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DECEMBER 24, 2010

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Public Relations Lessons From Jesus, The Apostles And The Bible December 24th, 2010 Tweet Note: this is not a religious post, and is meant neither to proselytize nor offend. pts Settings.

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DECEMBER 28, 2010

Also… Image: Thom Watson via Flickr, Creative Commons OK, I’ll stop now, I can see you rolling your eyes, going, “Come on, act your age.&# They’re doing such a good job of it, that they’re getting their customers and community to tell their stories for them. I actually have a bunch of them.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

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NOVEMBER 21, 2010

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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.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2010

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NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Image: Derrick Coetzee via Flickr , Creative Commons Seems to me both are somewhat extraordinary, perhaps exaggerated and possibly exciting. How to not suck being a conference moderator or speaker , from TopRank’s Online Marketing Blog. In other words, something very unusual. Do you really need another reason?

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 12, 2010

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Weekly Roundup: The Holly And The Ivy December 12th, 2010 Tweet As I write this, it is grey and damp outside. Christmas music is playing in my house. Click here to try reconnecting the live stream. |

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NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Image: Katie Harris via Flickr , Creative Commons Connect with the people you serve The goal wasn’t to create a blog. You can’t start a blog like ours unless the community wants it. Hope the blog grows into an active and successful online community; seems like youre already getting a steady influx of submissions!

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OCTOBER 19, 2010

Image: Greig Christie via Flickr, Creative Commons Since Google Instant’s launch just over a month ago, digital marketers have been scrambling to figure out how search engine marketing strategies might need to change. Click here to try reconnecting the live stream. | pts Settings. These fine folk did: Jan.

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OCTOBER 31, 2010

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JANUARY 2, 2011

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Image: Geoff LMV via Flickr , Creative Commons These included sentences like On what Pepco’s crisis communication plan is: “Pepco takes its responsibility to keep customers informed seriously. Our crisis communications plan consist of pre-event, event, and post-event reporting guidelines and information.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Image: mj*laflaca via Flickr , Creative Commons It’s about how that writing looks. 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. D’oh, you say. Image: U.S.

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DECEMBER 7, 2010

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DECEMBER 19, 2010

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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. Click here to try reconnecting the live stream. | pts Settings.

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DECEMBER 13, 2010

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NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Image: Esparta Palma via Flickr , Creative Commons The big thing I get from the film (aside from the drama) is that, like a romantic comedy, the players emerged from that experience much stronger, closer and wiser. And in the case of Metallica, much more democratic. Click here to try reconnecting the live stream. | pts Settings.

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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. Image: Felipe Venâncio via Flickr , Creative Commons The solution really comes back to education, doesn’t it? You tell me. Utopia aside. pts Settings. These fine folk did: Jan.

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DECEMBER 23, 2010

Image: Niels Linneberg via Flickr, Creative Commons I was really happy at how many new participants there were. 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.

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AUGUST 22, 2010

Image: Zen Sutherland , Creative Commons I finally did get my laughs in before the clock struck midnight, thanks to Bill Murray’s exquisite performance in The Man Who Knew Too Little. Bloop Bloop: The Conference Call | Waxing UnLyrical says: August 28, 2010 at 10:38 am [.] Click here to try reconnecting the live stream. |

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DECEMBER 26, 2010

Image: Joey Rozier via Flickr, Creative Commons For the uninitiated, Boxing Day is the day after Christmas (though where celebrated, marked on the first weekday after Christmas, so that would mean it’s actually tomorrow, but whatever). No more presents, great food and holiday cheer, you think? Nothing to look forward to?

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NOVEMBER 26, 2010

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NOVEMBER 14, 2010

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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! It’s more about setting goals and working towards outcomes, and figuring out which channels you’re going to use to do that.

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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. Image: Travis K via Flickr , Creative Commons Thanks so much for stopping by WUL!

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NOVEMBER 28, 2010

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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.

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OCTOBER 25, 2010

Image: Kurtis Garbutt via Flickr, Creative Commons Kim, who runs the Corporate Alliance to End Partner Violence (CAEPV), asked what I thought was a valid question on her blog: where is all the purple? I say “among many other things,&# because October can be associated with so many other colors. pts Settings.

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OCTOBER 6, 2010

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JANUARY 14, 2011

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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. Don’t you want the back story first? Possibly, never to return. Double yikes. I went to my 404 page, and it was bland.

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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.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Image: jbcurio via Flickr , Creative Commons For the few who don’t know or recall, an “ advertorial is an advertisement written in the form of an objective article, and presented in a printed publication – usually designed to look like a legitimate and independent news story,” according to Wikipedia. Remember the advertorial ?

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NOVEMBER 25, 2010

Image: Lorenz Seidler via Flickr , Creative Commons I was distraught when I got a Facebook IM from one of my friends in Mumbai, telling me of the first bomb blast. I’d seen how much effort my husband put into it, and I thought it would be nice if I could do that for him, for a change. Click here to try reconnecting the live stream. |

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AUGUST 25, 2010

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