Public Relations
I’m sharing this Easter worship video I developed as part of my P.R. and marketing work for my client, the Church of the Redeemer. I project-managed and provided editorial oversight, and was lucky to work with a fantastic local production team. I particularly enjoyed the final editing process. Whether video has a more formal feel, [...]
Longtime client merges with national energy consulting firm
EYP Energy — a division of EYP, Inc., my longest-term client (based in New York) — has announced a strategic merger with The Weidt Group, one of the nation’s premier building energy consulting firms, currently headquartered in Minnesota, with additional offices in Colorado, Iowa and Wisconsin. Woo-hoo! Looking forward to helping my client communicate via [...]
EYP client sweeps Zweig Letter marketing awards
EYP Architecture & Engineering (my longest-term client) just swept a series of marketing awards handed out by The Zweig Letter, a weekly publication dedicated to the architecture/engineering industry. Very cool! EYP placed first in three different categories: External Newsletter, Integrated Market Campaign and Target Marketing. One of the publication’s judges called EYP’s marketing program “very [...]
Path Financial Facebook blog dedicated to good economic news
We’re so inundated with economic news each day — good news, bad news, who’s up, who’s down — my tendency is to sometimes just ignore the whole shebang, but one of my clients is trying to help folks zero in on the important positive news out there. Path Financial (whom I’m very proud to call [...]
The Tech Valley Global Business Network, a prominent organization that addresses the interest of the international business community, earlier this year named EYP Architecture & Engineering (which I’m very proud to call a client) as a prestigious “Globie” Award winner, honoring the firm with the International Trade Award for Exporter of Services. Firms honored with [...]
MC in Print
New column: Why Dent’s ‘experience’ isn’t the right kind
I’m wading into the supervisor of elections primary this week in my first guest column for The Sarasota News Leader, a new online outfit I blogged about back in June. They publish a fresh slate of stories and columns each Friday, and I’m happy to report they liked a piece I wrote about Supervisor of [...]
Sense and the City: Signing off
Today’s column will be my last for Ticket. I’ve enjoyed writing in this space — sharing stories about everything from dads teaching their children how to skip stones across the water, charities and fundraising events, and women who put their titillating talent (and tassels) to the burlesque test, to pieces about local firefighters, nurses and [...]
Sense and the City: Diane McFarlin will be missed
Having met Sarasota Herald-Tribune Publisher Diane McFarlin only once and then briefly — when we bumped into each other one night at a Ringling Town Hall lecture, and I learned that she was as warm and genuine up close and personal as she was elegant and beautiful from afar — I knew I wasn’t the best-qualified [...]
Sarasota Blues Festival VIP Offering Doesn’t Fit
The Sarasota Blues and Music Festival is irking me with its $75 VIP tickets. VIP? In a parking lot across from Ed Smith Stadium? Whatever! Read my outrage at this week’s Sense and the City column in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune.
Sense and the City: At SMH, kindness is the cure
My mom recently underwent surgery at Sarasota Memorial Hospital, and the experience has made me reflect on the importance of kindness and care in helping folks recover. And so I turned those thoughts into this week’s Sense and the City, out in the Ticket today. Here’s a sample: It’s easy, when you arrive at a [...]
Reality Online
‘The best party of the season’ — put it on your calendar
I’m not the party-going type, so when I tell you I’m hitting the circuit, it means something. I’ve had a blast attending past Sarasota Magazine parties at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, and I expect this year’s, scheduled for Tuesday, April 23, to be no exception. Dubbed Glamour in the Garden, the soirée is being promoted [...]
Anne-Marie Slaughter headlines this year’s Renaissance Luncheon
If you’re unaware of the myriad offerings of the Women’s Resource Center, a great opportunity to learn more is coming up quickly: On Tues., March 12, the Center hosts its biggest fundraising event of the year — the Renaissance Luncheon — at the Ritz-Carlton. “For our donors, [the luncheon] lets them know the good programs [...]
Two joyful ‘wHoops’ for Theresa Rose’s TEDxSarasota video
Wishing for “a life lived in the land of enough”? Yeah, me too. That’s why I encourage you to watch this very unique and gently inspiring video by Theresa Rose, who gave a talk in December at the TEDxSarasota event. Talking about her theory of joyful movement, struggles with body image, how to get unstuck [...]
How I learned to ‘Get Things Done’
I’m usually a nose-to-the-grindstone kind of gal — I rarely take lunches out of the (home) office, tend to avoid schmooze fests (no matter how good for business they might be) and am usually too busy earning a living the hard way to take the time to learn how to earn a living the smart [...]
Sitting at my desk, immersed in updating content for a client website, all doors and windows open, and outside a bird singing one of the sweetest songs. So sweet, so soft, so near; it draws me away to the doorway and I search the surrounding bushes for the source of that singing. I finally spot [...]