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Measuring Success in the New Digital Frontier

While most organizations remain “stuck in the era of big numbers,” digital specialist David Bradfield believes context is what really matters when it comes to measuring digital marketing.

Posted on December 14th, 2008 in Blog Posts | Tags:

Ban on Gay Marriage Signals a Communications Turning Point

What does the passage of California Proposition 8 mean for communicators attempting to reach LGBT audiences? The Out Front team examines the digital aftermath and talks about why working with organizational leaders of the LGBT community is the place to start.

Posted on December 2nd, 2008 in Blog Posts | Tags:

New Partnership Strengthens Agency’s Commitment to South Africans

In a continued effort to strengthen its commitment to South Africa’s economic transformation, Fleishman-Hillard has negotiated a Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) agreement with the CIDA Investment Trust. Among other things, the agreement means the agency is “better positioned than ever to do business, create jobs, and empower South Africans,” said Kevin Welman, managing director of Fleishman-Hillard South Africa.

Posted on November 28th, 2008 in Agency News | Tags:

Fleishman-Hillard Expands Digital Presence in Japan

BlueCurrent Public Relations, a Fleishman-Hillard agency that specializes in marketing communications and brand-building, has entered into a partnership with NIFTY, one of Japan’s leading Internet service providers. The new alliance will benefit clients by significantly bolstering the agency’s digital grassroots marketing capabilities.

Posted on November 28th, 2008 in Agency News | Tags: · ·

Youth Marketers: Your Trend Went That Way

The youth-oriented specialists from Next Great Thing (NGT) look at today’s “smorgasbord of ‘of-the-moment’ cultural movements” and share the two fundamental ingredients required for a trend to take flight.

Posted on November 26th, 2008 in Blog Posts | Tags: ·

Companies Search for Online Success

What does the launch of SearchWiki, which allows online users to tailor Google search results, mean for search engine optimization? Internet communications specialist Ed Lee talks about the future of SEO strategy and just what a company needs to do to succeed.

Posted on November 24th, 2008 in Blog Posts | Tags:

It’s a Small (Digital) World

After delivering the opening keynote address at this year’s IDG Next Generation Marketing Conference in Seoul, South Korea, digital specialist Matt Dickman offers insight into some of the event’s “best thinking” and explains why the demand for instant information is universal.

Posted on November 21st, 2008 in Blog Posts | Tags: ·

What’s Really Ailing GM

With the financial plight of the American auto industry front and center, digital specialist David Lowey wonders if General Motors will have enough money to fix what’s really wrong: its brands.

Posted on November 19th, 2008 in Blog Posts | Tags:

Fleishman-Hillard Promotes Six Senior Executives to President

ST. LOUIS, November 18, 2008 — Fleishman-Hillard International Communications today announced that six of its senior executives have been promoted to president, with specific geographic responsibilities:
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Posted on November 18th, 2008 in Agency News | Tags: · ·

Can Corporate Grassroots Strategies Take Hold in Europe?

As General Motors seeks to leverage its own workers to lobby federal U.S. policymakers for financial support, the digital specialists from Public Affairs 2.0 wonder if the same kind of corporate grassroots strategy will work when dealing with the EU.

Posted on November 18th, 2008 in Blog Posts | Tags: · ·