Inside look at photo retouching
Loic le Meur points to a great step-thru guide showing how photos can be re-touched for magazine cover pages. We all know it happens, here’s how and by how much. It’s part of a Swedish…
December 2005
Typepad outage – bloggers bail
Typepad went down for about 18 hours on Friday. Many bloggers are now bailing on the service – Neville Hobson has been planning his for some time and is moving to WordPress (see his new…
Even more party pix
delta_party_select_0020 Originally uploaded by LEWIS 2. Liz Carrington, our staff photographer, shows why we should stick to the day job with her shots of the holiday party festivities on her Flickrstream here. Shots…
LEWIS Winter Party pix on Flickr
IMGP0606 Originally uploaded by Morgan McLintic. I’ve uploaded some pix from our party last Saturday in London, England onto my Flickrstream.
Santa gets a makeover
It’s that time of year again when we send out our holiday card. This time Santa gets a full image makeover. You can dress him in fishnets, give him a stetson, put him in a…
Attack of the holiday hampers
Just got back from a morning of meetings in the Valley to find the team grinning inanely with chocolately faces while gently slipping into sugar comas. We’ve been inundated with holiday hampers from clients, recruitment…
Finger-lickin’ kickin’
Oops – Gawker’s giving some poor PRO from Weber Shandwick the treatment today for repeatedly pitching an irrelevant story about KFC giveaways: “Now, as people who have at least a glancing familiarity with this website,…
My Trade – A Short History of British Journalism by Andrew Marr
My Trade – A Short History of British Journalism by Andrew Marr, former political correspondent for the BBC, is now out in paperback. I picked up a copy on the way back from London on…
You know your agency is getting big when…
…people in your own firm start giving you business cards. This just happened to me. Seemed normal during our conversation to swap cards, but now I think about it, it’s certainly a milestone. I’m even…
Ten reasons why international PR teams must meet in person
Off now to London for a week of campaign meetings, training, management planning and good old fashioned socializing. It’s hard to take a week out of the calendar to do this, but it’s far harder…