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Peter Mayer listed among best places to work

Peter Mayer Advertising is proud to announce that we have been selected as one of New Orleans CityBusiness’ 50 Best Places to Work for 2012. This year marks the sixth time we have made the list, with previous nominations in 2003, 2004, 2006, 2009 and 2011. Because of the nomination, the agency will be profiled in a special feature to be published in the Dec. 21 edition of New Orleans CityBusiness.

Nine years ago, CityBusiness, New Orleans’ premium business newspaper, began publishing a comprehensive list of the 50 Best Places to Work. The list includes 35 large companies and 15 small companies. A nomination is based on what an organization delivers for its employees in health benefits, average salary, paid vacation and personal time, as well as employee development
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Life after death in the digital age

Halloween is right around the corner. Thoughts of ghosts and ghouls gallivanting down the neutral grounds have got me thinking: What happens after our flesh and bone fingers turn to ethereal ectoplasm preventing us from logging on to Facebook?

A morbid thought, I’ll admit, but still a practical one. So, really, what happens to our Facebook profiles after we die?

Your surviving family members can submit a Deceased Users request to Facebook to delete your account. It only requires a small amount of information. Oh, and a death certificate that must be uploaded to Facebook. After this, the account
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From Yinz to Yat, or, Pittsburgher to New Orleanian

My bright-red sneakers dance to a different drum in New Orleans, and it is not just a during a second-line parade. Living behind a turquoise door, knowing which “throws” are the most sought after during Mardi Gras, and eating roughly 100 pounds of crawfish in the spring are all characteristics that help define us as New Orleanians. But what does it mean to become a New Orleanian?

Moving to New Orleans from Pittsburgh was easily one of the best decisions I have ever made. Within 30 seconds of the New Orleans summer air hitting my face, two things happened: 1. I began sweating
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Three new ways to think about online influencers

The evolution of social media has mirrored the revolution in the way that we think about people and their relationships to brands. Prior to the advent of the Internet, the only way to access consumers was to fill their physical world. Billboards. Print ads. One-way points of contact that created the feeling that a brand was omnipresent, hovering over your shoulder – there but untouchable. The speaker in front of a stadium of 10,000.

Things have changed.

Now, on social media, the consumer owns a brand’s message just as much as the brand does. In fact, people are the conduits of that
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