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Mike Smith handled press an advance for the Obama for president campaign as a volunteer for over 14 months. Here he is at the last rally and speech location in northern Virginia preparing the broadcast reporters. |
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Mike Smith on the campaign trail with Barack Obama. Mike is shown here helping coordinate press positions at a rally in Des Moines. |
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Mike Smith and MSBD are featured in an important article about associations and the media in Associations Now Magazine. |
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Mike Smith and MSBD are featured on Webmaster Radio's Cover Story. Click here to listen to the interview |
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Mike Smith pictured here with publishers from the Washington government and technology trade media including Federal Computer Week attend the Government Computer News gala event. Rebecca Sellers, center, is with ClearOrbit, an MSBD client. |
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Mike, Rebecca Sellers and Nick Wakeman, editor in chief of Washington Technology, talk about RFID technology at the GCN Awards Gala. The meeting resulted in a full page story in the monthly trade magazine reaching the contractor community. |
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Mike Smith is a featured speaker at Consumer Health World in Chicago and a keynote for the “Marketing to Consumer” track. He and Northwestern Univ. professor Clarke Caywood will speak on healthcare “Advocacy” by consumers and direct access on Monday, Sept. 17. Andrew Jaffe, former editor and publisher of ADWEEK. Mike also speaks on the topic of: “What happened to Pfizier’s Exubera” diabetes medicine launch on Tuesday, Sept. 18. The conference is to be held at the Chicago Hilton September 17-19. |
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Mike Smith, Center, of MSBD, Inc. is the chairman of the “Marketeers” committee for the Dulles Chamber of Commerce. He is involved in a fundraiser to bring new members and dollars to the chamber. Two of MSBD’s clients, BlueStreak Connect and PluraPage (formerly iNeo Marketing), have recently joined the Dulles Chamber. Here, Mike accepts a prize for membership recruitment. |
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Mike Smith is a panelist on Creating a Presence – Plan and Develop your Blog Strategy and Tactics on Establishing your Social Media Presence in Las Vegas, NV. The Consumer Health World is the premier conference on blogs and social media for healthcare. http://trusted.md/blog/ |
Reston Chamber - MSBD celebrates one year in business. |
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MSBD joins Threshold Partners as an affiliate bringing public relations and marketing experience to the network. Threshold Partners is a consulting firm with a track record of success in founding, growing and profiting from technology companies. |
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Mike Smith, of MSBD, Inc., joins Active Angels Group, a nationally known group of business angels based in the Washington DC area. www.activeangels.com |
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Elizabeth Eiss, of MSBD, Inc, joins Golden Seeds, a leading business angel group in New York City and Boston, focused on women owned/women led entrepreneurial firms. http://www.goldenseeds.com/investors/forum_investors |
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MSBD announces the launch of New York office headed by Elizabeth Eiss. Read release |
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MSBD announces the grand opening of its new Washington DC office and the launch of its new website. Read release |
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Mike Smith joins the Consumer Health World 2006 Conference as a panel moderator for the Role of Intermediaries. The panel included healthcare leaders from WebMD, Yahoo, Revolution Health Group and others. Mike also participated as an expert on the Healthcare Blogging panel. |
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"PR People Who Need People" by Michael Smith published in the July 2006 PRN. Link to article |
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Former Euro RSCG Magnet Executive Starts New Venture Read release |
CLIENT ACTIONS |
2007 |
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BlueStreak Connect opens Washington office with strategic assistance from MSBD. |
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Intertalk, based in Amsterdam, engages MSBD to launch its sales office in the US and provide marketing and public relationship services. Intertalk provides international Internet-based communication services primarily voice and video over Internet-Protocol (VVoIP). |
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Mexel USA, based in Washington DC, engages MSBD for investor relations. Mexel USA is a green technology company providing cooling water system treatment solutions for energy and industrial companies. |
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Evoca, headquartered in Savannah, Georgia, engages MSBD as its Washington DC sales office and to lead political campaign sales development. Evoca lets people create, organize, share and search audio for phone-to-web recording and |
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Dreambuilder Investments engages MSBD for strategic communications and investment work. DBI is based in NYC and is private mortgage investment company. |
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BlueStreak Connect engages MSBD for strategic communications, PR and investor relations services. BlueStreak provides electronic forms, reporting and a database clearinghouse as a managed service solution for the law enforcement |
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Broadband National engages MSBD. |
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Vangard Voice’s AccuSPEECH Technology Receives Nomination for the Annual Jolt Product of Excellence Award. Read Release |
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Patron Systems Project Team Wins $4.4 Million Contract With Nashville Police Department. Read Release |
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Destination CRM magazine runs lead story on iNEOmarketing. Link to article |
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TMCnet covers iNeomarketing’s Lead management Automation (LMA) product launch: PluraPage, Pluracom and Plurapage+. Link to article |
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Announces its new PluraPage, PluraCom, and PluraPage+ Lead Management Automation (LMA) Applications. |
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Commerce bank opens five new locations in the Washington Market in one weekend. MSBD designed the retail store launch strategy and tactics. |
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Century Planning announces MSBD as Agency of Record. |
2006 |
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Patron Systems announces MSBD as PR Agency of Record. |
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Vangard Voice Systems and Nuance Communications Accelerate Mobile Forms Applications. Read release |
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Announces TWJ Capital invests $400,000. The Virginia Center for Innovative Technology (CIT) invests $100,000 in iNeomarketing. |
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CMedia Corporation uses Vangard Voice to speech-enable new VideoWitness Patrol Car System. |
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MSBD announces the release of the Diligence Compliance System for Information Security and Privacy Regulatory Compliance. |
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Vangard Voice Opens Government Services Group in Washington DC. Unit headed by Tech Veteran John Piescik. US Forest Service is first speech-enabled client. Read release Link to article |
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Secures initial funding from Berkshire Ventures with MSBD support. Additional raise in process. |
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MSBD represents TIA at GlobalComm web publishes information about new innovative products showcased at the conference. Interviews and coverage arranged with major media outlets and political offices. Link to Blogs: |
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Mike Smith teaches "Speechwriting" and "Direct Marketing" at Northwestern University Integrated Marketing Communications program in Chicago. Smith, (pictured left to right), joined Northwestern IMC professor of public relations Clarke Caywood, IMC associate dean Tom Collinger, and professor emeritus and noted scholar Richard Christian at a reception honoring new faculty chairs. Smith was recently a guest teacher at Northwestern and continues to support the university.