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MAY 9, 2011

Something strange has happened to my blog Steff Metal over the last month. It’s been business as usual; in fact, I’ve been blogging even less than usual this past month, since I’ve been busy updating my Grymm & Epic blogging ebook for the World Changing Writing Workshops starting this month.

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MARCH 6, 2011

With the recent passing of Frank Buckles, the last known American veteran of WWI , today’s roundup takes a break from PR and social media blather; instead, I wanted to share a few great blogs/posts I found related to the Great War. Clothes styles during the first World War 1914-1918 , from Fashion-era. Army’s website.

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MARCH 10, 2011

Image: digitalbob8 via Flickr, CC 2.0. Shannon Mouton , who blogs at Shannon Sez So , served in health missions in the Caribbean. Image: Shreyans Bhansali via Flickr, CC 2.0. It’s quite remarkable , and I was floored when I found out. There are so many stories that make up who we are. How we interact. What we relate to.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2011

Image: han Soete via Flickr, CC 2.0. Finally I went on Twitter when I’d had enough of the “senior fashion writer&# giving me what I thought was fluff. Whether it’s Facebook, Twitter, a blog, an online community, you name it – we can reach them directly. consider this instead: The customer is your media.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Image: Geoff LMV via Flickr , Creative Commons These included sentences like On what Pepco’s crisis communication plan is: “Pepco takes its responsibility to keep customers informed seriously. . Shannon Pauls Very Official Blog Spin Sucks TopRank Online Marketing Blog Writing Boots - David Murray Love WUL?

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DECEMBER 14, 2010

Image: Nick Fletcher via Flickr, Creative Commons But I’m getting ahead of myself. Image: Marc Benton via Flickr, Creative Commons 3. In the year I applied, out of our group interview of 10, there were probably seven future fashion PRs, and three music PRs (I was the latter at the time). I am now a Follower of your blog.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Title image: Edgely Cesar via Flickr, Creative Commons My take Measurement should be, but still isn’t, the jewel in the crown of PR. On his blog , Nick says: “Students are not taught about new practices, since proprietary tools and techniques often remain with hidden with the agencies and companies that create them.&#

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Image: Clyde Robinson via Flickr, CC 2.0 After we finish filtering out the profanity, a team of crack animal trainers and fashion bloggers feed these data into an NSA-grade Random Comedy Generator that writes suggested tweets for the following day. Oh, one other thing: my blog = my sandbox. But I wouldn’t know.

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APRIL 27, 2011

My initial reaction (and it’s also in the comment that I left over on the Klout blog post, since I didn’t think it fair to simply write about it here and not comment there as well) is … that it’s very pretty. Image: Leo Reynolds via Flickr, CC 2.0. Influence is not a number.

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OCTOBER 25, 2010

Image: Kurtis Garbutt via Flickr, Creative Commons Kim, who runs the Corporate Alliance to End Partner Violence (CAEPV), asked what I thought was a valid question on her blog: where is all the purple? Or, these days, to click about it in some fashion or other. I’m calling this the comradeship factor. So people do.

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