Monthly Archives: June 2009

Twitter Goes Wild on News of King of Pop

Regardless of the type of music you might like, the King of Pop, Michael Jackson made global impact on the music industry. I remember going to the record store when I was a kid and buying a Jackson 5 45 … Continue reading

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Lazy Days of Summer

Remember the lazy days of summer?  Keds tennis shoes, cut off denim jeans into capris, picnics, ice cream socials and clam bakes?  WOW. Have times changed. Today the lazy days of summer means interviewing interns, reading books like the Purple … Continue reading

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Casting Call for PR Professionals

Hey Tech PR gurus… Need a job? The Loughlin/Michaels Group (LMGPR), an award winning strategic public relations and communications firm specializing in emerging technologies, is having a casting call for Client Executives and Senior Client Executives with technology PR experience … Continue reading

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Concentric Debuts New Hosted Backup Service on Cloud Computing Platform

Concentric yesterday announced its Concentric Managed Backup. The new hosted service provides small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) with an advanced, affordable, and scalable data backup and recovery solution. Concentric Managed Backup addresses the challenges of explosive data growth while … Continue reading

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Absolute Quality Study Exposes Considerable Gaps in Player Engagement Between Game Developers and Target Consumers

Absolute Quality, an e4e company, today released the results of research that indicated game developers and publishers have an opportunity to more closely align game features with the preferences of target customers.  Additionally the study highlighted the difference between experiences … Continue reading

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Social Media Takes a Giant Leap Forward

The New York Times recently announced the appointment of its very first Social Media Editor. Jennifer Preston, a journalist, author and professor at Columbia University, accepted the position after being in charge of the regional weekly sections for the past … Continue reading

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Donna Michaels, PR Executive of the Year… I think yes.

She has done it again folks! Donna Michaels, founder and president of the Loughlin/Michaels Group, has been named a finalist in The Stevie Awards 2009 American Business Awards for Communications, Investor Relations, or PR Executive of the Year. Adding to … Continue reading

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Finding Your Purple Cow

For years the advertising and marketing world has aimed to pinpoint the “secret sauce” the “ying and yang” and the “a ha” in products and services. Web marketing expert Seth Godin’s best-selling book Purple Cow is one of the best … Continue reading

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Managing Your Per-fessional World

My longtime media friend and product reviewer David Strom recently wrote a post on his blog  titled, “When to defriend and defollow.”  It struck me at this point that my own Facebook network had grown to upwards of 400 people … Continue reading

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