency. She was also a writer and editor at national financial magazines published in Denver, and has published work as a ghost writer, speechwriter, and article writer in more than a dozen popular and academic publications.

Ewen's publications hold numerous awards, including the Society of Professional Journalists Sweepstakes Award "for producing the highest percentage of award-winning journalism by a Minnesota news organization," and gold awards for general excellence. Ewen has received a Minnesota Page One award for editorial writing, and national business press awards for general publication excellence, reporting, and column writing.

Ewen, 39, holds an M.A. in public policy and journalism from the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville, and a B.A. in journalism and English literature from the University of Minnesota-Minneapolis