Our Latest Holmes Report and SABRE Honors
The Holmes Report has awarded Havas PR North America honorable mention for Midsize Agency of the Year, based on our annual Agency Report Card. This week, we await word about other Holmes honors for our finalists in its annual Gold SABRE awards program, which recognizes superior achievement in branding and reputation in North America: our [...]
@havaspr: Grounded in Media
We’ve always said that we’re grounded in media, strategy, client service and community (it’s right at the bottom of this page), and our latest award triumphs wrap up that phrase in neat little packages. In Bulldog Reporter’s Media Relations Awards competition, we won silver for PR Innovation of the Year for our work in bringing [...]
The Night Was Young
Where in the world was Havas PR Senior Account Executive Angela Mineo last Friday evening? Meeting youth leaders from the ICPD Global Youth Forum while being entertained by Justin Timberlake, Timbaland and others at the pre-Grammys mPowering Action launch party. Those young leaders and the United Nations Foundation co-hosted the event. Mineo was an instrumental [...]
Our Lucky Numbers—and Yours
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 [...]
12 Days of Havas: One Young World
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 [...]
Making Places and Brands
[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 [...]
One Young World Countdown: 38 Days
It’s hard to believe that it’s been a whole year since our Pittsburgh team had confetti and glitter raining down on them at One Young World 2011 in Zurich. The groundbreaking strategy and award-winning bid they created (and the community they formed) to bring OYW to Pittsburgh was just the beginning of this massive effort [...]
Pumped by Circumstance
Another successful summer intern class has graduated from @erwwpr after totally energizing our offices. In New York City, we salute Lauren Carson (St. Anselm), assigned to our consumer Buzz Group; Joshua Johnson (Penn State), who worked on consumer accounts; Ally Norton (Boston College) and Audrey Schnell (North Carolina), who worked with healthcare clients; and Kate [...]
Getting Back to Our Roots
Ribbons, ribbons and more ribbons! One of the goals for this internship was to have Pittsburghers sign 5,000 ribbons to display at the One Young World summit in October. This was to mimic the ribbon ceremony that One Young World does every year: At the summit, each delegate, ambassador and counselor signs a ribbon, then [...]
Keynote Speaker for One Young World: Bill Clinton
In much the same way that former President Clinton was moved as a young leader when he shook hands with President John F. Kennedy during a Boys Nation gathering, the delegates to One Young World (OYW) will get to hear Clinton in person in Pittsburgh in October. “The inspiration and motivation he can deliver is [...]
Have a Heart
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 [...]
Aren’t Internships Supposed to Open Doors?
Preparing to film the “Pittsburgh Welcomes One Young World” video, I decided I would get to work early one day last week. I arrived at our office building, Starbucks in hand, and got into the elevator. Little did I know that my floor required an elevator key and that you cannot get to that floor [...]
Words of Devotion
At the beginning of my first long weekend at @erwwpr, I decided I would take the weekend off from social media, email and pretty much everything outside of actual human contact. Nothing against social media, but as it becomes an increasingly important part of my job, I like to maintain a balance between the real [...]
Bubble, Bubble, Toil? No Trouble
I walked into the One Young House kitchen and saw bubbles everywhere. The dishwasher was spewing soapy, bubbly water at a rapid pace. “Cassie! Cassie!” I screamed. Cassie saw the mess on the floor and then the look on my face. She burst out laughing. We both did. A few minutes later, the situation became [...]
Making a Difference in the City
I’ve never worked in a city before, much less lived in one. Although I only started interning at @erwwpr a week ago, I really feel a part of the company and the city. Being able to work on One Young World (OYW) promotion with Shay, Cassie and Anne (the other interns and my newest friends [...]
Noted in Week One
Hello there! The past few days have been full of new beginnings as the four interns settled into Euro RSCG Worldwide PR’s Pittsburgh offices. To start off on the right foot, we were assigned tasks and set to work on client projects and the One Young World summit. Rather than feeling intimidated by my team, [...]
The Waiting Is Over
Anticipation, they say, is often more nerve-wracking than completing the task. I, along with three other interns, could not wait to start working with @erwwpr and One Young World. Feeling on top of the world as we stepped into the castle-looking PPG Place, we began our summer adventure. As you might know, the One Young [...]
The Thrill of Immersion
In about two hours, I will be wrapping up my first full workweek as an intern at Euro RSCG Worldwide PR. The exhaustion of being up at 5 a.m. every day that had been wearing on me all week is, minute by minute, being replaced by growing elation and excitement at the prospect of sleeping [...]
One Young House Premieres
It’s not “The Real World,” but it is real PR—in action. @erwwpr is proud to kick off plans for One Young House, a one-of-a-kind internship experience based in Pittsburgh, where our @erwwpr office is busy preparing for the arrival of the third annual One Young World (OYW) summit, coming to here this October. After working [...]
Jamie Oliver’s Crusade
In the six years that Jamie Oliver has been engaged in a crusade to improve the standards of school food in Britain, he has become an icon of healthy eating and has used his status as a celebrity to push for a change in dietary habits. At One Young World, he preached that we have [...]
One Young World: An Eye-Opening Experience
I have always considered myself a well-traveled person. Throughout my life, I have lived in six cities in three countries on two continents. I learned at a very young age to be sensitive to local and cultural differences, and this has formed the way that I think about the world today. From a young age [...]
Moved to Action
Originally posted on the Huffington Post. In my travels around the world, I’ve (over)heard a lot of ways for people to say they’ve reached a point of no return with their frustration, feeling so full of stress that they’re stirred from passive acceptance to action. Some cultures say it’s “the drop that makes the jar [...]
