Welcome to our first edition of our quarterly newsletter - The Elation. Elation means great happiness, exhilaration, joy and delight. As the name suggests, we hope our publication will be filled with good news for our members.
Firstly, to bring AMSA into the 21st century, our website has been given a much needed facelift in April this year. Go to www.amsa.com.au to see the change for yourself.
The new website offers many useful features such as being able to: ·join or renew our membership online ·register for events and pay online via paypal ·view upcoming events ·view photos from past events ·read past newsletters ·advertise job vacancies that only members can access (work in progress) ·advertise in the
business directory ·show your business logo in the home page and business directory ·take advantage of members' only discounts offered by selective restaurants, and specials offered by our own members
,you can also join us on Facebook, Linkedin, and Meetup. We take this opportunity to welcome our new corporate members and sponsors: Platinum Members The Grace Hotel, Sydney Sydney School of Protocol - Asians in Australia China HR (Australia) Papparich Australia Frances Madden Jazz Band Diamond Members ANZ Bank Sponsors Medibank St George Bank Central Equity Papparich Australia
Please save the date for our upcoming events: 30th August - Bushwalking in Lane Cove National Park 13th September - Walking from Collaroy Beach to Manly Wharf 23rd September - Business Networking Event (City Location to be confirmed) 11th October - Bushwalk. Details TBA. Open to suggestions. 24th October - Annual Gala Dinner (the Party of the Year) - The
Eight Restaurant
Please look out for our announcements of the upcoming events.
In the coming months, we will be working on a few exciting developments which will bring significant benefits to our members:
Launching our Jobs Portal which will offer employment opportunities (Login and password to the website is only for the Jobs Portal ). Wait for further announcements.
Running information seminars on health, aged care, migration (how to settle into Australia), social
benefits for families and children, and retraining/career change
Running more variety of social networking events
Offering more speaking and marketing opportunities for corporate members and sponsors.
We welcome all nationalities to AMSA. If you had been to our events, met some new people, made some good contacts, formed new friendships, and had a good time, please help us invite more friends and relatives to join our future events. We want AMSA to be the meeting place in Sydney. With support from more members, we hope to grow into a large community association.
Last but not least, we want to thank all our members and sponsors for supporting our events.
We always welcome more volunteers to assist the Executive Committee with organising our events as all the committee members are volunteers with full-time jobs, businesses to run and families to look after. To volunteer, please send your details to vp.social@amsa.com.au.
AMSA INC, PO Box 892 Chatswood NSW 2067, Australia
