Media Advisory

Baltimore, MD (PRWEB) May 16, 2006

WHAT:    Women’s Community’s Paul Constantino discusses the Intellectual Property issues at the first annual Online International Virtual Assistance Convention. Her session entitled, “How to Protect Your Intellectual Property,” presents the basic ways in which VAs can protect their intellectual property - website content, unique branding, marketing, tangible trade secrets, and other intangible valuables.

After 10 years of being defined as an “emerging cottage industry,” virtual assistants worldwide will gather together virtually in recognition of the first annual Online International Virtual Assistants Convention (OIVAC), which makes its debut on Thursday, May 18, 2006. Entitled “Pathways to Successful VA Practices,” the Internet-based convention is designed to bring together all virtual assistants for best practices seminars, training workshops, presentations and exhibits. Seminar topics include such diverse topics as “How to retain clients through exceptional customer service” to “Utilizing 21st century technology in a virtual environment to working with international clients”. The convention Coincides with the first annual International Virtual Assistants Day on May 19, 2006.

WHO:    Paula Constantino, as co-founder of Women’s Community, is passionate about helping women in business. Her mission is to share her own expertise with women to help them enhance their business and personal development by harnessing the power of the Internet. Paula is also an attorney who was first a trial attorney and then in-house counsel for a high-tech start-up.

OIVAC is an international convention of Virtual Assistants providing learning, training, networking and information-sharing experience conducive to the hectic schedules of work-at-home and virtual entrepreneurs. For more information contact info@oivac.com or visit the website at http://www.oivac.com.

WHEN:     Saturday, May 20, 2006 at 8:30 a.m.

TOPIC: How to Protect Your Intellectual Property

WHERE:    Online International Virtual Assistants Convention (OIVAC) at http://www.oivac.com

DETAILS:    Join Paula Constantino to learn the basics of when and how to use copyright, trademarks, confidentiality agreements and perhaps even patents to protect creative works and ideas - your intellectual property For more information contact OIVAC chairperson Sharon Williams at (410) 521-7001.

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