CAUTION: THE SPIN STARTS HERE WITH TOM MADDEN! To tell Tom Madden to stop spinning and inventing is like telling the Federal Government to stop spending. He is the quintessential “Spin Man,” the title of his engaging memoir recounting his rise from a harrowing career as a newspaper reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer to the pinnacle of the PR world. One of his latest inventions, The Knife and Forklift™, is making the media rounds and gobbling up air time almost as fast as his drag racer client Alexis Dejoria drives her Alcohol Funny Car. Contact: tmadden@transmediagroup.com 561-750-9800 x2210
Hey Y’all, just returned from four action-packed days in one of America’s liveliest, most sparkling towns, which to me and millions of others is the beloved country music capital, Nashville, TN. I was there with my beautiful Brazilian wife Rita accompanying her as she worked as liaison to the high-flying Brazillionaires wing of one of … More What a Time We Had In the Country Music Capital
While many of us are still getting our feet wet in adopting artificial intelligence, some Silicon leaders are now urging us to slow down its development before it goes rogue and kill us. Could AI noticeably affect the routine daily lives and work schedules of human beings? Could one day AI make us all … More Could AI Make Us All Act Like Ants?
While walking along the beach, I often wonder what’s buzzing in the minds of tractor drivers. In a relatively short time, we see a valiant army of them whisk away a near neanderthal of seaweed, soon restoring our beautiful beaches to once again pristine clean, eminently walkable stretches. Yes, it’s a tractor triumph and to … More What, Pray Tell, are Tractor Drivers Thinking?
Here’s the story I found fascinating about a sacred piece of art I purchased one day while touring Bari in southern Italy. I’m sharing it on the eve when the nativity of Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus, is celebrated–Sept. 8. It’s a picture of the blessed mother with her hands beneath her garments and her … More Kazan Mother of God, An Icon from the Ashes
Public Relations firms create much more than publicity, as valuable as that is! In fact, you could call many publicists artful sculptors. The leading PR firms create and sculpt media messaging that perfectly defines and aligns with outcomes and benefits their respective clients seek. And the most productive publicists do it artfully in ways that best … More Sculpting PR Campaigns To Make Them Impactful!
I was taken aback by former secretary of labor Robert Reich recently posting an apology for his occasional “long windedness.” Reich says this happens when writing on subjects he feels deeply about or wants to make satirically surgical incisions into some hyper-inflated conservative skulls. That’s one of the things I like about Robert Bernard Reich, … More Meet the Master of ‘Long Windedness?’
Ducktown was the name of the Italian American section of Atlantic City, NJ, where Raffaele and Genoveffa Imperiale resided at 20 North Georgia Avenue, you might say imperially with their 11 children, one of them Clementine, or Lina as her brothers and sisters called her. I would one day call her “mom.” Raffaele and Genoveffa … More Don’t Duck from Whence You Came, ‘Ducktown’ Descendants Be Proud!
Sure, if you want to cool off from impressive heat, one of the coolest places on this stewing planet is Alaska. But if you’re looking to go fishing for freshwater salmon there, you’re going to have to wait in some areas for certain species such as Yukon River Chinook (king) salmon to regenerate. Right now, … More In Alaska We Must Wait for The King to Get Better
Here’s a painfully true story about a wounded beach foot soldier that I’ll lay right at your feet as maybe beneath it is an important message. It’s about one of mine not up to par, actually my whole left leg is hurting from which my left foot is now an ailing exclamation point. While my … More Right Leg Guarding Wounded Left
Can’t you just imagine what Iran regime leaders dream about at night, how one day their nuclear bombs will resoundingly answer all their prayers. Not only have they been praying “Death to Trump,” but their ultimate ambition might be to nuke out of existence what they regard as Trump’s entire country which they feel is … More Iran, Listen to Trump: No Nuclear Bombs!