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Ranger Scott Gediman on the Ferguson Fire and 22 Years as Yosemite Park’s Public Affairs Officer

PRSay

Over his 22 years as public affairs officer at Yosemite National Park , Scott Gediman has experienced a myriad of crises on the job, from floods and rock falls to hantavirus outbreaks. “It It seems like my life here is a perpetual crisis,” said Gediman, a longtime PRSA member. Do you also manage social media for the park?

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Top 10 Influential PR Businesses to Follow in 2020

Critical Mention

The Perspectives section of their site covers many types of communication content, some including advertising, branding, marketing and public affairs. Early on in her career, she developed a passion for marketing, writing and anything within the communication field. Work hard play nice. Create a best place to work. Take risks.

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EKA: How Media Monitoring Aligns with Strategic Communications

Critical Mention

EKA is a leader in providing public and private sector experience and assistance when making critical decisions. “EKA is a government relations and public affairs firm specializing in political consulting, government relations, policy issues, and crisis communications strategy.” SCHEDULE A DEMO.

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An “Interview” with ChatGPT: What is Public Relations? How Has PR Changed? Will Artificial Intelligence Replace Comms Pros?

Sword and the Script

Social media: PR practitioners may manage an organization’s social media accounts and use them to communicate with the public and promote the organization. Event planning: PR practitioners may plan events such as product launches, conferences, or charity events to get media attention and generate positive publicity.

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

Melissa Agnes

I am half time emergency manager and half time E911 coordinator so I am juggling multiple projects all the time but I enjoy it. I am the Planning Section Chief for our agency so I write all the incident action plans for planned and unplanned events which I really enjoy. Retrieved September 2, 2014.

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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. Why don’t you tell us a little bit more about yourself and your career? I spent the last 30+ plus years, mostly in agency PR. I built it through the lens of a customer of a trade.

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Lake Forest Chamber of Commerce Livecast talking Crisis PR

The Stalwart Blog

I started actually as a Navy officer, turned Navy public affairs officer. The bottom line is that crisis PR, which is now my specialty, has been something I’ve done since the beginning because in Navy operations something always happens that draws the media attention. Dave Oates: Sure. I recommend this.

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