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PR/Social Predictions: Who Got it Right?

I decided to take a look back at the PR/social/marketing pundits’ predictions for 2011. Fortunately the wiki I created a year ago to crowd-capture the more prominent of these prognostications remained intact. Below are those skewed to or posted by PR professionals (even though I admit that PR, as a discipline, has bled across the entire marketing […]

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Tech/Media Travels in NYC

IGNITION at New York’s Time-Warner Center A flurry of client activity kept me from this space last week, and this week looks like much of the same. I did manage to slip away from my office on Friday to attend two conferences: Ketchum’s Respect the Internet and Business Insider’s IGNITION. The first was held on

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Big Agency: Social Cred Scorecard

Big news this week from the land of the big agencies (where this PR pro spent a good chunk of his career). A-list social media pro Stephanie Agresta ankles Omnicom’s Porter-Novelli to join IPG’s Weber-Shandwick as NY-based EVP for digital strategy reporting to LA-based digital communications prexy Chris Perry. This is clearly a loss for

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Buzz Agents(ies)

“Ogilvy PR and its 360 Degree Digital Influence group led by Bell, is a leader in the social media and comprehensive digital marketing arena and helps clients navigate an increasingly complex and rapidly changing digital environment.” Hmmm. Sounds like a typical press release. Hey, it is! When I think of the PR firms that are

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