Recently HubSpot made some news in social media circles with their acquisition of the Twitter boutique firm oneforty. They attracted attention to this acquisition in a very clever way — via a press release consisting of 13 distinct tweets. Kudos to them for the creativity. It no doubt helped them secure placements in the Wall […]
Saturday night Gabriele and I had dinner at Geranio in Old Town Alexandria. We’d spent the day preparing our house as best we could for Hurricane Irene. Our backyard has drainage issues during any heavy storm, so we were concerned about water getting into our basement. However we had made reservations at Geranio partly due […]
One of the fun things about agency work is being involved in multiple client initiatives. Strategic Communications Group has a philosophy of great work for great clients, and great clients offer the chance to work on big, exciting projects. A good example is our work on behalf of Deltek, founder of the GovWin social network. […]
If you’re in the market for new tires for your BMW or another kind of performance car , you might be a bit confused right now. The proliferation of categories — Extreme performance, Max performance, Ultra High performance – can make selecting the right tires very difficult. I’m researching right now because my 1999 M3 […]
You can’t help seeing the huge amount of coverage around Google’s purchase of Motorola, announced this Monday. Depending on who you read, Google really stuck it to Apple and Microsoft, Motorola had Google over a barrel and made them pay through the nose, and/or Google is smartly protecting the Android ecosystem while increasing its mobile […]
This Saturday I repaired the angel eye ring in one of my Hella headlights. As you can see in the graphic above, the thing just flat fell off a couple of weeks ago and was loose inside the headlight assembly. Before I took this headlight apart, I tried to get some direction from the manufacturer. […]
Here are the wines discussed in the video below: Chateau Haut Bicou 2009 Tabula Rasa 2007 Rhone Blend Nick Stephen’s Bordeaux Undiscovered blog has a nice list of affordable wines here, and Robert Wellesley covers a lot of quality Pinot Noir here.
Today I read an interesting blog post about social media automation on Shonali Burke’s Waxing UnLyrical blog. As a busy communications professional, I’ve thought about this topic before and enjoyed seeing it debated. So of course I jumped into the comment thread. When I first read the post by guest author Thom Holland, my mind […]
I wrote earlier this year about the move towards sponsored content, also known branded journalism or content marketing. Whatever you call it, it’s a powerful concept. Companies publish interesting and informative content to cultivate an audience and connect with influencers, all without going through the media filter. That’s the strategy, but does it really work? […]
This past weekend I tackled a known weakness of the BMW E36 3 series, the rear shock mounts (RSMs). (It’s also an issue to a lesser degree for the E46 model). These mounts connect the rear shocks to the car frame, and can prematurely fail. In the worst cases the top of the shock can […]
There’s a debate going on right now in governmental and technical circles on how best to combat copyright and patent infringement online. A bill called the PROTECT IP Act would allow the government to secure a court order and then force an ISP to stop resolving the offending domain name to its corresponding I.P. address. […]
Earlier this year Gabriele and I rented a cabin in the high country of North Carolina, in the northwest corner of the state. It’s beautiful country down there and we had a fun and relaxing time. For dining out the most promising option was Boone, about 20 miles from where we were staying. Boone is […]