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Faces & Markets of PRGN: Toronto, Canada: Diversity is Our Strength

Bianchi Biz Blog

David Wills, senior vice president of Media Profile We are pleased to share the next post in a series of in-depth profiles of key international markets written by one of our PRGN partners. Media Profile is well known for supporting international brands in Canada including Honda, Acura, Starbucks, Home Depot, OpenTable, Kayak and Uber.

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Book review: The Company and the Activist Going Beyond PR

Wadds Inc.

The chapter on communities is important reading for anyone involved in community engagement or consultation at a local level. Contributors include Scott Goldsten, director of Barack Obamas 2008 presidential campaign; McKenzie Ursch, of the climate activism group, Follow This; and Helen Fry, of the Good Law Project.

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Behind the Headlines With Kim Spear

Cision

Kim Spear, director at Newgate Communications, has helped her clients build brands in China and also worked with sponsors during the 2008 Beijing Olympics. What was it like to work with sponsors during the 2008 Beijing Olympics? But if you don’t understand how your brand fits into its specific market, you won’t be able to stand out.

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Global Social Media for Local Social Good

wiredPRworks

s international organization for educational opportunities and cultural relations, for bringing its TN 2020 conference to Chicago. Global Social Media for Local Social Good. On June 24, 2010, Social Media Club Chicago met up with attendees in town for TN2020, an international summit hosted by the British Council.

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The Invisible Rock Stars

Waxing UnLyrical

She even had the KGB watching her when on assignment in Russia, when she was a social scientist, doing international media research with the US Information Agency (which existed from 1953 until 1999). , she’s. You know you’ve made the big time when you’re on the KGB’s watch list! But you can find them.

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Community for Career Development: A Look Inside One NAVUG Community Member’s Journey

Presspage

With a vocational accounting certificate in my hand, I began working as an intern for the company CFO and loved both working and getting paid. It may seem surprising to go from an intern program in the early 80s with a vocational certificate out of high school, to Director of Business Technology and Intelligence.

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Met the Media: Ryan Gehm, Editor-in-chief at Truck & Off-Highway Engineering

Bianchi Biz Blog

A local newspaper for which I interned, The North Baltimore News (Ohio), assigned me to cover the Dayton Air Show. Born and raised in the Pittsburgh area, not far from where SAE International is headquartered, I’m a diehard Steelers and Penguins fan. Tell us a little about yourself (family, interests, hobbies, background, etc.)