PR Chat: Angela Berardino

Angela Berardino works for Turner PR; she’s the rep who helped us get our REI loaner gear lined up. She’s also on the “Bloggers and PR” panel at TBEX — our destination in Chicago. Angela tackled the same questions Lisa answered in the last PR Chat post. The road trip crew is really grateful for the insight these PR people are giving us in to the process of working with bloggers. We hope you’ll leave your questions in the comments. Now, introducing Angela.
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PR Chat: The Idaho PR Chick

If you look just over there, on the sidebar, you’ll see that we’ve got a few sponsors for the TBEX Road Trip. This is the time where I tell you that yes, we’re taking some comps during our adventure and we hope you’ll trust that we’ll review the products and services honestly.

We’re also taking advantage of access to the PR folks to unravel the sticky relationships between bloggers and PR. We’ve got a series of questions for them — they’ll all get the same ones — and we’ll post their answers here.

First up, Lisa Gerber from Idaho. Lisa has set up our first night on the road — we’re staying at Sleeps Cabins and having dinner at 41 South. She also helped us find our second night stay at Big Sky Resort.

First, an introduction to Lisa Gerber:

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