I’m no social media expert, but I do have several resources that I turn to when my clients need counsel navigating and exploiting the world of social media and social networks, including my Crosswind colleague Ephraim Cohen.
Ephraim’s philosophy is one that I very much appreciate: Social Media, despite its explosive growth and tremendous hype, is [...]
Monthly Archives: September 2009
Social Media: Is your agency messing with you?
September 26, 2009 – 4:26 pm
Asher Price features beach-combing biologist
September 21, 2009 – 8:00 pm
Having tweaked Austin American-Statesman environmental reporter Asher Price for his reportorial principals in my post a few days ago, I think it only fair that I now cknowledge and bring attention to his profile on Padre Island’s Tony Amos.
A beach-combing, self-taught biologist, Amos is on a 35-year mission to protect loggerhead turtles, migratory birds and [...]
Bernanke says recession is "very likely over."
September 15, 2009 – 9:37 pm
We can breathe a little easier today now that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke proclaimed the recession is “very likely over ” as consumer spending has showed some tangible signs of steady increase.
Mr. Bernanke was speaking after the Commerce Department reported retail sales climbed 2.7-percent in August, after falling 0.2-percent in July.
Nearly 3-percent increase in [...]
Public Citizen's Smith deserves Heinz Award
September 15, 2009 – 9:58 am
I was thrilled this week to learn that Public Citizen’s Tom “Smitty” Smith received a Heinz Family Foundation award of $100,000 for outstanding individual achievement. I’ve known Smitty for more than a decade and no one is more committed to their cause and more deserving of recognition for their work than him.
Tom is the director [...]
Asher's bias has a Price: credible reporting of environmental policy
September 3, 2009 – 10:15 pm
The Austin American Statesman today published a piece by environmental reporter Asher Price that did more to expose the reporter’s bias than it did to ensure the state enact good public policy.
The premise of the piece (Ex-Perry aide gets No. 2 job at environmental agency) is that the appointment of Zak Covar to a position [...]