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 [...]

Public Relations Ethics and the Role of PRSA

TPRA past president Larry Springer sends us this timely article on the PRSA blog addressing the ethics of paying people to post positive reviews of clients’ products. The article provides links to several of the most recent examples around the country. Kudos to PRSA and its chairman, Michael G. Cherenson, APR, for the roundup and [...]

Tell me your contest stories

Yeah, I know it’s the heat of summer and January seems eons away. But, the deadline for the TPRA Silver Spur/Best of Texas Awards Competition isn’t as far away as you might think.
I’m gearing up to manage what I think/hope will be my last contest. (I think it’s my 12th, but who’s counting?) [...]

General James W. Hart, Jr. and His Rules for Success

Lawyer, TV newsman, jet pilot, Air Force General, consummate public relations professional and more recently, gentleman farmer/rancher in Bascon, Florida…that is James W. Hart, Jr. 
Many who have been in TPRA awhile know Hart. He retired in 1998 as vice president of public affairs for Duke Energy Corporation (previously PanEnergy and Panhandle Eastern), a global energy [...]

What can the TPRA do to help you?

As many longtime members have noticed, the TPRA has undergone a major change over the last year and a half.
Under the direction of past-president Graham Painter, we began to transform the organization into one that was more inclusive of all areas of marketing communications. The Web site was updated to include expanded news and information [...]