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Thoughts on Balancing Your Professional Work and Your Activism

PRSay

Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas, where I now live, and contributed my professional skills to local chapters of Indivisible and Black Lives Matter. Those of us who are activists may be reluctant to go public about our affiliations for fear of losing clients or alienating the boss or C-suite. I have marched the streets of Washington, D.C.,

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PR Measurement Tips

The Proactive Report

Public Affairs is one sector of PR that has very different goals, but they are goals nonetheless and can be measured. You might not be working to change hearts and minds in the public, but you should be interested in the hearts and minds of the legislators – both local and national – who can affect your organization.

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The Field of Emergency Management: Why It Is Not A Profession

Melissa Agnes

The former one-way flow of warnings, information and updates from emergency management to the affected public has become, not just a two-way system, but one of many partners, sources and systems. I have seen many government relations and public affairs manager positions that have caught my eye quite a bit in the private sector.

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PR rising in Africa rising

Stuart Bruce

In-house PR people within companies – the regional and local operations of multi-nationals and big indigenous companies. Local independent PR agencies, some of which operate across several African markets. Africa’s young population are on mobiles – and increasingly on smartphones as well as just feature phones.

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The Field of Emergency Management: Why It Is Not A Profession

Melissa Agnes

The former one-way flow of warnings, information and updates from emergency management to the affected public has become, not just a two-way system, but one of many partners, sources and systems. I have seen many government relations and public affairs manager positions that have caught my eye quite a bit in the private sector.

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The Talking Points #39between35and49

Communications Conversations

Susan Roeder, director of public affairs, Andersen. First with BAE Systems and now with Thermo King. Most recently the former president of MN PRSA and leader of Risdall PR, Joel has been a fixture in the local PR community for years. Full disclosure: Anna is a (relatively) new client. No brainer on a list like this.

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Maximising resilience of health and well-being assets in crisis situations

PR Conversations

One of the problems for me, though, with this focus is that it is almost entirely on individuals’ ability to adapt and their ‘internal local of control’ Public relations seems to reflect a largely individualistic perspective with little attention on systemic or structural factors and forces.

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