Recently the 451 team listened in on a free Business Wire webinar titled “Press Releases and Twitter: What to Expect When you Tweet Your News Release.” Experts on the call were Monika Maeckle and Joseph Miller with Business Wire. As an agency specializing in blending PR, social media and search marketing  for integrated campaigns, the [...]

Last week I spoke to a group of Boston University students in the Center for English Language and Orientation Programs (CELOP). Most of these students are in their 20s and 30s and are looking to perfect their understanding of the English language. Many are enrolled in the program by their employers or looking to make [...]

As PR professionals, we’re constantly looking for ways to connect with reporters and to secure placement for our company and clients in the most relevant publications. It can be difficult (that’s why we have jobs), but the following study gives us some interesting results that could potentially help us do our jobs more efficiently.

Middleberg Communications [...]

Tomorrow morning I’m going to film our “Building a PR Campaign for the Digital World Workshop,” and I plan to post the video on Ustream when I get back to the office.  I know people generally use Ustream to live stream discussions, events, meetings, and etc., and, eventually, I plan to do that as well. [...]

As part of our latest installment in our 451 Heat Q&A series, we had the pleasure of speaking with Rick Clancy, the former Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications for Sony Electronics, Inc.

Rick first began his career at Sony in 1990, and over the course of two decades, was instrumental in overseeing the public [...]

I am hopeful that 2010 is going to bring much prosperity to all of us in business. This past year has been one in which many of us (including myself) have learned a great deal. Personally, I have seen competitors rise and fall, our own agency evolve, and many great advances in social media marketing, [...]

The 451 Team compiled the following list of the top social media strategists. We admire their work and look forward to what they’re going to come up with in 2010. This is not a comprehensive list of the great social media strategists out there, so we invite you to contribute with the names of any [...]

“Two experienced divers die mysteriously in the tunnel from Boston to Deer Island. Archdiocese of Boston officials cover up an insidious scandal that spans decades of sexual abuse. U.S. forces invade Iraq while longtime American allies howl in protest.
Only well-prepared, quick-thinking PR experts with prolific backgrounds in crisis management could manage—and succeed—in defusing these controversies. [...]

Recently, I was speaking to an industry group that hasn’t really done much with social media as a whole. It’s really not the group’s fault; this industry just happens to be heavily regulated when it comes to its communication to investors and end-users. But not surprisingly, as end-users have become increasingly active on these channels, [...]