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Today’s blog is written by our Communications Specialist, Ellen Buchanan. This year, Sandy and I assisted the Maryland Chapter of the American Planning Association with their biennial conference. While I’m not new to working events, multi-day conferences are a different story than the 8-hour events I’m used to working. We began planning this conference with …
Small Business Saturday is coming up on Saturday, November 30th. Consumers everywhere are encouraged to shop at their local brick and mortar small businesses – versus Black Friday, which focuses more on the big-box stores. We should support and promote small businesses all year long, and this is one special day out of the year …
The other day, I got into the car, and after 5 minutes of driving, I realized that I wasn’t taking my normal route to that particular destination. It felt weird and different! I’m not sure why I ended up going a different route, but it got me thinking about how often we get stuck in …
Here at Platinum PR, we support and attend a lot of different conferences in the months of September and October. Last week, MEDA held their Fall Conference in conjunction with Economic Development Week. The theme was “Defining Your Community Identity”. A few weeks before that was the IEDC Conference in Indianapolis. Conferences provide the opportunity …
The other day, I was walking down the street, and a stranger stopped me to ask me if his tie was on correctly. He was about to go perform a wedding ceremony for his niece and wanted to make sure he looked the part. It was one of those strange but funny moments in life. …
Recently, I gave a talk at the Workforce Development Conference on how to communicate across generations. This speaking experience really drove home the core message of the talk, which is: “It’s not about me… It’s about them.” It’s not about how I prefer to communicate… It’s about how my target audience prefers to be communicated …