Posted by Chris Gent on August 6, 2008 at 01:08 PM
In closing, I wanted to share with you the totaled Web stats for this blog during our three day conference. The event itself may be over, but the information, podcasts and photos we've posted these past few days will remain for you to refer back to in the future.
Total unique visitors: 1,701
Total page views: 6,314
The average visitor stayed on this blog for 4 minutes, 49 seconds.
Thanks for visiting. We hope to see you next year on Aug. 9-12, 2009 at the Boca Raton Resort & Club in Boca Raton. Here's a glimpse...
Posted by Chris Gent on August 6, 2008 at 12:30 PM
FPRA's 70th Annual Conference has drawn to a close. We'll be posting a few recap items over the next day or so. We hope you enjoyed the blog coverage.
Special thanks again to our awesome blog team who worked throughout the conference -- day and night -- to ensure a continuous flow of conference coverage.
2008 CONFERENCE BLOG TEAM
Suzanne Dameron
Kelly Donovan
Melissa Filipkowski
Amanda Forbes
Chris Gent
Dr. Allen Moore, APR
Paul Ramey, APR
Posted by Kelly Donovan on August 6, 2008 at 12:01 PM
FPRA Annual Conference: Closing Session, What Makes the Great Ones Great – Don Yaeger, New York Times best-selling author
Sixteen Characteristics of Greatness
What makes great people tick, and how can we apply those characteristics to our lives? We’re all capable of greatness. It’s all in the mental approach we take to our work and our lives.
How great leaders think:
1. It’s personal.
Don once scored a basket while playing one-on-one against Michael Jordan, the greatest basketball player in the world. Furious that he was one-upped by a short white guy, Jordan trash-talked Don every time they met after that, not because he hated Don but because he hated losing. Great leaders expect only success from themselves.
Continue reading "FPRA Annual Conference: What Makes the Great Ones Great - Don Yaeger" »
Posted by Suzanne Dameron on August 6, 2008 at 11:06 AM
Dr. Leslie Gaines Ross leads Weber Shandwick’s global reputation consulting services and proprietary thought leadership development. She is the architect of groundbreaking, award-winning research into CEO and corporate reputation, executive team reputation, leadership transitions, and reputation sustainability and recovery. Dr. Gaines-Ross is a member of Weber Shandwick’s global senior management team and is based in the firm’s corporate headquarters in New York.
Safeguarding and Recovering Reputation
Dr. Gaines-Ross started her talk by telling us that the growing significance of reputation became very apparent to her when her manilla folders on the topic began growing. It was around 2000 that reputation as a subject was becoming an important body of knowledge and a discipline.
Gaines-Ross found herself and others asking questions: What is driving reputation? What is the relationship to financial performance? How can you recover reputation?
Continue reading "FPRA Annual Conference: General Session D, Safeguarding and Recovering Reputation - Dr. Leslie Gaines-Ross" »
Posted by Chris Gent on August 6, 2008 at 10:40 AM
As promised, here are the photos from Tuesday night's Golden Image Awards banquet. Many thanks to Josh Hallett who shot these photos and the ones from the Reception of the Presidents.
Click here to see the entire photoset.
This is the Grand, Grand, Grand Image Award!
Posted by Chris Gent on August 6, 2008 at 07:24 AM
Posted by Chris Gent on August 6, 2008 at 12:40 AM
Listed below is the schedule for Day 3 - Wednesday, August 6 , 2008 of the FPRA's 70th Annual Conference.
7:30 am - 12:00 pm: Registration Desk Open
8:00 am - 9:15 am: Power Networking Breakfast
8:15 am - 9:15 am: Counselors' Network Business Meeting
9:25 am - 9:30 am: Announcements
9:30 am - 10:35 am: General Session D: Safeguarding and Recovering Reputation
10:45 am - 11:50 am: Closing Session: What Makes the Great Ones Great
11:50 am - 12:00 pm: Conference Finale
