- Just An Online Minute... The Macallan Gets Art And Celeb Crowd Drunk On Photography
Just An Online Minute, Kelly Samardak - Friday, January 21, 2011
How do I even start? Last night was such a roller coaster ride through art snobs, art freaks, turtleneck aficionados, free-drink fans, celebrities, blast-from-the-past reality-show favorites, and brushes with greatne ...
- Just An Online Minute... The Best Books That Give You The Business
Just An Online Minute, Kelly Samardak - Thursday, January 20, 2011
Every year, it's the same thing. I promise myself I'll read more. "Be more well-read," I tell myself, standing in the pizza section of the grocery store. This year ...
- Just An Online Minute... This Week: Whiskey, Women, And Words
Just An Online Minute, Kelly Samardak - Wednesday, January 19, 2011
"Wine, Women, and Song" is one of my favorite Harvey Danger tracks. If I tweak it a little bit, it is also the background music to my week: whiskey, wome ...
- Just An Online Minute... Army Of Quirky Characters Answer The Gideon's War Call To Arms
Just An Online Minute, Kelly Samardak - Friday, January 14, 2011
When I was younger, my dreams of adult life were fueled by Mad magazine, Sweet Valley High, Stephen King, Sassy, "Melrose Place," Garfield, and a dash of Sylvia Plath. ...
- Just An Online Minute... MEDIA Magazine Hosts Night Of Courage, Genius, And *GASP!* Emotion!
Just An Online Minute, Kelly Samardak - Thursday, January 13, 2011
What a great crowd last night at the MEDIA Agency of the Year award show. The snow was already piled up in chunky white walls around sidewalks, with Crocodile Hunt ...
- Just An Online Minute... Minorities In Media Get Wicked And Wail
Just An Online Minute, Kelly Samardak - Wednesday, January 12, 2011
I stared out the windows during OMMA Agency of the Year with trepidation. Where was the snow? Would I get caught in it later? Did I want to tempt fa ...
- Just An Online Minute... Digital(ish) Advertising's Best Of 2010 Honored At The Yale Club
Just An Online Minute, Kelly Samardak - Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Last night 2010's best of the best digital -- well, maybe not explicitly digital 00 agencies gathered at the studious Yale Club in the heart of Manhattan (think of Gra ...
- Just An Online Minute... OED Online Relaunch Leaves Guests Twitterpated
Just An Online Minute, Kelly Samardak - Thursday, January 6, 2011
I have always been a book nerd -- well, until my adult life robbed me of my time to hunker down and lose myself in a thick volume of wonderfu ...
- Just An Online Minute... Dictionary Party Defines 2011 Media And Advertising Social Scene
Just An Online Minute, Kelly Samardak - Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Happy New Year, everyone! I hope this finds you all happily ensconced in your cubes, posturing on your balance ball chairs, and crackling with "I am so ecstatic to ...
- Just An Online Minute... A Happy Holiday Message from Just An Online Minute!
Just An Online Minute, Kelly Samardak - Wednesday, December 22, 2010
A Happy Holiday Message from Just An Online Minute! ...
- Just An Online Minute... Bad Santa Delivers Red Cheeks At Conversation's Naughty And Nice Holiday Party
Just An Online Minute, Kelly Samardak - Friday, December 17, 2010
Last night, it seemed that everyone could have used a good spanking. I sat on my couch, uploading the last batch of photos from Digital DUMBO into their Flickr se ...
- Just An Online Minute... Digital DUMBO Brings The Ugly As AOL Attempts To Rise From The Email Ashes
Just An Online Minute, Kelly Samardak - Thursday, December 16, 2010
If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, there is nothing I am more attracted to than an ugly holiday sweater party. I hopped off the F at Yo ...
- Just An Online Minute... A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The AICP Holiday Party
Just An Online Minute, Kelly Samardak - Thursday, December 16, 2010
From The Atlantic to the foundation of angels, well Angel Orensantz Foundation for Contemporary Art that is. For it was within that gorgeous former synagogue that AICP/East threw their holid ...
- Just An Online Minute... A Night Of Pickles And Ammo At The Atlantic Holiday Party
Just An Online Minute, Kelly Samardak - Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Many moons ago, I worked at IBM. Many moons later, we broke up. During the break-up, I was determined to become more well-read, pay more attention to politics, and poli ...
- Just An Online Minute... Drag Queens, Slap Bracelets, And Inflatable Squirrels. Must Be A Mr. Youth Party...
Just An Online Minute, Kelly Samardak - Tuesday, December 14, 2010
What happened last week? Oh right, a whole slew of holiday parties. Good thing this week is slower, right? Ah ha! Ah hahahahahahaha! That maniacal laughter is dipped in sarcas ...
- Just An Online Minute... Control Group's Holiday Party Did Not Get The Placebo
Just An Online Minute, Kelly Samardak - Friday, December 10, 2010
I emerged from the elevator after the Yelp Snow Ball, into the temporarily abandoned office space on the 21st floor of the Woolworth Building. My Ohio almost fell out ...
- Just An Online Minute... Oh The Weather Outside Is Frightful, But Yelp Is So Delightful
Just An Online Minute, Kelly Samardak - Friday, December 10, 2010
Last night was a ball. A snow ball. A snow ball packed tight with delicious New York foods and drinks all rolled into the 69th Armory, set to the crystal-cle ...
- Just An Online Minute... 'Twas The Night Before Thursday, A Traffiq Holiday Party Poem
Just An Online Minute, Kelly Samardak - Thursday, December 9, 2010
This morning I woke up to the unventilated fumes of the apartment renovation beneath me. My nose seemed to expand as my head clouded up with visions of pink elephan ...
- Just An Online Minute... Come On It's Lovely Weather For A Mini Burger Together With YOU
Just An Online Minute, Kelly Samardak - Tuesday, December 7, 2010
My holiday party coverage has changed this week at least 80 times. Why? Because you people keep coming at me with weird wild wooly stuff. And I'm just a gi ...
- Just An Online Minute... Hold On For One More Day After Collective's Holiday Bash
Just An Online Minute, Kelly Samardak - Friday, December 3, 2010
My sister, do gooding Ohio University student MaryBeth Bognar, is living with me (yes, in our cozy NYC apartment) while she interns with Catchafire, one of my favorite finds fr ...
- Just An Online Minute... Minorities In Media Get Ugly For The Holidays
Just An Online Minute, Kelly Samardak - Thursday, December 2, 2010
I am INFUSED...OVERFLOWING... OBNOXIOUS with the Christmas spirit (because it's what I celebrate, it's what I'm calling it. Feel free to call whatever joyful affliction I have whatever suits yo ...
- Just An Online Minute... A Cake Boss, A Brewmaster, And A Storm Chaser Walk Into A Holiday Party...
Just An Online Minute, Kelly Samardak - Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Last year I decided to forgo the Discovery Communications Holiday Party and opt instead for another party that allowed +1's. This year I had a hankerin' for the old N ...
- Just An Online Minute... What's In Store For This Holiday Party Season?
Just An Online Minute, Kelly Samardak - Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Oh, this week. The week of Thanksgiving. A week where emails get sent into the ether, their landing uncertain. This is the week where lunches are longer because the b ...
- Just An Online Minute... Consumer Reports Reveals Naughty And Nice List
Just An Online Minute, Kelly Samardak - Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Consumer Reports threw a party last night. I know, a Consumer Reports party doesn't sound very sexy, but you know what is sexy? Knowing which companies use marketing tactics th ...
- Just An Online Minute... Balls Beat Bed Bugs At The 2010 Ad Council Public Service Award Dinner
Just An Online Minute, Kelly Samardak - Thursday, November 18, 2010
Last night I covered one of my absolute favorite events every year. It's the night the advertising world puts on the adult (not in a naked way) prom finery a ...
- Just An Online Minute... WE Do Good Awards Recognize Sherri Shepherd's Placenta, Reading Glasses
Just An Online Minute, Kelly Samardak - Wednesday, November 17, 2010
When I got the invitation all I could think was, "they must have a copy editor over there to catch that" But then I thought, maybe it's just one ...
- Just An Online Minute... This Positive Week Brought To You By Jimmy Fallon, Brian Williams, and... Grill Shaving?
Just An Online Minute, Kelly Samardak - Tuesday, November 16, 2010
This week is so stupendously awesome, with such great, happy-time, good-for-the-soul events I could just cha-cha in a bucket of meatballs. ...
- Just An Online Minute... Welcome To The ConcreteLoop Relaunch Party, B*tch
Just An Online Minute, Kelly Samardak - Friday, November 12, 2010
I know a ton of PR people who have performed MANY thankless tasks. No doubt manning the list at event check-ins is one of them. Every personality has to ...
- Just An Online Minute... The Pearl Awards Are Custom Content's Meat And Potatoes
Just An Online Minute, Kelly Samardak - Friday, November 12, 2010
I love content. Glossy, slippery, gossipy mags, thick, wordy, intellectual pubs, foodie, veggie, squatty manuals, quit and witty newsletters, fancy tip filled blogs, gorgeous sprawling photo spreads. I love ' ...
- Just An Online Minute... Netshelter Had A Party For Something
Just An Online Minute, Kelly Samardak - Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Last night I went to a party. Shocking, I know. ...