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Vicksburg – Crisis Communication Workshop Monday, Oct. 4
Posted on Wednesday, September 29th, 2010 at 4:27 pmVicksburg – Crisis Communication Workshop Monday, Oct. 4
Vicksburg Convention Center - Vicksburg, MS.
Sponsored by the PRAM River City Chapter
Lunch is included.
Workshop speakers:
Wendy Bailey and Chief Joseph St. John, PRAM members
Wendy will present at the 11:15 session on \"What is Crisis Communication, Six Steps of Crisis Communication, and Developing External Communications\" and Chief St. John will present on the topic of \"Crisis Communication in Law Enforcement\" at 1:30.
For more information please contact Leigh Cook at (601) 802-1009 or at lcook@warren-yazoo.org
Cenla PRAL Cypress Award Recipients
Posted on Monday, April 26th, 2010 at 8:28 amThe results are in and our first Cypress Awards was a huge success. Those that entered the competition ranged from professionals to students and members of PRAL to non-members. Here are the winners of this years’s Cypress Awards.
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Category 9-B Special Events $20,000+ Proctor & Gamble Mfg. Company “40-year Open House Anniversary Celebration |
Category 13-B Publications-External Magazine Louisiana Forestry Association “Forests & People Magazine” |
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Category 13-B Publications-External Magazine Our Lady of the Lake Foundation “Wee Believe” |
Category 21-A Website Development/Internet Cleco Corporation “Cleco Energy Smart Website” |
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2010 Above & Beyond Award Jennifer Nichols Visual Concepts & Designs |
Outstanding Creativity KJA Communications Group “W.O.R.K-Wall of Random Koolnez” “KJA Mind Finds” |
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2009 Outstanding Board Member Robin Cosenza |
Leadership Award Susan Broussard, APR Robin Cosenza Missy Laborde, APR Fran Phoenix |
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Outstanding Student Award Bethany Frank, Northwestern State University Kimberly Cowan, LSU Alexandria Marlisa Quinney, Louisiana College |
2009-2010 Practitioner of the Year Bonnie Lemoine Procter & Gamble Pineville, LA |
Award certificates were also given out to the following recipients:
Category 18-A Media Press Kit– KJA Communications Group; “W.O.R.K.-Wall of Random Koolnez
Category 22-B Interactive Media, Weblog–KJA Communications Group; “KJA Mind Finds”
Category 14-C Special Prupose Publication– Cleco Corporation; “Hot Spot Activity Book”
Category 25 Potpourri– Cleco Corporation; “Dr. E Videos for Web”
Cenla PRAL would like to thank everyone that participated in making this year’s Cypress Awards a huge success. If you are interested in participating in next years’ awards, please contact us.
SPRF Legends Competition for PR Students
Posted on Thursday, April 22nd, 2010 at 2:48 pmSPRF is hosting its first-ever student competition, The Legends Competition, in honor of the PR legends and teachers who fathered and have nurtured our profession. It is open to member students — individuals or teams.
Each individual/team will select an organization in its community to work with to develop a comprehensive PR plan, including research, planning, execution and measurement. The top three finalists will be invited to present their campaigns to a panel of judges at the SPRF Conference in Baton Rouge, La., Sept. 26-27. All entries will also be considered for awards in the categories of creativity, writing, resource management and use of new media. (Multiple projects may be selected in each of these categories.) These recognition awards and the overall winner will be announced during the first Legends Competition Ceremonies at the conference. Guidelines and Rules are available on the SPRF Web site at: www.sprf.org and are attached to this email.
Entries must be postmarked by Friday, August 20. Finalists will be notified by Friday, September 3.
For more information contact Whitney Breaux, student services chair for the 2010 SPRF Conference, at 225-382-3577 or whitney@visitbatonrouge.com; or Joy Carter, APR, SPRF vice president of student services, at 205-325-4735 or jcarter@acipco.com.
