Let me start by saying that Geoff Livingston is both a good friend and a client of mine. I have done a fair bit of work for Livingston Communications as a contractor over the last year. So it has been with some personal interest that I learned Geoff had signed a letter of intent for Livingston Communications to be acquired by the Social Media Group, which is headed by Maggie Fox and is headquartered in Dundas, Ontario, Canada. If read more...

  I just returned from the NewComm Formum 2008. It was great to see old friends like Todd Defren and Richard Binhammer, who were both so kind as to attend a session that Geoff Livingston and I put on, even though they already knew about everything we said.  I couldn't even begin to name all of the people that I saw there with whom I have built strong relationships over the years. But part of what I love so much about the NewComm Forum are the new read more...

Brendan Cooper (aka "The Friendly Ghost"), the author of The Friendly PR Index, recently launched a blog for his employer Porter Novelli, called PNeo. A few weeks ago, Brendan called me from the UK to interview me for his employers blog. You can find the interview cross posted at his own blog here. Brendan lived up to his friendly moniker read more...

  I am all about productivity shortcuts.  Here are the top 10 posts that you said were most interesting in January.  Since I know that most of you don't have time to keep up with everything here, this is my Valentines Cliff Notes edition.

• Interview with John Pat Philbin: FEMA "Fake" Press Conference: Communication Overtones has an exclusive interview and finds out the "behind-the-scenes" story
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