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Standing up for St. Louis' Next Generation of Writers
By: Gretchen Schiltz
07/10/2008 - I recently attended KidSmart's 2008 Push for Pencils campaign kickoff (which earned me a “Walking the Halls” award; thank you, Justin). KidSmart is a local nonprofit that supplies 40,000 St. Louis-area children with basic school supplies that they could not afford otherwise. To jump-start the…
Working at Home for Standing Partnership
By: Marijean Jaggers
07/09/2008 - I was recently honored as the C'ville Weekly Abode feature subject for Erika Howsare's A Room of One's Own article. As Standing Partnership's only full-time home office employee (I manage the Charlottesville presence of the reputation management firm), I have had to place a certain…
Great Customer Relationships: The Coffeeshop Experience
By: Marijean Jaggers
07/08/2008 - In this week's edition of Newsweek, the reader-contributed essay My Turn (perhaps my favorite feature of the magazine) is titled "Closing Shop -- And a Life by Sal Nunziato." The writer shares the story of his life as the owner of an independent music store…
Don't Want to Brag, But...
By: Mistie Thompson
07/03/2008 - ...our fearless COO, Melissa Lackey (who we're convinced never sleeps), has written an article for PR News' "Crisis Management Guidebook, vol. 2" now available from the PR Press. With the intriguing title "Winning the Most Serious Game in Town: the Reputation Championship," it's relevant to…
Edit This
By: Susan Iskiwitch
06/24/2008 - The last time I was an editor was as a high school senior. I was one of four editors-in-chief of the Cranbrook Kingswood Crane-Clarion, and now I fully understand why there were four of us: in order to quadruple our chances of catching copy errors.…
“Good Afternoon, Standing Partnership (a great place to work)”
By: Amber Morris
06/20/2008 - We started this Friday afternoon in a slight panic, Chrissy and I. It is our turn to answer the Standing Partnership phones after most of the office left at noon for Summer Fridays. It's a complicated system and as the first point of contact for…
A Choice of Changes
By: Loren Wassell
06/18/2008 - InBev continues to advocate for its offer to buy Anheuser-Busch, the last big beer brewer firmly planted in the United States. In an op-ed in Tuesday's St. Louis Post-Dispatch, InBev CEO Carlos Brito promises to keep the beloved Clydesdales and Grant's Farm, and repeats previous…
Corporate Branding: What We Can Learn by Monitoring the Brand of America
06/13/2008 - Thomas Friedman writes today that the selection of Barack Obama as the Democratic nominee has given more of a bump to America's overseas image than “the entire Bush public diplomacy effort for seven years.” He talks about how Obama's nomination demonstrates that people still hunger…
Summer Fridays
By: Marijean Jaggers
06/13/2008 - Standing Partnership has taken a cue from several of our clients and instituted "summer Fridays." We've previously offered the option to cut out at noon one Friday a month, provided staff had logged all weekly time before lunchtime. This summer, however, EVERY Friday is a…
Full Court Internet Press
By: Loren Wassell
06/12/2008 - Belgian brewer InBev has created a new Internet site to communicate directly with several key audiences about its bid for Anheuser-Busch. The new site - www.globalbeerleader.com includes a 12-minute video interview with InBev CEO Carlos Brito and separate messages for A-B employees, distributors, consumers, communities…
