I was a dedicated and happy Yahoo mail user for several years, and I still have thousands of email messages dating back to probably 2002 archived in my old Yahoo mail account. When I was using it, I liked Yahoo mail’s features and functionality very well; I really had no complaints. Because I was already [...]

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Who’s sprained both her ankles more than 5 times? Yep, me: Crutches McSkinner.
As a FORMER long-distance /10K runner, I’ve had some stupid ankle turns while training in the rain and bad weather. I’m remembering the “old days” of landing at the hospital ER/military clinic, getting an X-Ray and watching as the physicians physically placed film up on a lighted box. Since Steve and I [...]

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You’ve probably heard that the best way to a man’s heart is through his stomach…well, we’re testing that theory on people in news by delivering jars of Twizzlers to newsrooms around East Tennessee.
So, what’s the reason behind the gimmick? We are launching a news feed called AckermannWire. It features news about our clients, [...]

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At our staff meeting this morning, we celebrated my executive assistant’s (and good personal friend’s) 25th anniversary with Ackermann PR.   We talk about the importance — and rarity — of employee longevity these days, and I feel so blessed to have had Sue Balder working with me for a quarter of a century now.
She epitomizes professionalism, [...]

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Yesterday I attended a lunch in Oak Ridge with Senator Maria Cantwell from Washington. (The state. I guess all Senators are from the other Washington in one way or another, although I suspect they all make a point of saying they are not.)
Senator Cantwell serves on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee as does our [...]

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