Local PR professions to attend conference
Several members of the Southwest Florida Chapter of the Florida Public Relations Association will serve at the FPRA’s Annual Conference next week in Boca Raton, Florida.
As local Image Awards Co-Chairs, chapter President Ginny Cooper and President-elect Kathleen Taylor, APR will be part of the presentation team for the annual Golden Image Awards, the statewide awards competition. Cooper and Taylor will be emceeing the awards in Division A: Public Relations Programs. Susan Bennett, APR, CPRC will be presenting awards in Division B: Printed Tools of Public Relations. Bennett was the winner of the association’s top award in 2008, the Dick Pope All-Florida Grand Golden Image Award.
Cooper, Taylor, Karen Ryan, APR, CPRC and Phyllis Ershowsky, APR, CPRC will be part of the FPRA blogging team as the association covers the three day conference live at: www.fpra.org . Instruction sessions, social events, live interviews will all be part of the FPRA blog.
The conference will feature sessions on social media, corporate social responsibility, green marketing, and Search Engine Optimization as well as keynote sessions from Peter Shankman, founder of HARO; Eugene Campbell, VP community relations and minority business development for Walt Disney World Resort; Tom Hoof, director of marketing and communications for the Tampa Bay Rays; and Carolyn Shafer, VP of organizational development and human resources at RTI Biologics.
Public relations practitioners everywhere are invited to follow the stream of commentary from the premier professional development seminar of the nation’s oldest public relations association FPRA.