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Beats For Peace:  NYC's Technicolor Lenses Performs Groundbreaking “Eyes in the Sky” for I.D.P. Dignitaries (9/18) and at Central Park Concert (9/21)  TL lyricist Jackson Whalan makes his second performance at the U.N. headquarters in celebration of the International Day Of Peace NEW YORK, N.Y. (Sept. 17, 2013) – For a generation of youth raised in a culture of war, messages of peace are few and farbetween. But a talented, creative band from Brooklyn, Technicolor Lenses, will prove that conscious hip-hop/electronic music is alive...

  There's nothing like a great little webinar to grease the gears of business. Today's PRSA event, "The Eight Most Common Mistakes Communicators Can’t Help But Make," gave some high-level takeaways for working with executives. EGLahrComm get some reminders to:   Say no to the "drive-by" PR job. This is when an exec rushes past and asks you to "dash off a press release" or business message about XYZ. XYZ requires the exec's perspective, thoughts, voice and input, so encourage a slow-down, sit-down, and get the...

[caption id="attachment_924" align="alignleft" width="253"] Composer Charles Ives[/caption] Our good friends at the Rogovoy Report -- and they know music quite well -- have a offered a big and friendly nod to  Music & More's Aug. 31 concert, "Shall We Gather by the River?" a tribute to the music of composer and insurance man Charles Ives. Ives didn't get much attention during his life, but he's now regarded as a great American composer. Learn why on Aug. 31. It's always (almost!)  great to see a client of EGLahrComm  in the...

We're thrilled to be working with QSM Associates, a Pittsfield, Mass-based software development company that has some excellent geek tools for managing complex software projects for big-time businesses around the U.S. Our mission (and we chose accept it): A re-branding initiative, a new website, collateral materials and public relations strategy for this dynamic tech company. Our work is in its early stages, but let's take a look at the "before" home page for QSM Associates -- an older webite. We will update you as we go with the new...

The elevator pitch is a key tool in your organization's internal communications tool kit -- not just for you, the CEO, but for everyone in your organization. Does your staff know the elevator pitch for your organization? For the work they do each day? Can they speak comfortably about your business at a barbeque? We tackled this internal communications question at the staff development day for a large nonprofit family services agency. For part of the day, 100 employees who work day in and day out helping families and children worked on...

**JOIN THE VOTE** Cottage Era Estate Bylaw MAY 20, 2013 Stockbridge Annual Town Meeting A VOTER'S PRIMER Article 26 on the May 20 Stockbridge Annual Town Meeting warrant seeks an important amendment to the current zoning bylaw covering the towns’ several “Cottage Era Estates.” This bylaw amendment has been revised -- and vastly improved -- since February 2013, when an earlier version fell shy of the two-thirds vote needed to pass. Although the May 20 meeting will consider ONLY the bylaw amendment, the future of the...

Stockbridge and Lenox residents invited for informal tour and hotel project overview, plus brief intro to zoning amendment on  Stockbridge Annual Town Meeting agenda Stockbridge, Mass.  (April 10, 2013) – The new owner of the Elm Court estate on Old Stockbridge Road will host an open house on Wednesday, April 17, 4-8 p.m., for Stockbridge and Lenox residents interested in getting an inside look at the historic Gilded Age “cottage.” The expansive residence was built in 1886 by the Sloane-Vanderbilt family, and was later restored by...

How best to get out the word about a new public relations, communications and website company in the Berkshires and Albany, NY? There's plenty of face-to-face networking going on for EGLahr Communications, but we need to reach hundreds, not just dozens, of potential clients who might find value in the services of EGLahr Communications. Constant Contact was my go-to choice for my inaugural email marketing experiment, and I figured my experiment would help guide my client services in the future.Given the unique nature of the business...

You can only go to so many holiday parties and eat so much hummus. You can only hit so many networking events and chamber luncheons. You can pass out only so many business cards, and you can drown in coffee dates. It's now time to throw our own media party for EGLahr Communications. So today I take a break from the annual report I'm preparing for a local financial institution. My blizzard-related media pitch  for a local tech firm can wait an hour. Some targeted communications work for a local school district can wait. Today, we focus on...

`Frequently, the work of journalists is not popular. One of our roles is to report publicly available information on timely issues, even when unpopular," Janet Hasson, president and publisher of The Journal News Media Group, said in an emailed statement. `We knew publication of the database [as well as the accompanying article providing context] would be controversial, but we felt sharing information about gun permits in our area was important in the aftermath of the Newtown shootings." As a former journalist and editor, I was...