An intriguing new communications agency launched at midnight, Halloween night. Led by Eastwick Alumnus Giovanni Rodriguez, HubbubPR aims to create a community for writers, PR professionals, marketing consultants, social media mavens, designers and so on. On his blog, Giovanni describes the community as “Facebook for communications pros”, and goes on to say:
with the advent of social media — blogs, wikis, RSS, podcasting, videocasting — many people in the public relations world can now do what they profess to do — “relate to the public.” The mandate for PR is getting broader, and so has the need to tap people from various, related disciplines.
Open to the public, the community goes live this winter.
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
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Thanks, Alec. Response to the community idea has been overwhelming. We're on it!