Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 14, 2011

If you’re just getting started blogging (or maybe even if you’ve been doing it a while), here are some WordPress plugins I really really like. Image: terren in Virginia via Flickr, CC 2.0 It just did it on the Flickr link above.) Why bother, if you already have a search box on your blog, you ask? LinkWithin.

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Freelance Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2008

Social Links Freelance Social Media Social Media Tips and Marketing Blog Home About Contact Subscribe Top 200 Social Media Sites by Niche by cinta5 on October 6, 2008 Tyler over at SMMGuru offered up the top 198 social media sites.

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Twist Image

NOVEMBER 6, 2011

By the way the conversation flowed at this year's BlogWorld & New Media Expo in Los Angeles, you would think that Blogging was brand new. In all of that, it seemed like everyone (including yours truly) grapples and struggles with the definition of a "Blog." " or "is TechCrunch a Blog?"

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Jason Yormark

OCTOBER 6, 2009

jasonyormark.com Home About Me My Videos My Resume Contact Me Browse > Home / Social Media , Wordpress / My 9 Favorite Wordpress Social Media Plugins | Subcribe via RSS My 9 Favorite WordPress Social Media Plugins October 6th, 2009 Posted in Social Media , Wordpress Tweet Share The WordPress platform never ceases to amaze me.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Image: mj*laflaca via Flickr , Creative Commons It’s about how that writing looks. They might be helpful to you as you continue on your path as a blogging Grasshopper. If you liked what you saw and read, Id love you to subscribe to my RSS feed or subscribe by email. I just get kicks out of mobile blogging w/ multimedia.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 4, 2011

In the Indian context, the web has begun to move beyond a media genre that was no different in terms of interruption when compared to conventional media like television and radio. As privacy and choice gained momentum, permission-based Internet activity has led to what we now describe as the social web.

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

She specializes in social media strategies that lead to actionable plans to achieve real world objectives. I’ve spent a lot of time working with various social media monitoring tools and I’ve whittled my list of favorites down to two or three. You might want to test this. • What about you?

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Firebelly

JANUARY 22, 2010

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « We Interrupt This Lifecast: Syndication Overload (Part 2) | Main | Youtube Tuesday: Lost Generation » January 22, 2010 Social Media Weekly Roundup 1/18-1/22 Theres a lot going on in the social media space and so much can get lost or overlooked in your RSS feed reader.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

A typical day starts at 6am with answering the new email that came in over night and then some morning reading in my RSS reader (see photo of this mornings Google Reader). Weekends are devoted to Blog posts and writing the new book. Related posts: Social Search could it be a Google Killer?

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 18, 2011

Image: tamra hays via Flickr, CC 2.0 What this does is let you select a certain number of blogs from your blogroll, and only that number of blogs will be displayed. Initially I was trying to find something that worked with Flickr, but then I stumbled upon Cincopa. Which means it’s very long. It’s really cool.

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Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Powwowing With Pepco on Social Media September 28th, 2010 Tweet I haven’t been the biggest fan of my local energy company, Pepco, recently.

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 24, 2011

Search for a brand name or keyword across all of the most popular social networks at once? Monitor social media discussions of your company or product in real time? Promote events through social media? Cool Social Media Tools. Social Media Monitoring Tools. Wildfire Social Media Monitor.

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Kikolani

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Writing Around the Web is a monthly series highlighting guest posts I’ve written on blogging, business, SEO, social media, and other topics! Something for everyone, from blogging to social media, landing pages to squeeze pages, increasing conversions vs. conversion killers, design, and more!

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

First, you… Image: Kate Sumbler via Flickr , Creative Commons Hold on! A while back, I was looking at my Google Analytics for WUL and I noticed that my 404 page , i.e. the one you get when the server can’t find the page you’re looking for on a particular site, was the 4th most highly-trafficked page on my blog.

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Koka Sexton

JANUARY 1, 2009

Koka Sexton dot Com Home About Koka Contact Twitter FULL RSS Over 100 Great Photos on Flickr I use Flickr as my online photo bucket. I was using ImageShack or something before but when I found Flickr, I was amazed. Some nights I spend an hour or more just surfing the Flickr highway finding new pictures.

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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 Establishing your voice A blog post with pointers isn’t only meant to teach, it is also meant to connect with readers. Umair Haque , blogging for the Harvard Business Review , places the Gap logo debacle into this context of creativity.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 26, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Social Media Super Bowl: Which Team Has More Reach? But I’m here to look at what really matters – which team has more reach via social media? Hopefully we’ll see some creative use of social media by both the teams and some of the players.

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Firebelly

JANUARY 15, 2010

Digitalia | Indianapolis Social Media Marketing « 4 Ways To Celebrate MLK Day With Social Media | Main | Youtube Tuesday: ESCP Europe Human Experience » January 15, 2010 Social Media Weekly Roundup 1/11-1/15 Theres a lot going on in the social media space and so much can get lost or overlooked in your RSS feed reader.

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Bare Feet Studios

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Along comes social media which is so conversational, creative, interactive, mostly free and bam! – I mean have fun using social media in your business! Now is a good time to sign up to receive new articles by email as soon as they are published or subscribe to our RSS feed. Business is fun again.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Ten Reasons PR Pros Should Blog November 10th, 2010 Tweet Last week, Joe Hackman hosted Danny Brown , Gini Dietrich and me on his BlogTalkRadio show, aptly entitled PRapalooza. Boy, was it fun!

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Social Media Strategery

AUGUST 18, 2010

Events Calendar Subscribe: Posts | Comments | Email Social Media Strategery Best Of Best Practices Enterprise 2.0 Development Social Media Social Media Integration in Higher Education Wed, Aug 18, 2010 Miscellaneous , Personal The following is a guest post by Jen Dryer , a current student at the University of Southern Indiana.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

JUNE 3, 2010

and after being a full time mom and performing various social media marketing tasks throughout, I’ve learned that there are many parallels that can be taken from parenthood that also apply to social media marketing. As a social media marketer, you might be ill-prepared for these unpleasant experiences.

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Justin Levy

JULY 14, 2009

Justin Levy Marketing and Social Media Home About Archives Contact Disclosures Newsletter Speaking 10 Ways to Support Charity Through Social Media Written on July 14, 2009 by Justin Levy in charity , mashable , social media 3 Comments - Leave a comment! Blog Action Day will be on October 15 this year.

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Bare Feet Studios

JULY 25, 2011

Tomorrow I am working with an esteemed group of coral reef scientists here in Hawaii to illustrate various ways to use social media. I will be using a version of The Social Media Game , an interactive learning process originally developed by my darling colleague Beth Kantor a few years ago. Other People’s Blogs.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 2, 2008

I’m taking two seminar courses at school this term, and they each resemble a particular form of social media. I see this seminar as a blog. At the end of the semester, I only know a couple more people from the blog than I did at the beginning. is to web 1.0.

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Harp Interactive

JANUARY 27, 2010

It was my extreme honor to be a guest in yesterday’s tele-seminar with the International Social Media Association (ISMA). My topic, in case you missed it, was “Propel your Social Media Marketing to New Heights: Strategies to Ensure a Winning and Engaging Social Presence&#.

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Bare Feet Studios

JULY 8, 2009

It’s a hot topic all around, as social media lends itself to some highly unethical practices and characters! The good news though, is that the conversational nature of the social web exposes many of these deliberate and accidental faux pas so the rest of us can learn from them.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 13, 2011

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali How To Get Your Blog Project Approved January 13th, 2011 Tweet Guest post by Shanan Sorochynski Okay, you’ve had nearly half a month to sink into 2011. Image: Heather Phillips via Flickr, CC 2.0

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2008

The Bamboo Project Blog. The Power of Blogging ISNT Just in Reading Them. In a few weeks were going to be looking at blogs in the Work Literacy course. In fact, I have to go on record right now as saying that reading blogs is only a small part of what makes blogs powerful for learning. RANT ALERT! )

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

The Bamboo Project Blog. Massive list posts ("50+ Ways to Use Flickr," "100 Social Media Resources", etc.) The more I work with people who are new to social media, the more I believe that simplicity is the key. Flickr photo via BTal. Write about your hometown in your blog.

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 7, 2010

Events Calendar Subscribe: Posts | Comments | Email Social Media Strategery Best Of Best Practices Enterprise 2.0 How do I get people to read the blog? These aren’t trivial questions – people take the time to create a blog post or add content to a wiki because of the promise of emergent collaboration.

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Justin Levy

MAY 10, 2010

Justin Levy Marketing and Social Media Home About Archives Contact Disclosures Newsletter Speaking The Joint Chiefs of Staff 2010 Social Media Strategy Written on May 10, 2010 by Justin Levy in military , social media , social media strategy 16 Comments - Leave a comment!

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Is Pay-to-Post Blogging The New Advertorial? A few weeks ago, they asked a question about paying for blog posts. In 2010, blogs and bloggers are truly influencers. Do we really want that?

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Proactive Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

Courtesy of Dean Meyers Flickr. One area in PR that is a bright spot in this tough hiring market is social media. Online recruitment sites are being flooded with social medial positions. Yahoo HotJobs has also seen a significant rise in positions with a social-media component, says a Newsweek article.

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Kikolani

JANUARY 16, 2011

Last week, I was given the opportunity to do a live question and answer session on Social Media Examiner ’s Facebook page. I would have to say that it was the fastest and hardest I’ve typed within one hour, but it was a great experience where I got to really learn a lot about what blogging questions people have today.

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Absolute PA

NOVEMBER 5, 2011

A blog (the word is a combo of ‘web’ and ‘log’ Web log = blog) is really the cornerstone of an online marketing strategy. Look what Chris Brogan says: I started my blog in early 2009 and have been posting regularly (with the odd hiatus in the past) ever since. Blog ideas bank. Here are 6.5

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Social Media Strategery

JULY 21, 2009

Events Calendar Subscribe: Posts | Comments | Email Social Media Strategery Best Of Best Practices Enterprise 2.0 That’s what I said almost three years ago when Walton Smith and I started our social media practice here at Booz Allen. and the role social media is playing in the future of our government.

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