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2010 is winding down and you know what that means… It’s list season. Over the next three months you’ll likely be inundated with a slew of “Top 10,” “Best of…,” and “Most fill-in-the-blank” lists. We’ve already seen some popping up that have been the source of much debate here in our Twin Cities social media …
The early 90’s were a good time for me. Having rocked a “not preppy, not punk, but kinda goth-before-it-was-called goth” look in high school, the 90’s brought us the age of “alternative” and, all of the sudden, what I had been wearing for years started to look pretty cool. I ran into an old high …
This Friday, August 27, is the last day to vote for panels being considered for South by Southwest presentations, and we really hope you’ll support Jennifer as well as other fine folks from Minnesota who are in the running. For a handy list of panels from our state, please seem my post on the MNPR …
This summer I submitted a proposal to speak at the 2011 SXSW Interactive Festival coming up in March. The “panel picker” voting process, which the conference is using to whittle down the 2,300 proposals they received, opened last week. Yes, you heard me right … there are TWO THOUSAND, THREE HUNDRED proposals I’m vying against …
A few weeks ago I wrote a blog post about the social media campaign launched by D’Amico, a restaurant and catering mega-force here in Minneapolis. The word on the cyber-street about the campaign had been highly negative for weeks, but it seemed like D’Amico either wasn’t listening to the feedback or – more distressingly – …
Last June, at the 2nd European Summit on Measurement (organized by AMEC and the Institute for Public Relations) delegates adopted a set of standards and practices, “The Barcelona Declaration of Research Principles” to guide the measurement and evaluation of public relations activities. [For an overview, see my post on the MNPR blog.] The most controversial of the …
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