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Is Your PR Firm Experienced?
By: Marijean Jaggers
05/21/2008 - Steve Cody, aka Rep Man, has a post on the PRSA blog ComPRehension about "Walking the Walk." In it, Cody encourages PR firms to blog, as a way of gaining the experience of strategies they may be recommending to clients. "Blogging is so much more…
Wear Lipstick in the Home Office and Other Tips for Work-at-Home Success
By: Marijean Jaggers
05/20/2008 - Yesterday, I was interviewed by a reporter from a Charlottesville publication about my home office. When asked about my "routine" for working at home, I launched into my spiel of all I've learned since I began working in a home office two and a half…
Springsteen Plays Golf at Spring Creek (well, almost)
By: Marijean Jaggers
04/30/2008 - Ever have a story that almost happens? We had a peach of an opportunity. Bruce Springsteen and the E Street band booked tee times at Spring Creek Golf Club, a client of Standing Partnership's in Charlottesville, Va. While The Boss and the band didn't want…
Branding: A different way to start the conversation
By: Marijean Jaggers
04/29/2008 - Michelle Golden has a great point on her Golden Practices blog. At Standing, when we begin branding conversations with clients we lead them through discussion about who they ARE; what promise they've made and kept to their communities. A different approach, and one that may…
The Many Faces of Standing Partnership
By: Marijean Jaggers
04/21/2008 - We had a problem at Standing. No one liked his or her headshot and we all pretty much hate getting our picture taken. Rather than using a photo, I'd been using an avatar that a friend of mine created for me to use on my…
Saturn Sponsors Bossy's Excellent Road Trip
By: Marijean Jaggers
04/14/2008 - Unless you are a fellow mom-blogger or you read a lot of blogs, you may not have heard of Bossy. Bossy, a.k.a. Georgia Getz is the extremely popular author of humor blog, i am bossy (Technorati rank: 8,464, Authority: 553). Earlier this year, Bossy announced…
Building a Better Blog Aggregator
By: Marijean Jaggers
03/27/2008 - Last week, I shared my thoughts on the BlogNewsNetwork controversy. With some, I hit a nerve. The conversation about BNN continues and is still heated. At Standing Partnership, our tagline reads, "Standing together. Moving forward." I see this ongoing discussion as an opportunity for the…
Meeting Roger Mudd at the Va. Festival of the Book
By: Marijean Jaggers
03/26/2008 - I had the great pleasure this morning of listening to Roger Mudd, famed broadcast journalist and Washington correspondent for CBS News and NBC News and speaker at the Virginia Festival of the Book Business Breakfast. Also, to my great thrill, I had the opportunity to…
The UPS Store: A blogger relations story comes full circle
By: Marijean Jaggers
03/20/2008 - Back in January, I wrote a post on my personal blog about the UPS Store and how a single employee had really made my day. That set into motion events which led me to write a post for Where Do You Stand? about the UPS…
Weighing in on the BNN controversy
By: Marijean Jaggers
03/19/2008 - A hot topic amongst St. Louis bloggers has been the presence and practices of David Mastio's BlogNetNews. Sigh. The less gentle, more irritable part of me wants to tell ya'll to chill the heck out. (Editorial note: since I moved to Virginia I am absolutely…
