Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Sorry, couldn’t resist that. I felt a bit punny. What is HAPPO? Oh, how quickly one forgets! Here’s a reminder of how HAPPO started , but in a nutshell, it stands for “Help a PR Pro Out,&# and is an initiative that uses social media to connect public relations job seekers with those who could employ them. I’ve been part of the core group since Arik Hanson and Valerie Simon launched the initiative, and think it’s absolutely fab.

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Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Tell you what, if you want to get a lively Twitter chat going, look for a guest who’ll provide not just great information, but come up with tag lines and great sound bites on the fly. In other words, someone who’s going to pull the strings not too hard, not too light, but just right. Image: Nwardez via Flickr, CC 2.0. Like Jim Sterne did, on last week’s #measurePR.

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Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It’s the President’s Day weekend. here in the States, and you might be… planning to hit the stores to find great President’s Day deals, or. heading out of town for a long weekend, or. doing a lot of laundry, or. … fill in the blanks. If you’re a social media junkie like me, how about a few other ideas? Be warned, a lot of links follow.

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Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Last week. I received my third reminder from PRWeek that the time is coming for me to renew my subscription. Which, of course, made me start thinking: do I want to renew my subscription? Image: Marc Amos via Flickr, CC 2.0. Do I need to renew my subscription? As I started debating the pros and cons of doing so, PRWeek told me what was in it for me if I did renew: Unlimited access to PRWeekus.com , available to subscribers only.

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Two years after its initial release, Peter H. Paulsen’s book, From Brick and Mortar to Prosperity, continues to inspire readers around the globe.

Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Guest post by Mike Doman. I’m a little riled up … Articles like this annoy me. It’s not because it disagrees with my sensibilities (though it does), nor because I have a particular affection for Twitter (though I do). It’s because it’s simply ill-thought out – another piece bashing the use of social media, without actually having engaged with the concept.

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Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

There are probably a lot of things we can learn from our Presidents. Like how to age prematurely… … and that it’s a bad idea to swat flies on national TV… … and oh, so much more! But one of the most important things we can learn from the Presidents is how to live longer. For example: 1. Don’t ever let something bug you to the point of having a stroke about it. 2.

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