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How to Successfully Digitize Events During COVID-19

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I’ve been working virtually, at least in part, since 2006. “Please sir, no more” Yesterday I saw a tweet that made me grin: Please, sirs, no more ZoomsSlacksHangoutsGDocsAirTable pic.twitter.com/GQ1gfuRSPJ. Roben Farzad 🎙️ (@robenfarzad) April 8, 2020.

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What Playing the Oboe Taught Me About Building My Own PR Practice

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Image: courtesy and used with permission from Maura Lafferty from the 2006 Sigma Alpha Iota National Convention in Orlando, Fla. Did you come to your career in a tangential fashion? What lessons did you bring from your previous life? Do share, I’d love to know.

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How the Internet and Telecommuting Saved My Life

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In 2006, my second son Ayden was born and I really started to reflect on my life, my job, and the future. For years, I struggled with work-life balance. . I managed to juggle a full-time job and family, but I never felt the sense of accomplishment that people always refer to when talking about their career.

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Finding Keywords: The First Step to Blogging Success

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Having built my first web site ( DVD Verdict ) in April 1999 and managed one of the larger SEO teams in the country from 2006 to 2009, it’s safe to say I’ve seen many changes in web marketing over time. Guest post by Sean McGinnis. I’ve been a web marketer for a long, long time.

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6 Things The Army Taught Me About PR

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Twitter, which was founded in 2006, didn’t exist when I left. In the Spring of 2007, I returned to my full time job after an 18-month deployment that included a year in Iraq and realized that the world of public relations had changed.

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3 Things Puppies and Kittens Taught Me About Becoming Influential

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That was part of the reason I was hired in 2006, along with two other extremely talented and creative PR professionals; to make over the organization’s PR function.

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Veterans Day: A Granddaughter Remembers

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He passed in 2006, so he missed my college graduation and will miss my wedding when that happens. My maternal grandfather was also a young enlistee in WWII (born 1922, not sure how young, but in his teens we know) and served in Paupa New Guinea. Family history is so crucial. Reply Rate Up div.livefyre-comment).removeClass(livefyre-hidden)"

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