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Press Releases
Facililtating "Practical
Entrepreneurship" in Seminole, Florida
"Punctuating
Illness" Presented at the Fifth International Congress of Qualitative
Inquiry
Ketchcom Article
Listed Among "Most Popular Articles" on Law Practice Today
Law Practice Today
Publishes "The Best Advertising You'll Never Pay For: How To Make
Marketing Billable"
Ketchcom Development,
Inc. Relocates to Florida
Ketchcom Article
"The Practical Wisdom of Listening" Included in University Textbook
New Ketchcom Text
Targets Attorneys and the Practice of Listening
FACILITATING "PRACTICAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP" IN SEMINOLE, FLORIDA
St. Petersburg & Seminole, Florida, 3 August
2009 - Are you an aspiring entrepreneur with little to no experience?
Perhaps you've already started a small business, but need to learn more
about business planning, marketing, small business law, employee management,
technology management, disaster planning, or financing? If so, this class
is for you!
In partnership with St. Petersburg College Corporate Training and the
Seminole Chamber
of Commerce, Ketchcom Development's Executive Director Eric Paul Engel
will once more be facilitating a course on "Practical Entrepreneurship."
The 15-week course focuses on applied resources and practices for creatively,
constructively, and opportunistically addressing paperwork, products,
services and people.
The course facilitates practical entrepreneurship by engaging attendees
as active participants in the entrepreneurial learning process and nurturing
community-oriented entrepreneurial relationships (mentoring/networking)
in and around Seminole, Florida. More specifically, budding entrepreneurs
are paired with volunteer mentors (successful entrepreneurs in the Seminole
community). Additionally, the course enlists local, volunteer subject
matter experts (legal, financial, managerial, technical).
Who Should Attend: Small Business Owners, Aspiring Entrepreneurs,
Dreamers, Pragmatists
When: Wednesdays, 6 p.m. - 9 p.m., 08/26/09 - 12/16/09
Where: St. Petersburg College, Seminole Campus, UP 303
Cost: $350
Download: "Practical
Entrepreneurship" Fall 2009 Course Flier
To register and for more information, contact St. Petersburg College Corporate
Training at 727-341-4445 or www.spcollege.edu/ct
For further information, please contact:
Eric Paul Engel
P.O. Box 2091
St. Petersburg, Florida 33731
Phone: 727.823.5809
info@ketchcom.net
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"PUNCTUATING ILLNESS" PRESENTED AT THE FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS
OF QUALITATIVE INQUIRY
Urbana-Champaign, Ilinois & St. Petersburg,
Florida, 23 May 2009 - Ketchcom Development is proud to announce
presentation of "Punctuating
Illness: A History/Herstory of Breast Cancer" co-authored by
Eric Paul Engel and Shelba Engel at the Fifth International Congress of
Qualitative Inquiry (hosted by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign).
The paper is part of a panel titled "Writing the Personal as a Method
of Inquiry" chaired by Manijeh Badeii. The author is indebted to
University of South Florida colleague David Lee for presenting in the
author's absence.
Abstract: Blending ethnography and poetry, this co-authored
narrative explores a punctuation of illness in three episodes. "History"
(a son's reflections on going wig shopping with his mother), "Herstory"
(a mother's reflections on diagnosis day), and "Ourstory"
(shared reflections on health, illness, and relationships). The first
episodic memoir stands in dialogic juxtaposition to the second, punctuating
the day breast cancer first became "real" in two people's lives,
with the third story commenting on an episode of research, relationships,
and reflexivity. In form and format, our research goal has been to provide
a contextually-rich narrative to facilitate conversations about cancer
and communication.
For further information, please contact:
Eric Paul Engel
P.O. Box 2091
St. Petersburg, Florida 33731
Phone: 727.823.5809
info@ketchcom.net
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KETCHCOM ARTICLE LISTED AMONG "MOST POPULAR ARTICLES" ON LAW PRACTICE
TODAY
St. Petersburg, Florida, 30 January 2006
- Online readers are responding well to Ketchcom Development's latest
offering, "The
Best Advertising You'll Never Pay For: How To Make Marketing Billable."
As of the end of January, the article has moved to the top of the "Most
Popular Articles" section on Law Practice TODAY's homepage!
Explore communication in context in this tale of two associates. Over
lunch, our plucky protagonist, DaRong, shares a client management philosophy
based on communication, client satisfaction, and word-of-mouth marketing.
As a result of a dental epiphony, DaRong learned how to improve her professional
efficiency and effectiveness by focusing on her communication with clients.
Article Abstract: Want to make the most of your time in the office?
Incorporate marketing into your regular client contacts. In this lunchtime
legal narrative, an associate shares her personal best practices--the
what, the when, and the why not of tactical legal marketing and strategic
client relationship management.
- Best Advertising You'll Never
Pay For: How To Make Marketing Billable (.pdf)
For further information, please contact:
Eric Paul Engel
P.O. Box 2091
St. Petersburg, Florida 33731
Phone: 727.823.5809
info@ketchcom.net
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LAW PRACTICE TODAY PUBLISHES "THE BEST ADVERTISING YOU'LL NEVER PAY FOR:
HOW TO MAKE MARKETING BILLABLE"
St. Petersburg, Florida, 5 December 2005
- Ketchcom Development, Inc. is proud to announce publication of its most
recent article "The
Best Advertising You'll Never Pay For: How To Make Marketing Billable"
in Law
Practice TODAY.
Article Abstract: Want to make the most of your time in the office?
Incorporate marketing into your regular client contacts. In this lunchtime
legal narrative, an associate shares her personal best practicesthe
what, the when, and the why not of tactical legal marketing and strategic
client relationship management.
- Best Advertising You'll Never
Pay For: How To Make Marketing Billable (.pdf)
For further information, please contact:
Eric Paul Engel
P.O. Box 2091
St. Petersburg, Florida 33731
Phone: 727.823.5809
info@ketchcom.net
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KETCHCOM DEVELOPMENT, INC. RELOCATES TO FLORIDA
St. Petersburg, Florida, 1 August 2005 -
Ketchcom Development's origins can be traced back to a
conversation on a flight out of Tampa, so it is fitting to announce
that we have relocated and are now flying our flag in sunny St. Petersburg,
Florida. The generous new location serves as the home offices of:
- Ketchcom Development, Inc.
- Odd@Sea Design & Publishing
- The Odd@Sea Art Gallery (Open
to the public by appointment.)
- The "All Things Must Dance"
Studio (Open to the public by appointment.)
For further information, please contact:
Eric Paul Engel
P.O. Box 2091
St. Petersburg, Florida 33731
Phone: 727.823.5809
info@ketchcom.net
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KETCHCOM ARTICLE "THE PRACTICAL WISDOM OF LISTENING" INCLUDED
IN UNIVERSITY TEXTBOOK
McLean, Virginia, 5 August 2004 - Ketchcom
Development announced today the publication of an article on client-lawyer
interactions and the fundamental role of listening authored by Executive
Directors Eric Paul Engel and Jowita L. Wysocka. "The Practical Wisdom
of Listening" is included as a supplemental reading in the textbook
"Introduction to Interpersonal Communication: A Supplemental Reader"
(published by Hayden-McNeil Publishing) and is designed specifically for
use in teaching undergraduate courses in the Communication Department
at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis.
Article Abstract: In order to determine what kinds of legal problems
a situation may involve, attorneys must listen carefully to their clients.
By engaging effective listening resources and practices, attorneys can
pro-actively increase their professional competence and enhance the quality
of service provided to clients, as well as promote and encourage elevated
standards of professional conductultimately improving their ability
to practice law and advance the administration of justice. A communication
perspective narrative, "The Practical Wisdom of Listening" describes
a client-lawyer interaction, highlighting effective and ineffective listening
through observations made by the protagonista Mr. Byron Willoughby
III.
- The Practical Wisdom of Listening
(.pdf)
For further information, please contact:
Eric Paul Engel
P.O. Box 2091
St. Petersburg, Florida 33731
Phone: 727.823.5809
info@ketchcom.net
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NEW KETCHCOM TEXT TARGETS ATTORNEYS AND THE PRACTICE OF LISTENING
McLean, Virginia, 11 June 2004 - Today, Ketchcom
Development announced the publication of its latest communication text,
"Listening for Lawyers: Communication with Clients and Co-Workers."
Published by Odd@Sea Communications: Design & Publishing, the text
is designed to supplement Ketchcom's "Listening
for Lawyers" Core Communication Workshop. To be a lawyer is to
engage the customs, practices, and rules of a community or society. As
such, it is the professional responsibility of all legal practitioners
to be competent communicators. By delineating components of the listening
process; describing internal, external, and systemic communication challenges
that make effective listening difficult; and identifying ways attorneys
can more competently represent clients by pro-actively engaging effective
listening resources in practices, the workshop and textbook directly address
the Client-Lawyer Relationship as defined in the Model Rules of Professional
Conduct (the American Bar Association's definitive resource for information
about legal ethics).
For further information, please contact:
Eric Paul Engel
P.O. Box 2091
St. Petersburg, Florida 33731
Phone: 727.823.5809
info@ketchcom.net
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