Almost Savvy

AUGUST 3, 2009

While I imagine that this attitude makes the local board of tourism very happy, is there really any place where we can do whatever we want and be assured that no one will know about it? I know; I took some of them using their cameras and cell phones so they could all get into the group shots.

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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

OCTOBER 19, 2010

I agree that the fundamentals of SEO wont change too much, though smaller organizations will probably have to put more resources into them, as groups with a larger web presence may see their lead increase. Mark as read Approve comment Nice write-up Erica! Im really looking forward to potential changes in search behavior, though.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 4, 2011

All this via one bare-bones blog and a Facebook group. .&# ) As a protest against a right-wing Hindu fundamentalist organization’s assaults on what it termed “uncivilized women visiting bars,&# a tribe of people decided to courier pink underwear to the organization’s offices. Image: Gaurovonomics via Flickr, CC 2.0

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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! These fine folk did: Jan.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

This helps to add a visual element to a post, much as those grouped pages of photos do, here and there, in an interminably long autobiography. Army via Flickr , Creative Commons Usually these are placed at the top of a post, but often, if a post is long, I’ll insert additional images, alternating left- and right-aligning them.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

The small community of readers I have built up and learned from would shun me, rightly perhaps. I recently tried to get a big blogger to participate in a group blog project I am working on (in other words, an ask of far less magnitude than “write about me/my biz”). Thanks for sharing the post with your #pr20chat community.

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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. These fine folk did: Jan. 24 : Whats Next DC , Washington, DC Feb.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 14, 2010

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). The answers from this group of candidates were generally proceeded by a declaration of love for parties, air-kissing and champagne. Image: Marc Benton via Flickr, Creative Commons 3.

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Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 25, 2010

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. It allows wireless syncing of a variety of calendars so I can organize client and personal calendars all in one, or separately. Reply Rate Up div.livefyre-comment).removeClass(livefyre-hidden)"

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Convince & Convert

MARCH 4, 2010

Blogging for Community These blogs seek to guild a consistent readership that interact with the blogger(s) and advocate on behalf of the content on other social outposts. This is especially misplaced with group written blogs, where the broad content focus and inconsistent tonality makes RSS subscription less likely.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 14, 2010

A leader, on the other hand, ascribes importance to the productivity of a group. Leaders cultivate intelligent and competent group members by communicating why certain methods work and should be replicated, and what about certain ideas are important. Image: BES Photos via Flickr, CC 2.0 These fine folk did: Jan.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 19, 2010

It could apply to almost any business, especially tourism. Allowing for and creating communities. link] Edwin Bernal Holguin RT @tcreativo: Los 3 amigos: #email, #blog y #SocialMedia. Un #CaseStudy de una empresa de aventuras [link] [link] Bolo Álvarez RT @tcreativo: Los 3 amigos: #email, #blog y #SocialMedia.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

I should say “wars&# since, as first a Royal Indian Air Force and then an Indian Air Force officer, from which he retired as a Group Captain, he’d seen his fair share of them. Mark as read Approve comment Jagan, he retired as Group Captain Sunil Kumar Mukerji. That’s him as a dashing young officer, right there.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 6, 2010

And more important, are you SHARING other people’s status updates with your community? They just a ssume they need a Facebook page and a Twitter page and a LinkedIn group. I have yet to create a FB page, LI group, or Twitter account for my place of business because I dont think were ready to be there. Engagement" is overrated.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 16, 2010

… “… That’s why most of my business comes through face-to-face networking either through business groups, chambers of commerce, or volunteering my services at local non profit organizations. “ ‘Engagement’ is overrated. To explore a different communication channel? Like I said, it’s a balancing act.

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Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Its the same old folks (often because the companies use the same old faulty metrics -- evidenced by the AdAge Power150, especially when they introduced Alexa -- or because the more subjective lists are published by groups of pals who like to pat each other on the back). These fine folk did: Jan. 24 : Whats Next DC , Washington, DC Feb.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MARCH 17, 2010

Every time I tell someone I’m a Community Manager , I get a varied response. &# That last one might be the most honest of the three, since asking a Community Manager whether they tweet for a living is like asking a construction worker if they cat-call for a living, or a doctor if he asks people to say “ah!&# for a living.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 4, 2010

Those are the kind of campaigns that raise awareness and build community -- and you nailed the importance of community for nonprofits. Which is why I agree with Matt ($999,999.99 -- classic) and Ariks point about allowing people who have built community and trust to spread the word and bring others to action.

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Convince & Convert

JULY 15, 2010

Take a look at the Social Media Responsibilities Worksheet we use at the Flint Group. I have been the one man show for social media marketing for [link] Tourism website for the area, and have gotten accounts to 5000 within 9 months. There are tons of free and paid tools out there that help you to monitor the conversations taking place.

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agora pulse

APRIL 28, 2020

As a result, either you or a member of the larger community may say something that misses the mark and upsets someone. To support the #BlogChat group, a couple of us decided to have a pre-chat discussion to help newbies since it was such a fast-moving conversation. Ian Anderson Gray: Community and relationships!

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

In my previous position as the managing editor of the University’s internal publication, I spent a lot of time (and still do) interviewing members of the campus community (faculty, staff, students, alumni, community partners, etc.). You can’t start a blog like ours unless the community wants it. It was a great idea!

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 9, 2010

In my Internet & Mobile Strategy Lab class at Johns Hopkins University , my final group project for the semester was to create a “viral video&# about the JHU M.A. in Communication program. Once my group checked off that box in our initial meeting, we moved on to concept. Until three weeks ago. read more via) ?

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

And they research and they monitor (sometimes for up to three months) just to find out: a) Who a brand’s target audiences are; and b) Who the key influencers within that community are. Bryce Keane is an international communication professional who’s worked in both the EMEA and Asia-Pacific regions. They listen a LOT.

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Hootsuite

AUGUST 14, 2023

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JULY 29, 2010

Almost everything everyone does in the business world, be it a regular transaction, tourism, or travel, has some financial element to it. In fact, I’ll be giving away some freebies at a webinar in the near future. Money makes the world go round. I actually solicited users to review my book and I actually encouraged it!

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

check it out) [link] [link] School of Tourism Jay Baer gets wooed by Canadian intern Gilbert Leung w/ his 3 week build of search eng. link] The Group Jay Baer reckons Kurrently is the future of real-time search. RT @jaybaer: New search engine Kurrently combines real-time Twitter and Facebook results.

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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. What kind of monster?

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 25, 2010

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. I was so in awe of the women -- and the courage it took for them to leave everything to start over, often only with the clothes on their backs. These fine folk did: Jan. 24 : Whats Next DC , Washington, DC Feb.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 20, 2011

Conway Wigg is a digital strategist at BPC , Malta’s leading communications agency and a senior manager at Arabicomm, a Libya-based full service media and marketing agency which is part-owned by BPC. Conway has also worked in London, most recently as Internet PR Account Director at Propeller Group. These fine folk did: Jan.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

link] #news #socialmedia [link] Simon Blackley Use social media to build strong bonds with a small group of advocates, not weak links to large numbers, says @jaybaer [link] philsimonsystems Great post, Jay. Unfortunately, in my experience marketing and sales groups never accept anything with the word slow in it.

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