Stories by Chris Seymour

Dana Metzger, Senior Account Executive, Clapp Communications Dana Metzger has many attributes that make her a standout PR professional. She is assertive, but never brash, and strategic while also being flexible and incredibly smart. She… Continued

Taryn Scher, Sparkle Boss, TK PR Taryn Scher, “The Sparkle Boss” at TK PR, has always been driven by a burning desire to excel in everything she does. Scher started TK PR in 2008, and… Continued

The Major League Baseball Fan Cave generated nearly three times as many media impressions in 2012 (4.4 billion vs. 1.5 billion in 2011) compared to 2011, and its social media impressions grew by a whopping 730% (1.7 billion vs. 230 million).

Through a 3D texting and driving simulator, AT&T, with the help of FleishmanHillard, has seen its “It Can Wait No Texting While Driving Movement” gain significant momentum among teens; for example, more than 1.6 million have taken the pledge to not text while driving at ItCanWait.com and through Facebook, Twitter, simulator events and text-to-pledge initiatives.

Cone launched The Nature Valley Trail View—a digital platform offering 300-plus miles of immersive content for three of America’s most iconic national parks—at South by Southwest Interactive 2012 with the help of Mashable, inspiring unusually positive social media chatter for a CPG company like General Mills.

The goal of AT&T’s Insider Mobile application was to create a customizable digital workspace aimed at improving productivity and information sharing anywhere employees need to do their job—and do it quicker and more efficiently; with the help of FleishmanHillard, there have been a total of 12,880 installs and it has been downloaded the most by frontline employees, the target demographic for the app launch.

Winner: Scholastic – Read Every Day. Lead a Better Life In 2010, Scholastic Inc., the largest publisher and distributor of children’s books and a leader in educational technology and children’s media, launched its global literacy… Continued

After photos surfaced of Prince Harry enjoying a night in Las Vegas that included a game of strip billiards, the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority reminded the world that what happens in Vegas really stays in Vegas, and drove traffic to a “Know The Code” microsite, where people could pledge to keep Las Vegas secrets secret.

The Mastercard Conversation Suite is a Web-based analytics tool supported by a global team of social experts that monitor, analyze and engage in conversations around the world 24/7; since implementing the Conversation Suite in May 2012, MasterCard has dominated the emerging payments dialogue, driving a 400% increase in online engagement within three months of the platform’s use.

Royal Caribbean’s response following the Grandeur of the Seas fire—which included leveraging social media— kept media coverage balanced during the incident. For a week following the fire, there were more than 950 mainstream media pieces, 58.6 million impressions from Twitter and more than 3,375 Facebook posts—with 93% of the media coverage of the fire being either neutral or positive.