September, 2012

Waxing UnLyrical

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How to Network On Social Media Without Being a Stalker

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I got an interesting question from someone I know (name withheld on request) recently. I was asked: “I would like to reach out and connect with a professional contact that I have made via Twitter/Facebook /LinkedIn. Do you have any suggestions on how to approach a such a contact without appearing to be ‘Facebook stalking’?” Hmm, I thought to myself.

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Understanding Paid, Owned and Earned Media

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Guest post by Geoff Livingston. The concept of converging media continues to heat up, most notably with marketers discussing the dynamics of blending paid, owned and earned media. While the paid, owned and earned concept has been circulated for quite a while now, it’s becoming a common part of the marketing strategist’s vocabulary. Paid, owned and earned really provides a budgetary view of how marketers approach media selection.

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Goings On… and On The Road

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I realize I haven’t told you much about my goings-on of late. So here they are, in case you can make any of them: This Friday, Sept. 21 , I’ll be leading a post-conference workshop for attendees of ALI’s “Social Media for Government Communicators” conference on (what else?) PR and social media measurement. If by some chance you are one of the folks registered for my workshop, do let me know!

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How My Guinea Pigs Became Famous Guest Bloggers

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Guest post by Jessica Torres. A year and a half ago, I started a blog about my pet guinea pigs called Cavy Savvy. Originally, I wanted a way to test the SEO techniques I was learning about at work, and having a hobby blog just seemed like a fun way to do so. I never knew it would one day receive over 13.5K pageviews a month and have 105 loyal followers without me ever paying for PPC advertising (Organic traffic FTW!).

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Toon Time: Coffee to the Rescue

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Erin Feldman is a writing coach at Write Right. Her background is in marketing communications and creative writing. When she isn’t busy helping people tell their stories, she spends her time writing poetry, drawing, reading, and running. You just read Toon Time: Coffee to the Rescue , originally posted on Waxing UnLyrical , published by Shonali Burke.

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How 9/11 Changed My Life Forever

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Eleven years ago today, I had little notion that my life would be changed forever. At the time, we lived and worked in the San Francisco Bay Area. Since we lived in a “bedroom community” of the City by the Bay, we had to get up and get ready to leave our home at an unearthly hour to make it into work at a “regular” time (both my husband and I worked in/near downtown San Francisco).

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Using Social Media For Sustainability: WiserEarth Does It, And Well

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The social network, as most of us think of it, is nothing more than the likes of Facebook or Orkut, among others. But to the world at large, it’s not just about Facebook (or the related movie), but a community that has been built over the years around a common interest or topic. So I’m using this post to showcase such a community that has been actively working around sustainability.