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Soapbox Rant: Take Off the Goggles!

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05/22/2012

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Gabriel Marketing Group

Forgive the rant, but we’ve come across a quite a bit of geography-bias lately in our travels in the tech world. There are some that think you’re nobody in tech if you don’t have an office in the Bay Area–and I don’t mean the

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05/03/2012

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Michiko Morales

Last summer, we just couldn’t get enough of the latest tech startup, Klout, here at the GMG offices. In case you’re not familiar, Klout is a program that measures your overall online influence through True Reach, Amplification Probability, and Network Score on a scale

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04/17/2012

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Michiko Morales

It’s spring in the capital: the cherry trees have bloomed, and the museums are packed with schoolchildren and their parents, eager to get a first-hand glimpse of American history. Sitting on a crowded subway car with many children and parents in matching sweatshirts got

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04/02/2012

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Michiko Morales

We’ve gone from sundress-weather back to our winter coats in less than a week–must be springtime in DC! With it comes the inevitable hatchlings–and we’re not just talking about baby animals. We’re talking about startups and the many bright ideas that swirl about this

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03/29/2012

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Michiko Morales

A recent article in Forbes about incubators in southern California and their role in helping startups find their footing–and funding–got us thinking about places that are particularly auspicious for new ventures. Having a home base in northern Virginia might make us a bit biased,

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03/21/2012

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Michiko Morales

PR and marketing often get a bad rap. Recent examples of stunts made in poor taste–in the name of marketing and PR, unfortunately–include the transformation of homeless people in Austin, TX into wifi hotspots during the SXSW interactive festival. Just last week in Britain’s

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03/06/2012

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Michiko Morales

Recently, both Deloitte and Gartner published forecasts about top tech trends for 2012. While the two lists are different, the upshot for each is digitalization. For Deloitte, it is all about elevating IT for digital business, and Gartner predicts “the digitization of everything.” Deloitte

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02/27/2012

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Michiko Morales

I recently read a blog that talked about the biggest PR/marketing trends for 2012. High on the list was the decentralization of social media oversight within enterprises. The holistic “honeycomb” model, which first appeared in Jeremiah Owyang’s Frameworks for Social Analytics, makes everyone at

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02/10/2012

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Michiko Morales

If a major research firm decides to cover your company’s newly announced partnership, product, or set of solutions in a report, you may be very excited­­­­­­–and nervous. After all, many enterprise technology deals, both large and small in dollar amount, are influenced by the

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12/30/2011

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Gabriel Marketing Group

We just recently celebrated a banner year here at GMG with a festive holiday party. Held at Parallel Wine Bistro in Ashburn, VA it was an evening to kick back with our teammates, nosh on cheese and other toothsome delights including pesto risotto, shrimp

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Mythbusters: PR Edition – Hint: It’s Not Like TV

My introduction to PR came from Samantha Jones. Her job was certainly fabulous – going to parties, meeting celebrities, wearing expensive (and revealing) clothes and drinking cosmos. Of course, PR isn’t always like this. Mostly. There are plenty of myths about PR out there –

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