Our Favorite Business Blogs
With small- and medium-sized business playing such a critical role in the health of our nation’s economy, it is no surprise that there are thousands of blogs aimed at helping people grow or manage their companies. However, with so many blogs written for the entrepreneur or business owner, we felt it important to highlight the […]
Social Media and Fundraising
A number of people have recently asked me about social media and its relation to fundraising. Some of the questions we have been asked include: How can we leverage social media to raise money for our nonprofit organization? Will our online or social media fundraising activities cannibalize our traditional fundraising activities? How do we set […]
Facebook Friends Seattle
We were delighted to have the opportunity to assist Facebook with the announcement of its plans to open an office in Seattle. For those of you who missed the news on May 5, Facebook, in conjunction with the Seattle Mayor’s office, announced it would be opening an engineering office this July. Until now, all of […]
Our Survey for the Port of Kingston Passenger-Only Ferry
Recently we helped the Port of Kingston conduct a survey to gather feedback on its planned Passenger-Only Ferry service. We created the survey to determine how people would use the ferry, when they would ride it and their primary purpose for using the service. The survey was distributed via Facebook and Twitter between April 16 […]
The Power of an Image
The right images can go a long way toward impacting the placement and pick up of stories. I was reminded of this today as I read the Seattle Times. I am a loyal subscriber, and while my husband and many other friends enjoy consuming the news online, I still enjoy sitting at the dining table […]
The Civil Beat: Is this the Future of News?
As print newspapers around the world are merging or moving to online-only versions, eBay founder and Hawaii resident, Pierre Omidyar is looking to develop the next generation of online news. According to a story we heard on April 22 on NPR, Omidyar is creating a subscription-only online news website for residents of Honolulu, called the […]
Thoughts on Feature Writing
At Communiqué PR we do a lot of writing. We write press releases, case studies, company messaging and contributed articles. In fact, during the past several months we have written articles for clients that have been published in more than 20 industry or business magazines or daily newspapers. (Please e-mail me if you’re interested in […]
Marketing at Mud Bay
The other morning I had the opportunity to catch up with my former manager and mentor Brad Stevens. At the end of 2009, Brad left Starbucks after seven years with the company where he served as vice president of U.S. Marketing and their first head of Customer Relationship Management, to join Mud Bay, a provider […]
Facebook Fan Growth
We recently did some research to identify companies with more than 250,000 Facebook fans. The results were interesting. Some brand name companies (or organizations) fell significantly short of our expectations – while others have significantly more than 250,000 fans. While we know fans will come and go, we thought it would be fun to compile […]
The Golden Age of Op-Eds
Chas Edwards, publisher and chief revenue officer at Digg, believes “we are living in the golden age of op-eds, thanks to Twitter, Word Press and Facebook.” I agree with Chas that social media gives everyone a platform to share a point view, but what about traditional op-ed articles in newspapers? Are they dead or alive? […]