travel media association of canada

CALL FOR PHOTOGRAPHS - To All Media Members:

TMAC would like to feature YOUR work on www.travelmedia.ca.

If you are interested, please send low resolution images of your favourite travel pictures, taken by you, to: info@travelmedia.ca.

Please include a brief description of where the photograph was taken.

Images will be part of the website rotating banner to ensure a variety of members' work is displayed. If your photograph is selected, you will be notified.

Image Spec:

- Low resolution (72 pixel/inch)
- Maximum six images
- Jpeg format
- Landscape
- Minimum 768 pixel by 154 pixel

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact info@travelmedia.ca.

ADVERTISE YOUR ORGANIZATION IN THE TMAC HANDBOOK - Industry Members: What's a great way to raise your profile with TMAC members?

Take out an ad in the TMAC Handbook! It's affordable, targeted, and helps support a great organization.

Again this year we've got a variety of advertising options, from as little as $400 - and even the back cover (in colour) is only $2,500 for a whole year on the desk and in the eyes of Canada's premier travel media.

If you're interested in a display ad, please find out more at http://www.travelmedia.ca/r_handbook.shtml. Deadline for space reservation is February 12, 2010.

Thanks for your support of our handbook, which many members tell me is "front and centre" on their desks!

CALLING ALL PUBLIC RELATIONS COMPANIES! - Why not expand your profile easily and affordably by listing your clients individually in the TMAC Handbook? That way, when media members are searching out contact information for your clients, they needn't know by heart everyone's client list.

For example, I don't imagine every TMAC member knows that I rep the island of Anguilla. So each year I make the modest investment of $25 and Anguilla gets its own listing in the Directory, referring readers to my company, Tourism Marketing International.

These days, $25 doesn't buy much (as we all know!) but it can make your clients easier to access - and easier to give coverage to - in the TMAC Handbook.

The order form is attached: http://www.travelmedia.ca/r_handbook.shtml.

Thanks for your support of our handbook, which many members tell me is "the bible" of the organization!

UPDATE YOUR MEMBER PROFILE - Please update your profile on the TMAC website to ensure that the most updated information appears in the 2010 handbook. Go to: www.travelmedia.ca. Click on either the Industry or Media Member tab on the left menu bar and then select "Change your Listing/Information." If you do not remember your login information, click on "Forgotten Password" and enter your email address. The system will send your login information shortly to the email address on file. To upload an image, click on Browse and select the image to be uploaded, then click on "Update Information".

Be sure to:
* indicate any address and email changes
* changes in business information
* update your credits, interests and other information (Media); or
* business description and services available to media (Industry)

NEW REGULATIONS IN PLACE FOR LISTSERV - In an effort to improve the way in which the TMAC listserv is used and increase the number of members who participate, the TMAC board has developed a set of rules that is in keeping with those of other listservs and organizations.

The TMAC listserv serves as an open forum for sharing pertinent information about writing and travel, engaging in discussions and seeking advice. Subscribers can, for example, provide news about members, updated contact information, or information about new books, special writing or film projects underway, awards or recognitions and professional development opportunities.

If members have concerns about TMAC matters, they should direct them to their chapter chair to be addressed, rather than to the listserv. In absence of a chapter chair, members may direct their concerns to the TMAC national president.

Professional decorum is mandated at all times. The moderator will issue a warning to a member who violates a rule. Continuing to violate these rules after a warning is grounds for suspension from the listserv. Any member whose access is suspended will be required to reapply to the moderator to regain listserv privileges.

Listserv rules include the following:

1. Members may not forward listserv messages to an outside forum or publication without the permission of the message's author.

2. No ad hominem attacks, slurs on character, libellous comments or other impoliteness will be tolerated. Anyone who posts material that denigrates a person or his/her views will be subject to a warning.

3. Use a clear subject line for every message. If a discussion thread shifts, change the subject line to reflect the current topic.

4. When replying to a message, only quote the relevant portions of the message.

5. Please remember that hitting "reply" sends messages to the listserv. If the message is of a personal nature, please type the recipient's e-mail address in the "send" line of your e-mail.

The listserv moderator's role is to offer technical support to subscribers and ensure the rules are followed. Moderator Glenn Cameron (glenn@clearcommunications.ca) has graciously offered to stay on in that role.