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Mastering Media Engagement: Thought leadership is key to brand credibility and audience engagement. In our latest article, we share insights on finding your niche, crafting compelling narratives, building strong media relationships, and leveraging data. Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/e2Z7Bcm9 #MediaEngagement #ThoughtLeadership #PRStrategy

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🚀 Oklahoma Leading the Way in Broadband Infrastructure Deployment! 🚀 We’re excited to share that Oklahoma has been ranked 4th in the nation for reducing the number of homes and businesses without access to high-speed internet, according to the latest FCC National Broadband Map. 💻 ENHANCED CONNECTIVITY: Oklahoma's progress underscores the critical role ISPs, like Nextlink Internet, play in bridging the digital divide, ensuring that rural communities have access to reliable, high-speed internet. 🏛️ COMMUNITY IMPACT: Providing high-speed internet to previously unserved areas transforms lives by enabling access to online resources, remote work, and digital learning. This milestone is a testament to the positive impact that strategic investments and dedicated efforts can have on our communities. 🤝🏻 Nextlink Internet is proud to be part of this journey, working tirelessly to bring high-speed internet to rural America. Together, we can continue to make a difference and ensure that no one is left behind in the digital age. 👉🏻 https://lnkd.in/gZUDiv_q #Broadband #Connectivity #RuralDevelopment #NextlinkInternet #DigitalDivide #Oklahoma

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“With a lack of affordable housing among the most pressing problems affecting Central Texas, public-private partnerships have become a necessary tool to help solve it. That's the view of Nick Walsh, vice president of development at The NRP Group LLC a for-profit developer of multifamily and affordable housing projects currently engaged in a number of public-private partnerships. Such partnerships are delivering thousands of housing units priced at levels deemed affordable, based on the region's median income levels. The price of land is just too steep to make regular math work, real estate experts have lamented for years. Relationships that offer tax breaks and other perks only found via the public realm are pretty much needed to balance prices with profit. "Affordable housing and workforce housing does not happen but for the participation of strong public-private partnerships," Walsh said. "Without these partnerships, we can't deliver the quality units that are needed that are affordable to folks that would otherwise not be served by the market." NRP has been something of a leader in Central Texas, in terms of public-private partnerships, entering into such deals with the Travis County Facilities Corporation, Housing Authority of the City of Austin, Housing Authority of Travis County, Capital Area Housing Finance Corporation and Austin Independent School District. Recent projects include the newly opened Bridge at Estancia, the Preakness Apartments and Ross Road, which is a public-private partnership between NRP and TCFC, as well as a third private entity tied to PointOne Holdings. But it's not the only company taking advantage of public-private partnership to develop affordable housing. Travis County Facilities Corp. alone lists more than two dozen public-private partnership projects in discussion, under construction or completed, with the bulk located in East and Southeast Austin. Private partners on those projects include NRP, The Kor Group, Z Modular, Marcus Building Company, Endeavor, The Geyser Group and others.” Read more:

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Discover how North Texas businesses became leading donors to Trump’s inauguration! ⭐️ Curious about which companies contributed and how it could impact the future? Dive into the full story for insights and details. Click here for the complete article: https://lnkd.in/gf34AaXt. Stay informed and join the conversation! 📈 #NorthTexas #TrumpInauguration #LawinNews

🔥 Don’t miss NSA Houston's webinar with Beth Rohani tomorrow! Learn the essentials of branding in her session, "Crafting Your Identity: Introduction to Branding." Transform your business identity and attract your ideal audience! Register now at nsahouston.org 🚀 #NSAHouston #BrandingBasics #Webinar

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The Alliance for Economic Development of Oklahoma City coordinates land, incentives and economic tools that make Oklahoma City even more attractive to companies and developers. We collaborate with The Alliance, leveraging our digital marketing expertise to elevate Oklahoma City’s profile on a global scale. Our integrated approach includes media relations, social and digital marketing, and other communications to reach those who invest, develop, manage or create policy for housing, retail and commercial real estate. The Alliance’s monthly e-newsletter delivers top stories, media coverage and insights related to economic activity across OKC. With advanced segmentation capabilities, we have grown their distribution list to over 4K subscribers and customize each send so that it reaches the right audience at the right time. The Alliance’s year-end report reveals and significant increase in their digital footprint, with the e-newsletter alone driving a 10% uptick in website traffic from 2022 to 2023. This data confirms an integrated approach is an effective strategy to tell Oklahoma City’s story about opportunities. Strategic marketing services are just one of our areas of expertise. Visit our website to learn more.

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Let's keep learning! So many lessons came out of the COVID-19 pandemic, including the importance of clear communication about what we know and what we DON'T know about emerging infections. I'm happy to be part of the Council for Quality Health Communication: a group working to improve the quality of health information and increase trust among the public. New article by founding members Ken Rabin and Scott C. Ratzan on H5N1 in MedPage Today.

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In this week's edition of The Playbook, we take a look at the disappearance of fully remote jobs, new requirements around office etiquette and more.

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It's that time of year! It's award submission time, and the deadline for this one is August 26th, which will be here before we know it. The 2024 A-List Awards by Opportunity Austin and SXSW are now open for submissions! What's most exciting is the expanded categories. Check them out below: The A-LIST Awards will recognize companies in various stages of growth and innovation, a venture capital firm and new this year, awards in AI, C-Suite Leader, Emerging Startup, and a People’s Choice. Categories for applying include: Growth Catalysts Awards, which recognize companies focused on growth, acceleration, and impact based on the type and size of the funding received: Bootstrapped (Self-funded business) Seed ($1 million – $4 million) Series A ($4 million – $15 million) Series B ($15 million – $40 million) Series C+($40 million – $100+ million) AI Standout Innovation Award International Startup of the Year Award C-Suite Leader Award Venture Capital Firm of the Year Award Emerging Startup Award People’s Choice Award

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𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟒 𝐒𝐚𝐧 𝐀𝐧𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐨 𝐑𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 Check out the latest insights in the San Antonio residential rental market. Stay informed and see how the market is evolving! 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞: https://lnkd.in/gc7-SY8H

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See Full RFP here: https://buff.ly/3C2AXrJ The Austin Cooperative Business Foundation, in partnership with our sister organization the Austin Cooperative Business Association (ACBA), offers a diverse array of social and financial opportunities that support Central Texans of all backgrounds who are interested in cooperative businesses. In 2024, we became a member of Seed Commons non-extractive financing co-op, so we can offer loans to democratically owned entities in Central Texas that empower workers. We rerefer to this program as our “loan fund.” The loan fund is stewarded by the “Sustainability Committee” who is a group of volunteers dedicated to the work. We are seeking to brand our loan fund so we can better promote and represent the loan fund. We want the branding to include a name for the loan fund, a logo with the loan fund name and/or acronym, a logo without the name, and color scheme. The branding should broadly reflect the 7 Cooperative Principles, solidarity economics, Central Texas, and non-extractive financing. The artwork should have some reference to Austin and/or Central Texas’s rapidly-growing co-op ecosystem and local culture through symbolic and identifiable imagery (ex. iconic non-government architecture like the 360 bridge, natural landscape, bats, cowboys, tacos, bluebonnets, cacti, etc.) We also want the loan fund name to be straight to the point so people understand what it is. We are seeking artists familiar with economic justice movements, cooperatives, and/or solidarity economy movements. Major preference for artists, marketing, and branding co-ops. Preference for artists who have a connection to Central Texas. Compensation is $1,800 upon completion. Application Due November 11, 2024 at 1:00 PM.

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See Full RFP here: https://buff.ly/3C2AXrJ The Austin Cooperative Business Foundation, in partnership with our sister organization the Austin Cooperative Business Association (ACBA), offers a diverse array of social and financial opportunities that support Central Texans of all backgrounds who are interested in cooperative businesses. In 2024, we became a member of Seed Commons non-extractive financing co-op, so we can offer loans to democratically owned entities in Central Texas that empower workers. We rerefer to this program as our “loan fund.” The loan fund is stewarded by the “Sustainability Committee” who is a group of volunteers dedicated to the work. We are seeking to brand our loan fund so we can better promote and represent the loan fund. We want the branding to include a name for the loan fund, a logo with the loan fund name and/or acronym, a logo without the name, and color scheme. The branding should broadly reflect the 7 Cooperative Principles, solidarity economics, Central Texas, and non-extractive financing. The artwork should have some reference to Austin and/or Central Texas’s rapidly-growing co-op ecosystem and local culture through symbolic and identifiable imagery (ex. iconic non-government architecture like the 360 bridge, natural landscape, bats, cowboys, tacos, bluebonnets, cacti, etc.) We also want the loan fund name to be straight to the point so people understand what it is. We are seeking artists familiar with economic justice movements, cooperatives, and/or solidarity economy movements. Major preference for artists, marketing, and branding co-ops. Preference for artists who have a connection to Central Texas. Compensation is $1,800 upon completion. Application Due November 11, 2024 at 1:00 PM.

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Find out the answer in this fact brief, a new service of the Fort Worth Report.

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The Fort Worth Economic Development (Fort Worth EDP) is proud to announce the launch of its new website, designed to showcase Fort Worth and the surrounding areas as a premier business location for new and expanding businesses. “We are thrilled to unveil our new website—our goal was to create a digital destination that promotes Fort Worth as a premier business location, complimenting the economic development efforts of our partners at the City of Fort Worth” said Robert Allen, the president and CEO of the Fort Worth EDP. The website, created in close collaboration with Fort Worth-based Schaefer Advertising, serves as a hub of information with key facts about the Fort Worth area, including stats on the region’s business and industry, workforce and talent, as well as cultural and lifestyle attractions. The projected growth rates in Fort Worth, along with the strong business climate, positions our city for prime transformative development - the Fort Worth EDP aims to assist and promote the growth and development opportunities that will continue to enhance and diversify Fort Worth. https://ow.ly/pv2U50RtWmG #FortWorthEDP #FortWorth #ItBeginsFW #Business #Industry #Workforce #Talent #Culture #Lifestyle #Development #Growth #Opportunity

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In this video, we break down the components of the Texas Public Utility Commission registration form for all apartment properties engaging in some form of utility billing. 🚨 Spoiler - you have to have this on file for your property. 

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