Webinar: CommonGround – A 7-Year PR Evolution

Webinar: CommonGround – A 7-Year PR Evolution Missy Morgan with Osborn Barr shares thoughts and evolution history of CommonGround, a consumer facing site aimed at helping make that personal connection between farm mom and consumer mom. Missy talks about how projects, people, and budgets change and that PR professionals need to roll with them in […]
Webinar: Red Meat and Cancer Response

Webinar: Red Meat and Cancer Response Daren Williams, Sr. Executive Director, Communications, National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, shared insights on dealing with international reports on red and processed meat causing cancer. Key factors to the success of their efforts in responding were preparation of the support teams internally and media training development of key beef advocates across […]
Maureen Manier – Career Tips To Staying Relevant In Public Relations and Communications

Private and Public Sector Communications Perspective In a special one-on-one conversation, Maureen Manier [audio link], Department Head of Agricultural Communications at Purdue University’s College of Agriculture, shares her thoughts on communication in an academic environment and how her team is organized to bubble up important conversations throughout the year. Maureen also offers advice on staying relevant as […]
Webinar: Cenex® Fueled by Good – Brand Research Helps Campaign Development

Webinar: Cenex® Fueled by Good – Brand Research Helps Campaign Development Malissa Fritz, Director of Energy Marketing and Communications, CHS, showcased how Cenex, CHS Energy’s umbrella brand, strategically approaches building its brand and how it forges deep connections with people. Fritz also highlighted their approach to brand research and how the team applies it to […]
2016 Fall ARCLight Newsletter
Snap Back to Reality – By Daren Williams, ARC Board President The summer Olympics are over. Kids are headed back to school. The pennant race is heating up (Go Royals!). Summer is over. Bummer. Time to snap back to reality. As much as I desire to experience that “Endless Summer” the Beach Boys sang about, the […]
Carol Bodensteiner – Interview on PR, Writing, and Iowa Life

Interview On PR, Writing, and Iowa Influences Carol Bodensteiner [audio link] is the 2016 Agricultural Relations Council Hall of Fame award winner. Carol shares her thoughts on how Iowa influenced her life, what public relations as a career was like for her, and how she has continued to write after her retirement from doing public […]
Webinar: Engage – The Power of Shared Values

Webinar: Engage – The Power of Shared Values This webinar with Donna Moenning shares how engage training goes beyond traditional message training. It’s a research based approach to communicating complex and controversial science in a way that’s much more powerful than standard message training. The Center for Food Integrity’s peer-reviewed and published research shows that […]
Webinar: Back to School for Social Media 101, What’s Changed?

Back to School for Social Media 101, What’s Changed? This webinar with John Blue, Truffle Media Networks, offers information on how social media from the last several years has changed and what those changes mean to your practices in public relations and media. The presentation presented by John Blue on March 17, 2016, is now […]
Webinar: Developing a Winning Entries for PR Award Programs

Developing a Winning Entries for PR Award Programs This webinar will offer specific actions to take to submit your project or campaign to Public Relations awards programs, like the Golden ARC Awards. The presentation presented by Adelita Tyson Bell on January 21, 2016, is now available to ARC members: https://vimeo.com/154385884. Email arc@gandgcomm.com for the access […]
Webinar: Create winning PR award entries through good PR planning
What is needed to develop winning entries for PR award programs? – Bob Giblin, APR, offered best practices people should be doing way in advance of submitting to an awards program PDF file [link]. The webinar audio and video is also available to ARC members for free, email arc@gandgcomm.com for the access code [video]. Robert […]