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I needed a clone yesterday. 
PR News honored me as one of the new inductees into its Hall of Fame during a luncheon in Washington, D.C.  However, long ago I accepted an invitation to speak at PR Day at the University of Alabama.  I opted to fulfill the prior commitment since such volunteer work is largely responsible […]

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“Can young professionals truly make a difference?”
“How do I gain respect?”
“I was a leader in college, but not here.”
These are recent comments submitted to this blog, so I was thrilled to find some answers today via a GenNext post in Advertising Age.  Alex Kniess reports on the five ways junior employees can become change agents as offered up by University of Oregon […]

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Brooke Ehlers
Public Relations Account Executive
Nicholson Kovac, Inc. - Kansas City, MO 
Nicholson Kovac, Inc., an integrated marketing communications company, is counted among the top independent advertising agencies in the country and serves national and global brands.  At the hart of Nicholson Kovac’s work is Relevant Ingenuity, a proprietary process of discovering the relevant issues long before […]

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  Jessica Randazza, Account Executive 
                                   Publicis Consultants - PR, Seattle, WA

The public relations field is constantly changing in order to keep up with client demands and expectations and inevitably the change brings with it ever growing social media.  As a young professional, I have frequently been called on by senior staff for my insight and […]

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      JAVIER MACIAS
                                 Assistant Account Executive
                                 GolinHarris, Chicago
The world of public relations is usually underestimated and rarely witnessed in its truest form.  There is never a shortage of work to be planned, executed and analyzed; asking professionals in this field to excel in the field of multitasking.
  
Witnessed instead are the masterpieces that help keep companies one […]

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Several readers of this blog have asked for an explanation of the agency pecking order.  I thought that explanation might best come from a young person who is succeeding in the agency world through hard work and keen observation. Tyler Marciniak, 25, is a Senior Account Executive in Edelman’s New York Corporate and Public Affairs […]

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Alysha Daytner, a May 2008 Purdue University graduate with a degree in Public Relations and Advertising, provides the following insights from her experience as an intern at the 2008 Summer Olympics.  I’ve already asked Alysha to write another guest post at the end of her once-in-a-lifetime internship.  Alysha is pictured below (center) with other interns in the balcony of […]

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  LTC Paul Swiergosz
Public Affairs Officer, Camp Victory, Iraq
What does a public affairs officer in the Armed Forces do and is it a good career move? Two questions I’ve been asked a lot over the years by military and civilians alike. So here’s the deal:

The Armed Services, all “grow” their PAOs in different ways. […]

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Caitlin Tridle
Associate, Public Relations
Kaplan Higher Education
Monday, May 19, 2008
Brief job description: Kaplan Higher Education owns and operates approximately 70 brick-and-mortar campuses across the nation as well as several online institutions such as Kaplan University and Concord Law School. My boss and I handle all the PR needs for the campuses. We have a part-time intern, […]

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