Tips, tactics and protocol to earn a communications Passport.

January 8, 2009
Doubletree Hotel Cocoa Beach
Networking: 11:30 am – Noon Program

Special Guest: Joseph Curley, APR, CPRC

With our business world growing globally smaller everyday and the internet allowing instant exchange of information worldwide, our PR profession actually crosses international borders daily. Its distant geography and languages can be scary barriers, but good planning can help make international PR project outcomes go as smoothly as if they were domestic.

Joe Curley is directing the international PR/marketing efforts for Universal Studios Parks & Resorts and is currently traveling to and managing new theme park locations in Singapore, Dubai and Seoul Korea. Joe will share with us, lessons learned, the barriers to overcome and other need-to-know information for crossing the International PR Border. Even if you’re not dealing overseas, it promises to be interesting and full of tactics you can apply to your job.

Cost: $20 members, $25 non-members, $18 students
Food options:
Grilled Oriental Chicken Salad
Pasta Primavera
Grilled Fish Sandwich

Attend this program and you can come to the event on January 22 for Free!
RSVP: Katherine Sonn 722-4440 or sonncenturyoaks@cfl.rr.com

Joseph J. Curley, APR, CPRC Stingray Solutions, Inc.
Joe has practiced public relations in Florida for more than 35 years. He is the retired co-founder and president of one of Florida’s largest PR firms, Curley & Pynn Public Relations Management in Orlando. Currently a public relations and marketing consultant at his own firm Stingray Solutions, Inc., Joe is retained by Universal Studios Parks & Resorts as Senior Corporate Communications Counsel, international marketing & PR. He is a past national president of the PRSA Foundation and a past state president of FPRA. In 1993, and again in 2005 he was honored with FPRA’s highest statewide award for outstanding professional leadership. Joe currently serves on the University of Florida, College of Journalism and Communication, Public Relations Advisory Board and is a requested speaker throughout the country for speeches on public relations issues. He is a graduate of the Executive Management Program at Rollins College Graduate School of Business.

Sponsored in part by Parrish Medical Center

January 22, 2009
11:30 Networking, Noon Program
Location: Tuscany Grill, Suntree

Special Guest: Susan Howard, APR
Director, Corporate Communications, DUDA

Susan will share the variety of communication tools and activities that she has used with The Viera Company’s efforts to promote two-way communication with the communty in its plans for West Viera, from gathering input into the community’s design to inviting comments and questions.

Cost: FREE! if you attended January 8
If not $20 members, $25 non-members, $18 students

Menu options:

RSVP: Katherine Sonn 722-4440 or sonncenturyoaks@cfl.rr.com

Susan Howard’s experience in public relations spans over 25 years. During that time, she has worked in corporate, non-profit and agency settings. She joined DUDA in 1993 and in 1997 was named Director of Corporate Communications. Susan is responsible for planning and directing the management of internal and external communications programs for DUDA, a family-owned, diversified land company engaged in a variety of agriculture and real estate operations in Florida and five additional states.

Her department is responsible for employee communication, media relations, shareholder communication, issues management and community relations for the parent corporation and its four subsidiaries. Between 1995 and 1997 Susan served as Director of Community Relations for The Viera Company, DUDA’s real estate development subsidiary and the master developer of the community of Viera.

Susan joined the Orlando Area Chapter of FPRA in 1990 and served as Chapter President in 1996. She is a member of the International Association of Business Communicators and the Orlando Chapter of Florida Executive Women. Susan is a graduate of the University of Arizona where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism, and has earned professional accreditation in public relations (APR).