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 […]
News Organizations Share Content
The current economic climate is causing many shifts to occur in the media industry. In an unprecedented move, rival print dailies such as The Washington Post and The Baltimore Sun are now collaborating and sharing news content because of a lack of resources and man power. Additionally, in June four New York broadcasters announced they […]
Puget Sound American Marketing Association – September Luncheon
Jennifer Gehrt will be speaking at the Puget Sound American Marketing Association luncheon on September 9, 2009. Jennifer will be speaking about how marketing professionals can leverage the power of Twitter with her presentation entitled, “Twitterphoria: Adding Twitter Power to Your Marketing Mix, Today.” If you’re interested in learning more about how to leverage Twitter […]
The Costco Connection & Our Book Sales
As many of you know, our book Strategic Public Relations: 10 Principles to Harness the Power of PR was featured in the August issue of Costco Connection, a lifestyle magazine for Costco members. We are delighted about this review as the magazine reaches more than seven million households and businesses. As a result of this […]