Tag Archives: economy

Technology Spending Improves

As I exited the “t” station this morning, I was handed a complimentary copy of The Wall Street Journal.  I quickly scanned the headlines, and one immediately caught my eye: “Te......

It’s A Beautiful Day in the [Starbucks] Neighborhood

While reading through my Inbound Marketers updates on LinkedIn yesterday, I stumbled across a post by David Cameron, brand builder and communications strategist.  A huge coffee lover, I was curi......

RIP, Geocities

My second thought upon reading the news that Geocities will be shut down later this year was: that’s kind of bittersweet. My first thought, of course, was: wait… Geocities is still a......

M&A returns. Time to sell your T-Bills.

I am not an economist. So please don’t come screaming back at me if, after reading this you decided to drastically change your investment strategy and in three months time your portfolio d......

Twitter While You Drive?

 Image courtesty of Jalopnik.com Several outlets are reporting that General Motors and Twitter are exploring partnership options that would integrate Twitter with GM’s OnStar system. Techn......

90,000 Sign-In For First Online Presidential Town Hall

CNN is reporting that more than 90,000 web users sent in questions to President Obama during his online town-hall meeting, which started today at 11:30am EST on the whitehouse.gov website. That&......

Are You a "Recessionista"?

Tired of all the depressing news around the economy?  Being in PR, we’ve seemed to cover the issue from every angle.  The latest one to grab my attention-pushing those $$ blues aside and a......

What happens in Nice…

March client TM Forum has a great program planned for its flagship event, Management World 2009, taking place May 4-8 at the Acropolis Convention Center in Nice, France.  More than 3,500 leaders......

Are economic woes giving rise to owner-driven global PR networks?

I spent two days in Milano with 30 PR professionals from around the globe.  We all belong to the GlobalCom network – a network built by passionate owners of specialist agencies across the ......