Now that I am back in Washington D.C. after the PRSA 2009 International Conference, I finally find myself sitting down to reflect on a couple of the sessions I attended. This is mostly because I wanted to be able to do so thoughtfully, and not rush through my posts.
The first of these was “President Obama and the Citizens’ Campaign: Lessons Learned,” which was conducted by Mike Smith of Mike Smith Public Affairs. Leave it to a PRSA conference all the way across the country to be the place where Mike and I finally met “in real life (IRL),” even though we both live and work in the D.C. area. Ain’t that somethin’? (By way of disclosure, you should know that Mike’s firm was a sponsor of #shonalitweetup, which was a ton of fun that weekend.)
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The U.S./Mexican border has one of the highest number of crossings of any land border in the world, yet can we find common ground on the issues this common border brings? I attended the “Mexico & U.S. Public Relations Realities, Pitfalls & Opportunities,” by invitation of Dr. Dean Kruckeberg, APR, Fellow PRSA, professor, University of North Carolina, director of the Center for Global Relations, and incoming International Section chair. From immigration to drug trafficking to security concerns, this workshop provided an historical snapshot of the critical issues we face.