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Unforgettable Advice
This week’s blog post on career advice was written by Samantha Bergner, RMPR intern. At a recent RMPR meeting we wanted to reflect on the career advice from employers, teachers and friends that has stuck with us and how we have applied it to our professional development.
On Lessons Learned
This week’s blog post on lessons from our past was written by Andrew Bradfish, an RMPR intern. During a recent RMPR team meeting, a spur-of-the-moment conversation about difficult situations we’ve encountered at past jobs allowed us to reflect on lessons we’ve learned and how we apply them everyday in our jobs as public relations professionals. [...]
Bill Murray Visits RMPR
Today we had the honor of welcoming PRSA National President and COO Bill Murray to our agency to discuss trends he’s seeing in the public relations industry nationally, and how the national and local PRSA chapters are supporting the professional development of members.
Ethical Actions During a Crisis
Every organization has its faults and vulnerabilities, but during a crisis, those behaviors are highlighted in a very real and public way that can lead to ethical dilemmas and questionable behavior. So, how do you avoid disaster while strengthening trust in times of crisis? RMPR’s Jim Lukaszewski, ABC, APR, Fellow PRSA, CCEP, shared a few tips in Ethikos on corporate management behavior during a crisis [...]
Your Secret Just Hit Social Media. Now What?
Recently, I attended the PRSA Roundtable, “Your Secret Just Hit Social Media. Now What?” led by RMPR’s President, Rose McKinney and Risdall’s president of integration, Jared Roy. It was a great discussion surrounding taking a “crisis reality check,” how to neutralize your crisis and steps to determine the impact. Here are a few things that [...]
Email Etiquette 101
I receive scores of email every single day and I’m sure you do too. I can easily spend two to four hours a day on checking and answering emails and I know I’m not alone. That’s why I’m continually surprised at the lack of etiquette people have on email. I’m not talking about spelling and [...]
You’ve got a seat at the table – how do you keep it?
Advice for how PR Execs can land a seat at the proveribal table in corporate America is common, and those that have won a seat should count themselves among the lucky. But once you’ve made it, how do you continue to prove your worth? Jim Lukaszewski, ABC, APR, Fellow PRSA, CCEP, shared a few tips in a PR News article on catching - and keeping [...]
A Cruise Too Good to be True
Recently, my husband received a call from a cruise line, telling him we’d won us a free cruise for two around the Bahamas. He believed it. I kept asking him, “Didn’t your mom ever tell you that nothing is ever FREE?” Well, apparently she didn’t, and my husband promptly began listening to the caller on [...]
Meet the Media: Beth Ewen, Upsize Magazine
It’s Monday, so get excited to meet another face in the news, Beth Ewen, the editor and owner of Upsize Magazine. Beth has been an award winning reporter and editor in business for more than 17 years, with stints at the Chicago Sun-Times, CityBusiness and Corporate Report. She is also the founding editor of Ventures [...]
Is texting taking over?
Over the weekend, my family was joking that my 13 year old cousin needed a cell phone plan that was zero minutes a month with unlimited text messaging. A study from Nielsen on behalf of the Wall Street Journal shows that teens are texting more than 3,000 times a month, an average of six texts [...]