Communiqué Adds Mobile On to its Client Roster
Communiqué PR is excited to announce one of its newest clients, Mobile On. Mobile On’s flagship product, BuildAnApp, is the first cross-platform, do-it-yourself solution that offers an affordable, intuitive way for small businesses, community groups and professional service organizations to create customized smartphone applications, optimizing information for on-the-go audiences. This is an exciting time in […]
Social Media Falls Mostly to PR
We recently ran across a PRWeek article about social media and digital communications. The article provides some interesting statistics about digital communications from the 2009 Digital Readiness Report from iPressroom, Korn/Ferry International and PRSA including: PR leads digital communications at 51 percent of organizations, while marketing leads 40.5 percent of the time PR generally leads […]
Smartphone App Stores – Thoughts From Gizmodo
Communiqué PR has a number of mobile industry clients so we thought it would be interesting to provide insight on a blog about smartphone app stores. Gizmodo, Gawker Media’s largest blog focusing on gadgets and technology, recently published a post comparing mobile application stores from companies including Apple, Palm, Blackberry, Nokia and Microsoft. While many […]
Whole Foods . . . Not so Wholesome Anymore?
John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods, recently found himself in hot water when he published an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal, candidly expressing his personal opinions about healthcare reform. In the article, Mackey argued we should move, “toward less government control and more individual empowerment” and outlined eight reforms that would improve healthcare […]
Law Seminar International 2009
On September 11, Colleen Moffitt, co-founder of Communiqué PR, will be presenting at an event entitled, “The Rise of the Social Internet and Social Media Law” sponsored by Perkins Coie and Law Seminar International. The event will feature speakers from companies including: Avvo, Inc., Children’s Advertising Review Board (CARU), Facebook, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Perkins Coie LLP […]
Big Fish Games Launches Faunasphere
Recently, one of our long-time clients Big Fish Games, the world’s leading online destination for games and interactive entertainment launched Faunasphere, a browser-based casual multiplayer online game (CMO). Players adopt and care for cute and quirky creatures, known as Fauna, and collaborate to build and explore beautiful virtual worlds. Faunasphere provides rich social networking elements […]
SAM Medical Products Announces CELOX Trauma Gauze
On August 10, our client SAM Medical Products, a privately held developer and manufacturer of innovative medical products used for emergency, military and hospital care, announced the launch of CELOX Trauma Gauze. CELOX Trauma Gauze is a new dual-product hemostatic gauze used to control traumatic bleeding, and cool and protect first- and second-degree burns. The […]
Aggregator Launches Short Press Release Service
Muck Rack, a Web site that aggregates journalists’ tweets, recently announced the launch of a short-message press release service, which enables companies to publish releases, with links, up to 130 characters long at a cost of $1 per character. The announcements are published on Muck Rack’s release page as well as its Twitter feed. As […]
The Rise of Mommy Bloggers
On August 12, one of our clients, Big Fish Games, announced the launch of Faunasphere, a browser-based casual multiplayer online game. To drive coverage of the new game, we reached out to gaming bloggers and journalists, as well as mommy bloggers. In order to find out how this influential audience, mommy bloggers, operate and like […]
PR Review Meeting
We recently participated in a mid-year PR review with one of our clients to review our activities and results garnered. To clearly outline the work we completed, we prepared for the meeting by developing a PowerPoint presentation which included the following information: Review of the client’s business and communication objectives The benefit of PR and […]