Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Ten Reasons PR Pros Should Blog November 10th, 2010 Tweet Last week, Joe Hackman hosted Danny Brown , Gini Dietrich and me on his BlogTalkRadio show, aptly entitled PRapalooza. Boy, was it fun!

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Bill Hartzer

OCTOBER 5, 2013

Dear Blog Comment Spammer, who just left a comment on one of my recent blog posts: I think whatever software tool or script that you are using is broken. Whatever the reason, you should have noticed that none of the blog comments that are left on my blog actually allow outgoing links to websites. Can you tell? {. {I

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Instead, communicate the value of the tip by explaining that practicing while standing up simulates the actual presentation environment and allows me to pay attention to my posture and gestures. An article published on Edutopia titled Lead, Don’t Lecture , outlines teachers’ insights that are in line with these sentiments.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 7, 2008

I’ve done a number of workshops the past few months with clients designed to do two primary things: Land a common understanding across the teams involved around what social media, communities and influencer programs really are and more importantly why it matters to a business. I wish that could be enough said.

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Bill Hartzer

JANUARY 7, 2014

When you have a fairly popular blog, you have to deal with comment spammers. Unfortunately, blog comment spamming still works apparently, or at least the blog spammers haven’t learned that it doesn’t work. Nonetheless, I’m still amazed at some of the comments left on the blog.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 11, 2010

This is particularly appealing for publishers with content that may be of interest to specific audiences as opposed to the wider Digg user base. Real-time Blogroll (via Google Reader) About.com Founder Scott Kurnit Launches Huge New Startup Called "AdKeeper" New Digg Buttons Released - Upgrade Now! Will it work with local news?

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 2, 2011

With all the wonderful feedback on my guest post about how we utilize WordPress multisite and discussion forums to build community for our rather niche market, I thought I might offer some detail about specific tactics and network plugins we use to keep members informed, active and increasing in number. Here’s how we did it.

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Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Want Social Media Evangelizers? Be Social September 7th, 2010 Tweet Today BNET published my second post, focusing on how companies can use social media to turn customers into evangelizers. pts Settings.

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Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 27, 2010

It simply means the primary objectives of most social business efforts are centered on concepts like community-building, engagement, listening, and participating in conversations. Shannon Pauls Very Official Blog Spin Sucks TopRank Online Marketing Blog Writing Boots - David Murray Love WUL? pts Settings. Read All About It!

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

The rumors about Tablo’s supposed forgery were spread by two online communities: “We Urge Tablo to Tell the Truth,&# or TaJinYo , and “A World Where Common Sense is the Truth,&# or SangJinSe. TaJinYo, formed in May, harassed Tablo’s family and ex-girlfriend , and contacted Tablo himself with death threats.

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 7, 2010

Development Social Media I Started a Blog But No One Cared Fri, Jan 8, 2010 Enterprise 2.0 Image Courtesy of Flickr user cogdogblog As many of you know, here at Booz Allen, we’ve got an internal suite of social media tools available on our Intranet – hello.bah.com. How do I get people to read the blog? Government 2.0

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 23, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Social Media Visitors More Loyal But Still a Very Small Percentage of Site Traffic by Adam Sherk on October 23, 2009 Yesterday posts from eMarketer and Marketing Pilgrim called my attention to some interesting social media statistics put out by advertising network Chitika.

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Adam Sherk

APRIL 26, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk An Early Look at Facebook Open Graph Protocol Integration on News Sites by Adam Sherk on April 26, 2010 There has been a lot of news and reaction around Facebook’s new additions to the Facebook Platform: Social Plugins, the Open Graph protocol and the Graph API.

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Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 22, 2010

The Chuckle-icious Seven If you’re looking for some great blog posts for when you need a chuckle, here they are: 1. Larry is furious about this Mark Hurd thing , from The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs, published by Fake Steve Jobs. If you haven’t seen it, I highly recommend it. You know why. Especially you, Jill.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 23, 2011

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Weekly Roundup: The Long Of It January 23rd, 2011 Tweet The long or the short of it? Earlier this week, there was a great guest post over at Spin Sucks on how long or short blog posts should be.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 21, 2010

You can set up your own blog. Just like Posterous, you can use Amplify as your primary blogging platform, as well as auto-post to your own blog. Ah, but does the image accompanying your blog post show up? It really is a community. Mark as read Approve comment S- Okay, now youve given me a blog idea.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Brian Solis and Deirdre Breakenridge just published an excellent book, Putting the Public Back in Public Relations. After pouring blood, sweat, and tears into our blog that clearly is known for addressing a specific subject matter, we get an email from a public relations agency that takes us for someone completely different.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 12, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Most Popular NBA Teams on Twitter and Facebook by Adam Sherk on January 12, 2010 NBA players, like many professional athletes, have taken social media by storm, but what about their teams?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 28, 2008

· Filed under Collaboration , Communities , Distributed Work , Enterprise 2.0 , Talent Management. He also wrote " Blogging The Market - How weblogs are turning corporate machines into real conversations " several years ago, more of a cri du coeur at a time when blogging was still fresh and (perhaps) innocent.

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Koka Sexton

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS Getting your local blog noticed Getting your blog read by a larger audience is a daunting task. I recently started a local blog called the Mayor of Concord. Getting your local blog noticed by new readers is key to growth. These are the two places I got my start.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk A Look at Muck Rack’s Twitter Press Release Service, 51 Releases Later by Adam Sherk on October 20, 2009 I’m definitely a fan of Muck Rack – it offers an easy way to track major media journalists on Twitter and pick up on trending topics.

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 24, 2009

Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS 5 Ways to Promote A Local Blog One of the projects I work on is called the Mayor of Concord. I thought that starting a local blog was important. Many of the typical rules of internet marketing do not apply to a hyper-local blog. I started this back in Aug.

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 24, 2009

Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS 5 Ways to Promote A Local Blog One of the projects I work on is called the Mayor of Concord. I thought that starting a local blog was important. Many of the typical rules of internet marketing do not apply to a hyper-local blog. I started this back in Aug.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Another good example from Australia was a journalist called Tom Cowie , who mounted a full social media campaign called Tom Wants A Job, complete with a transparent blog (with all the applications and rejection letters), Twitter handle and Facebook fan page. I am now a Follower of your blog. That sort of creativity gets you noticed.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

HP Communities. Search: HP Communities. Blogs - Tab - Selected. Weekly Knowledge Management blog by Stan Garfield. Weekly Knowledge Management Blog by Stan Garfield. KM Question, Blog, Link, and Book of the Week. [ Weekly Knowledge Management Blog by Stan Garfield. KM Blog of the Week.

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

One way in which I do this is through the strategic use of social media tools like blogs, Facebook, Twitter, etc. DO be ready to walk me through the steps you might take if I told you that I the CEO of a company and I wanted to start a blog. Thanks again for publishing such great reading material!! Just be you and be authentic.

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Social Media Strategery

MAY 6, 2010

I just don’t see how talking about what you ate for dinner on your ‘blog’ is going to help us accomplish the mission.&# community who have experienced similar frustrations. The results of this survey will be published in a report and (hopefully) shared later this month at the Gov 2.0 Expo in Washington, DC.

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Saying It Social

JUNE 22, 2010

Computer Explorers – provides technology education to children ages 3 and up at childcare centers, preschools, private and public schools and community centers. link] 1 day ago When you have anchor text and/or links to social sites etc on your blog/website PLEASE make them open in a new. if yes, please explain.

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Social Media Strategery

JUNE 17, 2010

I often feel like I’m fighting a constant battle against FOMO and HOLI - there’s always another blog I should be reading or another event I should be attending. The only difference now is that the gatekeepers (book publishers, TV producers, etc.) Andreajm517 Steve – Great preso and blog post. It work for me.

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Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

If this takes the form of a blog post, it usually includes some kind of disclaimer (“this is my list,&# for example), and a question at the end as to who you would add. Comment on their blog posts. Ask them to contribute to a blog post… or profile them in one. Blogging doesnt have to look like high school.

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The Way of the Web

DECEMBER 9, 2009

It’s called Small Rivers , a tool for bloggers to network content and audiences started by a small team on the Swiss Institute of Technology EPFL Campus, who wanted to find an easier and better way to connect communities of shared interests without having to leave their own website, blog or social network.

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The Way of the Web

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Web Strategy Wikinomics Rankings ← The two digital publishing models of the near future Hi Newspapers – can I join the party? Tags: Uncategorized blog comments powered by Disqus Blog Partners: → Stocktwits gets funding, Bit.ly get’s safer, Cli.gs In addition Stocktwit.tv seems to be taking off.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

I have been using Netvibes for more than a year now and similarly to the use case in the presentation I have tailored my start page to fulfill my needs in certain contexts (trips, translation tools, tech news, community and collaboration). I have discussed similar topics in two posts in my blog as well although a bit chaotic.

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Social Media Strategery

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Community, have had an alternately successful and frustrating (but never boring) year. 2009 went from unbridled optimism to eager anticipation to a little dose of realism, but through it all, the community of people and the relationships that have been forged across agency lines continued to grow stronger.

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Kikolani

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

As each year passes, blog marketing techniques evolve. If you’re a business, you may have the luxury of hiring an awesome Internet Marketing Company to keep up with the trends, but as individuals managing a blog for as a hobby or for profit, it’s up to you to not only maintain that blog but keep up with ways to increase traffic.

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The Way of the Web

MARCH 15, 2010

It says four publishers control 70 percent of the local and regional press, three companies – BBC, ITN and BSkyB – produce national television news and just four companies have nearly 80 percent of the commercial radio market. And evidence of that? That’s the future of local services.

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Koka Sexton

JULY 27, 2009

Not to be confused with the local blogs like Mayor of Concord or Claycord that fill the internets with news. The writer André Gensburger who is also the co-publisher for the paper first entertained the idea of talking with me a few months ago. Then only the stuff you wanted stricken from the interview is published.

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