Mark Ragan

Most of my experience is either as a reporter or as a marketer.

After 18 years running Ragan Communications, I still am not very good reading a balance sheet.

That will come as no surprise to the accountants who work for me.

But I do feel I have a knack for marketing and reporting. The latter has come in handy with the launch of Ragan.com, the first daily news service for corporate communicators.

• Ragan.com

  • Chicago
  • January 1, 2007
  Authors: Mark Ragan

  Ragan.com is the #1 news site in the world for internal communicators and corporate communication professionals. It emerged from a publication called The Ragan Report, which my father launched in 1968. This well-known industry site is visited by 350,000 people from around the world.

• PRdaily.com

  • Chicago
  • March 1, 2007
  Authors: Mark Ragan

  According to Alexa, PRDaily.com is now the top-read industry news site, attracting 1.2 million monthly readers each month. Our visitors hail from every continent, with the largest concentration in New York, London, Chicago, Melbourne, Toronto and other major urban areas.

• Healthcare Communications.com

  • Chicago
  • January 1, 2010
  Authors: Mark Ragan

  If you google the search term, 'healthcare communication', the #1 search result is for our daily news site. We cover the waterfront for healthcare communicators: social media, internal communications, marketing, media relations, video communication...just about everything.

• ManageBetter.biz

  • January 1980
  Authors: Mark Ragan

  Management newsletters that help small business owners save time and money. This publishing group includes the famous, pocket-sized inspirational booklet, "Bits and Pieces."

• The best online training platform in PR/Corporate Communications

  • January 2011 to Present
  Team Members: Mark Ragan

  The only distance-learning platform in the world for corporate communicators that contains HD-quality videos, interactive courses and archived webinars. It covers 11 topic areas, is updated monthly and contains more than 200 hours of instruction.

• Developed, designed and produced the first daily brand journalism site in the hospital industry.

  • September 2012 to February 2013
  Team Members: Mark Ragan

  Daily news site published by a hospital that delivers health care news to thousands of patients, employees and prospective patients. The project grew out of my strong belief that brands should think of themselves as media outlets.

• NASDAQ Social Media Interview Series

  • January 2010 to Present
  Team Members: Mark Ragan

  This series has produced more than 100 videos with leaders in the media, PR pros and corporate communication executives. The interviews have been viewed tens of thousands of time. The series is in collaboration with NASDAQ/OMX and is shot at their Times Square studios.

• Social media Bootcamp

  • January 2008 to Present
  Team Members: Mark Ragan

  Launched this workshop on social media and organizational communications and PR. It's been attended by about 2,000 people over the past five years. I still teach it occasionally.

1. Internal Communications
2. Project Management
3. Media Relations
4. Social Media Marketing
5. Corporate Communications
6. Social Media
7. Marketing Communications
8. Editing
9. Public Speaking
10. PowerPoint
11. Community Sites
12. Storytelling
13. Creative Writing
14. Content Management
15. Social Media Consulting
16. Press Releases
17. Web Content Management
18. Marketing
19. Speech Writing
20. Public Relations
21. Digital Media
22. Writing
23. Email Marketing
24. Integrated Marketing

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Websites:

• Ragan news service
• Ragan video sharing site
• Ragan social network

Interests:

Publishing, social media, marketing and PR, internal communications, media relations On the personal side, I am interested in theater, classical music, mountain climbing, classical guitar and ballet. I also love to swing dance.

Groups and Associations:

SIPA; IABC; PRSA; the MyRagan social network, which is like an association;

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  CISCO PROFESSIONALS
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  DePaul Professionals in Communications and Journalism
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  DePaul University Alumni Association
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  Health Care Communication News
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  IABC UK
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  IABC/Toronto
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  Illinois Association of Mortgage Professionals
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  Inside out - Employee communications & engagement
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  International Association of Business Communicators (IABC)
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  International Association of Communication Activists
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  MyManagersNetwork
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  PR Daily
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  PR News Group
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  Ragan.com

Honors and Awards:

So many that I can't even begin to name them. Not enough space or time.

Just kidding, of course. I won several investigative reporting awards when I was a reporter.