The Emerald Coast Public Relations Organization (ECPRO) chapter would like to welcome you to their meetings. ECPRO members are employed in a wide variety of fields including public relations, marketing, advertising and the media.  Anyone involved in the art of "communication" will benefit from the ECPRO experience!
Where:    Angler's Beachside Grill on Okaloosa Island 
When:    Fourth Tuesday of each month
Time:    11:30 a.m. Networking   11:50 a.m. Meeting
Cost:    $13.00 for members; $15.00 for non-members; $10.00 for full-time students;
   $5 attendance without eating


Next Meeting 
March 23, 2010 


March Meeting
"How to Incorporate Social Media in your PR Strategy"

The March program will be presented by Jay Massey, who is a Florida native but has lived and worked around the United States and Europe. He is the co-founder of Coco Design with previous service as a PC systems consultant for Invesco Funds Group in Denver. His diverse experience also includes working for United Parcel Service, founding Video Express – Florida’s first full-delivery video store, and working in radio. 

Coco Design is a national web design and internet marketing firm headquartered in Pensacola, Florida specializing in rich internet application development for browser-based and handheld devices. 



Jay Massey, Founder/CVO
Coco Design 
Internet Marketing Strategist/Speaker
Established in 1994, Coco's expertise grew out of a passion for new media design toward a focus on web-based information technology. Coco provides application design, development and marketing services to commercial, non-profit and government organizations.

Along with his duties at Coco, Jay frequently speaks to schools, businesses and professional associations on e-commerce, internet marketing and social media marketing. He is a past president of the American Advertising Federation in Pensacola and also serves on several business development and charitable boards including: Northwest Florida IT Advisory Council, High Growth Business Advisory Board, IT Gulf Coast Board of Directors, GSTC Business Technology Advisory Committee, Pensacola Downtown Improvement Board, Appetite for Life Advisory Board, UWF Institute for Innovative Community Learning Advisory Council and served as executive director for Slowlane.com, an online resource, reference and network for stay-at-home fathers from 1997-2007. 

Jay established the Coco Cares grant program in 2007 in an effort to enhance emerging business development in and around the Pensacola area. These grants support selected nascent entrepreneurs in Northwest Florida in need of internet marketing support yet do not have the means to afford a professional web development / internet marketing agency. In addition to supporting small businesses in the Florida panhandle, Coco Cares is an international lending partner with Kiva.org to leverage global entrepreneurial support having funded over forty small business micro-loans to date.

His non-professional endeavors include watching his son play high school baseball, climbing, juggling, scuba diving, skiing, mountain biking and learning to play the didgeridoo. 

Favorite quote: "...only a few people are awake… and they live in a state of constant, total amazement." - Patricia quoting her father in the movie “Joe Versus the Volcano.”

LinkedIn: http://Linkedin.com/in/CocoDesign 
Twitter: http://Twitter.com/CocoDesign 
Facebook: http://Facebook.com/CocoDesign 
SlideShare: http://Slideshare.net/CocoDesign 
Blog: http://BillboardintheWoods.com 

Mr. Massey is willing to stay after the meeting to do continued training on this topic and/or answer questions.

 
Other Activities 
Members are asked to bring door prizes for the meeting. Members wearing their ECPRO pins will be eligible to win a free lunch for a guest. A 50/50 drawing will be held.

 

 

Emerald Coast Public 
Relations Organization (ECPRO)
P.O. Box 4483
Fort Walton Beach, FL 32549 
Email: info@emeraldcoastpr.org

© 2005 Emerald Coast Public Relations Organization  All rights reserved.
Site designed by VTD, Inc.