Archive: July 2005

By Jeffrey Sandman and Fred Bratman Filmmaker Michael Moore (“Roger & Me,” “Bowling for Columbine”) is not wasting any time leveraging his box-office success with “Fahrenheit 9/11,” and he already is busy making a “docudrama”… Continued

Perhaps it’s the close proximity to the gyrations of the Standard & Poor’s indices, the New York Stock Exchange and other major financial markets (not to mention analysis/paralysis about the prognostications of Federal Reserve Chairman… Continued

COMPANY: FiberGel Technologies TIMEFRAME: April 2005-ongoing BUDGET: N/A Fat kids. Where would Phillip Versten’s PR efforts be without them? The nationwide concern over childhood obesity has been a boon to Versten who, as communications director… Continued

Warren Bickford, VP of Gryphon Reputation Management (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada), a seasoned veteran of the San Francisco-based International Association of Business Communicators (IABC), recently took the reins as the organization’s 2005-06 chair. Bickford, who was… Continued

By Matthew Schwartz Along with death and taxes, I now have a third guarantee in life: a steady dose of weekly e-mails plugging the latest public-relations award. More often than not, the e-mail sender asks… Continued

Americans, who are some of the most mobile creatures on earth, increasingly are relying on local Web searches to help ease them into their new environs, says a recent survey conducted by Harris Interactive for… Continued

Kirk Stewart, who this week resigned as VP of corporate communications at Nike Inc., the $12.3 billion sports and fitness company based in Beaverton, OR, loves to spin – a basketball, that is. An huge… Continued

Faced with tighter budgets and fewer resources than their corporate/agency counterparts, PR managers at nonprofit organizations are scrambling to find unique and affordable ways to get their messages out. How can they do well by… Continued

COMPANY: Conard-Pyle Co. PR AGENCY: Garden Media Group TIMEFRAME: March-May 2005 BUDGET: Less than $30,000 Plant grower Conard-Pyle Co. in West Grove, Pa., recently bred a new rose, the “Elle.” It’s bug-resistant, it’s pretty and… Continued

The third annual Summit on Measurement, the most advanced conference focused entirely on PR measurement and evaluation, will be held Sept. 28-30 at the New England Center of the University of New Hampshire. The summit,… Continued