Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali The Value Of A Fire Drill October 27th, 2010 Tweet Guest post by Narciso Tovar I remember the time I went through my first fire drill. The "fire drill" idea seems like it would help many people and companies.

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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 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: Stuart Caie via Flickr, CC 2.0 pts Settings.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Image: Lars Plougmann via Flickr, Creative Commons Really, if you just read through the comments, there’s your follow-up blog post… but since I promised you one, you’re getting one. Image: Aftab Uzzaman via Flickr, Creative Commons It’s why I wrote about networking with a twist a while back. pts Settings.

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Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Image: Flickr user Bart , CC 2.0 Students are not taught about new practices, since proprietary tools and techniques often remain with hidden with the agencies and companies that create them. No, I didn’t watch it when it was on the air. Click here to try reconnecting the live stream. | pts Settings. These fine folk did: Jan.

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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. For the rest of my site, I made my 404 error message a little funny rather than using the generic one from my hosting company. Double yikes.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

It was something to the effect of “Would/should companies do this with big bloggers in their spaces?&# Alas, the issue is even stickier for bloggers than it is for companies. The small community of readers I have built up and learned from would shun me, rightly perhaps. My opinion on this is nuanced. Simple, right?

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Weekly Roundup: Paloozas And Palominos November 7th, 2010 Tweet Apparently a “palooza&# is an “ exaggerated event.&# In other words, something very unusual. Palomino wins this round. pts Settings.

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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. Mark as read Approve comment Representing companies as their PR specialist is an extremely important job, I can see what you mean about not just the average applicants making the cut.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

The photographers are all kicking it at flickr, the chatterboxes are tweeting away at Twitter, and you got your musicians over at last.fm Lets say you are connected with Jane on MyBlogLog and are chatting it up with her on twitter and sharing photos on flickr. rocking out. How does it work? Drop us a line if you need any help!

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

Image: Arturo Sotillo via Flickr , Creative Commons How about you? Get notified of updates in this conversation "> Follow conversation Stop receiving notifications "> Following conversation people listening Followers Livefyre is in Offline Mode - you can still post comments. As always in good company with the Tinu and the others.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 13, 2011

Image: Heather Phillips via Flickr, CC 2.0 Our community was now creating the bulk of our content. Image: Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com via Flickr, CC 2.0 ” (which was nice to hear) But, once the internal community knew that they were still going to have access to similar content they were fine. Good for you!

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Title image: Lukasz Strachanowski via Flickr, Creative Commons Life… supplemented™ data courtesy and used with permission of Priya Ramesh, CRT/tanaka Thanks so much for stopping by WUL! decision on what to measure will be unique to each company. It’s about what you’re going to try to get your target audience to do.

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Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 5, 2011

Frankly, it seems absolutely ridiculous to me that companies are paying $3 million for the chance to get one ad – ONE – aired. And if consumers cannot remember the companies or the products, the commercials do not lead to sales. Image: Anne-Lise Heinrichs via Flickr, CC 2.0 The other half of me is rolling her eyes.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 23, 2011

Your company is merging. Image: Marieke Kuijjer via Flickr, CC 2.0 Get notified of updates in this conversation "> Follow conversation Stop receiving notifications "> Following conversation people listening Followers Livefyre is in Offline Mode - you can still post comments. by John Taylor. I’d love to know. pts Settings.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

Massive list posts ("50+ Ways to Use Flickr," "100 Social Media Resources", etc.) Flickr photo via BTal. You can: Take a picture (or several) and upload them to Flickr or to your blog. Flickr photo via ragesoss. June 27, 2008 | Permalink. |. Comments (0). |. TrackBack (0). Comments (13). |.

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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. And understanding is one of the most important building blocks to a successful career in any field, and particularly in business communication. It makes the blogosphere less frightening. pts Settings.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 4, 2010

Image: Shawn McClung via Flickr, Creative Commons You have to really, really be paying attention to notice if someone hasn’t tweeted in a while, unless you talk to them every day. Even if Fast Company tries to tell you so. Now you see it, now you don’t. Campaigns will come and go. pts Settings.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 23, 2008

Flickr photo via ragesoss. In fact, the desire to help, the joy inherent to crossing barriers, the sense of belonging to a community, the awareness that the meaning of whatever we praise and respect may be deepened by our common effort, all those are priceless values clustered in the heart of human beings. URL: Remember personal info?

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Laurel Papworth

MAY 8, 2010

Remember, customers believe that social media sites belong to “them&# the customer and for a % of your online community your exit strategy is going to destroy their friendships and their content. Notification email or blog post is sort of pre point 1 – how you open the issue and touching on the other 7 points: Hello.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2008

Flickr photo via Nesster. Companies that didnâ??t Facebook or LinkedIn) or other communities of practiceâ?? The investment these companies will make in blogs, social networks, and communities will â??stimulate Stephens PLE: Store photos ( Flickr ) and video ( Google video ). through the lens of Web 1.0,

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 7, 2011

Image: pimpexposure via Flickr, CC 2.0 Perhaps “hot&# in a different way today…) Image: Leon Ferri via Flickr, CC 2.0 As far as Rude Dude goes I will not be recommending him, his company or facilitating introductions for him any time soon. “Filled up&# ? And yes, these are all direct quotes from the emails.)

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Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Image: Paul Schultz via Flickr, CC 2.0 Get notified of updates in this conversation "> Follow conversation Stop receiving notifications "> Following conversation people listening Followers Livefyre is in Offline Mode - you can still post comments. I know which one I’d choose. What about you? Thanks so much for stopping by WUL!

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 25, 2011

Yes, they ARE a third-party provider of a service (a “space” for artisans to sell crafts online) but they’re a company valued at over $100 million, with a clearly defined policy on hateful and offensive items. What a silly situation for a multi-million dollar company to get itself into. Image: striatic via Flickr, CC 2.0

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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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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2010

Blogging helps you build community (especially via comments), establish thought leadership, bring links to your website (both internally, perhaps to products or to other articles on your blog, and externally, when people like what you say and opt to link to you), and get you some nice traffic. Give to your community. Customer Service.

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Convince & Convert

AUGUST 18, 2010

But there are still plenty of PR firms (and companies, for that matter) looking at social media purely as a distribution vehicle. Angela Connor Author, “18 Rules of Community Engagement&# [link] jaybaer I agree Angela. I feel that PR companies can be a huge education resource to their clients. What do you think?

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Social Media Strategery

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Image courtesy of Flickr user davitydave. One of the world’s most connected men, Baratunde Thurston , recently took a month-long digital detox, chronicled in the July/August issue of Fast Company. We struggle to keep up with the constant notifications and alerts. Take it offline.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 26, 2011

Image: Asthma Helper via Flickr, CC 2.0 If a company is going to make money off my “likes,&# shouldn’t I get a piece of the pie , as Beth Harte said (and I agree) on Facebook? Doesn’t it call to mind the Flickr-Virgin Mobile brouhaha from a few years ago? Image: Rafael Peñazola via Flickr, CC 2.0

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Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Image: Clyde Robinson via Flickr, CC 2.0 I’m also in the entertainment industry and enjoy tweaking the nipple of large multi-national telecom companies that annoy me on a daily, if not hourly basis. I follow their company news, monitor the #ATTSUCKS hashtag on Twitter, and pay close attention to my own user experience.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Image: Tania Gail via Flickr , Creative Commons We were deluged by applications; when we had openings, when we didn’t have openings, when we had budget to hire, when we didn’t have budget. Image: Jimmy Cardosi via Flickr , Creative Commons Can you imagine my face when I saw that? It was crazy. I kid you not. pts Settings.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Title image: Edgely Cesar via Flickr, Creative Commons My take Measurement should be, but still isn’t, the jewel in the crown of PR. On his blog , Nick says: “Students are not taught about new practices, since proprietary tools and techniques often remain with hidden with the agencies and companies that create them.&#

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Convince & Convert

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

I know that different companies provide different amounts of historical data at the start of the campaign (another item I should have included – may need to do a follow up on this on my own blog later on as I get all this great feedback on items to include!) I think that is more powerful than targeting by city, state or region.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 7, 2010

After all, who wants to do business with a company that has a “bad&# name? Image: Heart Industry via Flickr, Creative Commons Thanks so much for stopping by WUL! It’s a name they feel comfortable being associated with. And now, with social media, we’re extending that quest to the social Web. pts Settings.

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Bare Feet Studios

DECEMBER 29, 2008

To me, an outside observer, they have treated it as a sales platform though positioned it as a community forum. The parent company is from Australia, though their corporate site has zero information. There is no About page or any information on the parent company page; you must visit the main office in your country.

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Kikolani

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Adsense – if you’re positioning yourself or company, remove it. Your engagement is awaiting moderation – with no notification of if and when it is approved. Mashable has hired community managers to stay on top comments. You’re sending visitors to your competition. How do you handle negative comments?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

DECEMBER 1, 2009

I have a couple set up for books that I work for the publishing company. I am trying to do this on my company fan page and I dont see the pencil for the boxes tab either. A big company like this you should think that they clould afford to give SUPPORT to there clients. !! Looking forward win! I hate being frustrated.

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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 Get notified of updates in this conversation "> Follow conversation Stop receiving notifications "> Following conversation people listening Followers Livefyre is in Offline Mode - you can still post comments. pts Settings.

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