License to (k)ill

By Dan Wool on March 31st, 2008 In Hype!

Today was the last straw: MCDSBNZ. MYLEXUS. VDUBBUG. DAVZBMR.
I saw all of these personalized license plates on my commute today. (And I hope the nitwits who own them are reading this).
I mean, let me make sure I’m getting this straight, guys: you’re all paying an additional fifty bucks a year to tell the world the [...]

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Sex OK — just not Nazi sex

By Len Gutman on March 31st, 2008 In Hype!

It seems to me we’ve had an awful lot of sex scandals lately, but perhaps the strangest surfaced today in British tabloids. It is alleged that the president of Formula One Racing, Max Mosley, has been caught on tape having sex with prostitutes…not a big deal until you get to the part where he apparently did [...]

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Aloha Paul Barton

By Len Gutman on March 31st, 2008 In People

The Valley is losing one of its top communications professionals this week as former PetSmart internal communications director Paul Barton, ABC flies off to a new life in Honolulu. Paul and his family have one-way tickets to paradise and will be leaving this week — Paul has taken a job as head of internal communications for [...]

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Phoenix, Google, fade to black tonight

By Angelo Fernando on March 29th, 2008 In Hype!

Tonight here in Phoenix, at 8 pm we joined Dubai, Melbourne, Copenhagen and Tel Aviv for Earth Hour. As Erin Zlomek of The Arizona Republic observed of the Chase ballpark, “Tonight, the well-known circular landmark melted into a sky of black.”
Meanwhile, another “landmark,” the white Google.com home page turned black too for an hour. Online, [...]

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PRSA networking event was fun

By Linda VandeVrede on March 27th, 2008 In Professional Development

Thanks to Bill and Adam at Epicurean Wine for hosting the PRSA Networking event Thursday nite. There should have been a lot more people there, but maybe all the southside folks don’t want to trek north at rush hour.
I met some cool people, including Nicole DePue and Kari Mather from Olson Communications. [...]

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Gilbert Seeks New PIO

By Len Gutman on March 27th, 2008 In Jobs

Here’s a great job for a bold PR practitioner given the recent state of affairs at the City of Gilbert:
The Town of Gilbert is seeking an articulate public information professional; an individual adept at working in active political environments, an even-tempered and effective listener. The individual selected to fill this critical position will be tasked [...]

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