We’re looking for a new Associate Account Executive to join our team. If you enjoy managing multiple projects and pride yourself on attention to detail and creative thinking — we’d love to hear from you. Up to two years experience and a BA in Communications or English Literature is preferred. Some PR, marketing or editorial experience is a plus. Email resumes to hr@chenpr.com.
Pinterest is today’s hottest social networking site and a visual person’s dream (says this visual person), with a user community that drives more referral traffic than Google+, YouTube and LinkedIn combined. Named Best New Start-up by TechCrunch last month, Pinterest went from cult hit to household name with 10 million users seemingly overnight. Thanks to this great Mashable article and Lemon.ly infographic I…
How do you lift 171 million people out of poverty? Education. That’s the message of Room to Read, a charity founded by John Wood, a former marketing director for Microsoft, more than a decade ago. With modest funds and 45 chapters around the world, Room to Read is making an enormous impact. To date they have helped six million children…
Well, it has been quite a week for Boston-Power and its founder Christina Lampe-Önnerud. Yesterday Christina graced the TED stage, as a featured energy expert, sharing her insights on the future of batteries, energy storage and clean-tech. With the most amazing line-up of speakers and performers, TED never disappoints and turns idea-sharing junkies into us all. The company was also named for the second consecutive year a Top 10 clean-tech…
We’ve had a lot of fun with our client Vindicia this week! To help spread a little holiday cheer, we’ve worked with the company to partner with several of its top clients — including Mind Candy and Curse — to offer specific promotions to their services through Twitter. Follow @Vindicia from now until Christmas Eve and join in on the…
A great article in Fast Company today examines the Future of Advertising and asks whether today’s creative revolution will ultimately leave the industry behind. Is too much lost on the Internet’s road to everywhere, or will its first real reinvention since the 60s make the industry stronger than ever before? Admist the digital doom and gloom and fear of the…
Thanks to everyone who came out for last night’s cleantech-student mixer at Tommy Dolyle’s! What would have been just another wet September Tuesday was a great night spent on all things working and learning in Boston’s cleantech world. In his column for the New York Times, Thomas L. Friedman offers an answer to a question on the minds of many,…
Huge congrats to our client Digital Lumens for being named a 2011 Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum! Digital Lumens joins a long list of game-changing technology companies that have received the award including two CHEN clients Boston-Power (2010) and Phase Forward (2009) and 23andMe, Google, Kayak.com, Mozilla, Pay Pal, Sandisk and Twitter. Selected from more than 300 nominations,…
Kudos to Xconomy for pulling together such a compelling day of talks at yesterday’s XSITE Summit on Innovation. One of the most inspiring sessions of the morning came from X Prize Foundation founder Peter Diamandis. Perhaps best known for its first $10M aerospace contest, X Prize is committed to fostering innovation through competition. Since its first space prize, they’ve branched…
Meet Up And Flip Out With CHEN PR and SWMS! Sam Whitmore‘s in town and we hope you’ll join us in treating him to some local hospitality. When: Tuesday, June 8, 6:00 to 8:00ish Where: Joe Sent Me, 849 Main Street, Waltham We’ll pop for some drinks and munchies — and one lucky attendee will walk away with a new…