It’s always exciting to promote talented people at Ackermann PR, but I had the pleasure last week of announcing the promotion of a 28-year employee at our firm to Chief Operating Officer of our company.  Crystal Cardwell has been with us since the founding of our company, and most recently served as Chief Financial Officer for [...]

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A few years ago (shortly after my beloved father passed away), I wrote a brief story about how we shared a love for this wonderful holiday, and why. I thought it would be nice to share this little story again, so here is a PDF reprint of the story as it appeared in a column [...]

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Congrats to local healthcare leader Ron German, chief executive officer of East Tennessee Medical Group, who’s been named chairman of the Investment Advisory Committee of the national Medical Group Management Association (MGMA).
A long-time leader in MGMA business (and a former MGMA local and state president), German now oversees the corporate investments & retirement plans of [...]

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By way of Michael Silence’s No Silence Here (where I sometimes am a contributing blogger), I was reading this list of The Webby Awards’ list of the top ten most influential internet moments of the decade.
From the expansion of Craigslist to the debut of Facebook and Twitter and on to the presidential elections in the [...]

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Our own Lisa Skinner, senior vice president of Ackermann PR, had a great time as a judge at the Grove Park Inn’s National Gingerbread House Competition earlier this week in Asheville, North Carolina. We’re sorry she didn’t bring us back some delicious houses to eat display, but she did bring photos.
You can see some of [...]

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