Today is exceptional for numerous reasons—just ask the thousands of couples who plan to get married on this special date: 12/12/12. For Havas PR, this day (the last triple date for 100 years) marks the finale of one terrific agency initiative and the debut of our next one. (120M Books is what it’s called; read [...]
Dec 12, 2012 | Categories:CSR, Features, PR, Trends | Tags: #GivingTuesday, 12 Days of Havas, 12/12/12, 120M Books, 2013, airbnb, Bob Woodruff Foundation, corporate social responsibility, CSR, David Jones, Delete Blood Cancer, e-publishing, education, event planning, GMHC, Havas PR, Havas Worldwide, Home Base Program, Hurricane Sandy, Indigenous Peoples Law & Policy Program, K.I.D.S., love, media relations, money, One Young World, Pajama Program, PR News CSR A-List, relationships, Ronald McDonald House of New York, Trends, trendspotter, trendspotting, University of Arizona, Venture for America, weather, What's Next? | Leave A Comment »
In this season of giving thanks, the Pittsburgh office of Havas PR is celebrating the 12 Days of Havas by reaching out to express our enormous gratitude to so many people who contributed countless hours to the success of the 2012 One Young World summit in Pittsburgh in October. One Young World, a nonprofit founded [...]
Dec 11, 2012 | Categories:CSR, Features, Youth | Tags: 12 Days of Havas, American Eagle Outfitters, Bayer Corp., Carnegie Mellon University, David Jones, Davos, Elsie and Henry Hillman, Erin Molchany, Havas PR, Havas Worldwide, Kate Robertson, Luke Ravenstahl, Manfred Honeck, One Young World, OYW, PBS, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, PNC, University of Pittsburgh, UPMC, VisitPittsburgh, World Economic Forum | Leave A Comment »
[Originally posted on PRWeek.com.] This is the second in a series of three posts that will discuss what I see as a PR émigré managing in a world where evolution meets revolution. Some cities always attract the limelight. New York and Paris have rich pasts full of historic events and interesting people that will always [...]
Oct 25, 2012 | Categories:Brands, Features, PR, Social Media, Trends | Tags: Amtrak, Bill Clinton, Brands, Buddy Cianci, C-suite, cities, Cory Booker, David Jones, digital at the core, evolution, Havas, John Wren, Martha Stewart, Newark, One Young World, personal branding, Pittsburgh, place making, PR, Providence, PRWeek, public relations, Richard Branson, Sir Martin Sorrell, solutions mindset, Tony Hsieh, transparency, Trends | Leave A Comment »
This is the first in a series of 10 posts about different aspects of CEO branding. “If Acme Widgets Corporation were a person, what sort of person would it be? How would you describe the looks, the personality and the style of that person?” Anyone who has attended consumer focus groups has probably heard variations [...]
Jul 16, 2012 | Categories:Brands, CSR, Features, PR | Tags: business leaders, CEO branding, CEOs, connection, conscience, consumers, corporate social responsibility, corporations, CSR, David Jones, Enron, Euro RSCG Worldwide, focus groups, happiness, market research, One Young World, perception, recession, Supreme Court, Tony Hsieh, transparency, Tyco, Who Cares Wins, WorldCom, Zappos | Leave A Comment »
Google recently announced a donation of a not-too-shabby $100 million to education initiatives and other causes this year. And the global behemoth is not alone in its jaw-dropping good-heartedness; in spite of an idling economy, 72 percent of companies now have formal corporate responsibility programs. That’s up 10 percent from last year. And it’s starting [...]
Jan 18, 2012 | Categories:Brainsnacks, CSR, Social Media, Technology, Trends | Tags: cause, CEOs, corporate social responsibility, corporations, CSR, David Jones, Google, not-for-profit, philanthropy, Power of Thai, Thailand, Who Cares Wins | Leave A Comment »
It has been a while since we’ve heard people talk about “the death of advertising.” A few years back, the birth of social media and interactive marketing had ad watchers sounding the death knell, but we now know that although advertising (and media in general) has changed, the ad biz has certainly not disappeared—and is [...]
Jan 26, 2011 | Categories:Advertising, CSR, Features, Marketing, Media, PR | Tags: Advertising, Arnold Worldwide, consumers, creative class, crowdsourcers, crowdsourcing, CSR, David Jones, death of advertising, design, Gap, Havas Worldwide, interactive marketing, Levi's, Marketing, Mayor Bloomberg, One Young World, PR, Social Media, social responsibility, The Tipping Point | Leave A Comment »
