Scott Brown has joined Fort Worth-based GCG Marketing as account services director. He will
manage one of the account services teams and provide support to all of the
agency’s clients, including developing marketing strategies, presenting proposals and
monitoring account processes. A UT Austin graduate, Brown formerly was an
account supervisor with the Dallas office of Tribal DDB Worldwide, where he
worked primarily with ExxonMobil as well as Dyson, AT&T and Pepsi. He also worked in an account management capacity with Temerlin
McClain, Verizon Communications, Publicis USA and the Loomis Agency. ...
Leslie Wimmer and Audrey Taubert have joined the full-service marketing agency JODesign as public relations
assistants. Wimmer formerly was a newspaper reporter specializing in banking
and finance issues in Tarrant County. Taubert, a recent graduate of Texas A&M, worked in College Station’s Public Communications Department. JODesign, founded in 1998, reports that it
has grown from a two-person shop to a staff of eight employees, three interns
and a client base growing every year, with eight new clients added so far in
2010.
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GET A JOB
The LTV Group in Plano seeks a full-time contract copywriter/marketing
communications person to support its REO Insider and HousingWire magazines.
Knowledge of real estate/financial/mortgage business a plus; experience in
writing for e-mail marketing and social media preferred. The position is 40
hours a week, three-month contract (with extension expected). Work on-site is
best but can flex (say, three days on-site, two off-). HousingWire is among the
fastest-growing trade sources of business news for the U.S. residential
mortgage market. The monthly REO Insider caters to the frontline real estate
professional who manages bank-owned real estate. Contact
Sally Powell Schall, 469-893-1506.
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NEW MEMBERS
SPJ ... Lisa Albert, TCU ... Carol Nuckols, Pegasus Editing ... Barry Shlachter, Star-Telegram ... Gene Trainor, Star-Telegram
PRSA ... Joseph Charest, Katz & Associates ... Ashley Gordon, Chesapeake Energy ... Mary Martin, Chesapeake Energy ... Kendale Rice, Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce ... Liza Benedict, Camp Fire USA ... Glenda Moreno, Camp Fire USA ... Maggie Thomas, TCU
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PRESIDENT’S COLUMN
Tom Burke, APR, Greater Fort Worth PRSA
Just sitting here in the hot Texas sun, sweating and wondering ...
... When is it okay to call a woman a fellow? Well, when that woman is Dr. Amiso George, APR. Amiso teaches and advises in the TCU Schieffer School of Journalism, and
she will be inducted into the PRSA College of Fellows at the international
conference in Washington, D.C., in October. Nearly 4 percent of our members — Dr. Doug Newsom, APR; Carolyn Bobo, APR; Bill Lawrence, APR; Mary Dulle, APR; and Amiso — are PRSA fellows. What a tribute to our chapter.
... What would we have done if the BP oil well in the Gulf couldn’t be capped and the flow of oil stopped? What happens if we can’t stop the flow of a deep-sea well in the future?
... Was Neil Armstrong chewing gum when he walked on the moon 41 years ago, last month?
... How can millions of people be able to view a video transmitted from a mile
underwater, but the cable company can’t maintain service to my house during a thunderstorm?
... If there now are 400 billionaires in the world, why don’t we hear about the many good things they’re doing with their money to benefit the human race?
... If members of the millennial generation are such collaborative
communicators, why are they like so many other youngsters and don’t talk to their parents?
... Shouldn’t there be a national holiday for the Anthora inventor, who recently died?
... If we are supposed to be flying the friendly skies, why are so many pilots
depressed? Recently, the FAA changed a generations-old policy and began
allowing pilots with mild to moderate depression to fly while taking
antidepressants. The thought of having a depressed pilot in the cockpit
depresses me.
... If after reading the August issue of Texas Monthly, you wondered, as I did,
if John Graves found a back porch while he was at TCU.
Try to stay cool. Hopefully, August will fly by and give way to cooler weather
and the 2010 college football season!
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OVER & OUT
John Dycus, Fort Worth SPJ
If you like to read, if you like to write, and what are you doing here if you
don’t, give yourself a treat and stroll past new eChaser advertiser talebait.com (this page). Asked to explain what’s going on here, “Skipper” Barbara Whitehead gives herself a headline — “Catch & Create the Freshest Fiction on the Net” — then proclaims, “Kick start your creativity at TaleBait.com, a safe harbor for writers seeking
literary inspiration and advice from other scribblers. Readers and writers
collaborate to create continuous stories on Hooks & Storylines, rating each others’ work and selecting ‘keepers.’ Chart your own course in Open Water, where you tell your stories your way.
Invite critiques, comments and collaboration. Drop a Line on the Captain’s Blog or brag on Angler News. Enjoy the Catch of the Day. TaleBait.com, where
writers spark their imaginations and create inventive fiction, one bite at a
time. Now 4 ways to win cash!” Not two, not three ...
No shortage of news reports from the Gulf region bubbled forth in response to
the largest oil spill in U.S. history. But reporting is more than throwing out
facts and hoping someone cares. Impactful news requires context. Trimble
Outdoors has developed a tool to explain the magnitude of the spill. Trimble’s ”Map the Spill” free application enables anyone with a mobile phone to record field notes, take
photos and video, and mark locations on a map. Another useful, and relatively
simple, tool from ifitwasmyhome.com uses Google Maps technology to superimpose the area of the oil spill on any
land-based location, such as Fort Worth. You can easily grab the code for each
map and share it on another website, giving more context to the enormity of the
affected area. And if you’re looking for “all oil oil the time,” The Daily Glob by the Society of Environmental Journalists curates and aggregates stories,
Twitter feeds and other outlets’ destination sites devoted to spill coverage. ...
SPJ is excited to offer the latest online resource in FOI: the Campus Access Center. The resource focuses on offering students advice, training and up-to-date
information on important freedom of information decisions. The page includes
easy-to-access FOI tutorials, links and contacts to help campus chapters get
involved. This is the second installment in a series of updates to the FOI section of SPJ’s website, including the redesigned federal shield law page. ...
The Journalists Toolbox is updated often. Make it one of the first resources you seek when news breaks.
... The SPJ Freelancer Directory brings you one step closer to being connected with an editor. Members can place
their profile in the database at no charge. ... The SPJ Job Bank is another service to members at no extra cost. SPJ also posts jobs that are
listed on the News Association of America Job Bank.
Closing words: “Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious
conviction.” — mathematician and mystic Blaise Pascal ... “Are you really sure that a floor can’t also be a ceiling?” — M.C. Escher ... “I don’t want to make money, I just want to be wonderful.” — Marilyn Monroe ... “Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.” — William Butler Yeats
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