As Upstate co-chair of SCPRSA’s Independent Practitioner committee, I’m excited to announce that PRSA National Board Member Vince Hazleton will attend a special roundtable discussion and networking event with South Carolina’s independent public relations practitioners on Tuesday, May 13, from 9:30 to 11:00 a.m.
Vincent Hazleton, Ph.D., APR, Fellow PRSA is a Professor in the Communication [...]
So many people have e-mailed me asking how the Readiness Review was on Thursday – thanks so much for your support! All in all – and despite the fact that I was pretty nervous – I think it went well.
I met the APR Readiness Review panel, which consisted of three APR professionals, [...]
It’s Friday, and you know what that means! We are featuring a public relations practitioner to share thoughts about the industry, as well as provide firsthand suggestions to those just starting out. To be fair, Liza and I agreed to call the “dudes” PR Profiles. So here we go!
(Next week, we will feature Allison Skipper, [...]
O.K. So, a colleague forwarded me a link to a blog yesterday, and I thought the “One-minute coaching session” post was pretty interesting.
She’s right – you do have to be prepared to answer the akward questions. One of the golden rules of media relations is you better be prepared, because if there is a [...]
UPDATE – this position has been filled.
God willing, this time tomorrow I will be en route to sunny Cancun, Mexico, for four whole days of beach, good food and relaxation. It’s been almost a year since I’ve taken a vacation – a real vacation – and that’s more than most Americans take.
We’re a work-obsessed culture and I’ll admit, I’m a [...]
Whenever family or friends come and visit Greenville, they are completely stunned by how beautiful the city is, as well as how friendly everyone in it seems. There are great parks, a waterfall along the river, and a downtown that offers everything from unique restaurants to shops and from art exhibits to nightly entertainment. My aunt is visiting [...]
I met Jennifer in 2003 when she joined the public relations department at Wray Ward in Charlotte. We worked together on Charlotte Bobcats, Charlotte Arena and Charlotte Jumper Classic projects, so we spent a lot of time in the city together at all sorts of events in Charlotte! We even scored a couple of the agency’s floor [...]
Many people ask me how Liza and I met. And since you probably don’t know that this month is her one-year anniversary of starting Payne Jones Public Relations, I thought this would be a good time to tell that story here.
While I was living and working in Charlotte, I came down to Greenville to interview [...]
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