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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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 24, 2008

It also introduces me to the wicki , group editing of a shared document. However, rather than comments, I am more comfortable with the Manila group discussion format, that makes it easy for people to comment on other people comments, aside from the original author of a thread. Earthweb on weblog software for IT managers.

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Akamai Marketing

MARCH 29, 2011

Blogs for business are an outstanding tool for business, they can build community, be the backbone of your social media program, and drive traffic to your website, just for starters. Are you trying to create community? Or someone said you should so your considering it. But where do you start? Well, its an often overlooked question.

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Akamai Marketing

MARCH 23, 2011

But understanding how to begin your social media presence is the first phase, building community then analyzing and measure the community and Wikibrands includes those very important topics as well. Understanding the needs of humans, rather than computers is the essence of Wikibrand success.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 27, 2010

That you are not an island ruling the world but, rather, one in an archipelago of quite delightful islands… that a certain group of people have visited, and been charmed by. That while someone might consider you “better&# than someone else, the opposite could just as well hold true, if another person were asked. Read All About It!

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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? Read All About It!

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Saying It Social

JULY 22, 2010

The advice that gets the most votes by 5pm ET on July 23rd wins an iPad and more importantly to me, some pretty nice recognition in the social media community.

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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

DECEMBER 24, 2010

But after a while, he found a group of people from a range of backgrounds – from fishermen, to a freedom fighter, to a tax collector – to take on this task. What we can learn: the more we are able to energize our communities, the better our chances of converting them to evangelizers. Read All About It!

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 24, 2011

A group Amplog would be a great way to share ideas and resources. A group Amplog would be a great way to share ideas and resources. Do you have any suggestions that could be added to this list? The objective is to find tools that are very cost effective or free that will greatly help non-profits. Clipped from [link] [.]

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Kikolani

JUNE 18, 2010

8 great reasons for private blog groups – great tips on why you should get your writers together, including post promotion and strengthening your community. Scribnia – why you should join this great blogging community. Best blogroll plugin for WordPress – give your blogroll links the most SEO value possible.

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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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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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Saying It Social

JUNE 3, 2010

Own your brand’s social presence: If you don’t create official channels online, it’s only a matter of time before your customers/clients do it for you and create their own profiles and communities around your brand. Be sure to build trust by adding value to the community consistently over time.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 13, 2010

It remained a small group and was a lot of fun! Reply Rate Up div.livefyre-comment).removeClass(livefyre-hidden)" removeClass(livefyre-hidden)" class="livefyre-show-comment livefyre-button"> View comment pts mod Amber Francis Getting info Pending approval share On Facebook On Twitter flag Delete Hide Unhide Ban user New! Read All About It!

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 11, 2010

I feel for all the groups that consider this commemoration an abomination. Columbus Day as I’ve gathered over my 10-ish years of living here, is one of those holidays that is “happy&# for some (mostly Federal employees), and not that rambunctious for others. There are always two sides to every story, and sometimes more.

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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! Read All About It!

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ProBlogger

JANUARY 7, 2013

Show Love To Your Community. Takeaway #2: Don’t distract visitors with long blogrolls, loads of award badges and other unruly sidebar features. So why not move the blogroll, category and tag links to their own separate pages? Earlier in this series I discussed the importance of showing attention to your community.

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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

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. Read All About It!

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Akamai Marketing

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Let your community see the whole Alice, even with your idiosyncrasies (how DO you keep your hair perfect on this grand adventure?). As your community learns to trust YOU, they’ll see that you’re real and no Cheshire Cat, this will make relationships easier to develop. Who can trust that crazy cat? Tell your story.

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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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Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

Steve Ressler, Founder of GovLoop As announced this morning, GovLoop, the premier social network for the government community, has joined forces with GovDelivery, the world’s leading provider of government-to-citizen communications solutions. The short answer was that the community was unsustainable. Within the Gov 2.0

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

HP Communities. Search: HP Communities. Communities of Practice. Cultivating Communities of Practice. Type the digits above: Submit » Information disclosed in this community becomes public. Communities (41 posts). » Contact HP. United States-English. » Home - Tab. Blogs - Tab - Selected.

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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. Read All About It! These fine folk did: Jan.

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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

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. Read All About It! These fine folk did: Jan.

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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 Read All About It!

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 28, 2008

· Filed under Collaboration , Communities , Distributed Work , Enterprise 2.0 , Talent Management. Communities. Communities. Contributors |. Contact us. Managing in the Virtual or Network(ed) Organization by Jon Husband. July 27, 2008 at 9:05 pm. · Celine Roque. Shiv Singh. Contributor Emeriti. Russell Shaw.

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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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Social Media Strategery

OCTOBER 25, 2008

There’s always that core group of passionate social media enthusiasts who will go above and beyond to make social media successful – from spending their own money to create social media rewards to volunteering their time to function as an ad hoc help desk. Because it’s not about the tools. Which is exactly the point, right?

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Saying It Social

JUNE 22, 2010

Computer Explorers – provides technology education to children ages 3 and up at childcare centers, preschools, private and public schools and community centers.

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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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Social Media Strategery

JUNE 15, 2010

community, the people who have helped me in my career, the people who made me believe that openness, transparency, and collaboration in government could be a reality. I realized that the technology and the work didn’t mean anything unless I had a community, unless I connected to PEOPLE. Group hug and Gov 2.0 Hero Day [.]

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Koka Sexton

OCTOBER 5, 2010

I did some of the homework before officially starting and it was mainly about jumping with both feet and starting to engage with the community. The group is nice and for my first office job in 3 years this is a welcome environment. Getting up to speed on the social media needs of the company hasn’t been difficult.

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