2008 April Archive

It’s Earth Day today, and with all of the buzz surrounding our Mother Earth today, BLASTmedia decided to celebrate in style. Everyone (well almost everyone) dressed in their favorite “granola gear” and went out of their way to do something special for the planet today. The award for most environmentally friendly today definitely goes to…

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As a PR firm that strictly focuses on media relations, we live and die with editorial coverage. While what we do certainly isn’t rocket science, we do work extremely hard to hit the right press with the right message to result in a positive review or mention of our clients. We are also very diligent…

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Our friends over at BLAST Outdoors really take their work seriously. They’re always looking for ways to experience the outdoors industry first-hand. Check out Katie’s adventures in fishing!

Tomorrow’s the first deadline for students to apply to shadow us for a day at BLAST’s Indianapolis office. We’ve had an overwhelming response from students interested in summer internships, and while we can’t offer every applicant the opportunity to be an intern, we’re really excited to have students learn about media relations for a day!…

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If you’re like me, you love competition. From sports, to work, to random spur-of-the-moment eating contests, I can’t get enough of competing against others. That’s why it’s awesome to work in an office that can make a competition out of about anything – pizza eating contests, “coverage of the week” contests – you name it,…

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Subtitled: Hotties in Hot Pants Per usual, it was an exciting week at BLASTmedia, but last week came with a little something extra. The news broke recently that Blast’s own Chantal and Ashley have been selected as members of the Indiana Generals Dance Team! You read it here first, Chantal and Ashley will be pumping…

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I had the distinct pleasure and honor of attending Ball State’s National Journalism awards last week. For the past 50 years, Ball State has awarded individuals in the Journalism field with National Journalism Awards. Each year they award the Eugene S. Pulliam National Writing Award for a journalist who has excelled in his or her…

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The San Fran office isn’t the only place with firefighter action! There was some excitement at the Indianapolis office building last Friday afternoon that prompted a response from Naptown’s finest. Unfortunately, we didn’t get to go on a joy ride like the girls in San Fran, but Mendy, Carey and I took the opportunity for…

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We love to have fun on any day at BLASTmedia, which makes a day like April Fool’s one of our favorite holidays. The festivities began the day before as we plotted our trickery against Kelly, who has been difficult to trick ever since he was duped by an extreme hoax a few years back. For…

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