My favorite restaurant in Washington, DC suffered a serious fire early yesterday morning while the place was empty. Check out the pictures from Tim Carman at the Washington City Paper to get a feel for the damage at Todd Gray’s Equinox. It certainly wasn’t as bad as it could have been, but there is clearly [...]
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The web is all about metrics. Unique visitors, sessions, page views, time on site, impressions, click-through rates, cost per click, number of engagements, cost per engagement, and more can all be tracked for a web-based issue advocacy campaign. Inevitably, internal and external clients get excited by the biggest numbers. How many eyeballs are seeing the [...]
I’m hiring two senior deputies for my new gig at DCI Group in Washington, DC. Specifically, I’m looking for a VP of Digital Operations and a VP of Digital Strategy.
Today, I am becoming Chief Digital Officer of DCI Group, a Washington, DC public affairs firm.
Today’s recommended reading is a bit all over the map. There’s something here to please communicators, entrepreneurs, consumers, and probably a half dozen other demographics. Don’t get too used to it, though, because I’m just as likely to get hung up on a single topic tomorrow.
I’m experimenting with a new way of sharing some of the interesting articles I’m reading from around the web. These links will show up in real time (or nearly so) in the sidebar of Pardon the Disruption at ChipGriffin.com, but I also plan to batch them up and post them here for those of you who may not constantly check my web site.
Last week I had the good fortune to be able to present a talk on effective writing for social media at a half day writing workshop led by my friend Don Bates, a professor at George Washington University and a long-time PR practitioner who frequently teaches people how to write more gooder 
With the start of the new year, Conversations resumes with a slate of interesting guests and topics already scheduled.
I have enjoyed photography for quite a few years now, ever since I picked up a Canon EOS Rebel film camera nearly a decade ago. In recent years, I have switched to digital and have become a bit more serious with my photography.
Bottom line: things went as well as could be expected this week. Now bring on 2009!
