Headed by Shirley de Kock Gueller, the team includes experienced associates in Cape Town, Johannesburg and Durban. Shirley de Kock has 20 years' public relations and media consulting experience in South Africa where she worked for clients such as the Cape Town Symphony, Cape Town Philharmonic and Cape Philharmonic Orchestras. She was an assistant editor of Reader's Digest South Africa and press liaison officer with the US Information Service in Johannesburg prior to that. She is currently on the boards of the Cape Town Concert Series and Richard Wagner Society of South Africa.
What the team can offer:
� Project co-ordination/management
� Media consultation, liaison and writing, translating and distribution of releases to print and electronic media
� Brochure production from copyrighting to layout and printing
� Editing and proofreading
� Event management
Shirley de Kock Gueller also handles media relations for many sclients such as Strategic Arts Management in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Opechee Designs in South Africa. She has written for the South African and Canadian (online) editions of Reader's Digest, has published dozens of interviews, music and travel articles in magazines and newspapers and wrote the text for an illustrated book, Advertising in South Africa. She is a writer and editor, does book reviews for The Cape Times in Cape Town and Atlantic Books Today in Halifax. She also reviews college essays for Smartthinking. She holds a BA Hons in History and an international comprehensive TESOL certificate for teaching English.
