The Community Credit Union in Dallas seeks an e-marketing specialist with a bachelor's degree in marketing, business, advertising or similar field, knowledge of Front Page/Dreamweaver and at least two years in internet marketing, web production and e-mail strategy. Contact Kim Miklis, (972) 509-2001. ... A Fort Worth ad agency seeks a creative director to "manage and inspire" a staff of 10 people. In-depth agency experience is a priority or product/brand management experience. Principal owner needs a strong business partner. Send résumé to Ben Perryman at bperryman@whitneysmithco.com. ...
A large corporation in Plano seeks a senior communications professional. Requirements include at least five years in internal communications or change management with a large corporation or consulting firm and experience developing and implementing strategic plans. Send résumé to connie@careerprofiles.com. ... A consumer-products company in Richmond, Va., needs a communications manager. Requirements include knowledge of all aspects of advertising/communications (print, TV, internet, direct mail), an undergraduate degree in communications or marketing (M.B.A. preferred) and at least five years management experience in a corporate or agency field. E-mail résumé to connie@careerprofiles.com.
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COMINGS & GOINGS
Promotions ... at the S-T: David Sedeño, to publisher of Diario La Estrella
Additions ... at the S-T: Adam Barth, part-time news researcher
Exits ... at the S-T: Ken Williams, to The San Diego Union-Tribune as copy desk slot ... Julie Adelsberger, going home to St. Louis to write and edit sales proposals for Express Scripts, a pharmaceutical benefits manager ... father-to-be Sean Wood to the San Antonio Express-News
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PRESIDENT'S CORNER
Heather Senter, Greater Fort Worth PRSA
Did you know that PRSA has 19 professional interest sections? I didn't, either, until a couple of years ago, when I started attending national PRSA events and realized the vast resources available through our membership. Professional interest sections offer niche networks and programming relevant to a particular industry, like health care or travel and tourism, or that emphasize a specific discipline such as employee communications.
These sections are designed to focus on issues, trends and research in your practice area. More than 6,000 PRSA members are also members of professional interest sections. Annual membership in a section is only $60 and includes seminars and conferences customized for it.
During May and June, PRSA is sponsoring a section membership promotion, which makes this a great time to encourage your colleagues to join PRSA. Individuals who sign up in May and June receive a free first-year membership in a professional interest section. Log on to prsa.org and click "Membership/Professional Interest Sections."
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PRESIDENT'S COLUMN
Tim Tune, IABC/Fort Worth
Just as each of us has different tastes in food, we also like to receive information in different ways. Some of us have the Joe Friday attitude -- we just want the facts. Others are audience members, so entertain us. Facts are fine, but could you present them in a poem? A third kind of learning happens best through demonstration: Show me how to do it.
Because there are different ways of learning, good teachers employ a variety of techniques. Bryan Dodge has mastered these skills. At our next time together, Tuesday, May 3, we'll hear from him. He's known as a very effective teacher. The reputation is well-deserved.
Learn how to have your best year ever. How to keep advancing in life. How to harness the benefits of a powerful memory. They're all as close as the next cool IABC/Fort Worth meeting.
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OVER & OUT
John Dycus, Fort Worth SPJ
Be honest, you blinked when you saw that scholarship amount in the write-up of the First Amendment Dinner. $19,000. What a tribute to the Tarrant County journalism crowd for creating and nurturing the endowment that makes much of this possible. And eChaser advertisers, your support helps, too -- you're giving back to the community in a big way. Yessir, makes us proud. ...
For anyone who thinks he can write like the late Hunter S. Thompson, UTA anthropoligist Karl Petruso has created a web site upon which to hurl one's best HST-like maunderings. A plethora of clever submissions could prompt Petruso, speaking in third person, to "reconfigure this stupid project into a contest, and the best entries will be awarded prizes, the nature of which is yet to be determined. Perhaps he will be able to secure big endorsements from breweries, munitions dealers, drug manufacturers, disgraced former executives of Enron, or Jose Canseco. Otherwise the winners will just have to take satisfaction in the undying glory their literary achievements will confer on them within the metacommunity of losers in cyberspace." Have a few beers first, then go here. ...
SPJ member Carmen Goldthwaite is hawking her considerable skills, including a new column, "Texas Dames," at carmengoldthwaite.com. We all might be wise to take a look. ... And thanks, SPJ New Jersey Professional Chapter, for judging our First Amendment Awards.
Closing words: "Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock." -- Ben Hecht ... "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." -- Abraham Lincoln ... "I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph." -- Ken Kesey
Closing words II, G.W.B. & the Pharisees bracket: "He knew who I was, at that time, because I had a reputation as a writer. I knew he was part of the Bush dynasty. But he was nothing, he offered nothing, and he promised nothing. He had no humor. He was insignificant in every way, and consequently I didn't pay much attention to him. But when he passed out in my bathtub, then I noticed him. I'd been in another room, talking to the bright people. I had to have him taken away." -- Hunter S. Thompson in The Independent on George W. Bush at Thompson's Super Bowl party in Houston in 1974
Closing words III, goofball division: "You know, it's funny. ... I've only met Angie Dickinson once." -- Billy Bob Thornton on ex-wife Angelina Jolie's full-page ad in Variety ("Billy, I love your brilliant mind. Congratulations! With love and respect always, Angie.") celebrating his star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame ... "I'm on top of the world right now, because everyone's going to know that I can shove more than three burgers in my mouth!" -- Ezra Nicholas, 19, after setting a world record by cramming 3 1/5 McDonald's hamburgers into his kisser without swallowing at Singapore's contest to be the world's wackiest
