How we measure success is by providing killer counsel, strategy and implementation for our clients. But it also feels great to get kudos from the media, since it’s the journalists and influencers we work with who ultimately help our clients’ tell thier stories.

That said, we’re particularly proud of being recognized as a Top Tech Communicator in the Mid-size Agency category by the IT editorial community in PRSourceCode’s list of the “best of the best.” We’re also proud that Matthew Podboy was named one of the top Individual PR Practitioners.

You can download the full writeup here,

Andy Beal over at Marketing Pilgrim points to a recent study from Immediate Future that ranks “The Top 100 Brands in Social Media.” It’s a fairly chunky study and I’m still trying to grok bits and pieces of it, but I think Andy extracts some of the larger findings. The funny thing is that as I’m drilling through this, I realized of the top 10 brands (as determined by share of voice) we actually represent two of them - Yahoo! and Sony.

We’ve been working with Yahoo! for several years nows, architecting and executing a mixed bag of social media and influencer marketing projects. Likewise with Sony via its PlayStation brand. It’s been a lot of fun working with these companies (particularly in this manner), so it’s satisfying to see their brands - and to an extent, our efforts - recognized, although there’s so much more work to be done….

/Mike Manuel

Read more about social media and new media marketing on Mike’s perso-professional blog, Media Guerrilla.