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After many, many hours of well-worth-it travel time to the middle of nowhere, I was delighted to turn on the Crackberry and find myself still connected (if for no other reason then to check in on my beloved Yankees, but of course to make sure I don’t lose sight of my office work responsibilities too).  […]

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This Sunday, I will once again join thousands of others runners from all walks of life at the start of the New York City Marathon. Commonalities with many of these runners may be limited, but in that moment we will all share in the excitement, drive and passion it takes to cross the finish line.
This […]

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If you’re in the city this coming Friday and have some downtime, our very own Suzanne Rosnowski, partner of Q&C’s real estate division and recently named one of PR News’ 15 to Watch winners, will be speaking at GreenPearl.com’s NYC Real Estate Expo 2009.  The panel, “Real Estate Marketing Alternatives in a Low Ad Budget […]

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It takes about a tenth of a second to get some Twitter user numbers and conclude that getting to the top of search rankings reaches more people, and is therefore more worthy of the effort, in a marketing and PR sense.
At least, it was that way on Monday.
On Tuesday afternoon, however, Google announced that it […]

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Quinn & Co. staffers Danielle Culmone (@Dculmone), Emily Franklin (@efranklin88) and I (@Kate212) joined a panel of communications professionals organized by the Communications Club and the Women in Communications Club at New York University last night. It was a great experience and kudos to both of these groups for giving students an opportunity to interact […]

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As I wrote in a post earlier this month, I wanted to conduct an experiment about whether or not my own impressions of a small inn on Vieques, Puerto Rico I was going to be vacationing at mirrored those of the outstanding online reviews I based my reservation on.  I set out to research this […]

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We all know that a great creative idea, industry-breaking news or anything celebrity-endorsed will garner media attention.  But how do you get coverage for clients when none of the above applies?  Not all clients are fortunate to have a steady stream of news to distribute which is where relationships come into play in the world […]

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Since the economy took a turn for the worst, most talk about the city’s real estate market has been negative.  Activity and sales have plummeted, and to this day, many people are having trouble selling their homes and securing financing.  And, when anyone is lucky enough to sell their home or get lending, it’s usually […]

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According to yesterday’s New York Times, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will start to regulate blogging for the first time on Dec. 1.  Commissioners voted 4-0, as expected, to impose hefty penalties ranging from fines of up to $11,000 to injunctions for those who fail to be “clear and conspicuous,” according to Rich Cleland, assistant […]

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…the cobblers children have no shoes.  This held eerily true in my own life recently.
As someone who consumes digital media all day long at work and sits in digital media marketing classes on the weekend, you would think that I would be the last person to book a hotel room without checking out what its […]

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It was 8:45 Tuesday morning when the announcement was made that 100,000 invitations for Google Wave, their forthcoming communication and collaboration tool that combines email, instant messaging and wiki-style editing, would start coming out on Wednesday.
Since then, the single story on the Web that has truly trumped it was the removal of the “Jon” from “Kate […]

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