Association News

I hope that those of you who attended FPRA’s 81st Annual Conference are still LIVIN’ THE DREAM!!! Curtis Zimmerman opened the event with an inspiring message that had everyone juggling (or [...]

  Wow, we’re down to less than two months before we meet Aug. 4-7 for the 81st Annual Conference of the Florida Public Relations Association! This year’s conference, We Are FPRA: PRoactive. [...]

  Let me tell you about your State Board of the Florida Public Relations Association. Serving on the State Board are the presidents and presidents-elect of each of FPRA’s 15 chapters. In [...]

  For the Florida Public Relations Association, April means three things: Local Image Awards recognition Accreditation awareness And that it is four months away from the 81st Annual [...]

    As a former newspaper journalist, the Associated Press Stylebook has been the holy grail (lowercase, no hyphen) of my writing existence. I’m still ticked that the group said it’s OK [...]

  Members of the Counselors’ Network (CN) and LeadershipFPRA enjoyed two full days of professional development with the Counselors’ Network Winter Symposium held in St. Augustine on January [...]

  In the last few weeks, I’ve attended a couple of FPRA events that incorporated all the elements of Smart. Engaged. Fun. In late January, the Counselors’ Network (CN) hosted its annual [...]

  I saw a poll over the weekend that says 55 percent of us still use a paper calendar, while 45 percent use a digital calendar. I bet that most of us in public relations have both. Between [...]

As the year is coming to an end, I again am reflecting on the work that has been done through the Florida Public Relations Education Foundation (FPREF). Thanks to your ongoing generosity, we have [...]

  My millennial co-worker — an FPRA member — almost every Friday sings out the “It’s Friday” song, the amateur ditty that went viral in 2011. For the rest of the day, that song is in my [...]