Put 20 years of experience to work.

Fresh, innovative ideas are where it’s at when it comes to great communications plans. That’s where Ground Words Communications comes in. Find out what your public relations programs are lacking so that we can create a strategy that targets your audience, profiles your business and achieves intended results.

Here are just a few samples of some great projects I’ve completed, working as Ground Words Communications.

Gord Bamford, Canadian Country Music Award winning artist

Tracey teamed up with Canada's Gord Bamford and Cache Entertainment Inc. in 2009 to create the communications strategy to launch Gord's fourth CD, Day Job. Since that time she has been his head writer and brand strategist. Gord received the most nominations by the Canadian Country Music Association for 2010, was awarded the 2010 Male Artist of the Year, 2010 Album of the Year (Day Job), CMT Video of the Year (Day Job), and 2010 Record Producer of the Year (with Nashville's Byron Hill). The awards were announced on Sunday, September 12, 2010.

www.gordbamford.com

 

American Cowboy Magazine

A volunteer alumni of the Calgary Stampede, Tracey was perfect to team up with Stampede and PRCA Steer Wrestling Champion Lee Graves to write "Three Days at the Calgary Stampede." Gear up to live like a local at the 99th annual event, July 8 – 17, 2011.

2011: Dec/Jan | April/May | Aug/Sept
2010: Dec/Jan |Feb/March | June/July
2009: June/July | April/May | Feb/March | Oct/Nov

 


Western Producer

Tracey went on assignment for The Western Producer, home of Canada's largest agricultural newspaper in January, 2010. She covered the National Western Stock Show in Denver, and followed how Canadian cattle producers fared at the annual event.

February 4, 2010
January 21, 2010

 

Tracey attended the 2009 Canadian Finals Rodeo in Edmonton promoting and selling the new book Duke of the Chutes, Harry Vold's Sixty Years in Rodeo. She worked with the publisher, Filter Press Books out of Palmer Lake, Colorado to get copies up to Canada for the special event. If you'd like to purchase a copy of the book, please click on this link.

 


 



 

Water Research Foundation

Tracey edited and wrote articles for Drinking Water Research, a quarterly publication from the Denver-based Water Research Foundation. WRF is a member-supported, international, nonprofit organization that sponsors research to enable water utilities, public health agencies, and other professionals to provide safe and affordable drinking water to consumers.

July–September 2009 • Vol. 19, No. 3
April-June 2009 • Vol. 19, No. 2

 

Beneficial Management Practices Environmental Manual

The Beneficial Management Practices Environmental Manual for Alberta Farmsteads, otherwise known as the Farmstead BMP Manual, is the last of seven beneficial management practices (BMPs) manuals developed for rural Albertans. Tracey served as the technical editor on the project. Click here to view more

 

Extending the Grazing Season
Tracey interviewed 10 different cattle producers, from all across the province of Alberta, for this technical manual on grazing. Her stories feature these producers, each revealing what it takes to make their farm operation sustainable and economically viable.

Click here to view more

Farming for Tomorrow

Tracey was a regular contributor to this Alberta-based magazine for 10 years. Her latest articles can be found in the Spring, 2007 issue.


Click here to view more

 

Edmonton Women’s Business Blaster
A communications strategy was written for the 2007 Women’s Business Blaster. The goal of the plan was to improve the awareness of the 2007 event, profile the event as the premier professional development conference for Edmonton Business Women, increase their media presence and expand their partnership base with other Edmonton businesses.

Click here to view more

 

Cattle Wintering Sites
The Cattle Wintering Sites publication was edited and designed to present educational content to an aging rural demographic. The manual has proved to be very popular and has been reprinted two times. It also garnered Tracey the Gold Award for General Periodical from the Canadian Farm Writer’s Association in 2001. Metrographics Design Group in Calgary created the amplifying imagery for this manual, making it visually arresting and reader-friendly.

Click here to view more