News Roundup

• Francisco Ramos has an outstanding photography portfolio.


• Amsterdam Worldwide launched a Pan-European blogger outreach for Asic' sportstyle for the "Left & Right" campaign.


• Check out the Passion Pit music video "The Reeling" directed by Danziger, Stephens, and Hobbs (Hobbs is the former co-ECD along with Texas-Ex Peter Rosch).


• The 7th Annual Portfolio Night is coming June 11! View agency-created commercials by Amsterdam/Montreal (Sid Lee), Chicago (Gertrude Inc), Los Angeles (David & Goliath), Quebec City (Socom), and San Francisco (PJA Advertising).


• Chris Abraham is teaching a series of webinars about the power of twitter and online marketing. May 7 is "How to defend and protect your brand reputation online- co-hosted with Jay Jaffe" and May 14 is "How to do social media marketing: bloggers, social networks, metrics, and more". The webinars are FREE.
  
  updated: View current and previous presentations and transcripts here and here.


• updated: Bob Pearson, former head of social media at Dell, is now the President of the Blog Council. Read more at Andy Sernovitz's blog.