Get Connected: Texas PR Leadership Day and Gala

Mark you calendars for March 5 in Austin, Texas for the Texas PR Leadership Day and Gala.  This gathering of state-wide communicators will focus on “Get Connected:  Personally, Professionally and with your Planet.”  You’ll be seeing more about this day during the next few months.

What is this day you may be asking?  It’s the 2.0 version of our annual conference.  We’re beefing up the line-up, streamlining the day and promoting it throughout the state to make this the largest gathering of Texas communicators.

Making this a reality is a dedicated group of students from Texas State University in San Marcos.  Dara Quackenbush — fellow TPRA member by night, college professor by day — assigned four students from her senior PR campaigns class to partner with me to develop and execute to a PR plan.  They have really done a great job and have designed a social media strategy leveraging our two platforms — this blog and Twitter.  They will be jumpstarting the conversation about PR in Texas and keeping you up to speed on how to get involved in the Leadership Day and Gala.

Also, to build on what the students are doing, I’m hosting a kick-off conference call for everyone who wants to help with the Leadership Day and Gala.  I’ve got folks from El Paso to Dallas to San Antonio who’ve already volunteered.  Just let me know if you want to help as well by replying to this blog.

See you in Austin!