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September 21-24: Arthur W. Page Society, "The Media Conundrum: Practical Actions Public Relations Professionals Can Take to Resolve It," New Orleans, 202/268-2143. September 29: National Investor Relations Institute, "The Nasdaq Stock Market," San Francisco, 703/506-3570.… Continued

Corps. Giving More to Ease Execs Out According to outplacement and strategic career services firm Drake Beam Morin (DBM), the average severance pay given to mid-level execs hit 14.3 months during 1996. In 1995, execs… Continued

520 3rd Street, 4th Floor San Francisco, CA 94107; Phone: 415/276-8400 Editor’s Note: Wired News (http://www.wired.com), is the hourly-updated news site from the Wired family. It is unlike its sister site, http://www.hotwired.com, which provides analysis-based… Continued

Given that the PR terrain is being dotted with more and more mergers and acquisitions (holding and parent companies such as WPP, Omnicom & Shandwick now own many of the major PR brands – Hill… Continued

On The Radar Screen CompuServe’s PR Forum: For Now, Business as Usual With the Sept. 8 news that America Online [AOL] will take over rival CompuServe [CSRV], it begs the question: What’s going to happen… Continued

Choosing the company that designs your annual report is more a science than it is an art. And it’s a science that hangs on one very delicate thread: timing. Without the right timing – that… Continued

On the Radar Screen: Omnicom Acquisition of Fleishman-Hillard Goes Through; New Group Formed The long-awaited Omnicom Group Inc. acquisition of Fleishman-Hillard was inked Sept. 3 – sealing a deal which was announced in April and… Continued

David B. Kalis IBM When David B. Kalis became VP of communications for IBM in 1993, it was a time of challenge for the company, now headed by Louis V. Gerstner Jr. (who came on… Continued

As a sponsor of the upcoming Olympics games in Nagano, Japan and Sydney, Australia, Visa International [4824Z] is banking on generating wide-reaching media coverage. But Visa is competing not only with other Olympic sponsors vying… Continued

September 18: PRSA Boston Chapter, "The Changing Role of Communications: What Will You Be Doing In the Year 2007," Boston, 617/292-0470. September 29: National Investor Relations Institute, "The Nasdaq Stock Market," San Francisco, 703/506-3570. September… Continued