Posted on July 23rd, 2010 by Cynthia Moxley
You didn’t, did you? That’s what I was afraid of. Sigh.
A swarm is a group of people (hopefully 50) trying to earn the “swarm” badge on the social networking site Foursquare. There was an attempt Thursday by a group on Market Square to earn that badge. But, doomed by confusion and perhaps a little impatience, [...]
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Posted on July 19th, 2010 by Cynthia Moxley
If you stay flexible, sometimes great opportunities come along.
I was reminded of this last week when I picked up a voice message Wednesday evening from my friend Gay Lyons. “Call me as soon as you can,” the message said. “I want to invite you to a really interesting party at my house on Friday.”
I thought, “Oh, no. I won’t [...]
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Posted on June 18th, 2010 by Cynthia Moxley
Well, THIS was an invitation I couldn’t pass up!
Mary Ellen and Nell Brewington and Sheryl and Lauren Sampson decided to invite 50 women over for a very special cocktail party at the Brewingtons’ Sequoyah Hills home on the lake.
The goal: kick off an effort to raise $100,000 in 10 (more or less) days to benefit [...]
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Posted on October 9th, 2009 by Cynthia Moxley
The other day, Rusty Coats, the new vice president for content and marketing for the E.W. Scripps Company, shed some light on the recent reorganization of the firm’s newspaper division, which includes the Knoxville News Sentinel.
And, he revealed that it centers around a recognition by the company that there have been “tectonic shifts” in the [...]
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Posted on September 9th, 2009 by Cynthia Moxley
“I don’t know why these giant white tour buses are outside my door, but I’m getting dang tired of hearing them idle and sigh. This is my home.”
That was the frustrated tweet posted near bedtime on August 28 by CocoHolder, whose real name is Jennifer Holder, a long-time downtown resident and avid Twitterer.
What Holder did not know [...]
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Posted on July 28th, 2009 by Cynthia Moxley
Although the Blue Streak sometimes discusses new media and journalism and public relations, it’s really a blog about Knoxville and Knoxville happenings.
We at Moxley Carmichael thought we also needed an outlet for discussing the exciting things going on in the field of communications. Not a day goes by when we don’t discuss in real life [...]
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Posted on July 17th, 2009 by Cynthia Moxley
People have a strong response to anything written about downtown.
People like really personal stories about others in the community.
Damn spammers will try to attach their links to anything!
These are just some of the interesting tidbits I’ve picked up since starting this blog a few months ago.
Every week we get a so-called “analytics” report that provides all [...]
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Posted on July 14th, 2009 by Cynthia Moxley
We are all about new media here at Moxley Carmichael. I started twittering in May ‘08 and got on Facebook shortly thereafter. We have this blog and are about to launch a second one. We were the first PR firm in town to hire a new media specialist. We have either met with or have [...]
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Posted on May 28th, 2009 by Cynthia Moxley
Four Knoxville media heavyweights agreed on one thing Thursday when discussing the impact of “new media” on their businesses: they don’t have a clue what’s going to happen.
Jeff Lee, general manager of WBIR, the number one TV station in the market, Bruce Hartmann, president and publisher of the News Sentinel, Knoxville’s daily paper, Ed Brantley, [...]
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