Not all Monday mornings are quite as good as this one.  The Ackermann PR team has just added a new member that we are very excited about! 
Katie Allison Granju is joining us full-time as Director of Social Media, and I am convinced that we have snagged the most knowledgeable person in the region relative to this [...]

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An article in USA Today examined the 25 Things phenomenon on Facebook last month. {See Mike’s post about this topic…Ackermann PR even caught the 25 Things fever!} An article in Time ran the headline, “Facebook Is for Old People”. Just in the last 20 hours, Fox News posted a story online about [...]

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Have you heard about the potentially soon-to-be bald beauty queen from Virginia? I heard her story last night on the news. Miss Virginia, Tara Wheeler, is trying to raise $500,000 for cancer research. If she reaches the goal, she says she will shave her head.

She’s accepting donations, but [...]

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Do you ever have one of those weeks when you wonder what you really accomplished?  Or better yet, what you did that mattered?  In a week of busily rushing from one task to the next, I had an opportunity to – through a non-profit organization with which I am associated – do something that seemed to make [...]

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The little colorful candy, Skittles, made a major change to its website recently. The new site essentially became a non-site, just an overlay of social media sites like Facebook and Twitter.

At first, it worked brilliantly. Hundreds of thousands of people became a “fan” of the candy and starting tweeting about the tangy treat. [...]

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