As most folks know, I’m pretty active with our local Kansas City chapter of the American Advertising Federation. Not only is it a great organization when it comes to professional development, both in terms of ongoing education and networking, it also doubles as group therapy any time we get together. Client issues? Internal agency turmoil? [...]

Bernstein-Rein’s web site for indie alt-stars Devotchka won a National Silver ADDY Award at this past weekend’s festivities in Washington, D.C. Another nice bit of the recognition for the Interactivists. As a point of reference, here are the results from this year’s 2009 ADDY Award season. Kansas City ADDY Awards Winners List District 9 ADDY [...]

Last night, I had a fantastic opportunity to present shoulder to shoulder with Mark Logan of Barkley and Joe Grigsby of VML, two of the smartest digital folks Kansas City has to offer. The topic? Personal brand management in social networks…LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter in particular. We had a great crowd at RW/2‘s studio that were engaged [...]