Posted by Joe Franscella, 8-24-2010: I’m a social mediaphile. I have a passion for all things social media and the technologies that enable them. I was particularly intrigued when a client of mine pointed out the Kansas City firm SocialVolt to me. SocialVolt is a social media management platform that claims to provide management and [...]

Posted by Joe Franscella, 3-17-2010: Trainer Communications’ PR and marketing professionals were, again, all over the RSA Conference, myself included. This year was especially exciting as the amount of client’s we were representing there increased 300 percent over 2009 and this year we conducted two surveys for our clients PacketMotion and Brocade and helped our [...]

In 2008, according to Royal Group Services, a data breach damages indemnification provider, 35.7 million identities were compromised and 18 million records were stollen from financial services companies. The company, which specializes in PCI DSS insurance services, further reports that in ’08 companies paid an average of $202 per breached file and that the total [...]