Pila Martinez

Pila Martinez is Director of Campus Communications at the University of Arizona. In addition to overseeing employee-focused news content, she manages several institutional websites. She is a Tucson native and a graduate of the UA, where she studied journalism and Spanish. She started her career working as a reporter, with the Arizona Daily Star and The Associated Press, before switching to the field of public relations in 2000. Pila also volunteers as a mediator and is a founding member of the Center for Community Dialogue, a Tucson, Arizona, nonprofit organisation that aims to build the capacity of individuals and groups to discuss issues, resolve conflicts, build consensus and make decisions.

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Articles by Pila Martinez:


Motivate and Move Your Audience through Multimedia
Wednesday, 20th February 2013

Multimedia elements not only can make your communications more visually appealing, but they can also convey information in ways your words never could. Pila Martinez explains how the key is to match the multimedia with the content and provides some useful tips to help make your communications more compelling.


Enliven Your Communications with Multimedia
Tuesday, 19th February 2013

Without any visual elements, most types of written communications are just rows and rows of black letters that blur into a grey mass. Multimedia not only can make your communications more visually appealing, but it can also convey information in ways your words never could. Pila Martinez provides some tips to help you make your communications more captivating and highlights some of the latest tools to achieve this.