Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Let Your Freak Flag Fly October 6th, 2010 Tweet This is a guest post by Narciso Tovar This past week, I gave a presentation to the Dallas IREM group about the importance of giving social media a second look.

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Waxing UnLyrical

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). Read All About It!

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 5, 2010

As I wrote yesterday’s post, and then read through the comments, I re-learned a lesson I thought I’d already learned: that the community you are trying to build is great; but the community you have is even more important. Social media as the new support group? She loves dogs! I love dogs! Who are yours?

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Image: jbcurio via Flickr , Creative Commons For the few who don’t know or recall, an “ advertorial is an advertisement written in the form of an objective article, and presented in a printed publication – usually designed to look like a legitimate and independent news story,” according to Wikipedia. Remember the advertorial ?

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

After one night of being unable to sleep because of the din (if you’ve ever wondered, Times Square really does not sleep at night), I found a Kimpton Group hotel uptown, and we moved, regardless of the points. It was terrible. Turned out to be the best thing we ever did. Read All About It! These fine folk did: Jan.

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JANUARY 16, 2011

Categories allow the classification of your Posts into groups and subgroups, thereby aiding viewers in the navigation and use of your site.&#. Question: What is the best way to get a quality group of guest bloggers to supplement content? It just depends on the site and the community! Do you think the cost is worth the benefit?

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Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 25, 2010

Creative Commons To Love Yet Not OK. The convenience of grouping things is something I always look for today as I dont like opening so many different programs to do something relatively simple. Image: rubyblossom. My to do list favorite is Things which also syncs with my calendar so everything is together and in one place.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 4, 2010

Image: Shawn McClung via Flickr, Creative Commons You have to really, really be paying attention to notice if someone hasn’t tweeted in a while, unless you talk to them every day. Those are the kind of campaigns that raise awareness and build community -- and you nailed the importance of community for nonprofits.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Image: Katie Harris via Flickr , Creative Commons Connect with the people you serve The goal wasn’t to create a blog. You can’t start a blog like ours unless the community wants it. We started talking about the potential of social media on our campus and he came up with the idea of organizing an informal learning group.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali WOM: What’s Really Behind The Buzz November 24th, 2010 Tweet Guest post by Bryce Keane What’s the buzz? They listen a LOT. Then they plan. And talk they do. – and 14.9%

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

If you’ve seen Some Kind of Monster , Metallica may not be the first band you think of when you consider “equality,&# especially since the film depicts the group in the midst of a huge crisis. Just because someone works in a different group doesn’t mean that they may not add some value. It’s not a great scenario.

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Waxing UnLyrical

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? I became a co-facilitator for a weekly support group and I will forever be grateful for the lessons that I learned from those women.

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