Old media, marketing, agency, PR group kicks off a new networking group with end of year drinks

A wide range of alumni from the media, marketing, agency and PR industries gathered together for Christmas drinks recently at the Brisbane Hotel to catch up and reconnect bringing together many familiar faces from the industry from the last few decades. 

What started as a simple idea to gather old industry mates together in the same place at the same time via an open call-out on social media by Alischa Wunsch from Multiplier Digital, has spearheaded a new Alumni group that plans to hold two events a year called the OMMAPR Group.

Wunsch said, “It’s an idea I’ve had for a few years, as there are so many great people that you get to work with in this industry over the years, but as people move to different roles in or outside of the industry or into freelance work – you don’t get the same opportunity to catch up with them like you used to. So I thought there was a great opportunity for an informal alumni group event to basically catch up with old mates for a few drinks and create a Sunday session type of event.”

“For this first event, we decided to keep it simple and just start with a shout out to the females in the industry that we could connect with via social media to see how it would go. For the fifty who were able to attend it was a huge success and we had a powerhouse of old industry faces all in the one place at the same time for the first time in years, with a unanimous call to do it again.”

“There was at least another fifty who were keen to attend but had other commitments this time – so next time we hope to get the message out wider and earlier and encourage anyone to join us who is keen to. It’s an open invitation to just come along and connect with old friends and make some new ones. If it continues to build over time – our only issue will be finding a venue big enough to accommodate everyone.”

“The name of the group is designed to cover everyone in the industry in all roles from media, marketing, ad agencies, PR and any suppliers that we have dealt with over the years. It’s designed to be all inclusive – so that anyone who feels welcome to join us. We’d definitely like to do an all-encompassing event with all the males and females that have worked in the industry over the years who’d like to catch up – it’s just the logistics of co-ordinating that type and size of event that need to be sorted first and having a platform to connect everyone to rsvp. It would be fun to get everyone in the same place at the same time for drinks and reminisce.” 

The next Old Media, Marketing, Agency, PR Group event is planned to be held in May 2019. A Facebook page has been set up with plans to set up a Facebook group as well. If you are interested in hearing about the next event you can either connect via Facebook – www.facebook.com/ommaprgroup or add your email address to the distribution list by sending an email to ommaprgroup@gmail.com