Diplomats Press Officers Group Meet & Work by Diplomat Magazine at Leiden Museum of Antiquities. On the picture together with Dr. Mayelinne De Lara Publisher, Mr.Roy Lie A Tjam, Editor and Ms. Abigail Montalvo also from Diplomat Magazine’s team; Ms. Selkit Verberk, PR, Marketing & Communication of Leiden Museum of Antiquities; Mr. Alvaro Sanchez, Charge d’Affaires, Venezuela; Ms. Pham Hanh, Second Secretary,Viet Nam; Ms. Sherry Keneson-Hall, Counselor for Public Affairs USA; Dr René González de la Vega, Diplomatic Attaché Culture, Academy and Press, Mexico; Ms. Nawrid Sharmin, First Secretary, Bangladesh; Mr. Mikhail Sobolev, Press Officer, Russia; Ms. Astrid Bharos, Press Specialist, USA; Ms. Brigitte Moreno, Secretary & Translator, Chile; Ms. Nino Kvantrishvili, Press Officer, Georgia; Mr. Willem Versteegh, PR & Press Officer, Rwanda; Ms. Julie Foucqueteau, Outreach and Advocacy Officer, Canada and Mr. Harald Hameleers, Media and stakeholder relations, policy adviser, Cyprus.
By Roy Lie A Tjam.
Leiden, 7 December 2017. Diplomat Magazine hosted her second Diplomats Press Officers Group meeting. This time around the meeting was in collaboration with the Leiden Museum of Antiquities. It transpired at the first press officers group meeting that there is a need to find ways to bridge the gap between the diplomatic press officers group and Dutch media.
To this end, the press officers group gathered for a Meet and Work with Ms. Selkit Verberk, PR, Marketing & Communication and Mr. Wim Weijland Director of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities. After a short introduction, Mr. Wim Weijland welcome the guests to the museum. A four min. video on an authentic Egyptian temple-Taffeh, a gift from the Egyptian government was part of the welcome.
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Ms Selkit Verberk delivered an informative and interactive expose. She elaborated on the subject of how to deal with the Dutch media, the dos and don’ts.
The information went down well with the dozen or so Diplomatic Press Officers who attended the Meet and Work.
As the museum’s PR, Marketing & Communication person, Verberk is in close contact with the Dutch writing press. Apparently, all in attendance gleaned something from Ms Verberk’s presentation. An informal gathering concluded the information morning.
