Chula Vista, the second largest city in the San Diego metropolitan area, is considering building a university with a 375 acres campus and allotting close to 300,000 dollars to PR efforts meant to get the new educational institution the support and visibility it needs.
The developing romance between Prince William and Kate Middleton has rekindled the interest in the institution of monarchy and the life of the royal family for Canadians, yet the majority still believe the future UK monarch should play no role in Canada’s actual ruling, favoring their Governor General as head of state.
In an effort to help cardmembers with their holiday gift shopping, American Express’ online marketplace Daily Wish today announced its special holiday sales and Wish-A-Day Giveaway sweepstakes.
Everything PR News continues its rundown of the digital imprint for the US’s top PR firms. This week we take a look at the online presence of 3 more from the top of O’Dwyer’s list of most successful American communicators. Last weeks firms revealed a pitiful existence where social media involvement is concerned. Let’s hope numbers 11 through 13 show more promise.
Have you been looking at ways to improve your online presence? Social media marketing is all the rage, and it isn’t hard to see why.
Line2, featuring Steven Slater, launched contest that runs November 16 through December 3, rewarding the “craziest” (i.e. most outrageous) flight stories: the Mile High Text Club.
Brian Tierney, a former Philadelphia Inquirer publisher bought Realtime Media, using unique personal background to separately launch PR firm.
Stats Squared wins Indianapolis Startup Weekend and now goes after the Global Startup Weekend Battle! A Twitter analytics tool that makes understand CTR, link maturation and Twitter metrics easy for its users!
PR firms Public Strategies Inc. and Hill & Knowlton will merge starting January 1st, 2010, creating a large global PR powerhouse with 2,300 employees from 44 countries around the globe. Public Strategies top executives Jack Martin (pictured) and Dan Bartlett will have significantly increased roles after the merger process is completed.
With the help of rapper, singer and songwriter, Nicki Minaj, Black Friday — the traditional start of the holiday shopping season — will once again turn pink on Nov. 26 as CompUSA and TigerDirect turn the shopping extravaganza into a charitable free-for-all for the fourth consecutive year.
