Widmeyer Social Media Bootcamp

Learn how to actively participate in and effectively contribute to today’s online conversations and social networks. Widmeyer’s Social Media Bootcamp offers you and your institution a roadmap to social media relations - an individualized half- or full-day training session customized to the needs and goals of up to six individuals from your staff. Learn more about this opportunity (PDF, 1.8Mb).

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The Power of Partnerships

In academics, we are trained to “operationalize,” or define in measurable terms, concepts that we study, much as PR practitioners strive to define and measure a client’s return on investment (ROI). After my most recent visit to Widmeyer Communications, where I met with various account teams to learn of their work, successes and challenges…

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Statewide Poll in Tennessee, One of Only Two Winners in Race to the Top Competition’s First Round, Show Strong Support for K-12 Standards

Tennessee State Collaborative on Reforming Education (SCORE), a Widmeyer client, aggressively promotes innovative education reform agendas in Tennessee, one of two states selected as grant winner in the first phase of the Race to the Top competition. Widmeyer has been helping providing SCORE, founded by Senator Bill Frist, with communications and research counsel for the [...]

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CPSC Chairman and Pool Safely

Inez M. Tenenbaum, Chairman of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, had a letter to the editor published in the New York Times on Saturday, July 24th, responding to a news article about temporary swimming pools coming to Manhattan. Tenenbaum offered a few Pool Safely safety steps, while reminding New York pool-goers and visitors to [...]

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Raising Awareness of Computer-Science Education

Widmeyer clients, the Association for Computing Machinery and the Computer Science Teachers Association, continue to support efforts such as Computer Science Education Week to increase awareness of the importance of including computer science in the national education conversation. A recent article in Education Week featured quotes from both organizations while highlighting a multitude of initiatives [...]

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National Oil Spill Commission Co-chairs on MSNBC’s Daily Rundown

Former Senator Bob Graham and former EPA Administrator William Reilly, co-chairmen of the bipartisan National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling, appeared live on “The Daily Rundown” on MSNBC on Monday, July 12th in advance of the Commission’s two-day public meeting.  Sen. Graham and Administrator Reilly discussed the President’s charge [...]

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CPSC’s Pool Safety Expert Interviewed Live on FOX 5 DC

Kathleen Reilly of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), a Widmeyer client, appeared live on Washington DC’s FOX 5  Morning News on Thursday, July 8th. Reilly discussed Pool Safely: Simple Steps Save Lives – the Commission’s national public education campaign to reduce drowning and other pool and spa related incidents. She also provided important [...]

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