Around the nation, first responders are training to respond to disaster and terrorism. One of the most high-profile training operations you’ll see is Urban Shield. In Metropolitan Boston, Urban Shield means bringing 1,800 police officers, firefighters, medics, and even Coast Guardsmen together, along with transit authorities, hospitals, Boston Harbor, an abandoned movie theater, a college […]
Experience: “Pep” Conferences and Boston Sports
Boston sports fans are a very lucky breed. We’ve seen World Series trophies, the Stanley Cup, Superbowls, and a 17th green banner in the Garden, and that’s just in the past decade! Boston is also a world-famous running city — a fame that is growing every day as people are training for the 2014 Boston […]
Aviation and Aerospace
I consider myself a James May nerd. I am fascinated by flight control surfaces and the size of the universe and the habitable zones of solar systems. Not an astrophysicist. I’m just fascinated by it all. But if you’re a tech company, don’t you think it would help to have a publicist who knows the […]
Automotive
When I launched BlastCars.com, I wanted to show that it wasn’t just another auto news site. It was going to be something created by Generation Y, FOR Generation Y. We aren’t expects — we can’t rebuild a transmission. But we like cars. We want to do more with cars. We didn’t grow up fixing cars. […]
Experience: A new way to to transition Boston to a new mayor
In 2013, Mayor Thomas M. Menino decided not to seek an unprecedented sixth term in office. The election that followed was one thing, but Boston had not turned the keys over to a new mayor in more than two decades. Typically, a three-ring binder is left for the next mayor to review — to see […]
Experience: Cities’ Readiness Initiative
John Guilfoil testified in the 2012 Boston Cities’ Readiness Initiative Tabletop Exercise, as the representative of Mayor Thomas M. Menino’s Office. The Cities’ Readiness Initiative, or CRI, calls for the United States Postal Service to deliver medicine directly to residents in the event of a biological incident. The philosophy behind CRI is that the Post […]