crayon draws breath
Good luck to Neville Hobson, Shel Holtz and the rest of the founding team of New Marketing consultancy virtual firm, crayon, which launched today. It’s the first real world company to have its headquarters in…
Edelman falls on sword for client, Wal-Mart
This week has seen the largest independent PR firm, Edelman, raked over the coals for producing a fake blog on behalf of client, Wal-Mart. Subsequently two further fake blogs have come to light generated by…
PR for Second Life
My team just won the PR campaign for Linden Lab, creator of Second Life. It was announced last week while I was in the hospital for Jake’s delivery. Thrilled by this too since it’s such…
Jacob William McLintic, born October 10, 2006
I’m delighted to announce the birth of my first child, Jake McLintic, born at 12.49am on Tuesday October 10, 2006 weighing 8lbs 9oz. He and my wife, Lucy, are both doing well and we’re pleased…
Drew writes for TechCrunch UK
More congrats, this time to Drew who is now contributing to TechCrunch UK, which recently launched to cover the UK’s Web 2.0 and social media space. His first post is here about Niall Cook’s social…
Lucy Allen is one to watch
Congrats to my colleague, Lucy Allen, VP at LEWIS San Francisco, who has just been voted one of the ’15 To Watch Young PR Stars’ by PR News. In fact she’s top of the list!…
Off topic – Vote Jules
So my former colleague, friend and sometime mentee, Julia French, is through to the finals of ValleyWag’s Web 2.Ooh poll. Though she’s thoroughly embarrassed by the whole thing, has already berated Wagmeister Nick Douglas about…
Just pleased to be here
PR NEWS just emailed me to say we’ve been shortlisted for Mid-sized PR Firm of the Year. We’re alongside A&R Partners and MWW Group. Ahem.
Shots from AlwaysOn
Marc Benioff, Salesforce Originally uploaded by Morgan McLintic. I’ve posted a few shots from AO yesterday onto my Flickrstream here – http://flickr.com/photos/56222279@N00/sets/72157594213793733/ Marc Benioff was in top form for his keynote yesterday describing Bill Gates…
Has blogging and social networking changed the marketing game?
Panel at AlwaysOn with Charlene Li of Forrester, Jeff Nolan of SAP, Steve Rubel of Edelman, Brad Silver of brandimensions, and Jay Stockwell from Intelliseek/Buzzmetrics. The big question – are brands scared of losing control…