32 posts and columns on public relations
Sequoia Grabs Googler to Head New Comms Role Aimed at Helping Entrepreneurs
The move to beef up communications expertise at the prominent Silicon Valley venture firm continues.Go Daddy: Never Mind That SOPA Thing, Look at Naked Danica Patrick
After losing some 37,000 domains over its support of a controversial piracy bill before Congress, Go Daddy resorts to its tried-and-true marketing weapon.Here’s the World’s First Steve Jobs Statue
It’s in Budapest, via a company called Graphisoft. Do you care about those details?OutCast Agency Head Joins Facebook as Tech Communications Lead
Caryn Marooney, the co-founder of one of Silicon Valley’s premier tech communications firms, OutCast Agency, is joining Facebook to lead its tech public relations strategy. Marooney has actually led the Facebook account for OutCast, which she and Margit Wennmachers built and sold to Next Fifteen Communications Group in 2005 for over $10 million.Is Larry Page the Consummate Anti-Social CEO?
Google’s new CEO isn’t much for the social Web. If he has a presence on Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn it was created with deep privacy settings or a fake name. I couldn’t even find a fleshed-out Google profile for Larry Page.How to Liven Up an EMC Product Launch? Stuff a Mini Cooper, Naturally. (Video)
EMC launched 41 products at an event in New York yesterday, the theme for which was “record breakers.” So the company decided to break a world record onstage while demonstrating “simple and efficient storage.”Exclusive: Brandee "No Comment" Barker Finally Comments–Longtime PR Honcho Is Leaving Facebook
BoomTown usually does not get all weepy over the departure of public relations folks at Internet companies, in that cynical I’ve-seen-’em-come-and-I’ve-seen-’em-go kind of way. But the leaving of Brandee Barker from Facebook most certainly elicited a small single tear of sadness this morning, when she called into All Things Digital Global HQ to say she would no longer be tossing me her patented–and very endearing–hand-in-the-face “no comment” for the powerful social networking site. After four long and tumultuous years, she leaves Facebook Dec. 10.News Byte