Savvy AF Media

08/15/2018

“Anyone else ready for the weekend? ”

06/13/2016

My latest article as spokesperson. The reporter did a great job capturing how heavy rainfall affects the water and wastewater systems.

Recent heavy rains have replenished Plano’s water supplies, but officials with the North Texas Municipal Water District still recommend smart water usage heading into the summer.

06/13/2016

Nice little rundown of what to do - especially helpful to have bookmarked for when the media calls out of the blue!

Whether you're media training clients or are preparing for an interview yourself, here's a checklist of what communicators should do to ace the interaction.

06/02/2016

Kombucha and emoji is now part of our language and internet no longer needs to be capitalized. I'm still trying to recover from the "more than" vs. "over" update last year. What do you think is the strangest, or most difficult to accept, change to this year's AP Style?

Media: Sometimes used with a singular verb when referring to media as a monolithic group.

06/02/2016

Here's my latest blog post for the Texas chapter of the American Water Works Association on how the North Texas Municipal Water District is working to meet the growing demands for water and other essential services in North Texas.
http://tawwa.site-ym.com/blogpost/1203603/248855/Planning-For-the-Future-How-NTMWD-is-Meeting-the-Demands-of-One-of-the-Fastest-Growing-Regions-in-the-U-S

05/31/2016

Have you noticed the changes to IG lately?

Instagram rolled out updates to its ad products, video features & news feed algorithm. Discover how the most recent Instagram changes affect your marketing.

05/18/2016

Without quality water service and improved infrastructure, our economy cannot grow and thrive. This is why and we must .

04/16/2016

I swear I said this to someone just the other day. Nice to see others feel the same way! "The digital marketing world instead responded by coining new buzzwords for existing practices to make it seem as though they were doing something new and different. “Content marketing” arrived shortly after online marketers began to utter the single stupidest phrase that has ever existed in the entire history of marketing: “Content is king!” Anyone who needed to be convinced of the truth of that statement has no business working in the marketing industry.

The biggest problem in marketing in the tech world today is that too many marketers do not know the first thing about marketing.

04/16/2016

Well that didn't go over very well...

Brand Twitter fails are few and far between these days, which is either good or bad, depending on your schadenfreude levels. But here's a bizarre and baffling one from Australia, where KFC somehow thought it would be a good idea to pixelate what's clearly meant to look like a sexual image to sell "H…

03/10/2016

DALLAS — Inside the third-floor newsroom, The Dallas Morning News looks like a lot of American newspapers. Fluorescent lights stretch across low ceilings. The carpet is speckled gray and sufficient…