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Posted on December 21, 2009 by Mary Fletcher Jones
In this Conversations in Public Relations video interview, Sandra Wills Hannon, Ph.D., APR, discusses what is essential to know about communications strategy and market research.
Dallas leads a team that provides high-profile corporate, government, and non-profit clients with effective online reputation management, crisis response and social media engagement programs.
Meet Sandra Wills Hannon, Ph.D., APR, public relations professional and market research expert. Sandra is founder of The Hannon Group (http://www.thehannongroup.com) and provides public relations and market research services to a wide variety of clients.
Learn what communicators should know about market research-based communications strategies in this Conversations in Public Relations video produced by Mary Fletcher Jones. September 2009.
Posted on November 23, 2009 by Mary Fletcher Jones
Meghan Sager has more than 800 followers on Twitters (@meggiepoo). In this Conversations in Public Relations video, the social media professional shares the secrets of her online success.
She also provides tips to communicators for using Facebook effectively.
Produced by Mary Fletcher Jones for Conversations in Public Relations, September 2009. For more information about this video series, please visit http://prconversations.wordpress.com
Susan Rink, of Rink Strategic Communications, provides three important employee communications tips to help your business or organization prepare, should a crisis or emergency arise.
For more information about employee communications strategies, please visit http://www.rinkcomms.com
Posted on November 16, 2009 by Mary Fletcher Jones
In this 3-1/2 minute Conversations in Public Relations video, Jennifer Collins of The Event Planning Group (http://www.tepgevents.com) offers advice for communicators tasked with planning a major special event or meeting. Jennifer’s philosophy is that special events can be the most powerful form of communications.
Susan Rink, of Rink Strategic Communications, explains why strategic employee communications is more important than ever in this challenging economic environment. Learn five ways internal communicators can use to build trust in their company’s or organization’s leadership.
Join Conversations in Public Relations as we meet Colby Cox, an Account Executive with Marketwire. Marketwire is a leading news wire service offering a number of services for busy communications professionals. Colby will introduce us to Marketwires innovative product, Social Media 2.0, which transforms the conventional press release into a social media tool with the power to reach people online.
For more information about Marketwire’s services in the Washington, DC metropolitan area, contact Colby at (202) 664-1003, or visit www.Marketwire.com. In the U.S. and Canada, call 800-774-WIRE (9473).
Your host for this interview is Mary Fletcher Jones. Video and direction by David Hyson.
Susan Rink of Rink Strategic Communications provides insight and strategies for manager communications in this video, including strategies for communicating adverse news to employees, such as layoffs. For more information and employee communications tips, please visit http://www.RinkComms.com.
Previously in this space, we wrote about Public Relations’ Diversity Problem, a blog post which we concluded by inviting diverse practitioners to become more involved in PRSA leadership. We’re continuing to make progress on a number of fronts. At its July meeting, the PRSA board focused on half a dozen important strategic topics, one of which [...]
It hardly seems as though a year has passed since I began my service as PRSA’s 2009 chair and CEO. There’s no doubt that the past 12 months have been extremely challenging for many of us. At the same time, it’s been a period of tremendous personal fulfillment for me. As a second-generation public relations counselor [...]
“We don’t accomplish anything in this world alone … and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one’s life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates something.” — Sandra Day O’Connor Many of us are eagerly looking forward to 2010 and hoping for better things in the days [...]
In professional tournament play, Tiger Woods is well-known for insisting on silence during his pre-shot routine and swing. He dresses down disturbers of the peace by yelling “not in my swing!” or by dispatching his caddie, Steve Edwards, to enforce a somnolent decibel level on the course. Perhaps it’s to be expected, then, that Woods hoped [...]
Delegates to PRSA’s Assembly came together on Nov. 7 and overwhelmingly approved a new set of bylaws that strengthen the Society. New provisions were adopted that give the Nominating Committee greater flexibility in proposing candidates for Board service, establish a “Leadership Assembly” to focus on issues of concern to the profession, and move the organiza […]
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