Mike was on Bill Clinton's Transition Team

Mike Smith & Cheryl Vosburg with Steny Hoyer, Maryland Congressman and House Minority Whip

Mike Smith & Cheryl Vosburg with Darrell Issa, U.S. Representative for California's 49th congressional district

Mike Smith & Cheryl Vosburg with Juliet Eilperin, head Washington Post political writer

Mike Smith & Cheryl Vosburg with Lynn Sweet, Washington Bureau Chief for the Chicago Sun Times

Mike Smith with Elijah Cummings, U.S. Representative for Maryland's 7th congressional district

Mike Smith & Cheryl Vosburg with Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Chair of the DNC and U.S. Representative for Florida's 20th congressional district

Mike Smith with Arianna Huffington

Mike with NASA Administrator Charles Bolden (center) and a client from the American Military University. Bolden just announced the final space shuttle mission. 

Mike with Rep. Jim Moran and the Spinal Research Foundation

Mike Smith appears with Ted Leonsis at the Junior Achievement Awards banquet late last year. Smith had worked with Leonsis while at AOL on other charities.

At the Washington Press Club foundation fundraiser. Mike Smith pictured here with Rep. Nancy Pelosi.

At the Washington Press Club foundation fundraiser. Mike Smith pictured here with Steny Hoyer.

At the Washington Press Club foundation fundraiser. Mike Smith pictured here with Rep. Dennis Kucinich.

Mike Smith speaks with Actor and Activist Richard Dreyfuss in the green
room at Fox News in Washington. The Dreyfuss Initiative was launched in early
2011 to help families learn civics and civility. Smith also hosted Dreyfuss
at a National press club newsmaker event.

Mike Smith, center, arranges meeting for Volvo government affairs exec Jonathan Miller. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu is at right.

Mike Smith meets with Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif), powerful chairman of the House Energy Committee, at a fundraising event at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles.

Mike Smith and Tim Taylor of the National Geospatial Intel Agency (NGA)

Ashley Hougton and Mike Smith with Al Franken (center)

Representative Dennis Kucinich, center. Liz Bush, account exec, right and Mike Smith left attend the Washington Press Club Foundation dinner.

Mike Smith, Secretary of Education,  Arne Duncan, and members of client American Public University meet to talk about President Obama's higher ed goals for America.

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.

Nina Jensen (new pal from Copenhagen, Denmark), US Ambassador to Denmark Laurie Fulton, and Mike Smith (me) striking a pose at the Ambassador's home.

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

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.

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 and Bogusky. Shot with CP and B including myself, Alex and Marshall Eubanks, CEO of AmericaFree.TV.

Mike Smith and Marshall Eubanks of AmericaFree.TV on the Fearless set with Alex Bogusky during the shoot.

Movie title of a romantic comedy with Kate Hudson and Matthew M. Nah, it could star Colleen and Mike. Equal Footing Foundation's Lee Betton, MSBD CEO Mike Smith, and Equal Footing's Colleen Hahn and Weis and 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.

At the PRSA public relations event in DC. 3000 spin docs all in one ballroom? Yikes. Here is Krist Ruhle from State News Lines proving my premise that localization is the future of media (for now).

Press Club News Event on black college debate funding. John Davis, Jeff Porro, and Mike Smith face the media.

At the Clios with Nielsen.

Big party week. Junior Achievement awards banquet and Washington big wigs like Leonsis inducted to hall of fame.

Tim O'Reilly talks to Mike Smith for Disruptive Technologies at the Personal Democracy Forum 2010