All About Katie Delahaye Paine

Here is a biography for Katie Delahaye Paine, CEO of KDPaine & Partners, and links to more information:

Who is Katie Delahaye Paine?

Katie Delahaye Paine (twitter: KDPaine)

Katie Delahaye Paine is the Chief Marketing Officer of News Group, a leader in  international monitoring and evaluation, as well as Chairman  & founder of Salience/KDPaine & Partners, the leader in integrated social and traditional communications measurement. She is the Co-author of the recently released Measuring The Networked Nonprofit with Beth Kanter.  She has also written Measure What Matters, Online Tools for Understanding Customers, Social Media, Engagement, and Key Relationships (Wiley, March 2011) as well as the popular text book, Measuring Public Relationships (KDPaine & Partners 2007). She is also the publisher of the first blog (KDPaine.blogs.com)  and the first newsletter (The Measurement Standard)  dedicated entirely to measurement and accountability. Prior to launching KDPaine & Partners in 2002, Paine was the founder and president of The Delahaye Group, which she sold to Medialink Worldwide, Inc. in 1999.

Katie was an initial founder of the Institute for Public Relations special commission on measurement and evaluation and is a Founding Fellow of the Society for New Communications Research. Katie was named one of PR Week’s 2008 Power Players for her advocacy of PR measurement. KDPaine & Partners won the prestigious Award of Excellent from the Society for New Communications Research in both 2009 and 2010. Her firm was also awarded the 2008 Jack Felton Golden Ruler of Measurement Certificate of Merit from the Institute for Public Relations. In 2006, Katie Paine received the Business Excellence Award for Excellence in Media & Marketing from New Hampshire Business Review. Paine has also been named Entrepreneurial Venture Creator, Person of the Year by the University of New Hampshire’s Whitmore School of Business. A Cum Laude graduate of Connecticut College's class of 1974, Katie majored in history and Asian studies. She received an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from New Hampshire College in May 1996. She is an Athena award winner and her life is featured in Mark Albion’s books, “Making a Life, Making a Living.” and “True to Yourself.”

For the past two decades, Paine has been providing marketers and communications professionals the tools, data and information to help them make better business decisions. She and her firms have read and analyzed millions of news articles, blogs, newsgroup postings and internal communications and have conducted hundreds of thousands of interviews in the relentless pursuit of quantitative and qualitative measures of her client’s marketing success. She works with some of the world’s most admired companies and organizations including Raytheon, Dell, Adobe and SAS. Most recently, her endeavors have been focused on social media measurement as well as providing cost effective measurement programs for non-profits, universities, small businesses and government agencies.

 

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