Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 16, 2010

All the comments were thoughtful, but there were a few that made me think a lot more about this whole “social media&# thing. But truth be told, after a while, this ‘social media’ stuff has made me consciously LESS social both in person and online, and I have my reasons. Interesting.

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Akamai Marketing

MARCH 9, 2009

Marriott Hawaii bookings are up 40%. What’s your social currency? Social Media Complainers – your new BFF’s Successful Blogging for Small and Medium Businesses A Thousand Little Cuts of Social Media – A Kaizen Approach I recommend. The result?

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The thing is, despite the ad nauseam posts on SEO for news releases, I discovered this recent report from Schwartz Communications that shows a pitiful 18% of news release headlines are SEO-optimized. A word to the wise In my experience, communication pros these days are, more often than not, wise to SEO in general.

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Why the News Business Isn’t Profitable by Guest on September 10, 2010 This is a guest post from Aaron Goldman , author of Everything I Know about Marketing I Learned from Google. – Adam The traditional news business, as we have known it, is dead.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

They’re overwhelmed by the overabundance of tools and the disorderly experimentation of staff (and members), and they are tired of the lack of organizational support and the unwieldy processes for monitoring and managing social media. There are a ton of books being published on community and how social media plays into that.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

So I’m quite delighted that he will be joining the #measurePR Twitter chat on November 9, to talk about social media ROI and possibly quite a bit else. Read Me On BNET Watch Me In Action Book Me! Why not book me for a speaking gig ? Regardless, thanks for visiting! RSVP here: [link] #pr [.] Read All About It!

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 10, 2009

Events Calendar Subscribe: Posts | Comments | Email Social Media Strategery Best Of Best Practices Enterprise 2.0 From our most senior VPs to senior executives within the government to our summer interns, every group has their own set of questions, concerns, and pre-conceived notions about social media and what it means for them.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

However, a lot of people making that news have created expectations and beliefs about social media that aren’t true. Social Media is Inexpensive False. As Charlene Li said recently, social media trades media cost for labor cost. Social Media is Fast False. Absolutely.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 18, 2011

A Better Blogroll If you like highlighting other bloggers on your site via a blogroll, you will probably find that as you add more and more to them, it becomes a huuge list. Try the Better Blogroll plugin. 7 Presidents Day Ideas For Social Media Junkies | Waxing UnLyrical says: February 19, 2011 at 7:02 am [.]

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Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali MeasurePR, the Don Bartholomew Edition Round II September 21st, 2010 Tweet I probably sound like a breathless teenager But last week’s #measurepr chat with Don Bartholomew was Awesome. Read All About It!

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 11, 2010

Mark Storys The Intersection of Online and Offline Mary's Garden Party - Mary Barber, APR, Fellow PRSA Measurement Matters Media Bullseye More With Les (Potter, ABC) NetWits Think Tank New Media Lisa - Lisa Hoffmann Occam's RazR - Ike Pigott PR Conversations Sean Williams' Communication AMMO! Read All About It!

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 24, 2010

Mark Storys The Intersection of Online and Offline Mary's Garden Party - Mary Barber, APR, Fellow PRSA Measurement Matters Media Bullseye More With Les (Potter, ABC) NetWits Think Tank New Media Lisa - Lisa Hoffmann Occam's RazR - Ike Pigott PR Conversations Sean Williams' Communication AMMO! Read All About It!

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

Mark Storys The Intersection of Online and Offline Mary's Garden Party - Mary Barber, APR, Fellow PRSA Measurement Matters Media Bullseye More With Les (Potter, ABC) NetWits Think Tank New Media Lisa - Lisa Hoffmann Occam's RazR - Ike Pigott PR Conversations Sean Williams' Communication AMMO! Read All About It!

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Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Mark Storys The Intersection of Online and Offline Mary's Garden Party - Mary Barber, APR, Fellow PRSA Measurement Matters Media Bullseye More With Les (Potter, ABC) NetWits Think Tank New Media Lisa - Lisa Hoffmann Occam's RazR - Ike Pigott PR Conversations Sean Williams' Communication AMMO! Read All About It!

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Get Shareaholic test Filed under Erica Holt , Guest Posts , Marketing | Tags: google instant , nonprofits , search engines , SEO | Comments (9) Site settings comment help? Mark as read Approve comment Erica, One more point about user behavior: SEO isnt always a zero-sum, one-search one-result game. Regardless, thanks for visiting!

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Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 27, 2010

Fortunately, Don Bartholomew of Fleishman-Hillard - whom you may know as @donbart on Twitter – will rectify that this coming Tuesday, when he joins us to chat about social media “ROI.&# Also check out Olivier Blanchard’s excellent post and presentation on social media ROI for associations & non-profits.

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Koka Sexton

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS Corporate Social Media Reading List I’m a huge fan of social media. I try to follow the trends and news around social media as best I can. I would have loved to get a job in something social media related but that quest always evaded me.

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Akamai Marketing

APRIL 4, 2011

By taracoomans – April 4, 2011 Posted in: Content , Featured , social media Photo credit: BaronBrian 97 Million people use Twitter. By taracoomans – April 4, 2011 Posted in: Content , Featured , social media Photo credit: BaronBrian 97 Million people use Twitter. Your currency is your social media VALUE.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Mark Storys The Intersection of Online and Offline Mary's Garden Party - Mary Barber, APR, Fellow PRSA Measurement Matters Media Bullseye More With Les (Potter, ABC) NetWits Think Tank New Media Lisa - Lisa Hoffmann Occam's RazR - Ike Pigott PR Conversations Sean Williams' Communication AMMO! Read All About It!

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 23, 2010

PR, social media, and news articles I’ve found interesting, for example. So if you’re trying to figure out social media, and are about where I was a year ago, listen up. Read Me On BNET Watch Me In Action Book Me! Why not book me for a speaking gig ? Hopefully, I was going to go eat a dosa.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 2, 2011

Social Media Measurement 2011: Five things to forget and five things to learn , by Don Bartholomew. Be a social business: PR trends in 2011 , from Sally Falkow’s The Proactive Report. Why: social media has become the touch point by which many business functions converge. Why not book me for a speaking gig ?

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Adam Sherk

JULY 13, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Paywalls, Media Coverage and User Access: What’s a PR Pro to Do? by Adam Sherk on July 13, 2010 Being the savvy, well-connected PR pro that you are, you just helped bring about a great piece of editorial coverage in a major media outlet.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 27, 2010

Mark Storys The Intersection of Online and Offline Mary's Garden Party - Mary Barber, APR, Fellow PRSA Measurement Matters Media Bullseye More With Les (Potter, ABC) NetWits Think Tank New Media Lisa - Lisa Hoffmann Occam's RazR - Ike Pigott PR Conversations Sean Williams' Communication AMMO! Read All About It!

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Koka Sexton

MARCH 26, 2009

Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS Selling A Collection of Comic Books I started collecting comics when I was young. My very first job was working at a comic book store helping the owner with low level tasks. I didnt get paid money but I got paid in comic books which for me was 10X better.

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Debbie Weil

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

I love her observation that "the networking goes on in the sidebar, too" through a carefully selected blogroll. So I fix up drafts sent to me as emails with great graphics and SEO-happy titles and make their authors proud. Read on for the dirt on corporate blogging. Sorry, couldn’t resist. More Coaxing of Guest Posts.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Some Halloween social media fun for a good cause , from Beth Kanter. How to celebrate Halloween social media style , from New Media Strategies. The Halloween theory of social media , from Richard Bailey’s PR Studies. The Halloween theory of social media , from Richard Bailey’s PR Studies.

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Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Get Shareaholic test Filed under Social Media , Twitter | Tags: neville hobson , paper.li , twitter newspaper | Comment (0) Site settings comment help? Read Me On BNET Watch Me In Action Book Me! Why not book me for a speaking gig ? Regardless, thanks for visiting! Sign out Leave your comment here. Read All About It!

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Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Get Shareaholic test Filed under Social Media , Twitter | Tags: neville hobson , paper.li , twitter newspaper | Comment (0) Site settings comment help? Read Me On BNET Watch Me In Action Book Me! Why not book me for a speaking gig ? Regardless, thanks for visiting! Sign out Leave your comment here. Read All About It!

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 9, 2010

Mark Storys The Intersection of Online and Offline Mary's Garden Party - Mary Barber, APR, Fellow PRSA Measurement Matters Media Bullseye More With Les (Potter, ABC) NetWits Think Tank New Media Lisa - Lisa Hoffmann Occam's RazR - Ike Pigott PR Conversations Sean Williams' Communication AMMO! Read All About It!

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 19, 2010

Why: PR pros are trying to learn more and more about SEO and using keywords smartly. Get Shareaholic test Filed under Weekly Roundup | Tags: analytics , brand building , email marketing , SEO | Comment (0) Site settings comment help? Read Me On BNET Watch Me In Action Book Me! Why not book me for a speaking gig ?

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Koka Sexton

OCTOBER 9, 2008

Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS Lone Survivor – Book review I got a new book this weekend and wanted to share. Author: Koka Sexton Comments: 3 comments Date: 12 Nov 2007 Categories: Book Reviews Tags: There are 3 comments. This is my favorite book of all time. Leave a comment!

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Mark Storys The Intersection of Online and Offline Mary's Garden Party - Mary Barber, APR, Fellow PRSA Measurement Matters Media Bullseye More With Les (Potter, ABC) NetWits Think Tank New Media Lisa - Lisa Hoffmann Occam's RazR - Ike Pigott PR Conversations Sean Williams' Communication AMMO! Read All About It!

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Get Shareaholic test Filed under Communication , Social Media , Weekly Roundup | Tags: connections , linking , thinking | Comments (3) Site settings comment help? Read Me On BNET Watch Me In Action Book Me! Why not book me for a speaking gig ? Regardless, thanks for visiting! ikepigott @hackmanj & more. [.]

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Koka Sexton

MAY 28, 2010

Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS Director of Social Media In January I took over social media for Paragon Software. WordPress Blog I believe that any companies social media presence hinges on a blog of some kind. They were never updated and basically collecting dust.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Why: Apparently we’re not over the social media adoption curve after all, no matter what you might hear. What is the best SEO secret you know? PR of course , from the PR and Media Blog of James Crawford. And once you’ve made your bed, be prepared to lie in it. Why: Grand plans are all very well.

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Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

Four unintentionally depressing self-help books on happiness , from Cracked.com. Read Me On BNET Watch Me In Action Book Me! Why not book me for a speaking gig ? Gross National Happiness , from PBS. Why: how many countries measure their success in terms of happiness? Well, Bhutan , for one. Reply Rate Up div.livefyre-comment).removeClass(livefyre-hidden)"

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Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Weekly Roundup: The Gerald Durrell Edition February 6th, 2011 Tweet I don’t know if you’ve read My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell ; almost everyone I’ve asked in the States hasn’t.

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