CRT Elects Steven Mendell as New Chairman
January 23, 2012
– Non-profit organization announces 2012 board of director appointments – San Diego – January 23, 2012 – The Chairmen’s RoundTable (CRT), a San Diego non-profit organization that provides pro-bono mentoring and strategic advice to the region’s businesses, announced today that it has elected Steven Mendell as its Chairman. Mendell takes the reins from Jeff [...]
CRT Mentor Profile – Vern Yates
November 2, 2011
Mentor Profile – Vern Yates Vern has been an active angel investor, consultant, advisor and mentor to start up companies since his retirement in 1996. He also was the founder of the San Diego Band of Angels, a 160 person angel investment group. This group combined in 2000 with the Tech Coast Angels to form [...]
CRT Mentor Profile – Ake Persson
September 26, 2011
Ake Persson brings more than three decades of management experience from the international telecommunications industry. When retiring from Ericsson in 2004, he was a member of the Group Executive Management Team, the head of business unit CDMA Systems and President of Ericsson Wireless Communications, Inc.
Suggested Reading from CRT Sponsor David B. Oates
September 21, 2011
So it shouldn’t come as any surprise that the stunt they pulled on behalf of their client, ConAgra Foods, backfired, as reported in the New York Times. True the same tactic has been used with great success when consumers are the subject, but most reporters would feel false or misleading pretenses that got them to cover a story in a much different light.
I know hindsight is 20/20, but in this case, it was something Ketchum should have figured out by asking themselves if they would have tried to lure traditional journalists the same way. I’m sure the answer would have been “Absolutely Not.” Top bloggers are no different.
Not sure what I’m talking about? Read the article below and see if you don’t have the same “No Duh” reaction to the public relations business unit of Omnicom Group.
Bloggers Don’t Follow the Script, to ConAgra’s Chagrin
By ANDREW ADAM NEWMAN
How early is too early?
September 14, 2011
Contributed by CRT Sponsor, David B. Oates, APR
We at Stalwart Communications have been getting a great deal of interest of late, and we’re extremely appreciative of the referrals by people who think highly enough of us to do so. Some of them have been true start ups, literally one step beyond the concept stage, but far enough ahead of a full-fledged launch and customers.