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Killing K-Cups and Net Neutrality
Here at CHEN we are intimately familiar with the revolutionary, pod-based efficiency of the Keurig coffee machine. Whether it is a sultry summer day in Boston’s Downtown Crossing or a raw New England...
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Baseball’s Instant Replay and the Value of Getting It Right
Two months into the 2014 Major League Baseball season it’s evident that instant replay is a permanent, beneficial fixture in the league. Introduced despite the protestations of detractors, early...
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A Weekend at Belmont
This past weekend I attended the third largest horse race of the year, the Belmont Stakes. Now, let me start by saying this event isn’t exactly my type of thing, but hey, when in Rome (or New York in...
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I’m an Entrepreneur, Hear My Pitch
Three Small Boston Businesses Give Their Pitch at Project Startup Live Entrepreneur Forum On June 10, 2014, I attended the Project Startup Live Entrepreneur Forum, an A&E initiative, focused on...
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Mutant and PRoud
Remember when you were a kid reading comic books and watching cartoons like Spiderman, X-Men and the Hulk, and you imagined what it would be like to have super powers? Well as an adult I still do that...
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Making Music and Chicken Salad
When I’m not here at CHEN PR it’s a pretty safe bet that I’m working on my musical endeavors—recording, producing, and writing songs with my band Bonfire Blue. I’ve been playing music nearly my entire...
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Technology, Nationalism and the World Cup
Well that was a bit disappointing. The United States Men’s Soccer Team, after surviving the “Group of Death” to secure a berth in the World Cup’s final 16, was—despite Tim Howard’s heroic and historic...
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Debunking the Myth of the Summer Slowdown
The word “summer” has a sunny, carefree feel to it. Everything’s brighter, the days are longer and people are happier. The summer season is associated with vacations, lighter works days, trips to the...
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More on the Mythical Summer Slowdown
In a recent blog post, my colleague Kayla Krause wrote about the myth of the summer slowdown. And she’s right. When the days are warm and long, the expectation is that we’ll suddenly find the time to...
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Owning Your Awesome
Last week for my birthday my colleague Jennifer gave me this card: The caption reads, “Trisha owns her AWESOMENESS.” The idea of owning one’s awesome resonated with me because, shortly before I saw the...
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Learning to Love Networking (Part II)
As my colleague Kayla Krause reminded us in her last CHEN PR blog post, summer is not just about a drink in the hand and toes in the sand—there’s still plenty of business networking happening during...
View ArticleIt’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.
“It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.” -Grace Hopper Cutting through all the red tape of the modern...
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Shorter than Short
Last month the Atlantic ran an article entitled “The Surprising Power of Stories that are Shorter than Short Stories.” The headline caught my attention because, as a writer, it suggested there might be...
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The Ice Bucket Challenge
When I was younger, we used to receive chain letters in the mail. In school we would receive letters from other students here and abroad, and at home we often saw letters that appeared to be scams, or...
View ArticleTuning in to Social Channels
In the world of professional communications, social media is an easy thing to overlook. At least it is to those of us with a bit more gray in our hair than we’re willing to admit. After all, we cut our...
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Black Hat Strikes Again
In my previous blog, Debunking the Myth of the Summer Slowdown, I argued that there really are no lazy days of summer– especially here at CHEN PR. To punctuate that thesis I’ll add two words: Black...
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To The Man Who Made Us Laugh: Rest In Peace Robin Williams
“No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.” While watching Shark Week on the Discovery Channel I instinctively checked Facebook on my phone to pass the time during a...
View ArticleThe Public Relations Race to Space
In an address to Congress in 1961, President John F. Kennedy challenged the nation with the now famous declaration that, “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before...
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Labor Day Weekend Move-In Madness
As droves of new and returning college students prepare their assault on Greater Boston this weekend the rest of us here plan our travel accordingly. It certainly doesn’t feel like a year has passed...
View ArticleBy: Kayla Krause ’10 |
[…] she hasn’t lost the knack to write outside of the industry as well. CHEN has its own blog, which she writes for at least once a month on pretty much anything – social media, PR, sports, […]
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