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Refugee Relations

Refugee Relations

Published on August 8, 2017, at 9:52 a.m. by Brie Carter. You have a corporate social responsibility and you likely aren’t doing it. The most effective way companies can build authentic public relations is to relate to their own communities. Public relations professionals understand how essential

PR and Politics

PR and Politics

Posted At: April 26, 2013 12:23 p.m. by Grayson Martin The field of public relations has changed tremendously and so have the skill sets of its practitioners. PR professionals now have a wide range of abilities in order to satisfy as many of their clients’

Perfecting the Bedside Manner: Healthcare Public Relations

Perfecting the Bedside Manner: Healthcare Public Relations

Posted At: April 4, 2013 9:09 A.M. by Katie Sanders A nurse or doctor is expected to have a comforting bedside manner. Along with knowing the diagnosis and treatment, healthcare professionals deal with the emotional and abstract challenges that present themselves in daily activities. Healthcare

Education Communication: PR in K-12 Schools

Posted At: March 21, 2013 12:15 P.M. by Caroline Murray Tweeting at parents? Buying ad space for touting strong academics? Measuring media metrics to prove worth to taxpayers, school boards and communities? Did you see your elementary school taking such measures when you were a student?

Think Twice

Most people would be content for six months with a $100,000 salary and lying on an island in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef.  With this job, you will only have to feed several hundred fish, clean the pool and check the mail.  Other days may consist

Beefing Up Social Media

Every five seconds someone writes online about McDonald’s. From a public relations practitioner’s point of view, that could seem almost impossible to manage. On Feb. 20, 2009, I attended the Real World PR Conference sponsored by the Georgia PRSA. I was able to hear Heather

Communication During a Crisis

I was instantly terrified on Friday, February 13, to turn on the Internet and find the headline of “Deadly plane crash in Buffalo.” Having lived in Buffalo, New York, for my entire life, I immediately opened the story to find that a plane had crashed

G is for Gatorade; that is NOT good enough for me!

“What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet” – William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, 2.2 No offense to Shakespeare, but I don’t think he ever studied public relations or the value of brand identity.  Nor

Well informed. Well in advance.

Over the past two years you saw the commercials and billboards, heard the radio service announcements and received information in the mail about the big change in February 2009. Well here it is, February 2009, and as you know television is moving from analog to

Public Relations for Africa

Africa. What thoughts come to your mind when you see that word? AIDS…Orphans…Poverty? Those were the images that used to come to my mind. The pictures we normally see in mass media portray a negative image of Africa. Mocha Club is trying to change that.

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