(If you like this blog, please share it. Thanks!) In my early years of journalism, I once worked for an editor who wanted to get rid of every chair in the office. Why? Because, in doing so, he’d force his reporters to go out and conduct in-person interviews. He never actually removed the chairs. But […]
Geeks on the Run — for a Great Cause
(If you like this blog, please share it. Thanks!) If you care about the future of IT innovation in this region – specifically the state of technology education for young people within our communities – there’s still time to make a difference. That’s because our high tech PR agency is proud to once again host […]
NVTC Celebrates Area’s Hottest Companies
(If you like this blog, please share it. Thanks!) This week the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) announced the winners of the 11th Annual NVTC Hot Ticket Awards, honoring the region’s best and brightest entrepreneurial technology companies. More than 500 members of the Northern Virginia technology community came out Tuesday night to celebrate the nominated […]
Five Minutes With … Molly Huie on Mobile Fed Tech
(If you like this podcast, please share it. Thanks!) Mobility makes the federal worker more productive. Mobility helps government organizations save significantly on costs. Hence, greater mobility is something that public sector managers and their employees would like to incorporate at their agencies. So what’s stopping them? A recent Market Connections-commissioned survey conducted by AOL Government reveals answers. The […]
How to Land Great Media Coverage
(If you like this blog, please share it. Thanks!) Ultimately, the aim of any PR firm boils down to this simple notion: Generate results that support the client’s business. Or else. But, in many cases, the best way to accomplish this – with the most prominent and positive placement – doesn’t even involve an interview […]
Five Minutes With … Lisa Dezzutti on Getting Fed IT Work
(If you like this podcast, please share it. Thanks!) In this era of Tweets, webinars and hyper-mobility, would you believe that federal agency IT decision-makers can’t get enough of … print articles in industry pubs? And trade shows? Yep. While they also depend greatly upon online content, social media and other digital resources, they still […]
A “Novel” Approach to Media Strategies
(If you like this blog, please share it. Thanks!) It’s not every day that we get a highly influential technology journalist and a published crime novelist in our offices. Then again, there’s always something cool and interesting going on at Welz & Weisel Communications – officially recognized as a great place to work in the […]
Five Minutes With … Shashi Bellamkonda on the Future of Social Media
(If you like this podcast, please share it. Thanks!) Over the next three to five years, what will distinguish the companies that maximize value from blogs, Facebook, Twitter, etc. and those that don’t? Much of this will boil down to the effectiveness of content curation and company ambassadorship, according to social-media expert Shashi Bellamkonda […]
Five Minutes With … Mona Anita Olsen on Our Entrepreneurial Community
(If you like this podcast, please share it. Thanks!) Northern Virginia’s tech start-ups are getting a big boost these days, thanks to George Mason University. Through the Mason Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at the Mason Enterprise Center – part of GMU’s Office of Research and Economic Development – hundreds of small businesses looking to drive IT innovation […]
How Social Media is Shrinking the Globe
(If you like this blog, please share it. Thanks!) Thanks to technology, it really is a small world after all. “Small” as in über-connected. At first, ARPANET-based email developments and then Tim Berners-Lee’s hypertext breakthroughs made it possible to reach virtually any information or person with a machine and a mouse. Social media has further […]