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Subtext: “Real” Listening in Social Media

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I returned a couple of nights ago from the PRSA 2011 International Conference in Orlando, Fla. I told this story quite a few times through the conference. ” And the hotel employee got that. This is a story about subtext and listening in social media. So instead of going down for breakfast as I’d normally do, my M.O.

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The Moments That Made Social Slam 2013 Momentous

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Do you remember how I told you, when I was at the 2012 PRSA International Conference, what really made it special was the “off-conference” time I got to spend with people ? This doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t attend any conference sessions. to attend my first Social Slam conference. But he did.

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My Love Letter to IABC

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You take the red pill and you stay in this hotel conference room and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.”. The organizers really should have started it off Matrix-style: “You take the blue pill and the workshop ends. You wake in your office and you believe whatever you want to believe. I marked the test cases too high.

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In Memoriam: Don Bartholomew, Godfather of the Measurati

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PRNews holds an annual measurement conference in DC, where the “measurement mafia,” as I like to call them (us), all descend in one fell swoop. Back in 2012, I wasn’t speaking at the event but I knew they’d be there, so off I went to meet up with them, so that we could have a drink together.

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A Decade of Thanksgivings

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At the time, I was working for an organization headquartered in New York, so I traveled there frequently; as a result, I had a ton of reward points on Amtrak and various hotels. Ever budget-conscious, I booked what I thought was a great hotel, using my points… right in the heart of Times Square. It was terrible. He didn’t skip a beat.

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Need Gifts for PR Pros? Here’s 12 of ‘Em

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This conference features an incredible lineup of speakers at a really affordable price. C2: the ColorComm Conference , which is billed as ”defining the future” for women of color in Communication. 6-8), now would be the time to book both the conference and the hotel. And Atlanta in February (Feb.

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When Opportunity Knocks

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If you’ve ever had an opportunity to attend a conference come your way and turned it down, thinking, “This isn’t directly related to what I do, what will I gain from it?”… Though I was a newbie to the conference, I can’t tell you how welcome and at-home every single person I met made me feel. Boy, was I wrong.