2025 Meeting Schedule

Every Thursday’s Meetings start at 6 pm Mountain Time

Important: Meetings are in-person or on Zoom or both. Our in-person meetings are held at Glacier Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 1515 Trumble Creek Rd, Kalispell, MT 59901

Schedule subject to change due to inclement weather. We will update this page.

November 13 – Speaker Series – Host Susan Purvis and Guest
Zoom meeting from 6pm to 8pm Mountain Time

Writers need to think like Entrepreneurs.

In a career spanning over 25 Years, Jamie Robinson has been intimately involved in virtually every aspect of the broadly defined Sports and Entertainment Marketing World. Launching his career as a certified NFL agent, Jamie has negotiated sports and entertainment, merchandising, licensing, and sponsorship agreements totaling in excess of $500,000,000 in commercial enterprise, and created national marketing campaigns on behalf of a number of the nation’s leading marketers and brands including; Hallmark Cards, GAP, Rawlings Sporting Goods, Fanatics.com, Tory Burch, McDonalds, Coca Cola, Dunkin Donuts, Pepsi, Miller Coors and many others.

As the co-founder and CEO (from 1997-2016) of Alliance Marketing Partners (AMP) Jamie created the term Entrepreneurial Marketing TM, which is defined as thinking like an entrepreneur and spending like an accountant in achieving a client’s marketing goals. Entrepreneurial Marketing employs a broad range of tactics including; marketing partnerships, licensing, merchandising, sponsorships, events, new media, and more in delivering a quantifiable ROI on every program.

Jamie is a Founding Board Member of the Tory Burch Foundation which supports all aspects of women’s entrepreneurship. He has been an active Board member for The Explorers Club for over 6 years and he is the Club in house “deal expert”. He is currently writing a book on Treasure Hunting.

James Robinson Founder and CEO TAPP TECHNOLOGIES (TappTek.com), a Beverage Analytics and Engagement company

Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 896 7287 0068
Passcode: 763650

November 20 – Moderator Dixon Rice – critique and open readings
Your own prose aloud, someone else would gladly read for you. You are invited to our Open Readings at 6 pm at Glacier Unitarian Universalist Fellowship.

Plan to read up to 6 pages if there is a light crowd; otherwise, 2-3 pages, double-spaced with 1″ margins.

If you have a few pages, you’d like input on, make about 8-10 copies to pass out, and bring them along. Plan to read up to 6 pages if there is a light crowd, otherwise 2-3 pages, double-spaced with 1″ margins. If you’re shy about reading aloud your own prose, someone else would be glad to read for you.

If you don’t have anything to present, please come and share your enthusiasm & experience with the readers. We were all newbies at one time…

December 4 – Board Elections. Then Kathy Dunnehoff is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Show, Tell & Swap!
Time: Dec 4, 2025 06:00 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)

We meet at the Unitarian church plus there’s a zoom option.

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Meeting ID: 422 105 0569
Passcode: author

December 11 – Speaker Series – Host Susan Purvis and Guest
Zoom meeting from 6pm to 8pm Mountain Time

Title: TBD

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December 18 – Christmas Party (in person) at 6 pm at Glacier Unitarian Universalist Fellowship.

Gift exchange. Bring a wrapped book.

January 8 – Kathy Dunnehoff is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.

Topic: Stop Procrastinating! (Tomorrow?!)
Time: Jan 8, 2026 6:00 PM Mountain Time (US and Canada)