Thoughts, Words & Images PR (TWI-PR) announces winning entries to 2011 MarCom Awards

Dec. 26, 2011 - PRLog -- Van, TX—TWI-PR founder and principle, Linda Mastaglio, celebrating her fifteenth year of providing clients with people-to-people communications consulting, has received two awards for her writing from the 2011 MarCom Awards competition.
“Lessons Revealed,” the cover story that appeared in SMPS Marketer’s February 2011 issue, won a Gold Award. In the article, marketers from across American perform their own reality checks and share the results. Throughout the article Mastaglio, an SMPS Marketer contributing editor, weaves their clever insights and unique perspectives on the challenges of marketing during a recession.
“The Capacity Crunch,” a technical article appearing in the March 21, 2011 issue of Engineering News Record (ENR), received an Honorable Mention Award. The article discusses the effect of funding issues dampening transportation system growth. During the last fourteen years, Mastaglio has written about 100 special advertising sections for ENR, a weekly publication of McGraw-Hill. This is one of several awards Mastaglio received for her technical writing skills for ENR sections.

Linda Mastaglio, ABC has been writing professionally for over four decades and has won many national and international awards for communication excellence. The owner of her own communication consultancy since 1996 (www.twi-pr.com), she has also written and edited books and owns a publishing company that develops stimulating art products for senior adults (www.twipublishing.com). Her byline has appeared in over 75 publications worldwide, and she has offices in downtown Dallas and other East Texas locations. She is co-author of Vital Connections: Building Relationships with Key Stakeholders, a publication of the International Association of Business Communicators (http://iabcstore.com/prpublicrelations/vitalconnections.htm).

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Thoughts, Words & Images (TWI), founded in 1996, offers comprehensive public relations and marketing strategies for businesses, universities, and non-profit associations nationwide. We help clients communicate with customers, employees, investors and the media … and our efforts lead to measurable, bottom-line success. TWI is a minority, woman-owned business enterprise certified through the North Central Texas Regional Certification Agency. The firm is directed by Linda Mastaglio, an established, award-winning leader in the communications industry.