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 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

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 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!

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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

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Social media as the new support group? She loves dogs! I love dogs! What other reason do you need? She’s an amazing photographer. (I I knew there was something else…) 5. from Chuck Hemann ‘s Analytics is King. Read All About It! Greenbanana - Heather Yaxley Jon (Newman)'s PR 1.5

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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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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

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”). As soon as I did my credibility would be shot. The small community of readers I have built up and learned from would shun me, rightly perhaps. Read All About It!

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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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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

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. Im making time to attend more meetings, go to small business groups and TweetUps, to network in PERSON.

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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. The question is not ‘are we walking the walk? Read All About It!

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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). Read All About It! Greenbanana - Heather Yaxley Jon (Newman)'s PR 1.5

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 4, 2010

Imagine what they could have accomplished, say, if they created some type of challenge -- groups who raised the most money for the cause would win a private performance by Alicia Keys -- something like that. And, what a waste of celebrities. Its not an easy feat getting celebs to participate in something like this. Read All About It!

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Akamai Marketing

MARCH 29, 2011

Then measure it.You can use Google Analytics, PostRank or even (GASP!) Determine what the benefits to blogging will be. Are you trying to create community? Are you hoping to help along your SEO efforts? Then live it. your own set of metrics. By the way, “sucking less&# is not a measurable metric, get your own.

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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. Well, that last part was easy – I had a $350 video camera lying about just waiting to be used by a group of clueless eager-to-learn grad students.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

We started talking about the potential of social media on our campus and he came up with the idea of organizing an informal learning group. To get the proverbial ball rolling, I wrote about the group in the University’s internal publication and he sent an email invite to campus. It was a great idea! Read All About It!

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Originally from Melbourne, he is a Senior Account Manager with London-based The Propeller Group , and has a keen interest in issues that affect the global communications industry. Bryce Keane is an international communication professional who’s worked in both the EMEA and Asia-Pacific regions. 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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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!

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 20, 2011

Conway has also worked in London, most recently as Internet PR Account Director at Propeller Group. 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. Thanks so much for stopping by WUL!

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