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Robinson forms public relations agency in Harrisburg
HARRISBURG, Pa. (Oct. 5, 2006) -- Ken Robinson, veteran Harrisburg-based public relations counselor, announced the formation of Robinson Group Strategic Communications, LLC. The agency offers public- and media-relations counsel to a wide range of sizes and types of organizations, from businesses to government agencies to non-profits and trade associations.

"Robinson Group offers valuable expertise to clients addressing many different internal and external communications issues,'” Robinson said. “We bring experience as crisis specialists and strategists, but we also offer the essential communication tools, including communication audits, strategic communications plans, news media relations, issue management and market research.”

Prior to forming his first PR agency in 1998, Robinson was communications vice president for the Pennsylvania Medical Society for eight years, managing a 10-person communications team for the statewide association. From 1974 to 1990, he was press secretary for the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, one of the commonwealth’s largest state agencies. Prior to that, he was a radio news director in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., where he broadcast news and emergency response updates in the aftermath of devastating flooding caused by Tropical Storm Agnes in 1972.

Robinson, who is accredited in public relations by the Public Relations Society of America, has been a media relations trainer for the U.S. Justice Department. He also was a member of the American Medical Association's communications advisory panel.

In 2005, a communications assessment and training project for the Pa. Department of Health, led by Robinson, was named one of “12 Exemplary Practices in Public Health Preparedness” by the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit research organization and think tank based in Santa Monica, California. RAND reviewed 73 projects around the country before selecting the 12 finalists.

"I am privileged to have worked with and to have learned from many talented communicators around the country. I am proud that my agency experience has allowed me to work with excellent writing, design and photography professionals to create award-winning annual reports, white papers and marketing materials. I'm confident Robinson Group will continue to do so," he said.

Located in the Commerce Building at 300 North Second Street, the agency’s offices include a media interview training room and focus group research facilities. For more information on Robinson Group Strategic Communications, visit www.robinsonstrategies.com

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Contact: Ken Robinson -- (717) 236-7155

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