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By: Christi Dixon
06/05/2009 - We've had our share of clients who rely on us to help position them in the best possible way with media that reach their influencers or target audiences. Oftentimes that includes an awards strategy, to be listed in the "Top 10" of this or the…
By: Julie Steininger
04/29/2009 - Last night, Brian Williams of NBC Nightly News informed me that the federal government requested that we no longer call the recent public health emergency swine flu. Rather, we should call it the H1N1 virus. (In my opinion, too technical; one of the key rules…
By: Christi Dixon
04/16/2009 - I'm admittedly a huge "Les Miserables" fan; have been since it came onto the Broadway scene in the late '80s. I'm also a huge reality TV fan, er junkie, so when I heard a recommendation at PRSA's St. Louis chapter meeting yesterday to watch Susan Boyle,…
By: Patrick Lunsford
03/23/2009 - So ... I'm sitting down Sunday evening and watching President Barack Obama on CBS' "60 Minutes" and I'm wondering if the traditional national television network address has unofficially outlived its usefulness (as the core channel between the president and citizens). Last week, Maya blogged about the president's recent…
By: Patrick Lunsford
03/13/2009 - This past Thursday night, Jim Cramer, of CNBC's Mad Money fame, sat down for an interview with The Daily Show's Jon Stewart. The event, satirically called the "week-long feud of the century," started after Cramer took personal offense to The Daily Show's recent lambasting of…
By: Mistie Thompson
03/09/2009 - Call me dumb, or delusional, or desperately in need of a long tropical vacation (guilty as charged), but in an effort to find a bright spot in the chaos that seems to be surrounding us these days, I believe I've identified one: we now must live…
By: Susan Iskiwitch
02/05/2009 - A legal battle between brands has evolved into a social media marketing campaign that is benefitting Domino's Pizza. Domino's has, for a while, been airing commercials touting the fact that consumers prefer their oven-baked sandwiches over similar Subway products by a margin of 2-to-1. Evidently,…
By: Julie Steininger
01/28/2009 - I recently participated in a conversation with health and nutrition experts from across the country. One of the influencers, who works in public health, mentioned the distrust of corporations by the community members with whom she regularly interacts. This is a real dilemma for organizations…
By: Loren Wassell
01/28/2009 - If you're concerned about reputation management, it's a nightmare. One of your employees seems to have been soliciting phony, favorable reviews on the Internet. Not surprisingly, he's been caught and outed. Your credibility is on the line. That appears to be what happened to Belkin,…
By: Beth Minnigerode
01/15/2009 - I guess GlaxoSmithKline's Treximet® received an outpouring of disgust for its commercial featuring women who look like they've decapitated themselves due to their migraine headaches. As a result, Treximet has altered the commercial to look less like a trailer for a zombie movie. I…
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