The Lost Boys and Blue Keys

For many years at two agencies we had the honor of representing The Heinz Awards. They are annual awards given out by Teresa Heinz-Kerry, whose first husband Senator John Heinz was killed in the 90′s as he was serving in the senate.  In most years those awards were given in five categories including Arts and [...]

What is PR?

My dad died a little over a year ago, and to this day he really didn’t know exactly what I did for a living. It’s not that my dad wasn’t smart, in fact as a small businessman he was one of the best marketers I ever met.  It’s just that it is very difficult to [...]

Haiti and social media

Only in the world of blogging can you give a link to a blog that provides a link to another article. But the people involved and the subject matter are important and timely. He’s a link to my pal Shonali Burke’s blog, to Geoff Livingston’s article for Mashable.com on the five social media lessons to be learned [...]

Digesting Shankman

As you probably can imagine, I have been thinking a lot about social marketing in the wake of Peter Shankman's visit and our event.  The "thinking" has been helped along by a follow-up presentation by the wonderful Shonali Burke in a presentation to a client in Northern Virginia on Wednesday and by meetings and conversations [...]

How I explained social marketing to myself so I can explain it to others

Do you ever "know" something in your head, can envision how it works, but when it comes time to take it through step-by-step it is hard to explain? That's how I felt about explaining social marketing until I reached out to the Twittersphere and found the calming words of Julie Bonn Heath (Julie's blog) and Sonali [...]

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