Maine PR Maven

Think of Social Media as an Extension of Real-World Socializing

Nancy Marshall — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:33:10 +0000

At our Web Development division, Marshall Interactive, we publish a monthly e-newsletter called The Internet Entrepreneur. Later today we will release the July edition. I wrote the introduction letter last week about how I believe that people who enjoy socializing in person are also the most likely to enjoy online socializing. Conversely, those people who prefer [...]

Do You Ever Get Frustrated With Your Computer?

Nancy Marshall — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:52:30 +0000

I don’t know about you, but sometimes I get very frustrated by seemingly simple tasks on my computer. Today is a rainy holiday with not much going on, so I decided to defrag and optimize all the computers in our household. I know, you’re probably saying to yourself, “Nancy, it’s Fourth of July, get a [...]

Adult Attention Defecit Order: A Good Personality Type for PR?

Nancy Marshall — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 12:33:10 +0000

Do you have problems with time management? Staying organized? Stress management? I do! There are so many things I want to accomplish each and every day, both personally and professionally, that I am constantly stressed by my ‘to do’ list. If I’m working, I feel I should be doing things with my children; and when I’m [...]

Online Marketing Spending is Continuing to Increase

Nancy Marshall — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:18:35 +0000

Here’s another good article from “Destination CRM” about the trend toward online advertising and the shift from traditional PR to online marketing techniques. The great thing about marketing on the web is that you can measure and analyze everything you do. You can tell what people like and what they don’t. You can change your [...]

Will Traditional PR Become Extinct?

Nancy Marshall — Thu, 28 May 2009 14:06:54 +0000

Today’s “Ragan’s PR Daily Newsfeed” predicts the fall of traditional public relations: Web 2.0 Journal’s Fuat Kircaali believes that yes, public relations will become extinct. “In our estimation, roughly 70 percent of today’s PR firms with their traditional public relations and communications business structures will not survive the fast-approaching social media avalanche,” he wrote. “The remaining [...]

Scrapbooking helps me slow the passage of time…if only for a moment

Nancy Marshall — Sun, 17 May 2009 20:51:26 +0000

My son was born just yesterday….or so it seems. Yet this past week he went to his junior prom…how could that be? Here he is with his date Kelsey arriving at the prom last weekend. I know you’re thinking he wasn’t born yesterday, but if life was passing as fast for you as it is [...]

My Strange Obsession: Number Two Pencils

Nancy Marshall — Mon, 11 May 2009 12:34:02 +0000

What is it about number two pencils that draws me? I have a strange obsession with the yellow number twos. Don’t try to give me any other color… as a matter of fact, I can’t stand the kind of pencils with really hard erasers that just smoodge the writing when you are trying to make [...]

Online Communications and PR Cut Costs, Not Results

Nancy Marshall — Wed, 06 May 2009 17:30:35 +0000

One of my employees, Sarah Fuller, sent me a great article from the May 4 edition of Nations’ Building News Online. The article talks about how public relations, more so than advertising, helps companies to fully tell their story, therefore building their brand. It also talked about the relationship between public relations and online communities, which I’ve [...]

A Great Day at Skowhegan Savings in Madison

Nancy Marshall — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:04:38 +0000

Today I helped coordinate a media event at my client Skowhegan Savings’ location in Madison, Maine. Army Sgt. Eric Pierce, a 27 year old from Embden, Maine introduced his dog Sandy to people who had helped provide the money for him to bring the dog back from Afghanistan. This is a photo of Sgt. Pierce with his [...]

Visiting Colleges with my Son

Nancy Marshall — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:37:46 +0000

My son Craig is a junior in high school this year and he has recently started looking at colleges. Over the past week, he and I have visited three different campuses, and today he went with my husband to visit another one. Tomorrow he is actually going to another campus on his own. It’s hard [...]