Australasia - Punching above its Weight

This week the Australasian Affiliate tipped over to 600 members and with that became the largest single grouping within IAP2 at this time. They are holding their conference in Fremantle Western Australia in October and the program is available at www.iap2.org.au

The Australasian Affiliate have members from coast to coast and regularly gather in the capital cities of each State across the nation. Last week in Adelaide members gathered to learn more about communication and marketing in public engagement and the week before in Melbourne on climate change. Coming up soon in New Zealand members will be learning from Stacey Barr about measuring meaningful engagement after the standing room only webinar that was held last month.

Australasian members were also on hand assisting in the crafting and gave its support (and a city name) to the Brisbane Declaration on Community Engagement back in 2005 and still influencing decision-makers.

Australasian members will be presenting at this year's International Conference in San Diego as well - check out the program at www.iap2.org and see who is going to be there.

Congratulations to everyone in IAP2 Australasia!