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Why Attend Professional Networking Events?
Breanne Krager | Mar 22, 2018
To piggyback off of Scott’s post from earlier this week, we'll be talking about the importance of attending networking events. For public relations professionals, this is usually in the form of a Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) activity!
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What is a News Release?
Alison Bailin | Mar 21, 2018
Public relations professionals have a vast array of tactics up their sleeves to help businesses, brands and organizations achieve communications goals. Perhaps the best-known tactic to non-public relations folks is the news release.
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Why You Should Enter Industry Award Programs
Scott Hanson | Mar 20, 2018
Industry awards are a great way to demonstrate to clients how good the work is that you do for them. It also provides a forum to show off for prospects, as well. Here is a list of PRSA Chapter awards!
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#MediaMonday – Bill Dougherty
Alison Bailin | Mar 19, 2018
It's #MediaMonday and you know what that means. This week's guest blog post comes from a true veteran of the industry, Trends publisher Bill Dougherty.
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Freedom of Information is More Relevant Than Ever
Abbie Fink | Mar 16, 2018
Today, March 16, is Freedom of Information Day. This day is an annual event held during Sunshine Week and celebrates the birthday of President James Madison.
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United Airlines Dog Disaster
Breanne Krager | Mar 15, 2018
United Airlines has made headlines again—and not in a good way. Airline officials are calling United’s most recent blunder a “tragic accident" and now everyone is wondering how they plan on fixing it.
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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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