On Monday, August 30,  DC Flacks joined forces with Washington Women in Public Relations to toast the one-year anniversary of DC-area PR and communications pros meeting up, talking to strangers and sharing beverages! More than 85 folks came out to Cedar in downtown DC to celebrate, greet new faces and present the DC Flacks Perfect Attendance Sash to the one and only Joe Flood. He’s only person besides me to attend every Flacks happy hour:

Photo credit: Dave Newman/GroovySoup

View all the photos here and be sure to check out this fun video, courtesy of Vocus, our DC Flacks sponsor:

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The past few weeks ushered in milestones, lessons learned, odd requests and fun events. July was busy and productive! Here are the highlights:

My niece was born!

Check it out, folks! The world’s cutest baby, Beverly Emmeline, was born on July 19 and I get to paint her toenails pink VERY soon! Congrats Pavis and Dave; I can’t hardly wait to teach her show tunes and jazz hands:

Photo Credit: Dave Cone or Jon Fletcher; not sure which one of those guys took this, but I’m sure Pavis will let me know when she reads this.

My MacBook died.

I was minding my own business, watching an old episode of Bones on Netflix when my beloved MacBook just up and died. And with it, took every photo, document, file and Christmas card list I’ve ever had. Even our honeymoon pictures. The fault is all mine; Dave has often encouraged me to run a copy of my data on an external drive, but I never did. Lesson learned: back that asset up, people. Read More…

Warning: this video (by @sohear) drops a few f-bombs. But man, it’s hilarious. And spot on. If you’re wondering what the heck they’re talking about see: embargo; see: b2b; see: social media. Read More…

PR professors: please make your students watch this. For the love of Pete. This is how the word “flack” became a derogatory term. (h/t @prsarahevans) Read More…

I have a veritable cornucopia of talented friends and colleagues.

My peeps write/produce/direct award-winning plays, receive international recognition for writing and singing songs (this one is my favorite), capture in pixels moments you’ll remember forever, paint life-like picture of your puppies, own highly successful PR shops (Nashville, D.C.), crown local culinary rockstars in print and on iPhone, have become in-demand wedding and fancy event caterers, and even raise three children while blogging, sewing, baking and praying at the same time.

Recently, I discovered my friend friend Tod directs viral videos for people. I don’t know exactly what I thought he did, but I didn’t know he produced freakishly cool things, like this video for Green Buzz Agency: Read More…

Good one, Verizon. Good one. But rather than go buy the Droid for Christmas, what this commercial really makes me wanna do is pile up on the couch, drink hot chocolate and watch the claymation Rudolph movie. Tonight.

At most, my attention span holds up for about one hour, after that, good luck to you. This flaw is why I’ve yet to take the time to watch the two hour Google Wave intro video, which hubby has declared a must-watch. Thankfully, this guy has opened my eyes to the world wonder that is Google Wave in just TWO MINUTES.

Watch it and allow your jaw to drop as mine just did. And hey, Google, give dude an invite!

Hat tip: Lifehacker

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