Ode to the Smartphone… Sort of

The fourth post in our summer-intern blog series was authored by Samantha Hauser from Arizona State University. Posts by Forrest Hanson, Meaghan Davison and Kristen Marchus can be found here, here and here, respectively. Have at it, Samantha! – Bri and Dave My Blackberry and I have been together for about six months, and already [...]

The Sunday Newspaper

The third post in our summer-intern blog series was authored by Kristen Marchus from Gonzaga University. Posts by Forrest Hanson and Meaghan Davison can be found here and here, respectively. You’re up, Kristen! – Bri and Dave I am convinced my love of the newspaper and current events began at a young age.  When I [...]

Social Networking or Networking Socially?

The second post in our summer-intern blog series was authored by Meaghan Davison from Gonzaga University. The first post, written by Forrest Hanson, can be found here. Take it away, Meaghan! – Bri and Dave We all see them. Perhaps we are among the guilty ones. We see them at restaurants: Families at dinner; each [...]

Corny, Verging on Desperate

It’s intern season here at Burson-Marsteller. In sunny San Francisco, we’ve welcomed with open arms four bright, young stars. And if you’re assuming they’re social media pros, why, you’re correct! They’re Facebook fanatics, YouTube-using yahoos, Twittering tweeps and much, much more. We have a lot to learn from these Jedi warriors who hail from lands [...]

Social Media ROI: Socialnomics

- Dave

Three Things You Need to Know About Social Media Strategy

“Three Things You Need to Know About Social Media Strategy” is a Mashable article from this week, penned by B.L. Ochman – the newly appointed social media strategist and managing director of Proof Digital Media. Ochman is an established digital thought-leader, and is publisher of the blog What’s Next (Twitter: @whatsnext) and co-founder of pet [...]

TEDTalk: SixthSense Technology

The below TEDTalk video of Pattie Maes demonstrating new SixthSense technology still amazes me. There’s not much I can add that the video doesn’t capture. It will be very interesting to see how our future is shaped by technology and devices that are capable of pulling digital information directly from the physical world we live [...]

Twitter Adds Lists, Retweet Features

First it was lists, now it’s retweets. Over the past couple months Twitter has gradually rolled out these features to its users, and they’ve garnered a lot of online chatter. The new capabilities are perhaps most noticeable when using Twitter via its Web platform, though third-party applications are starting to add support as well (for [...]

Web 2.0 Summit Replays

If you didn’t get a chance to attend or tune in to the recent Web 2.0 Summit (#w2s), check out the organization’s YouTube page for some great video footage from the event. John Battelle hosts in-depth interviews with executives from companies like Facebook, Google and Twitter, in addition to many, many others. Here are the [...]

PRWeek’s “40 Under 40″ in 2009

Mary Ritti, our friend and colleague here at Burson-Marsteller, has been honored by PRWeek in its 2009 “40 Under 40″ list. The writeup is included below. Congratulations on the achievement, Mary! Very well deserved. Mary Ritti MD, Burson-Marsteller, 37 Mary Ritti joined Burson-Marsteller’s technology practice in 2002 after nearly a decade of agency and in-house [...]