BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//PRSA-LA - ECPv6.15.13//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://prsala.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for PRSA-LA REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200501T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200501T180000 DTSTAMP:20260411T174259 CREATED:20200420T175216Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200420T175706Z UID:16363-1588352400-1588356000@prsala.org SUMMARY:NATIONAL: Change Management: What Agency Leaders Are Doing to Navigate the New Normal DESCRIPTION:COVID-19 has turned almost all industries on their heads with far reaching impacts. While recovery planning is beginning to come into the conversation\, in the present\, agencies and communication departments are working through the “new normal” and its challenges to maintain the health of their business and keep clients/brands relevant. \nIn this PRSA Entertainment and Sports Section sponsored webinar\, industry leaders will share how their organizations have adapted to work through the COVID-19 crisis and tailored business and communication strategies to succeed. \nSpeakers\n\n\n \n\nDon Epstein\nPartner @United Talent Agency\nEpstein has spent over 40 years as a leader in the lecture industry\, founding Greater Talent Network in 1981\, prior to its acquisition by UTA in 2017\, to promote intellectual\, political\, and cultural icons from Attorney General Janet Reno and Tom Wolfe to Michael Lewis and Billy Beane on the speaking circuit. During this time\, Epstein’s knack for recognizing talent on the cusp of hugely successful\, multi-faceted careers cemented GTN as one of the country’s most prestigious speakers bureaus. Recognizing GTN’s influence on the lecture business as well as its status as a launching pad for some of the most exciting new voices in broadcasting\, literature and entertainment\, United Talent Agency acquired the company\, utilizing Epstein’s experience to further expand its roster and reach to include such figures as Tyra Banks\, Lloyd Blankfein\, Terry Crews\, Governor John Kasich\, Norah O’Donnell\, and many more.\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\nDanny Martoe\nPresident @CSE\nMartoe is the President of CSE overseeing all verticals including representation of professional and collegiate coaches & management\, news & sports media talent and partnership marketing initiatives. Before joining CSE\, Martoe was a business manager at the entertainment accounting and business management firm Nigro\, Karlin\, Segal\, Feldstein & Bolno where he was responsible for his client’s tax\, financial and life management needs. Previously\, Martoe served as the VP of Development at Relatively Media as well as Vice President at Rosenhaus Sports Representation where he helped manage the careers of over 500 professional athletes. Martoe also worked at UBS Financial Services Headquarters Branch in New York City where he held both series 7 & 65 securities licenses. Martoe graduated with a bachelor’s degree from West Virginia University and received his MBA from the University of Miami. He is also a licensed MLB\, NFL & US Soccer certified contract advisor.\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\nChristine M. Barney\nCEO and Managing Partner @rbb Communications\nChristine M. Barney is CEO and managing partner of rbb Communications\, a four-time national Agency of the Year award winner. rbb is a leading integrated communications agency that offers media relations\, digital marketing\, influencer engagement\, corporate communications\, reputation and social media management and creative services/advertising. Specialty practices include consumer\, health\, entertainment\, luxury lifestyle\, professional services\, real estate and travel. Barney has developed multifaceted marketing communications programs for a variety of brands including DHL Express\, M&Ms\, Hilton Hotels\, Jackson Health System\, The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts and Florida Power & Light. She is the author of “The Breakout Brand ™ Strategy: An Evolutionary Approach to Creating Customer Passion.”\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER ONLINE \nFREE TO MEMBERS \n  URL:https://prsala.org/event/national-change-management-what-agency-leaders-are-doing-to-navigate-the-new-normal/ CATEGORIES:PRSA ORGANIZER;CN="PRSA":MAILTO:executive.director@prsala.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200503T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200503T170000 DTSTAMP:20260411T174259 CREATED:20200129T213933Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200430T193833Z UID:16111-1588521600-1588525200@prsala.org SUMMARY:Crisis Webinar Series I: How LA Media and PR Professionals Are Handling a Once in a Century Crisis DESCRIPTION:  \nCrisis Webinar Series I: How LA Media and PR Professionals Are Handling a Once in a Century Crisis. \nThis is the first of the 5 webinars in the PRSA-LA’s Crisis Communications Webinar Series scheduled for the next few weeks. For more info\, visit www.prsala.org. \nIn this first webinar\, BRENDA DURAN\, Deputy Executive Officer\, Communication & Media Services from the LA County Executive Office of the Board of Supervisors will be discussing the challenges municipalities are facing when it comes to communicating with its various publics during a crisis that was unexpected and seems to change daily. \nRegister Now:\nWebinar I: $15 per person\nAll 5 Webinars: $50 per person URL:https://prsala.org/event/crisis-communication-event/ CATEGORIES:PRSA-LA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200512T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200512T190000 DTSTAMP:20260411T174300 CREATED:20200420T180017Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200420T180017Z UID:16367-1589306400-1589310000@prsala.org SUMMARY:NATIONAL: Selling the Sizzle: How Brands (Including You) Can Become Notable and Quotable DESCRIPTION:Join marketing and media maven Shanita Akintonde as she shares her signature presentation\, “Selling the Sizzle: How Brands (Including YOU) Can Become Notable and Quotable.” This webinaroffers an “insider’s view” on what the best brands do to remain on top and how you can do the same. \nKnown on the campus of Columbia College Chicago for academic lectures that are grounded in research and framed in COLOR\, Akintonde is a three-time Excellence in Teaching award finalist. This 20-year teaching vet is a successful former advertising and PR practitioner whose client base  included McDonald’s\, Coca-Cola and Sprite. She is currently the executive vice president of branding for UJAMAA Construction\, Inc.\, builders of the Obama Presidential Center in her hometown of Chicago. She also chairs the PRSA Diversity and Inclusion Committee. \nAttendees will leave this webinar infused with intellectual ice cream and chock full of communication cotton candy\, all drawn from both theoretical and practitioner-based evidence. Akintonde utilizes case studies\, research and interview material from leading agency CEOs that capture best practices for building a brand. This is a definite you-don’t-want-to-miss PRSA learning webinar! \nBy the end of this webinar\, participants will be able to: \n\nIdentify your niche and determine target market needs.\nBetter manage consumer perceptions about your brand.\nPut branding tactics to use in order to elevate/build your career.\n\n\n\nPresenter\n\nShanita Akintonde\, MBA\, associate professor\, Columbia College Chicago \n\n\nAkintonde\, MBA\, M.Ed.\, DTM is a professor in The School of Media Arts at Columbia College Chicago and Interim Program Director\, Culture Race & Media in the Cinema & Television Arts Department.  A 25 year member of PRSA\, she is the first recipient of the PRSSA Multicultural Student Scholarship. \n\n\n\n       \n\n\nAccreditation\n\nParticipants with the APR credential earn 0.5 CEUs for a webinar. Learn more about Accreditation maintenance. \n\nREGISTER ONLINE \nFREE FOR MEMBERS \nNon-Members: $200 URL:https://prsala.org/event/national-selling-the-sizzle-how-brands-including-you-can-become-notable-and-quotable/ CATEGORIES:PRSA ORGANIZER;CN="PRSA":MAILTO:executive.director@prsala.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200514T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200514T170000 DTSTAMP:20260411T174300 CREATED:20200504T194043Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200519T104012Z UID:16566-1589472000-1589475600@prsala.org SUMMARY:Crisis Webinar Series - How COVID-19 and Other Crisis-Related Lawsuits Are Covered by the Press DESCRIPTION:Crisis Webinar Series: Crisis Litigation – How COVID-19 and Other Crisis-Related Lawsuits Are Covered by the Press\nThursday\, May 14 @4 pm\n\n\n\nThursday\, May 14 @4 pm:Crisis Litigation- How COVID-19 and Other Crisis-Related Lawsuits Are Covered by the Press \nAmanda Bronstad\, a long-time reporter in the business and legal spaces\, will discuss how reporting is changing during this crisis. She will also lend her insight into how lawsuits create crisis PR situations that are extremely unique to manage and respond to. URL:https://prsala.org/event/crisis-webinar-series-2/ CATEGORIES:PRSA-LA END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200519T190000 DTSTAMP:20260411T174300 CREATED:20200420T180420Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200420T180516Z UID:16370-1589911200-1589914800@prsala.org SUMMARY:NATIONAL: Developing Cross-Channel Analytics Frameworks to Measure Digital Corporate Reputation DESCRIPTION:Although PR has always been about telling a brand’s story and managing its reputation through traditional media sources\, the abundance of various channels and data sources presents an opportunity for PR professionals to go beyond earned media and elevate the PR function to make it an important component of integrated marketing analytics. By aligning the PR efforts across multiple channels\, today’s PR teams have an opportunity to send clear\, consistent and complementary messages to assist with business conversions or control the messaging and corporate reputation in a controversial and politically charged environment. \nThis webinar is designed to help the participants work the key groups across corporate communications\, brand\, social and digital groups\, in order to design PR measurement frameworks that assess the cross-channel impact on corporate reputation. \nBy the end of this webinar\, participants will be able to: \n\nIdentify the C-suite’s strategic imperatives and ask the right key business questions.\nEstablish which key stakeholders are reached via PR and social\, digital and influencer outreach channels.\nDevelop the list of questions that will help identify goals and KPIs per channel; know the difference between metrics and KPIs.\nUnderstand the limitations and opportunities that various tools present.\nLearn how to bring different sources of data together in one place in order to tell a complete story.\n\n\n\nPresenter\n\nLusine Kodagolian\, Stratint Research LLC \n\n    \n\n\nAccreditation\n\nParticipants with the APR credential earn 0.5 CEUs for a webinar. Learn more about Accreditation maintenance. \n\n  \nREGISTER ONLINE \nFREE FOR MEMBERS \nNon-Members: $200 URL:https://prsala.org/event/national-developing-cross-channel-analytics-frameworks-to-measure-digital-corporate-reputation/ CATEGORIES:PRSA ORGANIZER;CN="PRSA":MAILTO:executive.director@prsala.org END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200522T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200522T110000 DTSTAMP:20260411T174300 CREATED:20200504T232757Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200520T224215Z UID:16588-1590141600-1590145200@prsala.org SUMMARY:Crisis Webinar Series – Daily News Coverage in a Pandemic. What’s It Like to Cover Daily News\, Including Politics\, for a City in Chaos? DESCRIPTION:Crisis Webinar Series IV – Daily News Coverage in a Pandemic: What’s It Like to Cover Daily News\, Including Politics\, for a City in Chaos? \nClaudia Peschiutta\, a news radio veteran in Los Angeles\, will talk to us about what it is like to cover the daily news in a city facing the worst recession since the Great Depression and worst viral outbreak since the Spanish Flu. \nRegister Today: $15 per webinar \nPortion of proceeds will benefit L.A. Food Bank. URL:https://prsala.org/event/crisis-webinar-series-iv/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200528T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200528T170000 DTSTAMP:20260411T174300 CREATED:20200504T205534Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200602T104137Z UID:16574-1590681600-1590685200@prsala.org SUMMARY:Crisis Webinar Series - Handling Crisis PR Across Various Languages DESCRIPTION:Crisis Webinar Series-Handling Crisis PR Across Various Languages\nThursday\, May 28 @4 pm: Handling Crisis PR Across Various Languages\n\n\n\nThursday\, May 28@4 pm: Handling Crisis PR Across Various Languages \nYurina Melara\, Multiethnic Media Strategist for Covered California\, will talk about how to communicate in-language with different communities\, especially during crisis. Getting the word out in a crisis is hard enough without having to translate it into as many languages as we have in California. URL:https://prsala.org/event/crisis-webinar-series-3/ CATEGORIES:PRSA-LA ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://prsala.org/wp-content/uploads/0e53285d5c3db5178cd7694afbcef9d1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200528T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200528T190000 DTSTAMP:20260411T174300 CREATED:20200420T180900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200420T181217Z UID:16374-1590688800-1590692400@prsala.org SUMMARY:NATIONAL: Decoding Gen Z: Actionable Insights For Public Relations and Communication Professionals DESCRIPTION:In 2020\, Generation Z will be the largest consumer segment in the United States and a critical audience for many corporations\, brands\, organizations\, and public relations agencies. Unlike every generation before them\, Gen Z does not consume traditional editorial media. They prefer channels such as Instagram and YouTube for news\, information and other content. Gen Z also does not respond to traditional marketing and advertising. This webinar will detail Gen Z’s media mix\, inform how they want to be engaged and serve actionable insights and recommendations to effectively communicate and collaborate with this cohort.   \n\n\nPresenter\n\nMark Beal\, managing partner\, Taylor Communications Inc \n\n\nMark Beal is a seasoned public relations practitioner and a full-time Professor of Practice in Public Relations in the School of Communication and Information at Rutgers University. It was his Gen Z students at Rutgers who he collaborates with daily who inspired him to author Decoding Gen Z: 101 Lessons Generation Z Will Teach Corporate America\, Marketers & Media. Mark regularly delivers Gen Z keynote speeches featuring his quarterly nationwide survey data and insights to conferences\, corporations\, organizations\, and agencies.   \n\n\n\nAccreditation\n\nParticipants with the APR credential earn 0.5 CEUs for a webinar. Learn more about Accreditation maintenance. \n\nREGISTER ONLINE \nFREE TO MEMBERS \nNon-Members: $200 URL:https://prsala.org/event/national-decoding-gen-z-actionable-insights-for-public-relations-and-communication-professionals/ CATEGORIES:PRSA ORGANIZER;CN="PRSA":MAILTO:executive.director@prsala.org END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR