10 posts and columns on Jill Nash

BoomTown's Favorite Leaked Yahoo Internal Memo Ever: New PR Head Eric Brown Says Hello (and More)!

in News on July 7, 2009 at 5:52 pm PT

BoomTown has had some good leaked internal memos from Yahoo, but I have never enjoyed one quite as much as this one from newly installed Yahoo PR head Eric Brown, who started today. While it is clear Yahoo has had its troubles in understanding and offering social-networking products to its users, Brown certainly knows how to share. Yahoo could use some of that DNA! Here’s his introductory memo to his new troops.
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Yahoo Gets New PR Head From NetApp–The Internal Memo (Natch!)

in News on June 2, 2009 at 5:45 pm PT

New Yahoo Marketing head Elisa Steele named a colleague from her former job, NetApp, as SVP of Global Communications at the Internet giant. Eric Brown was the VP of corporate relations at the data storage company, on whose board Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has also served. Before that, he was at Adaptec. And, according to Yahoo’s internal memo, Brown likes to eat ice cream in bed while reading a Kindle and surfing the Web. Scooch over and make some room for BoomTown, Eric!
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Former Yahoo CFO Blake Jorgensen Moves to Levi (Plus the Full Press Release)

in News on May 28, 2009 at 9:55 am PT

Blake Jorgensen, who left Yahoo as part of a management reorganization by CEO Carol Bartz, has taken a job as CFO at Levi Strauss & Co. He’s the second Yahoo to move to the the jeanswear manufacturer recently. Former Yahoo PR head Jill Nash took over communications at Levi several months ago.
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Yahoo Hires Adobe Vet Lamkin to Run Communications and Communities Unit as Dietzen Moves to Strategy Post

in News on April 24, 2009 at 11:43 pm PT

More musical chairs at Yahoo, which BoomTown predicted recently, as top execs at the company move in and out of jobs, and new ones from the outside move in. Perhaps the most important change to occur is the replacement this week of SVP Scott Dietzen–who had been in charge of all communications and communities products at Yahoo–by former Adobe Systems exec Bryan Lamkin, several sources said. And there’s even more…
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Stop Me if You've Heard This One: Yahoo Management and Staff Set on Shuffle Again

in News on April 15, 2009 at 1:31 am PT

Yes, more layoffs are indeed coming to Yahoo, sources confirmed to BoomTown, but perhaps even more than have been reported. But that’s not all, as even more top-level managers are either leaving or being moved around the ever-changing organizational structure at Yahoo. That includes a longtime top sales operations exec, Dan Foehner, who is about to start at Facebook next week, as well as others contemplating leaving, on their way out or being reshuffled. In other words, business as usual at the tumultuous company, whose nickname should be “Reorg.”
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Bartz of 100 Days: Tough Talk to Microsoft Talks

in News on April 13, 2009 at 8:30 am PT

Here’s an interesting irony–Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz will have her 99th day in office on the very one that the Internet giant will announce its first-quarter earnings: April 21, 2009 at 2 p.m. PST. Technically, it will mean that she has been running Yahoo for 100 days, a time when most administrations get their first evaluation. Thus, if it’s good enough for President Obama, it’s good enough for Bartz! While most expect the results for the quarter to be weak, due to the econalypse, the overall verdict from BoomTown’s needling of Yahoos to give me info on their new leader recently: Love, love, love Bartz’s innate decisiveness, and wanting more of the same.
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Yahoo's Nash Goes Back to Retail as Top Levi Strauss Flack

in News on March 3, 2009 at 8:32 am PT

It looks like two years of relentless controversy and company upheaval have sent Yahoo’s former PR person back into the arms of a retail outfit. Jill Nash, who said she was leaving Yahoo in early February, will be taking the top PR job at San Francisco-based Levi Strauss & Co., where the former Gap exec will get the title of chief communications officer and VP of corporate affairs. Of course, given the tough retail market these days, life at the jeans manufacturer isn’t going to be all worn-in comfort either.

Weekend Update, 02.07.09

in News on February 7, 2009 at 4:24 pm PT

What spreads faster than economic gloom and doom, and is more infectious than professional anxiety? That phenomenon known as “25 Things.” Just in time for Facebook’s fifth birthday, the record-breaking waste of time may have reached critical mass this week. Elsewhere this week…

Hey, Big Spender: The Goodbye Memo From Yahoo PR Head Jill Nash

in News on February 2, 2009 at 7:02 pm PT

It looks like Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz is going to have to up the ante to keep BoomTown from getting its mitts on the company’s internal memos. Earlier today, this column broke the news that Yahoo PR head Jill Nash was headed out the door and mentioned that Bartz had been dangling cash rewards to Yahoos to turn in other employees who leaked information. Good gracious–it’s like “Oz,” except for the free lattes! Well, she has to do better than the $1,000 bounty she mentioned in a recent email, since I got sent the memo sent out by Nash to Yahoo staff about her departure in its entirety pretty quickly.

Yahoo PR Head Jill Nash to Depart the Company

in News on February 2, 2009 at 2:44 pm PT

Jill Nash, Yahoo’s chief communications officer, has told CEO Carol Bartz and other Yahoo staff this afternoon that she is leaving the company. Nash, sources said, told staff that she does not have any plans to move to another company immediately, so the reasons for her departure are unclear. BoomTown would have to guess that Nash is simply completely spent from her past two years at Yahoo, which have been very fraught from a public relations perspective, to say the least.