http://andreaweckerle.com Attack life, wait for nothing Sat, 30 Aug 2008 19:53:26 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_320" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Opened in 1962, Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD) served 24.7 million passengers in 2007 and offers 88 non-stop domestic destinations and 42 non-stop international destinations."][/caption] http://andreaweckerle.com/2008/08/iad.html [caption id="attachment_317" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="Standing on the 86th Floor Observatory at 1,050 feet, the view of Manhattan and beyond is a breathtaking sight."][/caption] http://andreaweckerle.com/2008/08/view-from-empire-state-building-looking-south.html Last week I was at the Word of Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA) Research Symposium and Summit 2007 in Las Vegas, which, in my mind, is one of the "must attend" yearly conferences. Along with Jake McKee, I was one of the official conference bloggers. Being a designated blogger is a very ... http://andreaweckerle.com/2007/11/thoughts-and-highlights-of-the-womma-research-symposium-and-summit-2007.html Social Media's ability to help businesses engage with their members, users and audiences is becoming increasingly more common, and something what many in the communications field have actively been encouraging their clients to do. What's particularly interesting, though, is social media's broader ability to quickly share and disseminate critical information when ... http://andreaweckerle.com/2007/10/using-social-media-to-track-emergencies-and-disasters.html "We Must Scrupulously Guard the Civil Rights and Civil Liberties of All Citizens..." Franklin Roosevelt Memorial, Washington D.C., United States http://andreaweckerle.com/2007/10/words-as-true-today-as-when-originally-spoken.html Well, as you can probably tell by the headline, I'm pretty excited. Earlier this year I joined the team, then Voce hired Scott Sigler, and now Josh Hallett is on board too. Of course let's not forget that Media Guerrilla guy who started it all and had the foresight to ... http://andreaweckerle.com/2007/10/voce-communications-social-media-team-continues-to-grow-score.html Today is Blog Action Day, where thousands of bloggers -- over fifteen thousand and counting, with millions of combined readers -- write about a single important topic: the environment. Well, "protecting the environment" has been a buzz phrase for a very long time now, and just as there ... http://andreaweckerle.com/2007/10/blog-action-day-focuses-on-the-environment.html Back in July I got a Twitter notification that someone named Madeleine McCann wanted to be my Twitter friend . I didn't recognize the name and decided to have a look to see who this was. The first thing I noticed were pictures of a little girl who looked like she ... http://andreaweckerle.com/2007/08/pulling-out-all-stops-to-find-madeleine-mccann.html The internationally recognized Golden Gate Bridge is one of the longest suspension bridges in the world and the subject of countless photographs. It receives about nine million visitors a year. http://andreaweckerle.com/2007/08/beauty-in-the-mist.html Recently I was part of a new business pitch for a technology company. My agency was one of several invited to present our A-to-Z strategy and ideas on how to take the company to the next level, and we spent a lot of time putting everything together. The big day ... http://andreaweckerle.com/2007/05/fake-it-if-you-have-to.html