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

Melissa Agnes

William Waugh and Kathleen Tierney, two highly respected colleagues, have written about the profession of emergency management in their 2007 book, Emergency Management: Principles and Practice of Local Government (Washington, DC: ICMA Press, pp. In conclusion. Fienberg, ”Examples of Professions”” (PDF).

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Ethical Issues in Merging the Science and Art of Public Relations: Aaron Kwittken

Ethical Voices

I started in Washington DC in Public Affairs and Crisis Management. Still am a crisis guy and always will be, I think. I founded Kwittken in 2006, sold it in 2010 to MDC Partners, which is now Stagwell. I am just finishing my term as president of my temple locally.

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Taking the collective temperature of Italian females in PR

PR Conversations

Other strategic areas that relate include interpreting numbers and translating them into meaningful data about reputation, organizational issues, crisis management and so on. Ours is dynamic and proactive profession, and we benefit from our ubiquity in: contributing to the general workplace and local and national discussions.