15 June 2010
This morning I met with Renae Merle, business reporter for the Washington Post. We talked about a lot of fun things, growing up in the South, our mothers, and the changing landscape of media, social media, the web’s influence on journalism and of course how public relations/PR professionals should be approaching media in this new [...]
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14 June 2010
Adidas Golf Social Media Catalyst (Anaheim, CA) Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Deputy Director Communications (Berkley, California) Central Basin Municipal Water District Public Information Officer (Commerce, California) Corporation for Public Broadcasting Director of Media Relations (Washington, DC) DBC PR + New Media Senior Account Executive (Washington, DC) Discovery Communications Publicity Manager (Silver Spring, MD) Food Network VP [...]
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14 June 2010
Best-selling author David Meerman Scott has a new book and a new mantra: “Real Time Marketing and PR”. Down with the New Rules. Up with the Real Time. The book doesn’t come out until November, but it’s already on my “must buy” as is anything this man puts out. His ideas are always winners. Join [...]
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13 June 2010
“It doesn’t matter what story I’m working on, it always begins with a search…” I heard an amazing presentation last week from Lee Odden of Top Rank Marketing who is a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) genius. I literally could not keep up with all of the tidbits he shared in his awesome presentation. Luckily I [...]
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12 June 2010
You may have missed my live blogging and tweeting from the Vocus Conference, but no worries. Here’s a recap: From Mopwater Mobile: Conference Opening Moments (I got to meet Peter Shankman just before the Vocus Acquisition Announcement!) How Perry Uses Vocus I adore Perry. He obliged me this interview on how he uses Vocus at [...]
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12 June 2010
I rarely post interviews of myself since I’m usually the one doing the interviewing, but since I was interviewed regarding my take on the Vocus – Peter Shankman partnership/HARO aquisition, I thought I’d share it with you here. This would be a fine time to tell you all that I recently chopped off all of [...]
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10 June 2010
In all of my excitement about live blogging the Vocus Users Conference, I neglected to properly introduce you to Mopwater Mobile, the official posterous site of Mopwater PR + Media Notes. Mopwater Mobile will be especially for coverage of PR events, photos and on the spot news. As I mentioned earlier, some amazing news from [...]
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10 June 2010
Vocus plans to launch a free service! Peter Shankman’s free service HARO, short for Help a Reporter Out, which has become an almost ritual for PR professionals was just acquired by public relations software giant Vocus. The announcement was made this morning at the Vocus Users Conference opening presentation. Vocus purchased Shankman’s service for an [...]
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08 June 2010
The other day I caught up with one of my PR faves Robert Udowitz, a very well-respected, long-time PR soloist who, despite never doing any formal marketing, has kept a steady flow of work for years! If you’re in the DC area, you probably know Robert because everyone knows him. He’s at every PRSA-NCC event, [...]
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07 June 2010
ACLU of SoCal Communications Director (Los Angeles) APCO Senior Associate Financial Services (Washington, DC) Burston Marsteller Senior Associate Technology Practice (Boston) Burson Marsteller Director Public Affairs (Washington, DC) Burson Marsteller Manager Public Affairs (Houston) Center for American Progress Online Communications Associate (Washington,DC) Edelman Creative Media Supervisor (Chicago) Edelman Senior Account Executive Reputation Management (Chicago) Edelman [...]
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05 June 2010
The other day I got a note from Devon, the Spring intern. She was telling me how her summer and fall were shaping up work-wise and thanking me for the opportunity to work with me and learn on the job. Devon has lined up internships with two PR firms and is on her way. I’m [...]
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03 June 2010
Sometimes when launching a consultancy you’re forced to adopt the strategy of “taking what you can get” in order to make ends meet. Whether you love the project or client, you learn to love it whether you’re passionate about the topic or not. But after a few years of consulting one must ask themselves a [...]
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29 May 2010
Cablevision, Director of Media Relations (NYC Area) Responsible for the development and implementation of media, and public relations activities in support of Cablevision’s consumer phone, cable and high-speed Internet services and related company programs and initiatives. Candidates with journalism and/or political campaign experience preferred, successful candidates will also have experience initiating effective PR campaigns on social [...]
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28 May 2010
Mopwater PR + Media Notes is proud to be a media sponsor and official blogger for the 2010 Vocus Users Conference in Washington, DC on June 10-11. I’ll be bringing you my take on the sessions and live tweeting under the #vocus hashtag. You can follow me on Twitter at @amandamogul. If you’re not familiar [...]
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11 May 2010
On Thursday, May 6 in Washington, DC Mopwater PR + Media Notes hosted the second event in the Twitch! series. PoliTwitch! Public Relations and Politics in the Age of Social Media promised to be a frank discussion with political journalists about how they were using social media to source and find stories. The panel was [...]
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03 May 2010
So this Thursday, May 6 at Busboys and Poets, I have the distinct pleasure of hosting an awesome panel of Washington, DC journalists to talk social media for the second installment of Twitch! Public Relations in the Age of Social Media. For talk two, PoliTwitch we’re hosting journalists who focus on political reporting, and I [...]
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