A new car was launched in DC this week....a first of its kind. It's a car that doesn't have the latest smoke and mirrors - in fact it creates smoke and is missing mirrors. It's not green...in fact it's red. But it's different. It's a car that gives back

Doug Poretz, co-founder of Qorvis, is one of three people launching a new firm called NuuKo.  According to a news release, the 60s-plus trio will be building a business based on people who have executive-level experience.

The Advertising Club of Metropolitan Washington (DC Ad Club) has announced its call for entries for the 2011 ADDY® Awards, recognizing creative excellence in advertising. The early deadline for entries is Friday, Dec. 17, at 5:00 p.m. The regular submission deadline is Jan. 7, 2011, at 5:00 p.m.

By Chris Ourand. Perhaps it's frequent staff turnover.  Or the low barriers to entry in the PR profession.  Whatever the reason for bad pitches, I am always amused by reporters’ war stories about them, sever Read More »

A Washington Business Journal/Shugoll Research survey suggests that Washington-area CEOs are optimistic about economic recovery and that hiring could be on the comeback. Capitol Communicator is offering a new service to help recruit the hard-to-get hot talent. Sponsors will now have the ability to communicate a message that is bigger than just “we’re hiring”.

Hundreds of Capitol Hill communicators may be spending the upcoming holidays either searching for new jobs or making plans to move into positions for which they were just hired.

 According to dcrtv.com, here’s the DC-market radio ratings for the "second week" of November, full-week, of people older than 12:
1) WTOP [1st in both drivetimes],
2) WIHT [Kane 3rd],
3) WASH [L&L 5th],

Lon Walls, president and CEO of Walls Communications, was thrown in the spotlight surrounding the Jack Johnson affair in Prince George’s County when he was asked by WHUR to comment as a crisis communications expert on how he thought the episode was, and should be, handled. County Executive Johnson and his wife Leslie have been charged with witness tampering and destruction of records. Walls also had served as campaign communications director for the District of Columbia's Republican mayoral candidate Maurice Turner.

Washington, DC, was transformed into a spectacle of lights and images from Nov. 5-13 as large-scale images were projected onto the facades of numerous landmark buildings throughout the city showcasing a wide array of award-winning photography from around the world.

Hal Swetnam named Grafik's chief creative officer ... Courtney Hastings joins Raffetto Herman Strategic Communications and Susan Davis International wins Stevie Award for Women in Business.

Newsweek and The Daily Beast will join forces, reports the New York Times. According to the story, “the Newsweek-Daily Beast partnership joins three outsize personalities:

Washington Business Journal and Network Solutions hosted their second annual GrowSmartBiz Conference and Trade Show this past week to about 500 regional small business professionals. Featured speakers included the Honorable Marie Johns, Deputy Administrator of the Small Business Administration, and Raul Fernandez, Vice Chairman of Monumental Sports & Entertainment.

MDB Communications has created and produced a multi-media Influenza Prevention Campaign directed toward African-Americans on behalf of the Maryland Partnership for Prevention (MPP).  Each year, tens of thousands of Americans die from influenza (“the flu”) and 200,000 more are hospitalized

Dee Dee Myers, who served as Press Secretary to President Clinton from 1993 to 1994, was the keynote speaker at the Washington Women in Public Relations’ Woman of the Year luncheon. Myers, now managing director of public affairs at The Glover Group, also has authored the book “Why Women Should Rule the World.”  She told the audience,

Debra Silimeo has been named the 2010 Washington PR Woman of the Year by Washington Women in Public Relations.  The announcement was made Nov. 10 at a WWPR luncheon cer Read More »

U.S. News & World Report will eliminate 94 percent of its print presence; Jim Brady, the former executive editor of washingtonpost.com, has resigned as the general manager of TBD, The Washington Post launches new iPad app.

Over the past year, everywhere you turned, in every publication you read, in every business meeting you attended someone was discussing, referencing, using, griping about or raving over social media. By all indications and predictions, next year will be no different. R2integrated is curious to know

Lanham-based Vocus, Inc.a leading provider of on-demand marketing and PR software announced today the promotion of Bill Wagner to executive vice president (EVP) and chief operating officer (COO).  In this new role Wagner will continue to report to Vocus Chairman and CEO Rick Rudman and will be responsible for the company's day-to-day global operations in sales, service and marketing, with a primary focus on executing the company's growth strategy in the United States, Europe and China.

Dec. 1, from 5:30-9:30, is your chance to be part of The ONE Party, a holiday celebration that unites the DC metro area’s premier advertising, marketing, public relations, media, interactive and design organizations.  The ONE Party – set for Josephine's Lounge, 1008 Vermont Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20005 – is one, grand celebration

Ricochet Public Relations opened a D.C. office;.agencyQ reports the launch of an advocacy website created to support “Mammography Saves Lives,” Runaware selects SpeakerBox as AOR; RP3 Agency has moved; Van Eperen & Co.,  selected by CMR as the nonprofit organization’s Business Partner of the Year; and, New Signature (which has a large Web design/development component) named recipient of a National Capital Business Ethics Award. Read More »

Vocus is hosting a free webinar on Nov. 9 titled, “Shaping Your Team to Strengthen Your Brand” from 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.  Here's a brief description

Design Army co-founders Jake and Pum Lefebure are featured prominently on the cover of this month’s issue of Washington Life magazine and, inside, there’s a feature article describing the studio’s “no fluff” aesthetic, their meteoric rise since beginning in 2003 and their extensive list of clients. The couple states they are leading the charge in the DC creative community’s war on the Capital’s unartistic image. The Read More »

The National Osteoporosis Foundation (NOF), the leading consumer health organization dedicated to the prevention of osteoporosis and bone fractures, hired Hager Sharp to help develop and implement a new campaign focused on the family dynamics associated with good bone health and osteoporosis prevention, diagnosis and treatment. This multi-year public awareness campaign will launch in May 2011 during National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month.

In partnership with the Prostate Cancer Foundation, Johns Hopkins Medical Center and the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Grafik is developing a patient portal to support the National Proactive Surveillance Network’s

John Undeland has been named the 2010 recipient of the Washington Regional Alcohol Program’s (WRAP) Chairman’s Award for his more than a decade of service on behalf of WRAP. A past WRAP chairman and current WRAP Board member, Undeland, senior vice president and partner at Stratacomm, was recognized with

The Washington, DC, region witnessed a rebirth in local media this year - with a complete changing of the editorial guard at the area's alternative weekly, a new business newspaper from The Washington Post Read More »

Satellite Radio Tours, Audio News Releases (ANRs), and Public Service Announcements were just some of the topics discussed at Why Radio Still Matters and How to Make it Part of Your Communications Strategy, a professional development workshop put on by the Public Relations Society of America’s Nationa Read More »

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) has chosen ZilYen to support its new American Archive initiative through design of its website platform.  American Archive is an aggressive effort designed to preserve audiovisual assets of American history, through an accessible system, that will make it easily available for use throughout the entire public media system.

Millennial Media released their Sept Mobile Mix with a Companion Post (see below) by their CFO. Here are a few highlights from the report.