The About Perception Podcast

Welcome to a view from Lift Off Lane. The podcast where you can get an insider's perspective of the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta powered by ExxonMobil. In addition to hot air balloons. What else is there to do at Balloon Fiesta Park? Well, in this episode, Tom Garrity speaks with Erica to learn more about the great entertainment at Balloon Fiesta and attractions along Main Street. 

Welcome to a view from Lift Off Lane, the podcast where you can get an insider's perspective of the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta powered by ExxonMobil. In this episode, we will learn more about the different ways you can experience this year's event. Tom Garrity speaks with Shamaine Giannini who overseas, the popular Gondola Club, Camp 505, skyboxes and more. 

Welcome to a view from Lift Off Lane, the podcast where you can get an insider's perspective of the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta powered by ExxonMobil. In this episode, Tom Garrity speaks with Tracey Hawkins to learn more about a popular attraction at Balloon Fiesta, The Balloon Discovery Center. 

Welcome to a view from Lift Off Lane, the podcast where you can get an insider's perspective of the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta powered by ExxonMobil. In this episode, Tom Garrity speaks with Tracey Hawkins to learn more about being a Balloon Fiesta volunteer, as well as the difference between a navigator and a member of the Chase crew. 

In this episode of the Perception podcast, we're going to focus on a program that was announced on July 31st, with the main goal of providing more confidence in the integrity and security of New Mexico's election system. The national presidential election and the state's general election occur this November 5th, 2024. Joining me today on the Perception podcast is Carmen J. Lopez, the president of CL strategies, a company that supports communities to help them build and engage representative and accessible democracy. 

Carmen is here to share some information about a program called Observe New Mexico Elections. 

https://observenmelections.org

In today’s podcast, we will speak with Laurie Magovern the executive director of the Anderson Abruzzo International Balloon Museum Foundation. We will learn more about the museum, foundation and its leader.  The Anderson Abruzzo International Balloon Museum Foundation is an independent, 501(c)3 non-profit support organization for the Balloon Museum. The Balloon Museum is a program of the City of Albuquerque’s Department of Arts & Culture.

To learn more about the Anderson Abruzzo International Balloon Museum Foundation visit https://balloonmuseum.com/.

Welcome to the Perception Podcast, this is Tom Garrity with The Garrity Group Public Relations, we help small businesses to heard and large organizations to be understood.

It is Perception season!  What does that mean?  It is when we shares insights from its 2023 Garrity Perception Survey.

It all started in 2010, when the firm engaged Albuquerque-based Research and Polling to query New Mexico residents on the favorability of 17 industries, trust of 15 professions and how we access news and Information.  The first survey was in the field January 2011, there have been a total of eight over the years… the most recent is the 2023 Perception Survey. This is the first of the community overviews, provided to the annual meeting of the New Mexico Newspaper Association on October 28, 2023.  While I had hoped for a podium to hold my notes, the presentation was more “free-form” which was very appropriate to the audience.  My thanks to Sammy Lopez, the executive director of the NMPA for the opportunity.

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To sign-up for the full 2023 Garrity Perception Survey visit: https://garritypr.com/research/

In today’s podcast we are going to dive into one aspect of the 2023 Garrity Perception Survey.  Specifically, the level of Trust New Mexico residents have of State Government Officials. 

The Garrity Group helps small businesses to be heard and large organizations to be understood. To help support our mission, we commissioned Albuquerque’s Research & Polling to measure New Mexico adult residents’ perceptions of various types of industries, institutions, people and professions in the state, as well as to determine which sources residents access for news and information.   Research and Polling has conducted all of the previous projects surveys since inception of the Garrity Perception Survey in 2011.

The scientific survey of 400 residents was conducted March 15-April 2, 2023, the survey results have a 95 percent level of confidence and a maximum margin of error of 4.9 percent.

New Mexico residents were asked to rate their trust of 15 people and professions using a five-point scale –  where a score of “five” is complete trust and a score of one is complete distrust. 

 In 2011, 23% trusted state government.

In 2014, trust of state government hit a low of 15%.

And, 10 years later, in 2023, only 24 percent of residents trust state government… so slightly better than in 2011 and 2014… but is “better” still “good” when less than a quarter of New Mexico residents say they trust State Government Officials? 

Matt Grubbs, Investigative Reporter and Executive Producer at KOB-TV joins Tom Garrity to discuss the results related to trust of State Government Officials.

https://www.kob.com/news_team/matt-grubs/

For more information visit https://garritypr.com/

To sign-up for the full 2023 Garrity Perception Survey visit: https://garritypr.com/research/

Meta's new Threads app has been generating a lot of buzz!  The Garrity Group team provides their insights about this new social media channel.  On this episode Tom Garrity (Threads @TomGarrity) , Andie Mercer (Threads @andie.mercer) and Makayla Roberts (Threads @makayla3_) provide their insights on the new app.

TGG Perception Threads

Tom Garrity [00:00:06]  Welcome back to the Perception podcast. My name is Tom Garrity with the Garrity group Public Relations. Today, we have the team around the microphone and we're going to be talking about this latest thing called Threads, which is really kind of unique on the timing. I mean, it seems to have taken over, you know, aspects of the earned media space, talking about the social media space. With me today is Andie Mercer, vice president of the Garrity Group Public Relations, and Makayla Roberts, assistant account executive with the Garrity Group Public Relations, and people who are much more engaged and in touch with the digital space in the digital realm than I am. Why don't we start first with Andie? What? How would you describe threads? 

Andie Mercer [00:01:02] What a loaded question. I would say that thread is a less functional Twitter world. I would describe it as I am going to rock the mike at that. 

Tom Garrity [00:01:18] How do you really feel about that? Okay, Makayla, how would you like to add on to that or clarify what is that when you you know, when family talks to you about threads, how do you describe it? 

Makayla Roberts [00:01:33] So I would kind of agree with Andie, but I would kind of expand on it by saying I think it's a basic outline right now. I think they threw it out there to be a competitor with Twitter, but don't really have a lot of the engaging such as like, you know, engaging your certain following or DMS or things like that. It's kind of just a basic outline to throw your thoughts out there. 

Tom Garrity [00:02:01] Mm hmm. Interesting and nobody has mentioned that other word yet. Twitter. 

Andie Mercer [00:02:10] I think I mentioned it. 

Tom Garrity [00:02:11] You did? Oh, okay. I did now. So I could not or at all. And if this are just kidding, this is lives it takes. Of course, it's not even tape. So here's what I like about threads is that because obviously I feel like I'm out, but I'm outstanding in my own field on support of threads. I like it because it provides that alternative to Twitter. And, you know, I think that breaking it out as a separate item from Instagram, I think is smart because it seems as if Instagram for a time was trying to be all things to all people. I mean, because you had the Snapchat kind of functionality with with the stories and you have the pictures. And now, I mean, I've found that, you know, ever since they put the, you know, the stories on there, that my engagement on my pictures. I mean, people are interested in what I'm eating anymore. So I've really got to step up, step up my game. But that engagement has really decreased. And I think it's but my engagement with the with the stories has increased. And so I was glad to see that Threads wasn't another option within the Instagram app...

Tom Garrity, Andie Mercer and Makayla Roberts continue the conversation by talking about the iPhone upgrades we like.  Android users should only listen to hear what you are missing out on ;-)

TGG Perception iPhone

Tom Garrity [00:00:03] All right. Welcome to the Perception podcast. This is Tom Garrity with the Garrity Group Public Relations. Joining me today is Vice President Andie Mercer and an assistant account executive, Makayla Roberts. We have just finished recording the session on threads. And I said, you know what? Hold on, guys. We're going to talk I'm going to throw one topic out at you. And those are drumroll. They have no idea what I'm going to ask, although they'll know once I ask, What is the one iPhone feature that you enjoy using the most? And so with that, let me see. Everybody is still on mute. So I will. Go ahead. Oh, Andie's up. Andie, you'll be the first one in. 

Andie Mercer [00:00:47] I will be the first two to jump on this. It's not iPhone specific, but airdrop like the connectivity between my laptop and my phone and my watch. I absolutely love that. It makes just living so seamless. 

Tom Garrity [00:01:13] That's good airdrop. 

Makayla Roberts [00:01:15] Makayla Dang. And it put out a good one. I do not know how I can follow up from that one. No, just kidding. But I think. My specific one. Can it be an app within? Sure. 

Tom Garrity [00:01:33] Absolutely.

Makayla Roberts [00:01:34] My notes is I absolutely use notes for everything. I use it for lists. I use it for information. And the one feature that I absolutely love is that they now have it available to lock your notes. So if you have anything of importance, because me, I forget everything. If I do not have it written down so you can lock it with your face recognition. And that is a game changer for sure. 

Tom Garrity [00:02:02] Interesting. I and I didn't know what was going to be shared for me because I've shared this before. It is the do not disturb function in the personal kind of how you can set those up and stuff. There was a time that I did not like the Do not disturb because I was missing all these calls. Well, I realized then that I was on Do Not Disturb, and it's kind of like the school of hard knocks. That's the only way you know, that some of these features exist. The other item is, okay, I know I said one, but I'm going to say two. I have an iPhone 12 and an iPhone 13. And I have to say that when you look at them, they're somewhat similar. But the camera's on like the iPhone 12 is so much better. I mean, it is like night and day. So, you know, I would say that the 12 hour is hands. Above everything else as far as the camera goes. 

Andie Mercer [00:03:01] And I will add on to that, because my brothers are all Android users. I know. Wow. But in our group chats. Not to toot my own horn, but my photos are way better than theirs. The camera quality on iPhones is definitely something that I really enjoy. 

Tom Garrity [00:03:25] Yeah. And, you know, the chat feature, you know, I mean, let's face it, we all love the blue cloud. I mean, when I see that green cloud come up, I go, Oh. And yeah, I get a little kind of high, you know, snooty and stuff. I'm thinking, Oh, come on, people, get an iPhone. Your life will be so much better. I mean, I felt a feel sorry when I for people, when I see the green cloud in the text. 

Andie Mercer [00:03:50] And and the fact that I have to wear a green bubble group chat with my brothers reaction when I like someone's message, it sends the message that I like their message. It's not the same. 

Tom Garrity [00:04:06] Not the. 

Makayla Roberts [00:04:06] Worse. The worst of the green bubble chats is when it kicks you out of an existing group chat and ...