Working with Marilyn developing Green Calgary's strategic communications plan was a positive experience for me, my team, and Green Calgary. Not only was it helpful in terms of retooling our programs after two years of COVID and tuning up our communications initiatives, it was helpful to learn, think, plan, and work on the communication plan together as a team building experience. We still have a few loose ends to tie up before then but the communications plan will be ready to present at our next board of directors meeting. Marilyn is a passionate communicator, with great insights and such a friendly demeanor. Our whole team had a blast working with her.

If you’re planning a media pitch and want some pointers on getting a plan together - Marilyn’s expertise, energy and recommendations will help you make a cohesive, effective plan. She even shares contacts with you!

Nicole Dunsdon
Caretakers Alberta | Marketing & Communications Manager

I recently had the pleasure of a one-on-one session with Marilyn on how to pitch stories to the media. Marilyn’s passion and knowledge is truly inspiring. Her level of experience and expertise enables her to provide tips and resources that are relevant, insightful, and effective. If you’re looking to refine your communications/ media skills, I highly recommend connecting with Marilyn – you’ll be glad you did!

Deon Watson
Mustard Seed | Communications Specialist

Marilyn is very personable and engaging, and she really knows her stuff. I recently attended Marilyn's "Media Training Workshop" and thoroughly enjoyed every minute of my time with her. Marilyn shared great information, tips and exercises and provided great insight as to how the media works and what to expect. She helped me understand the process and gave me confidence and assurance that will better equip me for media relations and interviews in the future. Thank you, Marilyn!

Mary Jane James
Sexual Assault Centre of Edmonton | Executive Director

As an elected official it is essential to have the confidence to be able to speak in public or to the media. I was very fortunate to have the opportunity to take advantage of two media training sessions with Marilyn. The two sessions over the period of a week gave me the opportunity to absorb the information and come back the second week ready to learn more. I really enjoyed the process and the knowledge that I’ve gained. I would highly recommend media training with Marilyn. She put me at such ease while I learned tips and techniques that made me feel comfortable and confident that I can deal effectively with the media under any circumstances.

Gale Katchur
City of Fort Saskatchewan | Mayor

On behalf of the Association of Alberta Agricultural Fieldmen, the Education Committee would like to thank you for your Media Training Workshop that contributed to the quality of the In Service Training at our conference. We appreciate the time you took out of your busy schedule to join us and thank you for sharing your insights and expertise on media relations with our membership.

Trent Keller
Association of Agricultural Fieldmen of Alberta | Chair, Education Committee

I attended Marilyn's keynote presentation on dealing with the media at our annual conference last year which encouraged me to sign up for her full day media training workshop at our conference this year. I would recommend this workshop to anyone who deals with the media. I learned what questions to ask the reporter before the interview so I could prepare and decide the important points I wanted to convey in the interview in advance. As a result of the workshop, I will feel more confident, prepared and comfortable in future media interviews.

Art Preachuk
Red Deer County | Agricultural Services Manager

I contracted Marilyn Jones for media training for our staff based on a reference given from a previously satisfied client of hers. Marilyn was able to take away the “fear” we had of dealing with media as we practiced developing and delivering key messages, and interviewing techniques to help us always get back to the important ‘key message’. In addition to the training being informative, it was actually fun! We found Marilyn well prepared, passionate, knowledgeable, organized and professional. She had researched our organization so was able to tailor the training to successfully meet our needs.

Donna Blundell
Safe & Caring Schools & Communities | Executive Director

Thanks for providing your insights on the success of the [2021 YEG BiodiverCity] campaign - means a lot! I was very happy with your proposal that we begin the campaign earlier by promoting the webinar series leading up to the event. I agree that it helped to create a bigger story. The webinars were well attended and it seemed like participants enjoyed the content and the opportunity.

Your Alberta media contact lists worked perfectly. I got my media release out this morning and I’m already getting call backs.

As someone who has a challenge keeping up with all the changes in the media in Alberta, I was impressed with what I saw today during the tour that Marilyn took me on to view the media lists as I considered whether or not to purchase a subscription. I was very impressed! Our subscription will save me and my staff hours of time and make our lives so much easier.

The Canada FASD Research Network was looking to do something unique with our advocacy & communications for the 2019 Federal Election. We found that Marilyn quickly understood the need, responded with a workable plan, and executed it successfully with minimal oversight. As a National leader in FASD it is important for us to get our message out and Marilyn was able to quickly understand the complicated field in which we navigate. Thank you for the additional helpful advice over and above the project.

We had a great weekend. Media coverage for the [Jessica Martel Memorial Foundation] Run/Walk on Sunday was awesome. Had 180+ participants, the most we’ve ever had and raised $46,000, the most we ever raised, with more coming in. A highly successful event thanks, in part, to your efforts on our behalf.

Janice Isberg
Jessica Martel Memorial Foundation | Executive Director

Thank you so much for putting together our first media release for this year's festival and for getting it out to the media so quickly. I was impressed with how you took so much information and boiled it down to 500 words or so and still included all the most important details. And, it it looks great, too! We're looking forward to working with you on the rest of our media releases for the 2019 festival. We really appreciate your assistance.

Marion Hinteregger
Canadian Birkebeiner Festival | Coordinator

Working with Marilyn made everything related to the communications and media of our big event truly effortless. Marilyn helped to make our event a great success! Thanks to her, many young people were further recognized for their great achievements. We were very pleased with the media coverage and I believe there are still a few more interviews in the works. Thank you Marilyn. We look forward to working with you again very soon! I would be delighted to recommend you and I look forward to working with you again.

Ashley Tedham
The Duke of Edinburgh's International Award – Canada| Alberta, Northwest Territories, Nunavut Division | Executive Director

We used your media lists for the first time for the distribution of a media release last week. The lists performed well and the release was well read. There were some reporters on your lists that I really wanted to connect with but didn't have their contact information. I was happy to see that they were on your list and responded to the release. The lists were thorough, well organized, and much larger than I expected. I especially appreciated you including the reporters' Twitter and Facebook handles. We were skeptical of purchasing a media list not knowing what to expect. Your media lists delivered beyond our expectations and it was a phenomenal experience working with you.

Sander Sarioglu
St John Ambulance - Alberta | Manager Creative Services

We used our subscription most recently for our Spring fundraising campaign, and it worked really well for us. Thank you.

Teigan Kopec
Alberta Ecotrust | Communications Lead

We found having a service like yours helpful and sure came in handy for an important media release we sent out in the spring.

Jeff Samsonow
Inclusion Alberta | Communications Coordinator

The Media in Alberta database is a helpful resource that gives us instant access to media contacts across the province including those in rural communities. The contacts are broken down into categories (television, radio, magazines and daily and weekly papers) with multiple contacts for each outlet enabling us to efficiently and effectively connect with the media. I have no hesitation whatsoever whenever it's time to renew our subscription.

Luree Williamson
Agriculture for Life | CEO

I am very happy to have you working on formatting and distributing our media releases for us - it makes a big difference to have your support! Thank you

Kathy Classen
Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Arts Awards Foundation | Executive Director