Waxing UnLyrical

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. Thanks so much for stopping by WUL!

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Waxing UnLyrical

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

Image: Louise Docker via Flickr , Creative Commons Thanks so much for stopping by WUL! If you liked what you saw and read, Id love you to subscribe to my RSS feed or subscribe by email. So much to do So much to gain To touch, to hold, come sun or rain. So much to do So much to see I am the future. The future is me.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Image: mstofan ‘s Flickrstream, Creative Commons Thanks so much for stopping by WUL! If you liked what you saw and read, Id love you to subscribe to my RSS feed or subscribe by email. 1 – 2:30 pm ET, follow/participate on Twitter using the #netsol hashtag. See you there! Regardless, thanks for visiting!

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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. An image speaks a thousand words.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 19, 2010

Why: PR pros are trying to learn more and more about SEO and using keywords smartly. Image: Peter Roome via Flickr, Creative Commons Thanks so much for stopping by WUL! If you liked what you saw and read, Id love you to subscribe to my RSS feed or subscribe by email. Regardless, thanks for visiting!

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Image: YiYing Lu via Flickr , Creative Commons Thanks so much for stopping by WUL! If you liked what you saw and read, Id love you to subscribe to my RSS feed or subscribe by email. Let’s Halloween up PR , by, er, me. Why: if we don’t enjoy what we do, what’s the point? Regardless, thanks for visiting!

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 2, 2011

Image: Eric Magnuson via Flickr, Creative Commons Thanks so much for stopping by WUL! If you liked what you saw and read, Id love you to subscribe to my RSS feed or subscribe by email. Why: despite the fact that GSB is owned and operated by Network Solutions, a client of mine, I thought these were great tips.

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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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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Image: anthony kelly via Flickr , Creative Commons Here you go. What is the best SEO secret you know? Why: public relations professionals spend a lot of time trying to learn about SEO and increasing online visibility. If you liked what you saw and read, Id love you to subscribe to my RSS feed or subscribe by email.

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Waxing UnLyrical

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). Free Christmas RSS icons for blogs , from Free Vector Clip Art. Why: seriously?

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Image: Derrick Coetzee via Flickr , Creative Commons Seems to me both are somewhat extraordinary, perhaps exaggerated and possibly exciting. If you liked what you saw and read, Id love you to subscribe to my RSS feed or subscribe by email. In other words, something very unusual. Else why would we do what we do?

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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. Thanks so much for stopping by WUL! Regardless, thanks for visiting!

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Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

So I contacted Debbi Jarvis , Pepco’s VP of Communications (a delightful woman, and whom I also know through IABC/DC Metro ), to see if she could fill me in. Our crisis communications plan consist of pre-event, event, and post-event reporting guidelines and information. Thanks so much for stopping by WUL!

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Image: Peter Lee via Flickr, Creative Commons Thanks so much for stopping by WUL! If you liked what you saw and read, Id love you to subscribe to my RSS feed or subscribe by email. &# You know what I have to say to you, NBCW? Bah, humbug. Stop playing Scrooge and Cratchit it up for a change. Regardless, thanks for visiting!

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Image: Niels Linneberg via Flickr, Creative Commons I was really happy at how many new participants there were. If you liked what you saw and read, Id love you to subscribe to my RSS feed or subscribe by email. In other words, paywalls , how pitching will be affected if these take off, and prognoses for 2011. Happy holidays!

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Waxing UnLyrical

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. If you liked what you saw and read, Id love you to subscribe to my RSS feed or subscribe by email. RSS feed or Subscribe by Email. It’s remarkable.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

Image: Raul Tejero Palma via Flickr , Creative Commons What about giving thanks for everything you don’t have? If you liked what you saw and read, Id love you to subscribe to my RSS feed or subscribe by email. What about giving thanks for the things that didn’t work out? Trust me on this one.

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Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 25, 2010

Creative Commons To Love Yet Not OK. If you liked what you saw and read, Id love you to subscribe to my RSS feed or subscribe by email. My iGoogle page has RSS feeds from blogs that I read regularly along with email, news, calendar, dictionary, and even translation tools! Image: rubyblossom. Will you share below?

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

Image: Arturo Sotillo via Flickr , Creative Commons How about you? If you liked what you saw and read, Id love you to subscribe to my RSS feed or subscribe by email. Why: I do think you start with the idea … and PR is no different. Do you have hidden gems to share? Thanks so much for stopping by WUL!

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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! If you liked what you saw and read, Id love you to subscribe to my RSS feed or subscribe by email. Not that difficult, is it?

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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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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. He has also sat on the admissions panel for RMIT’s Bachelor of Communication (Public Relations) and tweets about everything from Masterchef to media relations.?

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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.

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Waxing UnLyrical

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. If you liked what you saw and read, Id love you to subscribe to my RSS feed or subscribe by email. Especially you, Jill.

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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. If you liked what you saw and read, Id love you to subscribe to my RSS feed or subscribe by email. Possibly, never to return.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Image: cvrcak1 via Flickr , Creative Commons Bats in the belfry? If you liked what you saw and read, Id love you to subscribe to my RSS feed or subscribe by email. At first glance, you’d think I was crazy for trying to do such a thing for this kind of audience. Thanks so much for stopping by WUL! Regardless, thanks for visiting!

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 14, 2011

If you liked what you saw and read, Id love you to subscribe to my RSS feed or subscribe by email. Thanks for your creative thinking and always being willing to share it. I would send them Valentine’s cards if I could. Which plugins do you use and like the best? Thanks so much for stopping by WUL! Regardless, thanks for visiting!

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Waxing UnLyrical

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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Justin Levy

JANUARY 12, 2010

If youre new here or just an old friend, Id love it if you subscribed via RSS feed. link] SEO packages Brilliant ! JustinRLevy.com by Justin Levy is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Thanks for taking time out of your day to come hang out here! Guess what? That’s why I [.]

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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. If you liked what you saw and read, Id love you to subscribe to my RSS feed or subscribe by email. Now you see it, now you don’t.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Here’s the first paragraph of my summary: I show businesses how to use social media technologies for external community building and outreach, and for internal collaboration. For the bonus round, I recommend staying up to date via LinkedIn’s community superhero, Mario Sundar. Subscribe to the RSS feed and get lots more!

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 3, 2011

Image: Magnus Forrester-Barker via Flickr, Creative Commons Thanks so much for stopping by WUL! If you liked what you saw and read, Id love you to subscribe to my RSS feed or subscribe by email. Or, if you remember what your first job was like, would you do anything differently? Do share via a comment. These fine folk did: Jan.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Image: Matthew Smith via Flickr, Creative Commons Can you say “love at first byte&# ? It really is a community. I think what delights me most about Amplify is that there really is a community sense to it. If you liked what you saw and read, Id love you to subscribe to my RSS feed or subscribe by email.

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Kikolani

JANUARY 16, 2011

Be sure to list your new blog URL as well as your new RSS feed URL in that post so people can subscribe easily to your new site or visit it directly. Question: What is the best type of information to include if you are an apartment community trying to blog so your residents and future residents will follow you?

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ProBlogger

MAY 3, 2011

Content scraping—by automated programs that pull entire posts from your blog for republishing elsewhere—and autoblogging—where sites regurgitate whole articles from your RSS feed on their pages—are the most common content ripping practices. They are illegal. Any content reproduction without permission is illegal. What do you think?

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JUNE 27, 2008

I scan 275 RSS feeds in Google Reader and I use dozens of bookmarklets and shortcuts to help me manage it all. This works for any RSS feed, not just bookmarks. Posted at 09:35 PM in Gear , Linkblog , Mobile , RSS , Search , Tagging , Weblogs | Permalink. » Using Google Apps to Help Manage Email from SEO Blog Pro.

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