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Running Corporate Communications and Social Media

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The ongoing battle of content thought leadership, and brand journalism and how to win more. When Allan was Executive Director of Corporate Communications at CME Group, Barbara worked with Allan to produce several Social Media Club Chicago events at CME Group. Here’s the latest on Growing Social Now. What we covered. wiredPRworks.

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In Memoriam: Judy VanSlyke Turk, Ph.D., APR, Fellow PRSA

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Turk worked professionally in Chicago as a reporter for the Associated Press and in university and corporate public relations before beginning her academic career. In 2002, Turk joined Virginia Commonwealth University as its director of the School of Mass Communications (now the Robertson School of Media and Culture).

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3 former PR pros who made mid-career shifts and lived to talk about it

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You could replace “agency life” with “corporate life” and insert a whole other sub-set of people, too. Kelly Groehler, Tim Westermeyer and Betsy Andersen all traded in their corporate and agency PR careers for work in another field. They all knew that I had no interest in returning to a corporate role.

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Fast Five Q&A With BusinessWeek Senior Writer Stephen Baker

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He came to New York in 2002 as acting senior editor for info tech, and is now a senior writer — also tech. Lo, a long time ago in May of 2005, his and Heather Green’s co-written cover story “Blogs Will Change Your Business” made quite an impact on corporate America. Baker: I frankly don''t know where journalism is headed.

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Remembering D. Parke Gibson, a Passionate Advocate for Race Relations and Public Relations

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and a 2002 recipient of the D. The corporations were in the process of discovering the fact that the purchasing power of African-Americans was just tremendous. As Dukes notes, during the 1960s, many corporate executives still regarded PR professionals as publicists. Parke Gibson Pioneer Award. “At Counsel to senior management.

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Maxim Behar in Kamen Vodenicharov's show "The Evening of." on 7/8 TV

Maxim Behar

Then at a certain point, I parted ways with journalism. I still think of this quote from Winston Churchill: "One can achieve many things with journalism, but one must know when to leave it". And in a crisis especially in corporations, that truth needs to be repeated even louder and even more clearly.

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Mirror Review Magazine: Maxim Behar's Great Success from a Machinery Worker to a Global Entrepreneur

Maxim Behar

Entering the PR Business Remembering the words of Winston Churchill, “ You can achieve a lot of things with journalism, but you must know when to quit ”—Maxim quit journalism as the managing editor of the largest then Bulgarian newspaper “Standard”. In 2002, M3 Communications Group, Inc. Since then, M3 Communications Group, Inc.