Renewal
Becoming an accredited public relations professional is generally understood as a four-step process. Candidates begin with planning and applying. The second step involves studying for the accreditation exam and a panel presentation. The panel presentation often creates anxiety as candidates worry about managing the panel review. However, once the panel presentation is underway, candidates quickly […]
PRCA Mobile Gains a New Accredited Public Relations Professional
By Wes Phillips, APR with Amanda Young, APR Amanda Young, PRCA Mobile 2022 board president and marketing and communications manager at Feeding the Gulf Coast, recently achieved APR status and became the chapter’s most recent accredited public relations professional. Amanda’s work with Feeding the Gulf Coast during the COVID 19 pandemic offers a unique perspective […]
Bringing Mindfulness to the Workplace
By Debbie Clolinger, M.Ed One of the things I absolutely love about our PRCA Mobile Chapter is the wealth of knowledge and experience our members possess. I always get super-charged when talking about PRCA Mobile to others in that among the many professional organizations I’ve been associated with this one by far has offered more […]
Videos for Social Media: Learning by Doing
By Sally Ericson, Bellingrath Gardens Everyone loves a social media video, but until recently, I shied away from embracing the technology. If you’ve had the same hesitation, read on. I’m here to hold your hand and reassure you that if I can do it, you can, too. (Full disclosure: I am not comfortable being on […]
Who can get their APR?
Who should get their accreditation in public relations (APR)? That’s an easy question to answer – everyone in public relations! You’ve all heard it’s not an easy process, and I can attest that it is not. But nothing worth having is easy, and showing how your hard work paid off to others is a great […]
Involvement, membership, success
Involvement, membership, success by Shellie Teague I’m going to cut right to the chase: Toolkit was a huge success this year! With record-breaking attendance (including many new faces) and new sponsors, we raised over $4,700. Can you believe it?! A major reason for our success is our strong membership base. Our members support the promotion […]
Top 8 Tips for Submitting PRCA Awards
I know it’s June and we are just months out from completing the 2017 state awards program, and then I even turned around and asked you to help me judge awards for West Virginia (gasp!); so WHY am I here talking about awards… again? Simple. To keep you thinking about the awards process! While things […]
PRCA Mobile ToolKit 2017
PRCA Mobile Toolkit 2017 It seems as though with each new day comes not only opportunity, but a new trend to follow. Our target external audience is on Facebook, so we need to learn the newest update. Our internal newsletter needs updating, so we need to check out this new tool to better reach them. […]