Atlanta

Employee Communications Writing

Besides being Anne’s current home city, Atlanta served as a key locale for a major writing assignment in 1996…covering the Centennial Olympic Games for AT&T’s employee magazine. Flying to Atlanta a week before the Games, Anne began to profile employees and AT&T organizers to capture the “Olympic spirit” of AT&T people. The AT&T issue was about to go to print when the bombing in the AT&T-sponsored Centennial Olympic Park occurred. Within hours, Anne developed a new cover story on the breaking news, including the heroic role of AT&T people during the crisis. The series of articles earned her an IABC Silver Quill Award in Feature Writing and contributed to the magazine winning an IABC Gold Quill Award in the Overall Publication category.

Tradeshow Media Relations

At the 2000 National Education Computing Conference (NECC) in Atlanta, Anne served as PR spokeswoman for T.H.E. Journal, a leading ed-tech publisher, and T.H.E. Institute, the magazine’s professional development division, as well as for FundingFactory.com, the industry’s leading destination for e-commerce-driven school fundraising. Anne helped launch her third client, Goosewing, at NECC, with a press release and interviews describing Goosewing as the first online provider of customizable printed course material for the K-12 market. Anne secured press interviews for all three of her clients, including editors at Instructor, EduVentures, Teaching and Learning and Converge magazines.