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2021 Solo PR Pro Premium Member Accomplishments

Solo PR Pro

Rachel Sutherland Communications took home a Crown Award in Integrated Communications in the Charlotte PRSA QC PR Awards. The agency beat Atrium Health and another smaller comms firm to take top honors in the category for their work on a three-month campaign for Pat's Place Child Advocacy Center. It's heartwarming, soul work.”

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Don’t Let Breaking News Steal Your PR Thunder

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

When PR agency professionals plan a product launch or news announcement, we do it with close attention to detail. I seem to recall a major client press event scheduled on October 1, 2001 at the World Trade Center, but even weeks later it was a sad footnote to the larger crisis.). Fortunately for all of us, such disasters are rare.

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Meltwater Quietly Goes IPO [PR Tech Sum]

Sword and the Script

However, the exchange posted an announcement and YouTube video , which contained some interesting facts: Jørn Lyseggen founded Meltwater “in shack number 15 on Tjuvholmen, Oslo in 2001.”. Instead, experts can sign up, go through a validation process fielded by Vetted, and then wait for media to contact them for interviews.

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The Top 10 PR Tech Vendors by Familiarity and Favorability

Sword and the Script

Communications professions placed press releases near the bottom of a long list of priorities for the next 12 months, according to the 2019 JOTW Communications Survey , a collaborative effort between Ned’s Job-of-the-Week and Sword and the Script Media. Here’s how the answers stacked up: 80% said PR Newswire [press release vendor].

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

Communications Conversations

“I’m done with agency life. 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. Communication with my husband.

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Entertainment & Sports Section New Member Spotlight

PRSay

Isabelle McLemore – Senior Director, Global Corporate Communications, UFC. Coming out of college I came across an opportunity as a communications intern at Tennis Canada. And it’s only been 15 years since our new owners purchased the organization in 2001, and that’s when it really turned the corner.

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My Segway Ride

Flatiron Communications

He had recently taped an interview with “60 Minutes,” on a different subject — the program he founded for aspiring inventors. Now that “Ginger” had gone mainstream, should he acquiesce to CBS’s request for a follow-up interview? He chose to do the interview anyway.