I have to tell you, I’m lucky to work with some wickedly talented people. I’ve often said to my creative colleagues that no one hands out awards for the best creative brief or powerpoint deck on messaging strategy or emerging media point of view. Ultimately, the real fruits of my labor is THE WORK. For [...]

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 [...]

Believe it or not, Kansas City has annually hosted the largest regional advertising awards show for the last few years: the Addys. However it still amazes me that the KC scene remains one of the ad industry’s best kept secrets. With two of the largest independent shops in the country (Bernstein-Rein and Barkley), one of the [...]

Let’s face it, kids: no one gives an advertising award for the best PowerPoint presentation or client conference report. We win awards in advertising based on the work we produce. The success of the work is the collective success of the team that brought it to life. Given that, my job is to provide the [...]