Mark your calendar: coast-to-coast professional development

• Web Weekend Toronto is Saturday, November 29 and November 30, 2008 (Saturday & Sunday) at Centennial College, The Centre for Creative Communications, 951 Carlaw Avenue, Toronto. It's an intensive, hands-on marketing program created specifically for magazine professionals. Fees are $495 for Magazines Canada members, $595 for non-members, including all coffee breaks, lectures, seminars, course materials and more, with lunch and breakfast provided on both days. Accommodation is not included. [More]
• National Magazine Awards -- entries will be accepted starting December 1, with this year's deadline January 9. Not too soon to start assembling the entries. This includes the Best Student Writer award.
• Unlimited magazine and the Chartered Accountants of Alberta are presented Unlisted Summit, November 30 - December 2 at the Banff Centre. It's a professional development conference for Canada's top 20 - 35-year-old professionals and entrepreneurs. For more information.
• You built it but do they come? with Martin White. A travelling seminar presented by Magazines Canada in collaboration with the British Columbia Association of Magazine Publishers (BCAMP) is to be held December 10, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Delta Victoria Ocean Pointe Resort and Spa, 45 Songhees Road, Victoria. An intensive one-day workshop on increasing magazines' website traffic, subscribers and revenue. Fee is $110 for Magazines Canada and BCAMP members; $190 for non-members. For more information.
• Small magazine workshops from Magazines Canada and the Atlantic Magazine Association. December 10 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Concurrent sessions, take your pick: Design principles, with Dave Donald; or Making the sale, with Gwen Dunant. Free for members of the AMA; $75 for others; $20 for students. For more information.