In honor of its 8th birthday, Twitter released a new tool where users can find their #FirstTweets. We’re game. Here are ours: “Find us at www.himmelrich.com” “I figured this was the quickest way into the Library of #Congress.” “Drinking coffee, creepin’ on bloggers” “How do I find people I know?!” “just painted one of matt’s […]
Thanks to Twitter accounts like @SochiProblems and @SochiFails, sometimes it feels as though we’ve heard more about the problems with the Winter Olympics in Sochi than about the actual games themselves. We’ve seen more live tweets from journalists concerning their unfortunate accommodations than live winter sports, more articles about the lack of people in the
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One of the nominees for our Word of the Year was “TL;DR” (too long; didn’t read). The Official Word of the Year Committee rejected this nominee because it did not meet the competition’s criteria of having widespread recognition and visible prominence. That was then. This is now. Last week, this trending phrase came up a
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On Friday, the American Dialect Society chose its word of the year: “because.” The Oxford Dictionaries chose its word of the year earlier in 2013: “selfie.” We were inspired and it caused us to wonder: what would our word of the year be? We took a poll and the clear favorite was “engagement.” We understand
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The holidays are filled with traditions—traditions with family, with friends and with co-workers. This year, we’ve noticed that almost all of our traditions are based on one thing: food. We’ve been receiving gifts of sweet and savory snacks from clients, vendors, friends and colleagues. Last week, we celebrated the season with our annual holiday dinner.
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From intern Whitney Clemmons: In class, we are lectured about cultivation theories and Edward Bernays. We spend hours working on mock campaigns and press materials for faux clients without ever getting to see the final product of our hard work and effort. Because of this, it wasn’t until my internship at Himmelrich PR that I
A reflection from president Steve Himmelrich: One of my first employers, Phyllis Brotman, passed away on Friday. Thirty years ago, every marketing professional in Baltimore – in fact, every business and civic leader in Baltimore – knew Phyllis. Her agency, Image Dynamics, was a big deal. Phyllis was a big deal – her rolodex was filled with
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On this day before Thanksgiving, we are reflecting on what we are thankful for: journalists who look beyond the email subject line for story ideas, 6 a.m. live TV segments when there is no traffic, huge crowds at events, retweets, returned phone calls, being remembered by the media in cities where we work once a
In a conversation this morning with an editor of a local newspaper, she told us she still prefers receiving press releases. This surprised us; we are always reading in trade outlets about “the death of the press release.” It reminded us of how media relations used to be, before e-blasts, distribution services and photo sharing