Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 21, 2011

Guest post by Erica Holt. How easy is it, really, to be authentic online? I’ve been thinking about this since Shonali’s thought-provoking post a few weeks back about how to social network smartly by being yourself online. She points out, “If you’re you online, you’ll be you offline.&#. I tend to agree with this assertion, but her post definitely got me wondering about online identity from a cyberpsychology perspective.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 24, 2011

Guest post by Matt LaCasse. I hear a lot of people talking about networking. How to do it, what are the do’s and don’ts, how much booze can I drink at a conference, on and on and on the list goes. Image: takomabibelot via Flickr, CC 2.0. There’s a dirty little secret in the communications world though: Networking is a joke. I’ve come to this conclusion after really thinking about what “networking” means.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 25, 2011

This is part of the Blogging for Grasshoppers series. If you talk to Howie Goldfarb anywhere – Twitter, here on his guest posts, or over at his own blog, you’ll know that he’s fixated on one thing. (Well, actually he’s fixated on many things, but one thing kept coming back to me.). Howie really really really believes in blogs being mobile friendly.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 22, 2011

I know it’s been a while since we’ve chatted about measurement on #measurePR, and for that, I’m truly sorry. But the last scheduled chat was on a day when a lot of folk were heading back from this year’s SxSW conference (or festival, or whatever you want to call it) and it didn’t seem to make sense to hold it when many of them couldn’t participate.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 23, 2011

Guest post by Shanan Sorochynski. A big part of my job is tied to supporting our university’s leaders. But I’ve never stopped and thought about what leadership really is. Fortunately, the faculty, staff and students are always around to enlighten me. A couple of weeks ago we posted a series of videos and articles they contributed to the University’s official blog that explored the issue of leadership in preparation for the annual female-focused Inspiring Leadership conference that the institutio

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 20, 2011

What with birthing a new blog , helping a new client get started on their digital initiatives and attending the Google for Nonprofits event this week, I had a ton of useful information coming my way. Spinning wheel, meet head. Whew! So this week’s roundup consists of posts I’ve found really useful. I hope you will too. Let’s get right to it. 1.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 19, 2011

When the devastating earthquake and tsunami hit Japan last week, I watched my Twitter and Facebook streams with some fascination (Twitter more than Facebook… in terms of watching, I mean, not fascinating). I was pretty sure that I would overwhelmingly start seeing tweets related to the disaster, as more and more people in different time zones found out about it.

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