At the recent American Marketing Assoc. conference in Washington, Chuck Porter *(center) of Crispin, Porter (and MDB Partners) gave a keynote on new ideas in advertising. Pictured here with Mike Smith (right) is Teddi Segal, chapter VP and CEO of Grafix in DC.

Deb Hersman, administrator of the National Transportation Safety Board, spoke recently on the need to federalize local transit authorities due to repeated accidents. Mike met with her to support the US Federal Transit Administration.

Pictured here is Mike Smith with Danish Ambassador Laurie Fulton who is visiting the GE booth on opening day of the Copenhagen Bright Green convention. Also pictured is Mike Taylor of Honeywell, who works on the Clinton Climate Change intiative.

Arianna Huffington poses with Mike at the PR Society of America annual meeting. Mike is a blog columnist for Huffington Post

Yelena Brusilovsky, our new intern from Ohio, takes the podium at the National Press Club

Mike Smith, Center, of MSBD, Inc. is the chairman of the “Marketeers” committee for the Dulles Chamber of Commerce. He is involved in a fundraiser to bring new members and dollars to the chamber. Two of MSBD’s clients, BlueStreak Connect and PluraPage (formerly iNeo Marketing), have recently joined the Dulles Chamber. Here, Mike accepts a prize for membership recruitment.

Mike Smith teaches "Speechwriting" and "Direct Marketing" at Northwestern University Integrated Marketing Communications program in Chicago. Smith, (pictured left to right), joined Northwestern IMC professor of public relations Clarke Caywood, IMC associate dean Tom Collinger, and professor emeritus and noted scholar Richard Christian at a reception honoring new faculty chairs. Smith was recently a guest teacher at Northwestern and continues to support the university.

Inaugural Parties: Lucy Smith, David Greene, former publisher of Washington Post Newsweek Interactive and now an angel investor, hosted a party downtown. Mike Smith at right.

Industry analyst Gary Arlen, left, who covers broadband and telecom; Dave Greene, Bernstein investments, and Mike Smith at the party across from the White House.

Mike Smith pictured here with publishers from the Washington government and technology trade media including Federal Computer Week attend the Government Computer News gala event. Rebecca Sellers, center, is with ClearOrbit, an MSBD client.

Mike, Rebecca Sellers and Nick Wakeman, editor in chief of Washington Technology, talk about RFID technology at the GCN Awards Gala. The meeting resulted in a full page story in the monthly trade magazine reaching the contractor community.

Mike Smith handled press an advance for the Obama for president campaign as a volunteer for over 14 months. Here he is at the last rally and speech location in northern Virginia preparing the broadcast reporters.

Mike Smith on the campaign trail with Barack Obama. Mike is shown here helping coordinate press positions at a rally in Des Moines.

Ryan Fischer, Jeff Porro, Marshall Eubanks and Mike Smith. here they are discussing the Boulder International Film Festival productions for possible Internet TV content.

AmericaFree.TV met recently with Alex Bogusky, partner and exec creative director of Crispin, Porter + Bogusky. Shot with CP+B including myself, Alex and Marshall Eubanks, CEO of AmericaFree.TV.

Equal Footing Foundation's Lee Betton, MSBD CEO Mike Smith, and Equal Footing's Colleen Hahn and Weis & Weisel's Evan Weisel. The Foundation is the charitable arm of the NVTC, providing computer clubhouses for underprivileged kids. Mike tells us he does bis dev for small tech firms, but just added Craig from Craigslist as a client.

Michael Smith, managing public relations with Craig Newmark.  Craigslist founder Craig Newmark in the "Big Tent" during the week of the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado, on Monday, Aug. 25, 2008.