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Last night I had the pleasure of presenting to a group of entrepreneurs at theCorzo Center at the University of the Arts. The topic was “Moving Your Ideas Forward,” where I talked about brand building and…
November 5th marked the annual WordCamp Philly – a much-anticipated conference for designers and developers in the Philly area that use WordPress. WordCamp Philly is intended to be the premiere WordPress-related technical conference in Philadelphia, offering various…
I just finished a whirlwind of 3 “tech” conferences in 4 weeks: EDUCAUSE (higher ed tech), Aspire 2011 (LivePerson’s global summit on customer engagement) and Defrag 2011 (internet innovation around information transformation). Three different conferences,…
Social media started as a peer-to-peer connection tool – it was something people used to stay in touch, post photos, and share news and events. In the beginning, it was a channel used among friends…
The days of hard copy press kits may be gone, but that doesn’t mean that the media no longer needs the information that these kits contained. Management bios, corporate fact sheets, FAQs, the latest company…
In marketing and PR, attention is often focused on the ability to write the perfect press release or successfully pitch the media to secure a placement. Not often is attention paid to the art of…
In Part 1 of my review of Brand Simple, I focused on brand-related definitions and an explanation of Allen Adamson’s 5 steps to helping your brand succeed. Another key takeaway from the book is Adamson’s explanation…
Brand Simple, written by Landor Associates expert, Allen P. Adamson, is essentially a “brand bible.” First published in 2006, it explains in clear, actionable language, what the best brands know and how the most successful…
Any professional knows that in order to keep up with changes in their field, they need to be open to new ideas and new ways of doing things. Reading books by other professionals in the…
If you’re in the business of PR, then you know how rapidly the field is changing. The act of crafting the perfect pitch, agonizing over which witty subject line is going to get the media to open your email and then waiting for the phones to ring is, quite frankly, extinct.
