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25 Years Deserves a Celebration!
Posted by: Leann in Picture Gallery on September 24th, 2009
September 12 marked Zogby International’s 25th anniversary. The Zogby team got together to celebrate 25 years of hard work and dedication. Meet the Zogby team!
Behind every great man there’s a great woman! Certainly this is true of Mrs. Zogby, John’s wife.
Zogby’s Security Guard, Richard Woodson, makes sure everything runs smoothly. He is joined by his wife, Rhonda.
Rita Charbel runs the call center during its busy late-night hours!
Sharon Jachim, our VP of Strategic Solutions
Zogby Chief of Staff, Mike Calogero, relaxing after a hard day’s work.
…and Zogby’s Project Administration team, led by Becky Wittman, VP of Project Administration, who is enjoying the celebration!
and Karen Scott. Pictured is Mitch and his mom, Karen Scott, who does a great job as Zogby’s Managing Editor and Senior Analyst. And Mike, having a rest after the football game.
The Project Administration team is assisted by our Editorial Department including our Writers and Analysts. Here’s Phil Vanno, Writer/Analyst and his buddy Paul Zogby, Systems Associate.
Monica Kachnikiewicz, HR Assistant and Call Center Trainer, enjoying the Lebanese food.
Nancy Manley and Zogby’s Call Center Manager Rose Kolwait.
Andy Stemmer, Systems Engineer.
Chad Bohernt heads the Marketing Department
with co-direction by Shane Nelson. Pictured is Sandy Nelson and her husband Shane, Government Contracts Executive.
Both are assisted by Anibal Abdella, Coordinator of Client Relations.
Here’s the Communication’s team, taking time away from twittering to celebrate 25 years. Jared Frank, joined by his significant other, Leann Atkinson, Director of Communications, Stephanie DeVries, Assistant Director, and Phil Vanno, Writer, Analyst, and serious Beatles fan.
Katy Schwalbe also assists the communications team as a Researcher.
…and last but not least, the Zogby mascots!
The Calogero family.
Dan DeVries and the Communications mascot, Lucy.
Ro Penz, VP of Finance, Missy Penz and Zogby’s System’s Department mascot, Cameron.
Editorial mascot Tyler and his mom, Chelan along with Communication’s mascot, Lucy, and her mom, Steph.
Administration mascot, Clare.
…and Editorial mascot, Tyler, who’s hoping to steal that cookie!
Zogby Goes Back to School
Posted by: Leann in Picture Gallery on September 9th, 2009
This past May, John Zogby received a Doctorate of Humane Letters from The College of Saint Rose and also had the honor of addressing the 2009 St. Rose graduates. John spoke along with another notable guest…
(Can you spot Jimmy Fallon??)
Zogby has a long history of researching First Globals™ and the address was not only insightful but also inspirational to the graduates.
Following is The College of Saint Rose 2009 commencement speech by John Zogby
Today is a very big moment in your lives and a great opportunity to share with you the things I have learned about studying 20-somethings for a long time now. And I want to assure you that I know 20-somethings. Kathy and I have raised three fine young men. And, even more importantly, I am the original Jay-Z – any that follow me are just imposters.
So let me tell you something about who you are and the world you have already begun to create. You are America’s First Global Citizens.
- 56% of you have passports and have traveled abroad. Even more of you have plans to travel abroad in the next five years.
- 23% of you expect – not hope or wish, but expect – to live and work in a foreign capital at some point in your lives.
- You are as likely to call yourself a “citizen of the planet Earth” as you are to say you are an “American citizen.”
- You are the most likely of any age cohort to support multi-lateralism in foreign policy, see the United Nations as a positive force in the world, support US entry into the World Court and support the US ratification of the international protocols placing limits on carbon emissions.
- You are the most likely of any group to believe that immigration is a great thing for America.
- You are the least likely to believe that American culture is inherently superior to the cultures of Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.
- You are the most culturally diverse of any age cohort in the friends you have, among your fellow students, and where you live and work.
We have asked this question among college students and 20-somethings for over a decade: What will American look like 20 years from now. Your number one response, TWO and a HALF YEARS ago was offered without any prompting: Barack Obama.
And we have also asked your peers over the same period: “Who are your friends?” The response we used to receive was typically fellow students you met with between classes, those with whom you socialized on weekends, people with whom you worked. Typical responses today? “I have a friend in Thailand,” “I have someone “in my network who is in Sao Paolo.”
Anne-Marie Slaughter, former dean of the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton and now Assistant Sec of State, has written: “We live in a networked world… Business is networked – every CEO advice manual published in the past decade has focused on the shift from the vertical world of hierarchy to the horizontal world of networks. Media are networked – online blogs and other forms of participatory media depend on contributions from readers to create a vast, networked conversation. Society is networked-the world of MySpace is creating a global world of ‘OurSpace’, linking hundreds of millions of individuals across continents. Even religion is networked – as Pastor Rick Warren has argued, ‘The only thing big enough to solve the problems of spiritual emptiness, selfish leadership, poverty, disease, and ignorance is the network of millions of churches all around the world.’ In this world, the measure of power is connectedness.” (Foreign Affairs, Jan-Feb 2009)
And you are connected. Among your contributions already: you elected the 44th president of the United States. You gave him a margin of 66%-29% over his opponent and you voted in record amounts in the primaries and in November 2008. And despite all the chatter about whether Barack Obama is a “Baby Boomer” because he was born in 1961 or a member of “Generation X”, The truth is President Obama is our first First Global President – he looks like you. He has lived on several continents. And he shares your passion to avoid hyper-partisan solutions.
Lest it appear that I am describing to your parents a new generation liberals. Not so. When I ask about a number of social issues, First Globals tell me they want to know the situation before they make a judgment. You are not ruled by ideology.
You are the first age cohort to grow up in a world that seriously discusses the eradication of global hunger and poverty.
And you are the first to pose the challenge: how do we go to war against people who wear the same fashion and listen to the same music?
How exciting it all is – the world you have inherited and the one you have begun to re-make. How exciting to think that you join this incredible future armed with your degree on Monday morning.
Wow! How exciting. To you, the graduates, to card-carrying members of the First Global Citizen generation. I am so proud of what you have already done – and I can’t wait to see how much more you will do.
Thank you again for this honor.
John receiving his Doctorate…
…and support from his son, Jonathan and wife, Kathy
Zogby International Loves the Saranac Brewery
Posted by: Leann in Picture Gallery on August 29th, 2009
We always get the same question here at Zogby International: Why Utica, NY? Utica is John Zogby’s (our President and CEO) hometown, the rent is reasonable and the workforce is outstanding. It takes us only ten minutes to get to work and we get a full taste of all four seasons. We’re nestled at the bottom of a stunning mountain range and a short distance to any number of major cities. In this day and age, connected by video and satellite, one could work anywhere, and, well, Utica is…anywhere. Utica is great! However, if you want to know the real reason we all stay in Utica, NY, you have to take a short drive down Varick Street.
OK, we really stay in Utica for the beer. Utica, NY is the hometown of the boutique-style Saranac Brewery, which happens to brew some of the world’s best beer. And yes, that’s John Zogby enjoying a beer with Nick Matt, President of the Saranac Brewery. Earlier this summer Zogby International had the wonderful opportunity to host an event with the Saranac Brewery, all under the guise of sharing the ideas in The Way We’ll Be with local business leaders. In all seriousness, it was a great event at which our Utica-area business leaders got together and talked about the next generation (First Globals™) of consumers and who was keeping up-to-date with their clients via facebook. The facebook award goes to SUNY IT, whose president has made great strides on the site! (SUNY IT President Bjong Wolf Yeigh second from the left)
We love being part of the global community but we also love spending time in our hometown. Here are a few shots of the Zogby folks enjoying the event!
Former Zogby Project Manager Kim Wyborski, Mrs. Zogby, Sandy Nelson and her husband Shane Nelson, Government Services Executive
Sharon Jachim, Executive VP of Strategic Solutions along with Fritz Wenzel, Communications Consultant and Zogby friend University of Rochester Professor, and author, Curt Smith
John Zogby signing a copy of his book, The Way We’ll Be
Raising Money with Manute Bol
Posted by: Leann in Picture Gallery on August 29th, 2009
By John Zogby
We hear it almost every day – “It’s a small world we live in!”
We see it every day, as news outlets broadcast information live to our living rooms from every remote corner of the Earth. And most of us use the World Wide Web every day to get the latest news, catch up with old friends, pay bills, and research a project we are working on or a new medical treatment. And when you are having a problem with that computer of yours, it is not uncommon to pick up the phone and discuss it with a technician somewhere in India, the Phillipines, or somewhere else in southeast Asia.
For us in the Western world, it’s a small world, and it’s getting smaller every day, as technology improves and becomes more widely used. But there are still places where people live in a bygone era, laying down in mud huts at night and still scrapping for their next meal by day. One of those places is in Sudan.
Sudan is working to recover from a 22–year civil war, as government forces in the north battled rebels in the south. It was brutal. Many lives were lost and many families torn apart forever. Knowing this, I was particularly impressed with the activities of former National Basketball Association star Manute Bol. He grew up in southern Sudan, tending cows as his father asked rather than going to school, Manute learned to play basketball as an escape from his childhood burdens. He was quite good and was soon spotted by an American talent scout as he played in his home town of Juba, and eventually came to America to go to school and play basketball. At 7 feet, 7 inches, he was the tallest player in the NBA and quickly became known for his incredible shot–blocking abilities. He played 10 years in the NBA before retiring.
You might think that someone who had made it from a dirt–poor village in Southern Sudan to the bright lights of American professional basketball would move forward with his life, glad to have the worries of a childhood in a violent, poor African country behind him. If you were to think that about Manute Bol, you would be wrong. This adored basketball star, who lost more than 200 family members in the violence of the Sudanese civil war while he was in the United States playing professional basketball, is now working to build reconciliation in his homeland. He is raising money to build a school back in his home village.
Earlier this year, I was invited to speak at the PODER ABC Reconciliation Forum in Washington D.C. While at this event I had the opportunity and pleasure to meet and listen to Manute and learned about his efforts to build the reconciliation school in Turalei, Sudan. His story moved me.
I offered to help Manute raise awareness and fund–raising for his project in my hometown: Utica, NY. Manute, all 7 foot 7 inches of him, came to Utica and spent the day visiting our version of inner-city schools. He was greeted with wild applause and enthusiasm. Manute is likely the tallest man these children will ever see. He towered over them…
…and has to duck for the doorway!
Later that day, we invited the Utica community to hear Manute talk about his hometown. Our small city of Utica raised over $10,000 for Manute’s program, Sudan Sunrise, which is constructing a school in Manute’s home village. The school will be a key signal of reconciliation in this war–torn country, welcoming both Darfurian and Southern Sudanese children, both Muslim and Christian. Children at the school now meet outdoors and learn to write using sticks in the dirt.
Here are more shots of the event (and Manute next to some average sized folks!)
