Educommunicators

An Online Community for Marketing Communications Professionals in the Education Sector

Welcome to Educommunicators

In the education sector, businesses and policymakers now realize the growing importance of effective communications to sell their products and policies. For professional communicators, the education sector is one of growing opportunity, a place use the best in communication ability to make a lasting difference on the community and the nation at large.

To date, though, there has been no strong voice for the many marketing, PR, public affairs, creative, and general communications professionals that serve the educator sector. Traditional PR societies have ignored education as an industry sector. And communications has been but a small part of the official education association infrastructure. Until now.

Educommunicators.com was created to give voice to the education communications professional. Through this site, its companion blog, and sites such as www.facebook.com and www.linkedin.com, education pros now have an online voice for their profession and their passions.

Educommunicators.com is intended to grow and evolve, based on the needs and the desires of this online community. Give it your voice! Use it to improve our craft and improve our field.

As we move forward, we will look for companies, not-for-profits, agencies, and individuals to spotlight. We will highlight new projects and new initiatives. We will post new job opportunities. Most importantly, we will share information so we can become a real community.

Please contact me at patrick@educommunicators.com with your contributions. The success of this effort depends on your participation.

Best,

Patrick R. Riccards

Founder and Chairman, Educommunicators

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NEWS

December 3, 2008 -- Educommunicators Board of Advisors announced.

October 28, 2008 -- Eudcommunicators reaches 200 members, unveils new logo.

October 26, 2008 -- Educommunicators issues call for nominations for advisory board.

October 13, 2008 -- Capitol Communicator (www.capitolcommunicator.com) reports on the launch of Educommunicators.

October 12, 2008 -- Educommunicators is issuing an open call for information. We want your blog postings, blog ideas, case studies, best practices, reasons why you are an educommunicator, tools you use to do your job. Any and all information is welcome. Credited or anonymous is allowed. Please email it to info@educommunicators.com.

October 10, 2008 marks a milestone for Educommunicators. More than 100 communications professionals have joined the organization. We have geographic diversity, diversity of organization types, and both junior and senior communicators. We're off to a great start. Members are coming in through Facebook, LinkedIn, an the web. But the work is just starting. We need group participation to make this online community a true success.

October 6, 2008 -- Potomac Flacks (www.potomacflacks.com) reports on the launch of Educommunicators.

October 6, 2008 marks the official launch of Educommunicators, an online community for all marketing, PR, public affairs, creative, and general communications professionals serving the education sector.

As part of the launch, Educommunicators has started a blog (http://blog.educommunicators.com), an online discussion where information on education PR and communications efforts can be shared and spotlighted.

We have also officially launched the Educommunicators group on Facebook and on LinkedIn. Please be sure to link in and to ask all of your friends and colleagues to do the same. The more people we reach, and the more information we gather, the more effective this site can become.

Want to contribute to the educommunicators blog? Have a piece of information to share with the educomm community? Want to serve on the educommunicators board? If so, please contact us at info@educommunicators.com.