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1. What are your main daily duties?
To deliver quality content with a focus on exceptional locally owned businesses.

2. What kinds of stories are you looking for?
Hyper local events, locally owned businesses with an inspired living slant for example stories related to dining, shopping, art, culture, yoga, healthy living, music, pets, kids, holidays, seasonal, destinations. Please visit our Categories page for more detail.

3. What’s the best way to approach you with a pitch?
Email us at submissions@locallily.com. To ensure we only include the most interesting, independent local businesses, we visit each one to experience it for ourselves. We’d love to add your submission to our list and will notify you if it is featured.

4. What recommendations do you have for PR professionals?
We typically write about brick and mortar businesses that are not part of a larger franchise and that are local and independently owned.

5. What’s the strangest/weirdest pitch you’ve ever received?
Nothing immediately comes to mind.

At Crosby/Wright Tuttle will manage public relations campaigns for multiple client accounts.

For the past 18 months, Gretchen had been a publicist with the Phoenix PR firm, Orca Communications. Prior to moving to the PR side of media , she spent 10 years producing newscasts for various networks. Gretchen worked in a few media markets including Las Vegas, NV, Portland, OR and Phoenix. Gretchen is an Emmy-nominated producer, and Women’s in Communications award winner for her coverage of the one-year anniversary of the September 11th attacks.

Over the past year, Odell and his team have achieved some significant successes including his support of UTI’s government affairs and corporate compliance efforts, the grand opening of a brand new UTI campus in Dallas, and the company-wide 45^th Anniversary Celebration.

Odell joined UTI in November of 2008, as Director, Internal Communications.  Prior to UTI, Odell spent almost two decades in communications roles with Motorola and Philips.

If I can be of any help to those of you wondering what to do today, here is a great post I saw about what PR Pros can expect following Bin Laden’s death.

Fantastic advice. If you have more ideas or thoughts to share with the readers of Valley PR Blog, please comment. What are you doing in PR today?

The group meets the first Thursday of every odd month. The May 5th meeting will be a noon luncheon centrally located at a pizza joint in the Old Town section of Scottsdale (location sent with your RSVP). This month come share and hear ideas on how to grow your business. The meeting is free to PRSA members; $5 for all others. For more information or to RSVP (deadline noon May 4), contact Jeff Pizzino, APR at (480) 606-8292 or e-mail.

Jody Kent

For the past 10 years, Jody has been president and founder for her own strategic communications firm, which provided a full range of branding, communications, public relations, community relations, and perception management services to clients. Prior to her agency, Kent held numerous roles, including the VP of Strategy & Research for a marketing and public relations firm and Marketing Director for Showcase Home Entertainment.

• Shoulder pads were ‘in’

• Press releases were sent via fax

• A gallon of gas was pocket change

• The first convertible PS (also known as the laptop) hit the market

• And the real estate industry ruled the day

Congrats to the agency and may they enjoy another 25+ years of serving their clients and the community.

HMA Public Relations, the Phoenix member of Public Relations Global Network (PRGN), an international network of leading independent public relations agencies, announced the addition of three new PRGN members in France, Switzerland and Brazil.
Joining the ranks are YESwecan PR in Paris, CPC Commuications in Geneva and LBVA Communications in Sao Paulo, expanding the network’s global reach and capabilities in three of the world’s fastest growing economies.  The worldwide network now numbers 43 independently-owned public relations agencies on six continents.

“Our focus next year will be to make it convenient for companies to work with us whether they are looking for representation in one country or one continent,” said PRGN president Francine Robbens of PRP – Public Relations Partners in Brussels.

• The AMA Spectrum Awards deadline for entries is 5pm today. The event takes place on May 11th and keynote speaker is Jay Baer.

• Got Plans this afternoon after lunch? AAF Metro Phoenix says there is still time to sign up for an Educational Workshop on Non-Compete, Non-Solicitation and Confidentiality Provisions today.
  

This workshop, led by Attorney Peter Borns of Ryley, Carlock & Applewhite, will provide an overview of restrictive covenants under Arizona law, including: (1) the differences between non-compete, non-solicitation and confidentiality provisions, (2) the general circumstances in which these provisions are enforceable, (3) the tests to determine the permitted scope of such provisions, and (4) examples from recent cases. Both employers and employees may benefit from attending.

Location: 1 N. Central Ave., #100, Phoenix
Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Sign up and for more info here.