(Research Triangle Park, N.C.) Montie Design, an innovative concept-to-marketplace product design and development firm, announced today that company President Montie Roland will be judging entries in the Product Development Management Association (PDMA) Carolinas Chapter Student Product Design Competition 2012. The contest is part of the Innovate Carolinas event taking place Friday, April 20th at the Longview Center located in the Moore Square Historic District of downtown Raleigh. Continue reading →

(Research Triangle Park, N.C.) In a recent study, Reuters reported that 85 percent of online-connected global citizens in 24 countries use the internet for emails while only 62 percent use it for social networking. In another recent study, the contents of our email inboxes were found to reflect our real-life ties to the people in our lives. In 2010 Facebook introduced its own email addresses and its social inbox, and is once again putting email in the spotlight as it has linked users’ timeline names to their Facebook email addresses: “Starting today, we’re updating addresses on Facebook to make them consistent across our site. Now, the address people use to get to your timeline and send you email on Facebook will be the same. Updated addresses will be rolled out over the next few weeks. Note: Anyone who already selected an email address will not be affected.” Continue reading →

(Research Triangle Park, N.C.) Innovative PR and media relations firm Global Media Strategies (GMS) is offering free communication audits to celebrate five years of successful public relations consulting. GMS will select five organizations or businesses responding to the call for the free service between now and the end of April 2012, one for each successful year of PR and media relations excellence. Continue reading →