The Heritage Region Conference ended yesterday and the air travel home was uneventful, probably because I braced myself for delays.

I filled a notebook and have presentation copies rich with good ideas and insights. The speaker line up was excellent and community of professionals outstanding. As tired as I am now, it was definitely time well spent. We did not have much time to blog, however, so we’ll keep posting after the fact to highlight some more of what went on and what we learned.

One very interesting development relates to Heritage Region webinar offerings. You may be aware that the Region started presenting webinars this fall, offering them at a very affordable price (around $80, I believe) and also making them available on playback. Upcoming webinars will feature Catharine Yates of Watson Wyatt, Angela Sinickas, and case stories from Chevron and Merck. Check out www.IABCheritageregion.com for schedules etc.

The Region has also entered an arrangement with Ragan Communications for reduced pricing on their webinars, which really ramps up the professional development options we all have. The discount is a substantial $150 off, the resulting cost is $179. This arrangement also produces some income to fund additional Region projects. To take advantage of it, when you sign up on ragan.com for a webinar, use the preferred customer code HRBC7.  In the Connecticut Chapter, we’ll keep this as a programming option to help further reduce your costs.  Do you see any scheduled webinars beginning in January you’d like us to offer at the chapter level?  Comment here to let us know.

Oh, and to everyone who posted comments but couldn’t see them…we needed to moderate and approve them for posting! Told you we were newbies!