- Robb Deigh, member of the DC chapters of PRSA and IABC, and principal of RDC Communication/PR, penned a PR book called "How Come No One Knows About Us?" and promoted it at BookExpo America in Los Angeles.
- The Washington Independent Writers Board of Directors has approved a name change to American Independent Writers. The 33-year-old communicator’s organization will expand its focus from a DC-only area organization to a broader national one. The new name is effective July 1.
- GovMark Council, a not-for-profit forum that facilitates education and networking for senior-level marketing executives who serve the government Information Technology and Telecommunications market will report the findings of its “Fed Marketing 2.0: Evolve” study during a free Webinar on Tuesday, July 1 at 2:00 p.m. ET. To register, visit: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/463338139.
- Environics Communications, a North American PR firm with offices in Canada and the U.S. – including DC - has achieved carbon neutral status. Since first committing to become carbon neutral in January 2008, Environics worked with the Pembina Institute (www.pembina.org) and followed a strict protocol to plan and execute its climate change strategy. The firm met the target earlier this month and plans to continue to reduce its carbon footprint each year.
- International crisis management expert Len Biegel penned “Never Say Never: The Complete Executive Guide to Crisis Management” , declaring that it’s time for corporate America’s crisis managers to act like a profession. He writes that crisis managers – like CFOs or compliance officers – must work together across industries to develop best practices that boards of directors can use to evaluate the readiness of their executives and companies to survive various types of disasters. He launched the book at the Princeton Club of New York.
- “Why School Communication Matters, Strategies from PR Professionals” by Kitty Porterfield and Meg Carnes will be coming out next month. The book is described as is an easy-to-use, boots-on-the-ground reference for superintendents, principals, and other school leaders and reframes real-life communication issues and provides practical and effective solutions in an easy-to-use, boots-on-the-ground reference for superintendents, principals, and other school leaders.
- Carolyn Sawyer has released a book highlighting 10 traits of million-dollar companies. "Forget the Glass Slipper, Build your own Castle: 10 Traits of a Million Dollar Business” is this one-time, prime-time anchorwoman’s account from the frontlines of taking a business vision to the reality of millions in annual revenues. Sawyer signed off the tube to launch her own company in 1996. Today, the Tom Sawyer Company employs upwards of 30 strategists in two locations - its original office in South Carolina and a second office in Washington, D.C.
- Oxley Consulting is working with Villanova University’s Marketing and Public Policy School to produce a set of videos set for release on YouTube in July. The videos will focus on the power of political advocacy and will offer “inside baseball” tips to CEO’s and trade association fly-in participants in order to better prepare them for effective advocacy on Capitol Hill. In August, they will go live with a Web site that details the lobbying process and essentially bringing the same lobbying skill sets to millions of Americans.
- The National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association in partnership with Witeck-Combs Communications created OutNewsWire, a web-based news distribution service dedicated to the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community. OutNewsWire was launched to serve all news organizations and media professionals interested in receiving information, announcements and event updates of interest to LGBT audiences. OutNewsWire may be accessed online 24/7 and 365 days a year at www.outnewswire.com (or alternatively at www.nlgja.org/outnewswire/)
- Arnold DC has been awarded a gold ADDY Award in the American Advertising Federation’s (AAF) worldwide ADDY competition. Their winning piece, “25th Anniversary - A Conversation Piece,” completed for USA TODAY, also won Best of Show at the DC ADDY Awards in March.
- In addition to ADDY wins in DC for work done in partnership with August Lang & Husak (Client: American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons - :30 TV) and with the DC Ad Club (Client: The One Holiday Party - Website), Mertz Alliance [mighty creative] has also been recognized with a Gold ADDY and overall Best-of-Show at the ADDY Awards in West Lafayette, IN (Client: MVP Sports Media Training ? Print Campaign).
- Pappas Group was honored with The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences’ “Webby” award for Best IT Hardware/Software Website of 2008.
- And, finally, according to Matthew Lesko, “America’s #1 Free Money Infomercial Guy,” Ed McMahon now is eligible for free government foreclosure help. Lesko is offering McMahon “a secret from one pitch man to another. And it’s not about how to get a big check from American Family Sweepstakes to save foreclosure on your home. It’s about how to get yourself out of this mess without paying all those expensive lawyers and financial consultants that are hanging around you. Go to www.hud.gov and look for the free housing counseling services. There are over 100 offices in California alone, and they are there to help you get out of this mess by restructuring your mortgage or dealing with your leaders, or showing you other programs that can help. These experts are not there to sell you something, like us who pitch on TV, they are paid by the government just to help you. There are new laws being passed every day to help people like you. And it doesn’t matter if you’re still making millions on those Johnny Carson DVD’s. There are no income requirements on this program. These counselor are just people getting paid by government money waiting for you to call so they can help.. SO CALL NOW.. OPERATORS ARE STANDING BY…."