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2024 Northwest Communicators Conference: Elevate Your Communications Playbook

 

Registration is now open for the 2024 Northwest Communicators Conference, held on Sept. 19-20 at Portland State University’s Smith Memorial Union. Hosted by the Public Relations Society of America’s Oregon chapter.

 

Register Now

 

Elevate your PR playbook and escalate your skills among your colleagues at CommCon (now in its 29th year!). The content mix includes – but there’s also so much more – mastering media narratives, battling mis- and dis-information, increasing organic search rankings, upping the thought leadership game, unleashing inclusive comms, elevating your business writing, reasoning with trust when innovation is in peril, looking up at PDX, moving from panic to power, exploring mentorship, storytelling the way to change, and building equity communities. There’s expertise in health care, public policy, nonprofits, public affairs, industry, corporate/client relations and alignment with best practices in some of our region’s most noteworthy (and award winning!) PR campaigns.  And there’s half-day workshops to include in your 2024 pro development strategic #publicrelations playbook - with thanks to early sponsor Oregonian Media Group.

 

Two pre-conference half-day sessions – both on Thursday, Sept. 19 – will precede the daylong conference. The Crisis Response Workshop for Communicators and PIOs will be held in the morning and the AI Comms Bootcamp workshop will be held in the afternoon. You can bundle and save when you add either or both of these pre-conference sessions to your full NW CommCon day package. Need lodging? Check out nearby University Place Hotel's great rates. We encourage registration prior to Sep. 17. Please note: Registration at the door will be limited to availability and will be accepted only with payment by check or via PayPal. Questions? Reach out at programs[at]prsaoregon.org

 

Click: 2024 NW CommCon flier Click: Agenda for 2024 NW CommCon

Crisis Response Workshop for Communicators and PIOs

As a public communicator, public information specialist/officer, crisis comms go-to or generalist public relations pro, learn from national emergency trained teams about updates in managing the media and messages, setting up a Joint Information Center and interagency collabs, engaging with diverse communities and more.



Click: Crisis Response Workshop flier

 

AI Communications Bootcamp

Attend this workshop to explore and grow your professional capabilities to use artificial intelligence in more intelligent ways and learn how to integrate throughout your comms paths and channels. Gain understanding of AI governance issues, ethics and hands-on tools/ implementation to serve as the expert voice with clients, in your organization and in your communities.

 

Click: AI Communications Bootcamp flier

 

All three events are now open for registration.

PRSA Oregon Chapter Members

Login Instructions

 

1. Navigate to upper right hand corner: Member login

Your id and password are not the same as PRSA National.

 

2. Click button that says Forgot My Username Password

Enter the email address associated with your PRSA membership, First Name and hit okay button.

 

3. Locate the email and use the link to reset your password.

 

Members will see discounted rates for events.

 

Early-bird prices are good until August 20, 2024.

 

2023 CommCon - Jeff Selby keynote

Sponsorships 

Be seen and heard at our annual CommCon event. Become a sponsor and partner with us to receive a variety of benefits including brand recognition, social media exposure and opportunities to address our exclusive audience during the event.

Sponsorship Packages Available

Thank you to our generous 2024 sponsors.


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   The Oregonian Media Group

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