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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. Blogging is a strange beast.

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

Establishing your voice A blog post with pointers isn’t only meant to teach, it is also meant to connect with readers. A list of directions conveys nothing about your personality and voice – how you think, convey ideas, and view the world. When it comes to blogging, anyone can compile data and churn out a post.

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MARCH 16, 2011

But really, how many blogs does a gal need? If you and I talk regularly on Twitter, or Facebook… heck, even in the early days of WUL (and I have to stifle a giggle as I say that, because this blog is barely two years old!) So it’s probably high time that I started a food blog. Image: kennymatic via Flickr, CC 2.0.

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MARCH 4, 2011

This is part of the Blogging for Grasshoppers series. If you publish a blog, there are three things I want to tell you today. I’m not one to get overly excited by blog comment systems, but this one has me blown away. I’ll give you the short version, and then the long version. Short version. It’s genius.

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JANUARY 13, 2011

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali How To Get Your Blog Project Approved January 13th, 2011 Tweet Guest post by Shanan Sorochynski Okay, you’ve had nearly half a month to sink into 2011. I manage the University of Regina’s blog.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2019

After the interview is complete start looking for industry blogs that frequently write about experts or interview them – also you can look for outlets which put together weekly roundup posts. If your interview is thorough enough and adds value, there is a good chance you could get featured on these blogs. Give Away Swag. Conclusion.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2013

So instead, I put together a Listly list (my new favorite toy!) I’ve started the list with 12 posts; if you find others you’d like to add, go for it (I did turn on moderation for the list while I’m getting used to Listly, just so you know). Blog Valentines That Make Business Sense.

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JUNE 21, 2013

Publicizing news, blog posts, videos… basically, any kind of content. Using Twitter lists smartly. You can make these lists public or private, but depending on the nature of your work, set up any number of lists to track what specific people/companies are saying. These include: 6. Integration and all that jazz.

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JANUARY 24, 2011

Wait for it…) Relax, I’m not going to re-list what’s already been written all over the Interwebz about affordable technology available to non-profits. Examples of sites using Mobify include Boing Boing and A List Apart. Do you have any suggestions that could be added to this list? Clipped from [link] [.]

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FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Here’s a Listly list I’ve pulled together on several of the posts that have run on Waxing UnLyrical over the last few years on social scoring & social media influence: Social Scoring & Influence: Posts on Waxing UnLyrical. View more lists from Shonali Burke. List are subjective. What makes G an authority? #3:

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FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Be succinct, use photos, on and on down the list of cliched suggestions that have peppered many a blog post. Universal McCann’s Wave 6 social media study seems to substantiate that claim for written digital content as well, showing that blog creation and consumption may have peaked in 2010. It’s complicated.

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DECEMBER 21, 2018

List about five categories where threats or barriers could exist. Rewrite the list of barriers that you circled on a separate sheet of paper and number them. Other objectives can then be listed in priority of importance. This is a group exercise for an internal team working for a client. One checkmark per idea.) Tally the votes.

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JUNE 7, 2011

You then start making a list of keywords. It updates this list on a weekly basis , based on how frequently they’ve been using your keywords. So you could, for example, have someone who is not very active on Twitter or Facebook, but has a blog that is devoted to refugee and humanitarian issues.

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MARCH 26, 2012

write their own blog post to promote IWD 2012. And in 2011, there were seven blog posts on the campaign that had been tracked. After days and days of research, we narrowed down our target outlets – which included a lot of blogs, but also blogs on the online counterparts to women’s publications – to around 245.

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JUNE 20, 2011

A few months ago, I read a great blog post by Ray Grieselhuber on the Ginzametrics blog about Trader Joe’s, and the fact that they, a major grocery chain, didn’t have an official presence on Twitter. I didn’t specifically check that out, but I’d guess that Costa Coffee is high on the list.

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OCTOBER 12, 2016

I (smartly, I might say) hired Shonali Burke to whip my butt into gear, convince me to take measurement seriously and to get all social with the promotion – of which, she said, I had boatloads to do (she actually said something else, but WUL is a family-friend blog). Side note: do you know how damn important an email list is?

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MARCH 31, 2020

If not, and you’d like to join (or you have PR/MarComm colleagues you think would be interested), please sign up here (opting into my list is the best way for me to stay GDPR-compliant as well as avoid spammers). I know I haven’t been the most consistent at blogging. Life and all that.

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APRIL 18, 2013

I made a Listly list of all the posts I could find that both previewed and reviewed Social Slam. And if you find any I’ve left out, please do add them to the list. Blog posts previewing or reviewing Social Slam 2013. No items tagged in this list. View more lists from Shonali Burke. Here it is. crowd rank.

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MAY 1, 2020

I know it’s Friday, and your day was packed from before the time you read this blog post (if you even got to read it on Friday!). – you can sign up for my list here , and then just follow the prompts. And who will you, and I, pay attention to? I hope you and yours are staying well. Happy May Day!

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AUGUST 28, 2012

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. That’s nothing compared to other giants in our industry like the proprietor of this blog, Sarah Evans , Lauren Fernandez , Justin Goldsborough , Heather Whaling … I could go on, but you get the picture.

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MAY 12, 2014

Why: Between travel, presentations, business development, and life, the task list of the small business owner seems neverending. Combine Your Blog Posts And Email Marketing Strategy For Better Results. Why: Do you treat your blogging and email marketing efforts separately or do you integrate them?

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MARCH 28, 2016

Email Marketing 101: A Beginner’s Guide to Building an Email List. Why: This is a terrific post from Amy Lynn Andrews on spring cleaning your email list – highly, highly important! 6 Ways to Attract Return Visitors to Your Blog. ” What are you doing to make over your strategy this year?

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AUGUST 15, 2011

The other day I read that higher education consulting firm, Noel-Levitz, found that more than three-quarters of students and parents it surveyed never or only rarely read blogs on college websites. I manage a blog for a mid-sized Canadian University. Both the campus and the blog are less active than normal. It’s August.

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AUGUST 22, 2011

While I love blogging, the blog community, social media, etc., Now, when it comes to blogging, you could certainly tell me that I can schedule posts ahead of time and do just that. Recently, while looking at Waxing UnLyrical’s analytics, I found that over the last year, visits to the blog have increased dramatically.

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JULY 12, 2011

On July 5, the #measurePR chat discussed AVEs, specifically a Wall Street Journal Numbers blog post that challenges the notion that publicity can be equated with paid advertising. We also discussed summer reading lists. Here's her quick recap. and thank you, Jen!]. Mike Donatello asks if it is cost, time, or possibly ignorance.

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JULY 11, 2011

Video Blog Posts. Once it’s loaded, embed it into your blog post, your website; anywhere you can that you own and have control over is an excellent place to host your videos. If you do put them into your blog posts, please remember the “readers” out there. I view it as a mini-blog post. Guest post by Erica Allison.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2015

And of course, then I decided to blog about it. You can probably figure out where I’m going with this, but I’m going to spell it out for you (what good is a blog post if it doesn’t do that?!). I did not opt in to this email list. So instead I posted it on Facebook, where several of us laughed over it together.

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MARCH 25, 2013

Meaning the blogs that do the giveaways… do you approach them first, or after you’ve seen them mention the product? AB : We initially discover Chobaniacs by following along with the CHO (Chobani) chatter across all platforms listed above, as well as blogs. Image via Chobani Blog , used with permission.

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APRIL 4, 2019

From there it evolved into email discussion lists (who remembers LISTSERV?), Hubspot recommends creating, “blog posts, instructional videos, how-to guides, and showcasing practical examples from your customers. Bulletin Board Systems (BBSs), finally leading us to modern day social networks.

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MARCH 24, 2011

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. That’s nothing compared to other giants in our industry like the proprietor of this blog, Sarah Evans , Lauren Fernandez , Justin Goldsborough , Heather Whaling … I could go on, but you get the picture.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2010

While I try to keep it updated, it certainly does not reflect all the blogs I subscribe to in my Reader. Part of this is because some of the blogs I Read (yes, that’s a capital “R&# ) have nothing to do with public relations… but I love them any way. putting these posts on my reading list. Dave lays out how.

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AUGUST 25, 2010

I’ve been including it in my e-signature for a while now, and have incorporated it into my website as well as this blog (you’ve probably noticed the Tungle widget on this blog, even if you haven’t used it). Having a good calendar and to do list is also really important. I don’t. Thanks for the tips!

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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. Recipe for successful blog marketing & SEO at TECHmunch Austin 2011 , by Lee Odden. A good starter list. I hope you will too.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

While I don’t need anyone to work on strategy, project development or content planning while I’m out of the office, I do need them to handle the day-to-day (er, hour-to-hour) tasks involved with managing the organization’s blog. Forward blog comments to their email address. How to find solutions to problems not on the list!

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MAY 15, 2018

And 63% of survey respondents cited budget as their top challenge – even as business and employers expected them to do more with a rapidly increasing list of things to do. He also serves as Guest Editor for Shonali Burke’s WUL blog. The idea of doing less with more is not uncommon to communicators. Connect with him on Twitter.

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MAY 20, 2015

They regularly post insightful articles to their own sites, comment on other peoples’ blogs, write opinions on LinkedIn and Medium , post presentations to SlideShare and have active Twitter profiles. RT them, comment on their blogs and posts on other networks (see LinkedIn, above) and consider reaching out to offer something of value.

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JUNE 14, 2018

Remember to add work related webinars and education on the list. Makeda Waterman is an online media journalist of 4 years with blog features on CNBC Make It., If you start collecting an invoice for expenses, save the receipts or documentation and provide it to your accountant. Negotiate Your Worth.

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