Active lifestyle agency Hanson Dodge Creative (HDC) and social media and public relations firm Comet Branding + PR will join hands on January 1st and start 2011 with a merger that will expand their collective ability to provide quality services to a growing list of global clients.
Lior Levin explains how the police are using twitter to get the word out about certain events, and even to catch the bad guys...
A Latvian travel startup called Movolo creates a literal "easy button" for many millions of travelers. This simple transportation search engine will literally factor away travel troubles if the developers have their way. Advance algorithms help take travel customers from their front door to their desired destination in the most economical and expedient fashion.
Calysto Communications, a global public relations and social media marketing firm, announced it helped three more public relations and social media clients achieve successful exit strategies in 2010. TAT, The Astonishing Tribe, became part of Research in Motion (RIM), Widevine was acquired by Google and CTDI bought Calysto client Alloptic.
Elizabeth Hurley chose Twitter to let her fans know her marriage was over and that she had separated from her husband. That’s right, the British actress and model broke the news of her separation from businessman Arun Nayar in less than 140 characters on the popular social network.
The Minneapolis-based Olson PR agency continues their expansion through acquisition strategy with the addition of public relations shop Dig Communications after buying loyalty-marketing agency Denali in June. The deal signed in the summer of 2010 boosted the agency to become one of the Twin Cities' largest full-service agencies and one of the country's top 10 largest independents, and they are looking for new companies to acquire.
Jay Alves, Colorado Rockies’ vice president of communications/public relations, has won the 2010 Robert O. Fishel Award for Public Relations Excellence. The Fishel Award, named after the longtime baseball executive, acknowledges a non-uniformed representative of Major League Baseball for their ethics, character, dedication, service, professionalism and humanitarianism.
Helping revive Bushkill Park could be a great project for a local PR company to show what community engagement truly means.
Before opting for this career path, think carefully: do you have what it takes? Are you a good communicator, do you understand the media, do you like working with people, and most importantly, can you listen?
There is a price to pay to have the media run investigations, seek the truth and speak freely and England is here to prove it after a failed bid to host the 2018 World Cup. While the loss was mostly blamed on a poor communications strategy, the ongoing investigations and published pieces on FIFA by local publications have played a strong part in the decision.