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2021 Solo PR Pro Premium Member Accomplishments

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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. When she started her business in the summer of 2001, she was pregnant, had just been laid off following the dot-com crash, and had no idea what the future would hold.

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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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Don’t Let Breaking News Steal Your PR Thunder

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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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The Top 10 PR Tech Vendors by Familiarity and Favorability

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I may also consider an Off Script Q&A interview , but probably no more than a couple per year. This series has been running for several years now and seeks to interview communications professionals and leaders doing real work in the space. * * *. In-Housing Trend: What PR Agencies and Marketing Firms can Learn from Law Firms.

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

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“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. But, these three people did.

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Entertainment & Sports Section New Member Spotlight

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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. Unlike all of the other major leagues, be it in the U.S. or globally, this organization is only 23 years old. It went from being a spectacle to being a sport. We need to get that message out.

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My Segway Ride

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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.