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Being of Service During COVID-19

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The sail thingies you see are a privacy screen, but apparently they are also perfect squirrel trampolines 😉 I was never a “bird person” growing up. Last week, for example, Dinean Robinson of Multiplying Good and I did a live Q&A, moderated by Alex Brown , on crisis communications for nonprofits.

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Smear Tactics: Great for BBQ, but PR? Not So Much

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A couple of days ago, The Daily Beast broke a story about Facebook spreading a smear campaign against Google. According to the article, Mark Zuckerberg and his team hired Burson-Marsteller , a well-known public relations firm, to plant negative stories accusing Google of being careless with Gmail users privacy.

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Google+ v. Facebook: The Battle For Our Love

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But the ability to put people in them is not a big enough draw for me to entirely abandon Facebook if only a small number of my contacts set up Google+ profiles. are all still over at Facebook. And, more importantly, the audience my organization is trying to connect with is still on Facebook. So my focus is there. G+ is work.

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While I Was Out: Reflections On a Social Media Hiatus

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Turns out, because I have other platforms connected to it, notably Facebook which is where I posted online to purge share mostly personal thoughts but where I have a very engaged network, my inactivity on Twitter didn’t actually impact me that negatively. If you have a strong community , they will be there when you come back.

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The Ugly Side of Social Media Sharing

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I love the collaborative energy, thoughts and community. After two days of searching, we believe the process went something like this: 1) Susan’s Facebook friend saw the image on Susan’s Facebook page and commented, “Can I share this?? This is one of the problems with Facebook. It’s where I work.

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Monday Roundup: Secrets

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Why: Online privacy is a valid concern in today’s connected world (yes, even for me). area, she loves helping for- and non-profit clients, both small and large, turn corporate codswallop into community cool. Twitter Facebook Google+ LinkedIn Monday Roundup: Secrets. Image: Steven Depolo via Flickr, CC 2.0.

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On IWD, Advice for Women in PR, From (Mostly) Women in PR

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So I asked my community: what advice they’d give to young(er) women entering/in the PR field? Founder and publisher of Waxing UnLyrical, Shonali Burke helps smart businesses make bank by taking their communications from corporate codswallop to community cool™. Here are some of the responses.

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