Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Image: mj*laflaca via Flickr , Creative Commons It’s about how that writing looks. Preview before you publish. WordPress has a great preview function, where you can see exactly how your post will appear… before it publishes. Weekly Roundup: The Long Of It | Waxing UnLyrical says: January 23, 2011 at 6:01 am [.]

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Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 20, 2015

Back in 2011 I wrote this step-by-step guide on using WPTouch to do this. Image: Johan Larsson via Flickr, CC 2.0. Founder and publisher of Waxing UnLyrical, Shonali Burke is President & CEO of Shonali Burke Consulting, Inc. How to Make Your WordPress Blog Mobile Friendly. Talk to me! Down there… .

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Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 20, 2011

When the ebook was published, I looked at it immediately, and I thought Kellye and Jenny did a great job of it. Another ebook: Public Relations 2011: issues, insights, ideas. Image: Theen Moy via Flickr, CC 2.0. No one wants to believe someone will mess with you on purpose. But crap happens. So protect yourself in writing.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Image: twchoi11 via Flickr , Creative Commons Though I wouldn’t consider myself as devoted as some fan clubs. Image: Gitgat via Flickr , Creative Commons Instead, speak up and join the conversation. If you choose to stay quiet, it may create an opportunity for the rumors to gain even more traction. Liked what you saw?

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Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 27, 2010

So when a study like the one published by e-Marketer* suggests ‘only’ 16% of social business programs are measuring ROI, while many are surprised it isn’t higher , it actually sounds a little too high to me. Image: Kemp Edmonds via Flickr, CC 2.0 To use the old saying – the ROI on these sorts of ROI efforts is not good.

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Proactive Report

JUNE 17, 2011

Good images in your blog posts, articles and releases can affect how they are viewed, how they are picked-up, who re-publishes them, search ranking, and how your blog is rated. SES NYC 2011). You can use images tagged as Creative Commons on Flickr. An image is indeed worth a thousand words. Google News. Journalists.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Image: jim crossley via Flickr, CC 2.0 Image: BES Photos via Flickr, CC 2.0 An article published on Edutopia titled Lead, Don’t Lecture , outlines teachers’ insights that are in line with these sentiments. Image: Stuart Caie via Flickr, CC 2.0 Sorry, I won’t be telling you in this post.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

First, you… Image: Kate Sumbler via Flickr , Creative Commons Hold on! Bland Image: jason carlin via Flickr , Creative Commons I mean, chicken-soup-with-no-celery-or-pepper bland. Reminder: do not publish this! Hang on to your draft error page (you know, the one you haven’t published as a post ). Happy dance!

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 24, 2011

A social media monitoring tool that tracks your brand and keyword searches across Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Youtube, Google Buzz, Blogs, and News, and reports results hourly. sweepstakes, contests and surveys) and publish them to multiple social networks and their own website. 4 Social Media Predictions for 2011 by oneforty blog.

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Social Media Strategery

APRIL 3, 2014

In 2011, they placed $250 million worth of ads in paid media. The blog content you’re publishing is relevant, valuable, and engaging yet no one is reading it. Image courtesy of Flickr user Rasta Taxi. Earlier this year, FleishmanHillard restructured to be more channel-agnostic, integrating paid, owned, and earned media.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 23, 2011

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Weekly Roundup: The Long Of It January 23rd, 2011 Tweet The long or the short of it? Image: Marieke Kuijjer via Flickr, CC 2.0 One of the age-old questions, eh? What’s next for Oprah?

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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. Having been there myself not too long ago, I was astounded by the sophistication of the graduates that applied – they were, to put it mildly, much more sophisticated than I was. Liked what you saw?

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Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali On Lists, Their Importance, And How To Get On One February 8th, 2011 Tweet This post has been about a year and a half in the writing. Image: Paul Schultz via Flickr, CC 2.0 Yes, really! What about you?

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The Way of the Web

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

'Silence is spoken here' by Mr Kris on Flickr (CC Licence). ’ So someone at the firm is theoretically aware that the NYT is doing a story on the events surrounding JC Penney, and that article was published on February 12th, 2011.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Image: Matthew Smith via Flickr, Creative Commons Can you say “love at first byte&# ? There are several other options, such as Flickr, Tumblr, WordPress, Blogger, etc… even Ping.fm. when I finally hit PUBLISH. I publish/manage this blog as well as that of a client, and have to do my BNET posts on a regular basis.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Image: Chris Lott via Flickr , Creative Commons One of the questions that Joe asked us was what our blogging experience has been like. Image: Quinn Dombrowski via Flickr , Creative Commons I’ve already said that blogging is a strange beast. Because I guest-blogged for them (before I’d even started publishing on WUL).

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The Way of the Web

DECEMBER 13, 2010

The access to self-publishing, information and knowledge, collaboration, computer power, cloud storage and more means that there’s never been a time when it’s been more likely you’ll find someone else could be already implementing your idea, or your rivals are innovating in a new way. 'Swimming

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Webbiquity SMM

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Read on for answers to these questions and more from some of the best minds in social media in some of their best blog posts and articles of 2011 so far. Beyond the obvious (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube), Cara Friedman makes the case for adding social networks like Flickr , Tumblr and Meetup to your social media marketing mix.

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Webbiquity SMM

MARCH 26, 2012

Sutton shares tips from Chris Baggott on turning email content into optimizable content, such as publishing customer service answer emails as blog posts: “Sales and service teams write thousands of emails to answer customers’ questions…The answers to these questions are extremely specific to each customer’s situation.

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Jeff Esposito

AUGUST 22, 2011

Just write up what you have to say and blog, Tweet, Facebook and Flickr until you get the word out. Journalism has never had to be more honest and truthful, and people know when they commit something to be published, it will be checked out from every angle. That is not the case in 2011. In fact, we have the opposite problem.

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Hootsuite

APRIL 6, 2023

Introducing Instagram (2010) On July 16, 2010, one of the first Instagram photos to be published by co-founder Mike Krieger (@mikeyk) was an uncaptioned, heavily filtered shot of a marina. Google Plus ’ invitation-only system dropped in 2011, giving new users access to 150 invitations they could send out before the official opening.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 27, 2011

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali 15 Reasons Your PR Pitches Suck January 27th, 2011 Tweet In the genes? Image: JKönig via Flickr, CC 2.0 Image: Andy Field (Hubmedia) via Flickr, CC 2.0 Image: marissaorton via Flickr, CC 2.0

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Proactive Report

DECEMBER 21, 2010

EyeforTravel published their 2011 Trends and their number one pick is the increasing need to integrate social content and activity on your corporate website. Jeremiah Owyang of the Altimeter Group published this roadmap that lays out the steps you need to follow. Do you have plans to upgrade to a social hub in 2011?

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 26, 2011

January 26th, 2011 Tweet What’s the buzz, tell me what’s happening Yesterday’s social media storm-in-the-making (or so it seems to me) was about the fact that Facebook can now turn your “likes&# into ads. Image: Asthma Helper via Flickr, CC 2.0 Image: Rafael Peñazola via Flickr, CC 2.0

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Idaconcpts

OCTOBER 30, 2013

While Orkut may not make big headline news, as of January 2011 it had 33 million active users around the world and as of September 2013 Alexa ranks it as the 1,802th popular site in the world. When Larry Page returned to his post as CEO, replacing Eric Schmidt, he retired a slew of unsuccessful products including Google Buzz back in 2011.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Image: betsyjean79 via Flickr , Creative Commons Advertising, Marketing, Public Relations, Journalism, Design, Digital, TV, Radio, Podcasts, Blogging, Social Networks, Newsfeeds, Affiliate Marketing, Web TV, SEO… Creative industries have evolved just as the environments, mediums, consumers and needs of our clients have evolved over time.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2010

Getting Links AND Content from Flickr (Search Engine Land): Using Flickr to build content isn’t so hard once you get inspiration from this article which features a case study and suggested scenarios that you can use Flickr with to help. I published a social media marketing book. Due diligence, my friends.

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Kikolani

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

What worked in 2011 may or may not be as effective in 2012. Photo Credit: Alexander Henning Drachmann on Flickr. As a freelance writer specializing in the online marketing niche, I can say that the blogs that consistently publish longer content (900+ words) are the most successful. Blog Platform. This one is simple.

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ProBlogger

APRIL 7, 2011

A shortcut for finding, resizing and using Flickr Creative Commons images. Bonus info: The image is embedded on your blog, complete with Flickr credits. My Blog Guest acts as the man in the middle, helping you find guest posts to publish, or blogs that will publish your writing. How do you use it? Color Scheme Designer.

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The Way of the Web

OCTOBER 7, 2011

I also took the chance to start playing with social media – we quickly had a Myspace page and Flickr group up and running, to be joined by Facebook and Twitter.

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The Way of the Web

APRIL 4, 2012

And incidentally, a new piece of research just published shows how easy it is to fall foul of a widespread problem – on average 2 of the top 25,000 websites in the world (ranked via Alexa) serve malware to visitors each day on average. So a Restore/Re-Install was needed.

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ProBlogger

JULY 31, 2017

He told his story about how in 2011, he quit his job because he wanted to become a comic. But for one reason or another I hit publish on that first blog post 12 years ago. The company was Wiley, which is a fairly big publisher, one of the biggest in the world. I love telling the story of Gavin. He’s from Zen Pencils.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 19, 2008

At the same time, the concept of “free&# is empowering individuals to become publishers, as any individual can now harness free software online to create his/her little on place on the web. As a German user of PS/1 2011 and 2121 I have not fully preloaded machines! Only 4 years’ difference!

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JANUARY 5, 2011

This post explores YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, and Flickr. 10 Practical Twitter Tips for Publishers (Adam Sherk): Adam works with some of the biggest publishing media companies on search and social strategy, so his advice here is sound. 100+ SMB Blogging Ideas to Kick Start … 2011? Here are how brands can get involved.

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Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Image: marcelinoportfolio ‘s Flickr stream, CC 2.0 Image: Loozrboy ‘s Flickr stream, CC 2.0 PR blog Waxing Unlyrical published a post that was very interesting. Redefining The News And Public Relations In 2011 | Waxing UnLyrical says: December 15, 2010 at 5:02 am [.] Those Ws and H go pretty far.

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Convince & Convert

JUNE 24, 2016

Now I am the Managing Editor at Convince & Convert Media, which includes all of our blogs, which we publish between eight and ten blog posts per week, plus all of our podcast production. When Jay started Convince & Convert on his own and he was publishing four days a week, nobody was reading that. Can you go figure this out?”

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ProBlogger

JUNE 26, 2019

We’ve also got Kelly Exeter, who’s brilliant on writing, editing, also design, self-publishing. When I first published it, I didn’t look like this. I published my first post and then, my next feeling was, “How am I going to get people to read the post?” We started a Flickr group.

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