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Brooks & Associates Phone Numbers Change
On August 7 Brooks & Associates Public Relations migrated to a new VoIP phone system, and as part of that change we now have new phone numbers. Our new numbers are as follows:
- Brooks & Associates main office number: (214) 299-8511
- Virginia Brooks direct line: (214) 299-8512
- Robyn Brown direct line: (214) 299-8513
- Neli Tokleh direct line: (214) 299-8514
For full contact information, please visit our Contact Us page.
Alignment, Inc. Taps Brooks & Associates Public Relations to Tell the Story of Company’s Bottom-Line Benefits
Founder Kristin Kaufman moves forward to showcase the power of alignment for individuals and teams
HOWE, TX – July 18, 2011 – Alignment, Inc., a Dallas-based corporate consulting firm, tapped Brooks & Associates Public Relations to enhance visibility for the bottom-line benefits Alignment offers its corporate clients. Company founder Kristin Kaufman and Alignment, Inc. help companies, teams and individuals enhance business and personal performance by aligning their values, talents, goals and intentions.
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Big Brothers Big Sisters Spotlights Virginia Brooks and "Little Brother" Miguel
SHERMAN, TX - July 7, 2011 - For more than a century Big Brothers Big Sisters has mentored and supported children all around the North Texas region. But the program couldn't run without volunteers. And in Grayson County there are more than 40 children on the waiting list to get a big brother or a big sister and it’s a problem that's having a huge impact on dozens of local children. Brooks & Associates founder Virginia Brooks shared a rare moment in front of the camera with her Little Brother Miguel Delgado encouraging volunteers to sign up as “Bigs” for the experience of a lifetime!
Coverage/Video: TV-KXII - Grayson County Big Brothers Big Sisters Needs Volunteers
Brooks & Associate Account Executive Achieves 5-Year Milestone
Robyn Brown marks anniversary with multiple achievements, contributions to agency
HOWE, TX, May 26, 2011 – Brooks & Associates Public Relations, Inc., a full-service agency offering strategic communications programs to its clients nationwide, celebrates today Account Executive Robyn Brown’s fifth anniversary with the firm. Hired in May 2006, Brown has risen from PR assistant to account executive overseeing services to multiple organizations within Microsoft, one of the agency’s largest and longest held accounts.
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SMU Talks Oil & Gas Leadership at Offshore Technology Conference 2011
HOUSTON, Texas - (May 4, 2011) - Bruce Bullock, representing SMU Cox Maguire Energy Institute and Executive Education, updated industry trade reporters on the ‘new story of business’ for oil and gas at OTC 2011. Bullock discussed the capabilities emerging leaders in the industry will need to ensure sustainability and profitability into the coming decades. This ‘new story’ calls for oil and gas leaders to focus on business purpose, value to multiple stakeholders and a renewed sense of ethics, including transparency and trust.
SMU exhibited at OTC, showcasing upcoming Executive Education energy programs designed to improve the performance of a company’s executives, management and key personnel.
Video: PennEnergy.com talks with SMU's Bruce Bullock at OTC 2011.
MURA Initiative Makes Strong Showing at SPE Digital Energy Conference 2011
HOUSTON, Texas – (April 21, 2011) – It was hard to walk the exhibit hall at the SPE Digital Energy Conference and not see the letters M-U-R-A or hear about its impact on integrated operations. The Microsoft Upstream Reference Architecture (MURA) Initiative, a collaboration by Microsoft and its oil and gas industry partners, is working to develop an IT reference architecture that will further the flow of upstream information. This week’s SPE event proved to be the perfect venue to address this industry need and meet stakeholders.
Eight members of the initiative, including Energistics, Halliburton, Honeywell, Logica, K2, PointCross, The Information Store and VRcontext, displayed a tabletop MURA pyramid (left) in their booths and highlighted MURA’s progress with attendees.
Brooks & Associates provides marketing and partner communications support for the MURA Initiative.
Also of note this week, Microsoft’s Paul Nguyen presented MURA technical updates at the Esri Petroleum User Group Conference, also in Houston.
Microsoft and Toyota Meet in Redmond to Announce Strategic Partnership
REDMOND, Washington - (April 6, 2011) - Brooks & Associates was on hand this week to support a Microsoft customer announcement with automotive maker Toyota. The two companies plan to build a global platform for Toyota's telematics services using the Windows Azure platform. The news includes a live video press conference and targeted pitches to global business and automotive publications.
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Brooks & Associates Public Relations Passes Decade Mark with Flying Colors
Agency celebrates 10 years in business; reflects on client successes
HOWE, Texas - (January 20, 2011) - Time flies when you’re having fun, they say, and for Brooks & Associates Public Relations, Inc., a Howe, Texas based full-service public relations agency, the old adage couldn’t be more suitable. Celebrating 10 years in business, agency founder Virginia Brooks remarked, “If you define ‘fun’ as doing what you love to do for people you love to work with and participating in phenomenal projects with clients who appreciate business results, then it’s very true the past 10 years have been fun as well as productive.”
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Brooks & Associates Shines Spotlight on Neighborhood Revitalization in Arlington
ARLINGTON, Texas - (January 17, 2011) - With Super Bowl XLV weeks away, Cowboys Stadium is getting national exposure and touch ups. Just a few miles away, homeowners on Drummond Drive are also receiving much-needed attention and repairs from non-profit organization Rebuilding Together, the largest home repair organization in the U.S. - all part of its national Kickoff to Rebuild program. Local sponsors Allstate and Atmos Energy as well as students from Dallas Lutheran School volunteered their time today to begin work on 12 homes on Drummond - painting exterior siding, installing weatherization and central heating, and removing rubbish.
Local NBC, CBS and FOX affilitates and reporters from Fort Worth Star-Telegram and The Dallas Morning News covered the work day and an MLK Day ceremony that included former Dallas Cowboys player Tony Dorsett, Super Bowl Host Committee members and the Rebuilding Together Greater Dallas staff and board of directors.
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Dallas Small Businesses Attend Super Bowl XLV Playbook Workshop Series Led by NFL, SMU Cox
DALLAS, Texas - (January 6, 2011) - Two hundred DFW small business owners attended the NFL Super Bowl XLV PLAYBOOK WORKSHOP SERIES at the SMU Cox James Collins Executive Education Center Thursday morning, January 6th. These workshops, presented by the NFL Emerging Business Program, targeted DFW small, minority & women-owned firms. The sessions were business development workshops led by SMU Cox faculty and leaders, designed to help local small and minority business owners by offering a primer on marketing strategies and tactics to identify and exploit opportunities in a changing environment.
Opening speaker Bud Weinstein, Associate Director at SMU Cox Maguire Energy Institute, presented an economic preview of the DFW region for the next decade. Dallas Cowboys great Chad Hennings presented a motivational speech and closing remarks. Attending media included the Dallas Morning News, Dallas Business Journal, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, El Hispano News, Univision and Fox TV Channel 4.
SMU Cox Business School Awarded Learning in Practice Award by CLO Magazine
DALLAS, Texas – (October 19, 2010) – SMU Cox Business School, a Brooks & Associates client, was recently honored with an Excellence in Academic Partnerships Bronze Award during the 2010 Chief Learning Officer Learning In Practice Awards, sponsored by CLO Magazine. The business school submitted an entry for its work with Pioneer Natural Resources, spearheading a series of multi-layered leadership development programs for Pioneer’s management and senior leadership.
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Brooks & Associates' Virginia Brooks and Robyn Brown Take Home Award of Merit at 2010 IABC Dallas Quill Awards
HOWE, Texas (October 5, 2010) - The Microsoft campaign 'Social Media Goes Mainstream in Oil & Gas' continues to gain award recognition with an Award of Merit at the IABC Dallas Quill awards. The Brooks & Associates team was recognized at an awards ceremony at the Belo Mansion in Dallas on September 29. The team was also awarded a certificate of excellence in public relations from the Houston chapter of the American Marketing Association earlier this year for the campaign.
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NSI Upstream Taps Brooks & Associates Public Relations for Communications Support
HOUSTON, Texas (August 20, 2010) – NSI Upstream, a provider of oilfield production management systems, has selected Brooks & Associates Public Relations to assist with the planning and implementation of the company’s marketing communications and public relations programs.
Brooks & Associates Public Relations Expands Services to Microsoft with Addition of Chemicals Vertical Group
HOWE, Texas (June 24, 2009) – Brooks & Associates Public Relations, Inc., a full service public relations firm located in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, announced today that Microsoft Corp. has tapped the agency to provide strategic public relations services for its U.S.-based chemicals industry group. This move expands the agency’s more than seven-year relationship with and commitment to Microsoft as agency of record for the company’s domestic oil and gas and utilities industry verticals.
Plano-Based Rent-A-Center Engages Brooks & Associates Public Relations for Strategic Public Relations Support
HOWE, Texas (June 1, 2008) – Rent-A-Center, Inc., the nation's largest rent-to-own operator, has selected Brooks & Associates Public Relations, Inc., to provide public relations and communications support of the company’s overall media and community outreach including its Random Acts of Caring campaign, a giving initiative designed to help meet important community needs in cities nationwide.
Brooks & Associates Public Relations Promotes Robyn Brown to Account Executive
HOWE, Texas (June 1, 2008) – Brooks & Associates Public Relations, a full-service public relations firm located in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, has promoted Robyn Brown to account executive. In her new role, Brown will be responsible for oversight, planning and execution of client activities and media campaigns.
Sabre Holdings and Brooks & Associates Public Relations Land Silver Quill Award
HOWE, Texas (May 1, 2008) – Kathryn Hayden, senior media relations manager at Sabre Holdings, and Virginia Brooks, APR, founder and president of Brooks & Associates Public Relations, have been awarded a 2007 IABC Southern Region Silver Quill award of excellence for their entry, ‘Preserving the Efficient Marketplace – a Campaign to Transform Travel Industry Commerce’.
Wescorp Energy Selects Brooks & Associates Public Relations to Drive Strategic Branding and Market Awareness
HOUSTON, Texas, and CALGARY, Alberta (August 30, 2007)—Wescorp Energy Inc. (OTCBB:WSCE), an oil and gas operations solutions company, announced today it has engaged the services of Brooks & Associates Public Relations, Inc., a full-service public relations firm specializing in the oil and gas, technology and transportation industries.
Brooks & Associates Public Relations Names Robyn Brown Coordinator for Oil and Gas, High-Technology and Transportation Clients
HOWE, Texas (June 1, 2007) – Brooks & Associates Public Relations, Inc., a full-service communications firm headquartered north of the Dallas area, today announced the promotion of Robyn Brown to account coordinator, a role in which she continues serving clients in the oil and gas, high-technology and transportation industries. In her new role, Brown is responsible for overall client activity planning, implementation, tracking and reporting as well as media outreach and coordination.
Brooks & Associates Team Member Mary McMinn Lands 2006 Silver Quill Award of Merit
HOWE, Texas (January 24, 2007) – Mary McMinn, working through Brooks & Associates Public Relations, Inc., a full-service public relations firm, won the International Association of Business Communicator’s (IABC) 2006 Silver Quill Award of Merit for her winning entry in the Internet/Intranet category titled “Building Through Transformation in Online and Electronic Communications.”
Brooks & Associates Public Relations Names Anna Hobbs-Little Account Executive for Travel, Transportation, and High-Technology Clients
HOWE, Texas (January 9, 2007) – Brooks & Associates Public Relations, Inc., a full-service communications firm headquartered north of the Dallas area, today announced the promotion of Anna Hobbs-Little to account executive, a role in which she will continue serving clients in the travel, transportation, and high-technology industries.
Brooks & Associates Public Relations Expands Team to Heighten Results for Transportation, Energy and Technology Clients
HOWE, Texas (December 6, 2006) – Brooks & Associates Public Relations, Inc., a full-service communications firm headquartered north of the Dallas area, has expanded its team to better serve its transportation, technology and energy industry clients.
Brooks & Associates Wins IABC Bronze Quill Award of Excellence for Media Excellence
HOWE, Texas, (October 7, 2005) -- Brooks & Associates Public Relations, Inc., a full-service, Dallas-area public relations firm, along with Carol Barreyre of Carol Barreyre Communications, Inc. today was awarded a Bronze Quill Award of Excellence from the Dallas chapter of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC).
Brooks & Associates Assists Red Cross with Post-Hurricane Public Relations
"My Experience in the Deep End of the Pool"
A personal account of volunteering with the American Red Cross during Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
Open House Celebrates Relationships Old and New
HOWE, Texas, (April 25, 2005) -- Brooks & Associates Public Relations, a full-service, Dallas-area public relations firm, will commemorate its fifth anniversary and move into a new headquarters building with an open house and springtime celebration for friends and colleagues on Saturday, May 14.
Brooks & Associates Incorporates, Builds New Headquarters
HOWE, Texas, (April 11, 2005) -- Due to growth and expanding services, Brooks & Associates Public Relations, a full-service, Dallas-area public relations firm, has incorporated and constructed a new headquarters building in the northern Dallas-Forth Worth Metroplex.
Brooks & Associates Expands Staff
HOWE, Texas, (January 20, 2005) – Brooks & Associates Public Relations, a full-service, Dallas-area public relations firm, recently added Anna Hobbs-Little to its growing full-time staff.
Brooks & Associates Moves to Northern DFW Metroplex
HOWE, Texas, (April 01, 2002) -- Brooks & Associates Public Relations, a full-service firm specializing in developing and implementing strategic, integrated and results-driven public relations programs, has relocated its headquarters to Howe, Texas, a community located along Central Expressway just north of the Dallas-Forth Worth Metroplex.
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