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About Me

Margie Newman is an award-winning PR flack and tireless advocate for using technology and social media as productivity tools to make you the smartest person in the room. They make for successful public relations campaigns, too.

Margie most enjoys cause-related PR and is thrilled to be a a monthly productivity and technology columnist, and frequent blogger, for Her Nashville magazine.

She has been profiled as a Nashville Business Journal “Rising Star” and was named among the 2008 PRNews Top 15 to Watch, a national award honoring 15 budding PR leaders and creative practitioners age 30 and under.

Margie is a former press aide to Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen, serving as assistant for communications to Bredesen after his 2002 election, and later, as communications director for the Governor’s Books from Birth Foundation, which developed Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library program in all 95 Tennessee counties.

After a brief stint in internal communications at Healthways, Inc. (HWAY), Margie spent two years as a Principle at Nashville-based public relations firm, Hall Strategies, where she managed PR and media relations for clients including the Nashville Predators hockey franchise, Urban Child Institute, Smoke-Free Tennessee campaign, MTSU Political Poll, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, and Southern Festival of Books.

A Nashville native, Margie now lives in Washington, D.C. with her talented husband and tea cup poodle, where she continues her work in strategic communications and media relations. She is the founder of the DC Flacks Meetup (www.meetup.com/DC-PR-Flacks), a monthly happy hour and networking session for PR and PA pros in the D.C.-area.

Margie is a graduate of Auburn University (War Eagle!). As a Nashville resident, Margie was a Junior Achievement volunteer, and served on the boards of the Nashville Adult Literacy Council and the Nashville Downtown Partnership.

You may read Margie's pr and social media musings at www.flackrabbit.com, follow her on Twitter at www.twitter.com/margienewman and read her take on technology at www.HerNashville.com/chic-geek.