Delta-Q Supports Lithium Powertrain System Development With Lithium Charger Development Kit
From camping equipment to home and portable electronics to electric vehicles, lithium-ion batteries are becoming increasingly common and a preferred power source for consumer products. With their lightweight battery packs and high voltage capability, the rechargeable battery type is also becoming a common replacement for lead acid batteries which have been used historically to power […]
PR Professionals: Put on Your Helmet and Tie Up Your Laces
With the NFL season right around the corner I, along with most of America, have had football on my mind. Will Seattle’s Seahawks make it to another Super Bowl? How will the Denver Broncos play without Peyton Manning leading them on the field? With all my thoughts about the upcoming season, I realized that football […]
Unlocking the Hidden Talent in Your Organization
Most people have more power than they realize. Organizations that help the individuals on their teams identify, harness and effectively use their power are more likely to achieve business success. To identify their own power, employees should ask themselves, “On your very best day at work – the day you come home and think you […]
How Cision’s $841 Million Acquisition of PR Newswire Signals a Change for the PR Industry
Most of my past writing has been focused on the changing role technology plays in the worlds of social media, marketing and advertising – but one industry that is ripe for innovation is the field of public relations. While PR teams are viewed by some as more focused on tactical execution, the value they provide […]
How Twitter’s Seven Steps to Customer Service Relate to Your PR Practice
When customers have a bad experience with a brand, there’s a good chance they’re going to tweet about it. To help brands improve their customer interactions, Twitter recently released a 122-page customer service playbook. Clearly this is a serious topic since a social media platform known for brevity decided to devote more than a 100 […]
Tweet Your Way to Success
Twitter recently posted its second-quarter earnings. While the company’s revenue exceeded expectations, it reported not feeling fully satisfied with the amount of user-growth. I found this to be shocking considering Twitter is the largest platform for third-party content with the number of tweets averaging around 500 hundred each day from over 300 million users. Twitter […]
Uber-Cool Creative Campaigns
Perhaps one of the most enjoyable tactics in the PR and marketing tool bag is the creative campaign. We’ve all seen brilliant examples of well-produced, creative brand campaigns which lead to massive brand awareness and adoption. Possibly the most successful creative campaign in recent history is “The Man Your Man Could Smell Like,” conceived by […]
Branding the Most Important Product: You
Recently, Mashable pulled together a group of brand experts to conduct a Twitter chat focused on strengthening your personal brand. A full summary of the questions and answers posed by @mashbusiness can be found here. After my own review of the feedback from the experts, I came to three overarching ideas that can stand as […]
With the Announcement of a New Minimum Wage Policy, Will the Industry Defy Gravity?
Dan Price, co-founder and CEO of Gravity Payments, recently announced that the minimum wage salary for the company would be raised to $70,000. The payment processing company made the drastic and unprecedented announcement on April 14, and it continues to garner coverage and remain a conversation topic over a week later. We commend Dan on his […]
Reflections on Attachmate
For the past seven years, we have had the pleasure of working with Attachmate, one of the world’s most established software brands. Attachmate’s business is rooted in providing technologies that help companies extend their investments in mainframes and other host data systems. While terms like “terminal emulation,” “DMSII” and “DoD PKI” were new to us when […]