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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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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. and Rebecca Parker; Marjorie Suckow (May 2012). Retrieved 11 August 2012.

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The Value of Strategic Communications in the PRSA MBA/Business School Program

PRSay

These deficiencies helped inspire the PRSA MBA/Business School Program , which launched in 2012 with five pilot schools including the Tuck School of Business and the Kellogg School of Business. Oppe also invites local media and corporate executives to discuss current events and provide media training and other practical skills.

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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. and Rebecca Parker; Marjorie Suckow (May 2012). Retrieved 11 August 2012.

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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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Ethical Issues with Coalitions and Front Groups – Greg Bailey

Ethical Voices

I was the managing editor of the local business journal here in Nashville before joining a local PR firm. In the public relations business, I’ve had one ethical dilemma. The work was in a 13-state region, and I was doing public affairs and grassroots advocacy. I was working for a national association client.

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