Agency vs. Corporate: My Takeaways
Recently, PRSSA National hosted a “tweet-up.” And if you have no idea what this means, don’t worry. I had no idea either until about a year ago when I attended PRSSA National Conference in San Diego. It’s basically a discussion on Twitter that happens using a specific keyword or link, specified by a hashtag (#). [...]
Red Bull Gives Wings
Red Bull Project Air 2010 bowl training from world of freesports on Vimeo. The World Tour is just around the corner: only five days away. The Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast presented by Land Rover will be the first of ten stops on the tour this season. And to get its surfers ready for all the [...]
Social Media Backlash?
Facebook has passed its 400 million threshold. And more than 58 million users are registered on Twitter, sharing bits of their lives 140 characters at a time. But was this all just a fad? Another trend? Some analysts are seeing a decline in active use of such social sites, and of trust in these sites. [...]
Bite at the opportunity.
Alright, so I have definitely been up to a lot lately. First of all, I’ve been working on creating this site. I’m learning about WordPress frameworks, and child themes. I’m learning a bit about editing HTML code, and tweaking code to achieve the brand identity I’m going for. All that technical stuff. The stuff that [...]
Direction of this Blog
This blog began as a way for me to document what I was learning as an intern at Quiksilver. Now, it is taking an adaption. Much like is done in the process of public relations, I had to reevaluate the purpose of this blog and the direction it would take from this point on. First [...]
Earth-Shaking Experience
This past Monday night, I experienced a force of Mother Nature I have never experienced before; I experienced my first earthquake. Centered around the LA area, I felt the quake in Huntington Beach about 8:30 p.m. It reached a 4.8 on the Richter scale, a fairly decent shake that lasted about 15 seconds. At first, [...]
My Go Moment.
Last Thursday morning was like most mornings here. I was out surfing at the Huntington Beach pier. Just some nice 4 to 5 ft sets rollin’ in. By 7 a.m. it was starting to get fairly crowded. I was starting to paddle in on one of the waves. And so were 3 other guys. Then, [...]
