2006 and 2007 National Poetry Slams:

This annual performance poetry competition— the first and largest of its kind—brings over 300 poets from 75 different venues in North America and Europe for a five-day extravaganza that is part competition, part convention, and part poetry summer camp.

We coordinated media coverage for both the 2006 and 2007 events, which included sold-out shows at Austin’s historic Paramount Theater and an audience of literally thousands attending in venues throughout downtown Austin and the South Congress district.

Coverage included a cover story in the Austin American-Statesman’s XL Event arts and entertainment weekly, considerable coverage in both the Statesman and the Austin Chronicle, and additional coverage from KUT-FM (NPR-Austin), KTBC-TV (FOX-Austin), KEYE-TV (CBS-Austin), News 8 Austin (Time Warner Cable-Austin), the Dallas Morning News, the San Antonio Express-News, Austinist, Austin360.com, Rare, and Southwest Spirit. We also brokered media sponsorships with Austinist and the Austin Chronicle, and an event sponsorship with HLS Technologies, Inc.

Austin Poetry Slam

Asylum Street Spankers:

This Austin-based musical group has both won fans and defied easy description for well over a decade with a mix of country, blues, gospel, and vaudeville styles. While honoring traditional American roots music, the Spankers are not revivalists – rather, they’re featuring the same sort of innovation early hip-hop artists did when they used funk and soul as the backbone for an entirely new musical style.

Our media relations campaign for the Spankers targeted broadcast media, theater and performing arts critics, and feature writers at the national and regional levels, in order to augment the group’s existing traditional PR outreach. Coverage we secured included TV feature segments on KSDK-TV (NBC-St. Louis) and KABB-TV (Fox-San Antonio) and an interview with Ann Arbor NPR affiliate KWMU-FM. We also coordinated coverage of the band for an Austin-American Statesman feature connected to the release of the band’s critically-acclaimed children’s album.

Asylum Street Spankers Website

Terrell Blodgett:

This University of Texas at Austin professor emeritus in public affairs published a comprehensive history of Texas Governor and Baylor President Pat Neff – a project started by his wife and fellow UT professor Dorothy Blodgett, who passed away before the book was completed.

In addition to a statewide media campaign resulting in coverage from the Austin American-Statesman, Beaumont Enterprise, Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, San Antonio Current, San Antonio Express-News, KSTX-FM (NPR-San Antonio), KVII-TV (ABC-Amarillo) and a number of smaller publications, we executed event planning for readings in Austin, Dallas, and San Antonio, coordinated the writing and production of marketing materials for the book, and helped coordinate book distribution.

Home Place Publishers Website

Center for Terrorism Law:

Directed by former JAG and Green Beret Jeff Addicott, the Center for Terrorism Law (part of St. Mary’s University School of Law) is dedicated to research on legal issues related to terrorism and the United States’ ongoing War on Terror.

Our long-running media relations campaign highlights symposia hosted by the Center and continues to build Addicott’s reputation as an internationally-respected expert on legal and military issues pertaining to terrorism. We have secured coverage for Addicott with the Associated Press, Reuters, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Washington Times, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, Associated Press Broadcast Services, UPI, and Fox News Radio, as well as a number of other print and broadcast media outlets.

Center for Terrorism Law Website

Dublin & Associates:

We continue to maintain an ongoing relationship, started in 2002, with one of South Texas's largest PR firms. Work with the firm includes writing, ghostwriting, and media relations work (including local, regional, and national campaigns) for a client base that includes Frost National Bank, NatureSweet Tomatoes, Pace Foods, and Taco Cabana.

Dublin & Associates Website

Let’s Gel:

We have coordinated a media campaign for this Austin-based company and its GelPro Chef's Mat, an ergonomically-engineered kitchen gel mat specifically designed for home chefs. The campaign has targeting national publications and editors with major market dailies across the nation. The campaign to date has included coverage in the New York Times, Dallas Morning News, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Kansas City Star, St. Paul Pioneer Press, Austin American-Statesman, and a number of other papers, as well the online versions of Woman's Day, Ladies' Home Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and Houston Chronicle, as well as forthcoming coverage in Bon Appetit, Coastal Living, House Beautiful, Redbook, and the Martha Stewart Show.

Let's Gel Website

National Hispanic Institute:

For nearly 30 years, the National Hispanic Institute has been at the forefront of educating high-potential Latino youth, helping to establish new generations of leadership for the U.S. Latino community.

Our media relations campaign, which includes an annual initiative to promote 16 summer programs at universities across the United States and Mexico, has resulted in coverage from the Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Tribune, Austin American-Statesman, Austin Business Journal, Latina, Hispanic Journal of Higher Education, and a number of local and regional media outlets.

In addition to media relations work, we have coordinated marketing and sponsorship materials production for the organization, worked on numerous writing and editing projects for internal and external communications, and coordinated logistics for the organization’s annual Celebracion event.

National Hispanic Institute Website

Rindy Miller Media:

This award-winning, Austin-based ad agency specializes in Congressional and statewide races for Democrats across the nation, and is led by a team of intelligent and outspoken political strategists. Due in part to our profile-raising campaign for managing partner Cynthia Miller, she is becoming a nationally-recognized political analyst, appearing on top-rated news-talk stations in a number of major markets, including Denver, Atlanta, Providence, Dallas and Houston, in addition to her regular contributions to XM Radio's POTUS Channel. More recently, we have worked with the agency to raise awareness of the Texas House Democratic Congressional Committee, including outreach to both large and small Texas markets.

Rindy Miller Website

Super Pal Universe:

This band of community-minded Austin teen musicians, under the tutelage of beloved Austin musician Sara Hickman, is looking to inspire kids everywhere with "pop-driven activism" through its music
and a forthcoming TV show. As part of an ongoing marketing effort to raise awareness about the band in Austin, we executed a PR campaign that has resulted in coverage from KTBC-TV (Fox-Austin), KEYE-TV (CBS-Austin), KUT-FM (NPR-Austin), and the Austin American-Statesman.

Super Pal Universe Website