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Where Is The Qualified Workforce?
Scott Hanson | Mar 14, 2018
Our work with communities and associations in the economic development realm expose us to a lot of information related to why businesses want to relocate to Arizona. In Arizona, many of those educated and available workers are coming from one of four places.
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#TipForTuesday – What is Leadership?
Abbie Fink | Mar 13, 2018
The leadership words for this month’s #TipForTuesday, selected from the Developing the Leader Within You deck of cards, are perfection, recognition and diversity.
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#MediaMonday – Erisa Nakano
Alison Bailin | Mar 12, 2018
Today’s #MediaMonday comes to us from Erisa Nakano, a senior real-time editor at ABC15 and fellow Cronkite grad.
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Do PR People Have a Side Hustle?
Alison Bailin | Mar 9, 2018
Alison came across a story in the New York Post about “the side hustle." Of course, it focused on how more than 50% of Millennials are the ones doing the side hustling. But here is the thing: every member of our office, which includes a borderline Baby Boomer, a Gen Xer and two Oregon Trailers has a side hustle (or two).
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What Makes News
Scott Hanson | Mar 8, 2018
Working in media relations is fraught with challenges to determine what is – and what is not news. Scott gives examples of this in today's blog post.
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What is a Ghostwriter?
Abbie Fink | Mar 7, 2018
As public relations professionals, we spend a tremendous amount of our workday in front of the keyboard. This includes writing news releases, drafting talking points, speeches for key executives, memos to employees, etc. And more often than not, these communications pieces are written on behalf of someone else.
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Arizona Innovation Marketing Association Event Recap
Breanne Krager | Mar 6, 2018
Bre attended her first-ever AZIMA (Arizona Innovation Marketing Association) event called “Get Engaged! (No Ring Required)" with guest speaker was Nani Saffer, vice president of account management at NetBase Inc. She talked about how engagement is the strongest indicator of what’s working and what’s not for your client's brand.
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#MediaMonday – Jaime Cerreta
Alison Bailin | Mar 5, 2018
Today’s #MediaMonday comes to us from AZ Family TV 3 fan favorite Jaime Cerreta. As most of you know, hometown girl Jaime anchors 3TV'S Good Morning Arizona on both Saturday and Sunday mornings, and she hosts “Jaime's Local Love” on Good Morning Arizona on Wednesdays.
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#FunFactFriday – March
Breanne Krager | Mar 2, 2018
This month's #FunFactFriday blog post is all about the month of March and some surprising St. Patrick's Day facts that are actually false.
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Public Relations for Tribal Governments
Scott Hanson | Mar 1, 2018
Our work in tribal affairs over the past 25-plus years has put HMA Public Relations at the forefront of some of Arizona’s and the Southwest’s highest profile issues. It has been – and continues to be -- meaningful work with tremendous significance to the tribes we have represented.
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