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PRSA Colorado’s PR Paid Forward Program Connects Comms Pros With Nonprofits

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The pro-bono initiative matches local nonprofit organizations with PRSA Colorado members who can provide the nonprofits with communications services. How PR Paid Forward works Through the PRSA Colorado website , local nonprofit organizations are invited to submit their most pressing current communications challenges.

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The Three Biggest Media Mistakes Top Executives Make

Cision

Although every executive is different, we’ve observed clear trend lines in our work with hundreds of top C-suite inhabitants since starting Phillips Media Relations in 2004. In our media training sessions, I usually lead off practice interviews with a seemingly simple question: Can you tell me about your company?

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The 3 Biggest Media Mistakes Top Executives Make

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This is a guest post by Brad Phillips , author of The Media Training Bible. Top executives make many of the same media mistakes the rest of us do—but their missteps are often magnified, becoming top headlines on news and business websites worldwide. Want to learn more media training tips? They Say Too Much.

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

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We want more people, more groups we can connect with. Oppe also invites local media and corporate executives to discuss current events and provide media training and other practical skills. She is a public affairs and media consultant based in Washington, D.C. We talk about creating constituencies.

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PR Rock Stars: Best Buy’s Bianca Jones

Communications Conversations

I also handle proactive and reactive media relations in the “mid-Atlantic” region of the U.S., We have a team member assigned to each of our retail territories so our stores have a specific point of contact and we can build relationships with local reporters. from Chicago to Washington D.C.,

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The Need to Serve, Protect — and 5 Steps to Communicate

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With smart phone cameras and a population plugged into social media 24/7, an incident can go viral in minutes — landing police in less- and moderately populated regions in the news quickly too. A report published last year by a joint group of mayors and police chiefs through the U.S. It should transform the S.W.O.T

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PR Rock Stars: Solo PR Consultant Peg Roessler

Communications Conversations

She’s not only a legend in the solo PR community–she’s an outright institution in the local PR community. I think everyone has a skill that best suits them; for me that’s media relations. For me that that includes a supportive network of professional friends, media contacts as well as clients (past and present.)

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