Welcome to our guest blogger, Casey Boggs! Casey is president of LT Public Relations – a comprehensive communications firm that specializes in servicing the financial and professional services industries. LT Public Relations recently partnered wtih Mambo Media to offer its proprietary Crisis Ready (www.crisis-ready.com) program to help safeguard businesses before, during and after emergencies occur.
BridgeWorks Capital, a boutique merchant bank based in Lake Oswego, OR, has been making waves in the renewable energy sector. Just this month, BridgeWorks both shepherded the acquisition of PrimeStar Solar by General Electric and announced plans to commercialize and manufacture floating power plants which combine energy produced by wave and wind. Using PrimeStar Solar’s record breaking thin film technology, GE will build the largest solar panel manufacturing plant in the nation. BridgeWorks president Mark Waller co-founded PrimeStar in 2006, serving on the company's board and later as chairman. Though no...
Mambo Media was chosen as a 2011 SoMe Awards finalist in three categories! The SoMe Awards honor the best social media projects, programs and campaigns of the year. We’re especially excited because award submissions have now been opened to the entire United States instead of only the Pacific Northwest. Serious competition!
Come join us at the SoMe Awards, hosted by Daniel Baldwin, at the Fez Ballroom this Thursday, April 21 from 6-9pm.
The Chalkboard Project is a Portland-based non-partisan, nonprofit organization that works to improve Oregon’s K-12 public schools. They give voice to Oregon’s teachers and provide a forum where teachers and parents can converse about current issues via their highly successful blogs, as well as encourage activism via the Citizens’ Corps and Teachers’ Corps.
Facebook appears to be morphing at a higher-than-normal pace recently, and it’s more and more of a challenge to just keep up. In an effort to keep everyone on the same Page (pun intended), we’ve decided to draft a quick wrap-up:
Mambo Media has partnered with LT Public Relations to offer its clients a robust crisis communications program to help their PR team prepare for and manage an assortment of disruptive emergencies.
Crises today come in all forms, they’re often unanticipated, and most have detrimental effects on a company’s sales and brand reputation…for years.
We’d like to welcome guest blogger Melissa Delzio! Melissa is an Art Direction Associate at Mambo Media and creator of the new book Our Portland Story. Listen to her podcast on OPB Q&A with Geoff Norcross here.
It all started with a question, “What ONE thing do you love about Portland?”
It was a question I often asked casually around town to recent transplants and native Portlanders alike. As a transplant to this city myself, I knew that what drew me here was a certain magic that I felt in the city. A magic that in my eyes seemed hard to describe – it’s more like a feeling. I was curious if others felt the same way.
Portlandia gets rave reviews from locals and TV critics for its satire of Mambo Media’s hometown. Now, we weigh in on the creative and contagious way IFC has used hashtags in Twitter to ensure the show gets buzz. Most use hashtags as a way to tap into the larger conversation on Twitter, but many brands don’t realize that with a bit of creativity, they can also use trending hashtags to drive the conversation around their product or brand. Portlandia’s use of #putabirdonit is a great example. Portlandia was already on top of...
With a viewership of over 100 million, the Super Bowl represents destination television at its best. Recognizing the event as a once-in-a-year opportunity to show us their best, smart brands have leveraged social media to pique viewer interest before The Big Game even kicks off and to retain it long after the big play at the end, optimizing the amortization of their $2.5+ million 30-second spot.
Jumo is worth testing if you are a non-profit. For starters, it’s not just another social network that will further stretch your resources. Beyond the initial setup, Jumo requires almost no maintenance. Your activity on other social networks such as Twitter and Facebook feed your supporter’s Jumo homepage and email updates. Jumo’s true appeal to supporters is yet to be revealed (the site only launched last month) but contrary to criticism, Jumo doesn’t just reoffer functionality other non-profit focused sites already have. The Facebook app Causes, is who I’ve most often...