If you are having difficulty viewing all objects on this page, please click here

Canadian Public Relations Society of Vancouver NewsletterIssue 48-February 3, 2005

Pro-D session
Capitalizing on online interaction in public consultations
Feb. 10, Terasen Building, 8 a.m.

Public consultation is a key activity for PR professionals. University of Alberta professor Dr. Marco Adria will explore three ways to enhance your public consultation using technology.

For more details and to register, click here

Speaker Series
RAV: the never-ending transportation story
Feb. 22, Best Western Richmond Hotel & Convention Centre, noon

Naina Sloan, vice-president of corporate affairs for the Richmond Airport Vancouver (RAV) Rapid Transit Project, offers insight into the workings and communications challenges of this headline-making transportation project.

For more details and to register, click here

CrossRoads 2005: change and challenge in PR
Feb. 18, Royal Roads University, Victoria, 8:30 a.m.

CPRS Vancouver Island welcomes the national board to Victoria for CrossRoads 2005, where the best the industry will share their expertise on how technology can make you a better practitioner and build management buy-in during a one-day conference at Royal Roads University

For more details and to register, click here

Learning and development workshop
March 2, Terasen Building, 6 p.m.

Karen Cook Boas, general manager and vice president, client services with James Hoggan & Associates, will lead this hands-on workshop about the basics of assembling an effective communications plan.

For more details and to register, click here

Analyst Relations: communications strategies that work
a webinar presented by PR News
Feb. 8, 10:30 am PT

Sending an embargoed press release to an industry analyst about your new product a few days before launch won’t cut it. What will? Register for this interactive, online workshop to find out what works when it comes to communicating with this important stakeholder.

For more details and to register, click here

Management's view of PR impacts its public image
By Hal Holden, consultant and freelance writer

“Walk the talk” is a popular saying meaning that talk should be transferred into actions that square the talk, not left as empty rhetoric, or worse, converted into actions that are at odds with the talk ….

read the article

“It is not enough to know how to ride - you must also know how to fall”

 -- Mexican Proverb

Tarina Palmer new CPRS Vancouver vice-president

We are pleased to announce that Tarina Palmer, regional communications officer with Coast Health, is the new vice-president of Canadian Public Relations Society Vancouver. Palmer has working in public relations and marketing for the past 10 years, with four years in broadcasting prior to that.

2005 CPRS National Awards
Submission Deadline: March 21

CPRS celebrates outstanding member achievements and exceptional professional service through its annual awards program. National Awards 2005 brochure and entry forms for CPRS’s exclusive member awards program are now available at www.cprs.ca. Winners will be honoured at the Awards Gala during the CPRS National Conference in Calgary, Alberta, June 15 - 17.

Mystery winner call home?
The first of two winners of a copy of “In the News: The Practice of Media Relations in Canada” at the CPRS winter social was Jennifer Hall. Now that the second printing of the books are ready, Pro-D chair Jeff Domansky asks that the second “mystery” winner email him at jdomansky@peakco.com or call 604-689-5559 to claim their prize.

Internships:

Looking for an extra pair of hands this spring to help with your next PR campaign or project? The Kwantlen University College public relations internship program provides all PR students the chance to step into a company and experience first-hand the fast-paced work of public relations and communications. If you would like to have a full-time student intern for 4 weeks in March, please contact Deborah Skaey at 604-313-8114 or deborah@metaphors.ca.

Volunteers needed: Kidsafe Project Society
The Kidsafe Project Society is seeking a volunteer to assist in media relations and PR for a fundraising program for two months. The Society provides healthy meals and recreational and developmental activities to children who would otherwise be at-risk during the time that schools are closed for holidays. For more information about the society, visit http://www.kidsafe.com/ or call Casey Fletcher at 604-731-5175.

Newbies and Renewbies
CPRS Vancouver would like to welcome the following new member:

Karen Seaboyer

Andrea Freer has joined Contemporary Communications as Account Coordinator. Her areas of specialty include media relations, writing and editing.

Peak Communicators opens Calgary office

Vancouver PR agency Peak Communicators merged with The Media House in Calgary. Now operating as Peak, the new office adds expertise in the Alberta energy, real estate and resources industries together with further depth in strategic PR, crisis communications and media training. More information is available at http://www.peakco.com/