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  • Donna Vincent Roa receives the 2011 Matrix Award from AWC-DC co-president Bina Handa
August 26, 2011
26 Aug 2011

The Invisible Rock Stars

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Donna Vincent Roa receives the 2011 Matrix Award from AWC-DC co-president Bina HandaYesterday I had the honor – and it really was an honor – of introducing Dr. Donna Vincent Roa as she received the 2011 Matrix Award (that’s her on the left) from the Association for Women in Communication’s DC chapter, in recognition of her accomplishments in the global communication field.

As I said in my remarks, long before I met Donna (who is IABC-accredited and a former IABC/DC Metro president, as I am), I bumped into her reputation. I couldn’t avoid it. Wherever I went, there it was. Kind of like a doppelgänger, but much, much nicer.

Over the years, I’ve come to know her, and not just respect her smarts, which are incredible, but see what a genuinely kind and giving person she is.

Donna’s done some pretty amazing things: not only does she have a Ph.D. in Communication (how many of us have that?!), she’s
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May 30, 2011
30 May 2011

Bubble or No Bubble, We’ll Still Be Social

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Guest Post by Amrit Pal

“To a man with a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” ~ Mark Twain

Far too much has been said on the valuations of the social web startups.

With hundreds of “me-too” of them fetching record influx of hands-on capital, a dash of cynicism is all but obvious. Ideas like Color, which wouldn’t have cleared seed-level funding a year or two back, spent $350,000 solely on buying a new domain! Even for a startup that fetched $41 million, that is plain wasteful, if not irrationally exuberant.

The Guru is dead, long live the Guru.

Incessant “social media for business” workshops mushrooming all across India are minting unthinkable cash from what can best be justified as rudimentary skills in social media. Redundant strategies are disbursed in sessions with over 500 attendees, about an area as dynamic as social media! In other words, there’s a whole pack of self-proclaimed SM wolves (another designation, yay!), waiting to pounce on laggard corporations.

I posed this question to one of the breed recently at a conference. And the answer? Read more →

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