Barbara Nicol Public Relations

Please Contact:

Barb Nicol, APR
Barbara Nicol Public Relations
4025 Queen Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN  55410
(612) 920-2279; fax: (612) 926-6224
bnpr@isd.net

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Barb Nicol has 20 years experience in the communications field. She spent six years with an advertising agency and two years as Communications Director for a consortium of private colleges prior to founding Barbara Nicol Public Relations in 1990.

Barb’s firm serves the public relations needs of clients in the education and non-profit sectors. Her services include strategic communications planning, publication development and marketing training.

Barb has worked with dozens of school districts and educational associations, and has presented at local, regional and national conferences on school marketing and communications strategies. She is currently past-president of the Minnesota School Public Relations Association (MinnSPRA) and has received the Public Relations Society of America APR accreditation, a credential given to PR professionals who demonstrate expert knowledge, experience and judgement in public relations (APR = Accredited in Public Relations).

Clients have included: several Minnesota school districts; the Minneapolis Youth Coordinating Board; Jefferson County and Douglas County School Districts (Colorado); the National School Public Relations Association (NSPRA); MESPA (Minnesota Elementary School Principals Association); MASSP (Minnesota Association of Secondary School Principals); MASA (Minnesota Association of School Administrators); MACAC (Minnesota Association for College Admission Counseling); and the Minnesota Private College Council.

Project work includes: development and implementation of strategic long-range marketing plans; workshops on marketing and customer service for a wide range of school district employees; implementation of a large federal grant focused on improving school readiness; communications plan development and implementation for referendum campaigns; development of new images and supporting messages for school districts and initiatives.

Barb Nicol was born and raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Behavioral Science and the Law from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1982, and received a Master of Public Affairs in Education Policy and Non-Profit Management at the University of Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey Institute in 2002.