News    Blogs    Groups    Images Fishbat CMO Jennifer Calise Offers Support to Bostonians After Boston Marathon Bomb Explosions PRWEB.COM Newswire Bohemia, NY (PRWEB) April 16, 2013 On April 16, 2013, Jennifer Calise, CMO of fishbat, Inc., a social media management agency, responds to the Boston Marathon bombings on Monday, offering support and weighing in with her perspective on the advantages of using social media to spread information, raise support and mediate emergencies. Two bomb explosions near the finish line of the Boston Marathon caused Continue reading >>>

Close to 2,000 British troops tried to destroy the militias’ weapons stores, but were driven back to their garrison in Boston and besieged. Eight years and 70,000 deaths later America’s War of Independence was over, the colonial masters defeated. The great American essayist and philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson described the opening salvo in the war as “the shot heard ‘round the world”. And that shot will be for ever associated with Boston.The city has always proclaimed its role in the revolution and its pride at those early American patriots - history is part of Boston’s identity in Continue reading >>>

To paraphrase President John F. Kennedy who, as of this writing, may or may not have had his presidential library hit by a terrorist bomb yesterday: “Ich bin ein Bostonian.”Yesterday’s deadly attack on the Boston Marathon did something to me that eight years of living, writing and talking in this city couldn’t:It made me a Bostonian. I mean a Bostonian all the way down in my gut. When the reports of explosions at the Boston Marathon finish line first hit my Twitter stream (that’s how you found out about it, right?), I rolled my eyes. What — another manhole cover problem in the Continue reading >>>

When he heard the news Monday, Sheanon Williams’ first reaction was to call his father. The Philadelphia Union defender, a native Bostonian, reached for his cell phone and made the frantic call. “My dad still works downtown and he was working today,” Williams said. “I was mostly concerned with him more than anything. As soon as I found out he was OK, I texted friends and others just to be sure everyone was safe.” Three were killed and more than 130 were injured by explosions near the finish line of the Boston Marathon Monday, as runners crossed and Continue reading >>>

n Monday, two explosions erupted near the finish line for the Boston Marathon, injuring scores of people and killing at least two.  The scene was horrific and frightening and dumbfounding, and as any Bostonian can attest, it couldn't have come on a worse day for the city. Marathons everywhere draw thousands of spectators, the grandeur of the events enticing people from all segments of the general public. This is especially true in Boston, where the marathon is just one piece of a full-fledged local holiday that sees over a half million spectators, participants, and Continue reading >>>

Jim Cowsert-USA TODAY Sports The Boston Red Sox have had a series of well-documented struggles in the past two years. No Bostonian can forget the epic collapse of 2011. Many media pundits referred to the Red Sox as the greatest team in history. Going into September they had a seven-game lead over the New York Yankees. Then of course Josh Beckett, John Lackey and Jon Lester were shelled on a regular basis, leading to a 7-20 record. Manager Terry Francona was fired and General Manager Theo Epstein took a job with the Chicago Cubs. Reports were coming out from everywhere that pitchers were drinking Continue reading >>>

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In a big-city newspaper exclusive, The Boston Globe today uncovered evidence that The Onion, a website that claims to be “America’s Finest News Source,� is in fact not a legitimate news source, but a website full of satire and fake news. The newspaper discovered the shocking truth after scouring a recent Onion article. The article is headlined “Pretty Cute Watching Boston Residents Play Daily Game of Big City.� The giveaway that the article was satire was the use of the word “charming� in the same sentence with the “T,� the Continue reading >>>

Catherine Buxton, who played a Bostonian, spoke to the children playing her fellow Boston residents before they clashed with the British, pictured in the foreground.