Spotlight on ND&P: Chuck Miller

ND&P presents a special casual interview with ND&P Senior Vice President and Media Director Chuck Miller.

Agency cofounder Chuck lives for media. Chuck will tell you he dreams about all phases of media research, planning, placement and post-buy analysis. You can probably blame his fanatic attention to detail on an early career as a clinical project coordinator for a pharmaceutical company, where he conducted a wide range of scientific studies.

Versed in data analysis and market research, Chuck will find a way to reach your target audience. When a hospital needed to reach out to individuals with epilepsy, he recommended a series of metro board ads - because the target audience can't drive. He's worked with a variety of clients, from MedStar Health System and the Virginia State Police to Carolinas HealthCare System.

May/June Neat Hawk Award Winner

There were three outstanding entries for this month’s Neat Hawk award, and three equally creative videos. But in the end, simplicity in design and a strong emotional message connected with the most voters. Congratulations to the Poplar Springs team for their great work on a powerful piece.

-John

In America We Trust

I Trust Square Knots and Green Knee-socks

I know what you’re thinking. John Griessmayer is an Eagle Scout? The same John Griessmayer who complains when the AC is set above 68 degrees, whose pale skin blisters like a vampire’s in direct sunlight, and who refuses to mow his lawn because it makes him feel all itchy and gross? This is a man, after all, who considers anything less than Johnnie Walker Black to be “roughing it.” He’s an Eagle Scout?

Well, you can call me soft. Or fussy. Or high-maintenance. I won’t deny it. But folded up in a shoebox in my attic, there’s a merit badge sash full of evidence that at one point in my life, I was Grizzly freakin’ Adams.

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Facebook Usernames Strike Again

Remember a few weeks ago when Facebook Pages could only reserve names if they had 1,000 or more fans?  Well that was only temporary... As of midnight this evening anyone with as few as 25 fans can reserve their Facebook Page username.

http://www.facebook.com/username/

-Dean

Slow News Days, R.I.P.?

I'm beginning to think that the very notion of the Slow News Day was due to the limitations (real or imagined) set by our then-current media. Certainly something newsworthy isn't always happening in your neck of the woods, but quite frankly I identify with lots of forests now.  So much so that when even the most major of U.S. news networks have spats between politicians and late-night comedians as a constantly-running headline story, what happens a world away can take over our day despite our media's best efforts to be fair-to-middling.

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