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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Crisis Twitter Facebook Measurement 71

Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 14, 2010

This cultivates a thinking community where information is evaluated, and then adapted and built upon. Corporations constantly churn out copy for communication channels and PR campaigns. Instead, Steve encourages people to be creative and to inject personality into their communications. Image: Stuart Caie via Flickr, CC 2.0

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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

Image: Derrick Coetzee via Flickr , Creative Commons Seems to me both are somewhat extraordinary, perhaps exaggerated and possibly exciting. How B2B companies use real-time blog posts to get trade media exposure , from David Meerman Scott ‘s Web Ink Now. In other words, something very unusual. Palomino wins this round.

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Facebook Measurement Twitter Social Media 57

Communications Conversations

JULY 23, 2019

We all know we have a strong agency community here in Minneapolis/St. Before we even began working with Digi-Key, she had blazed the trail in developing innovative PR programs and processes for one of Minnesota’s largest companies, Digi-Key Electronics based in Thief River Falls. Andi Pepin, creative producer-Target.

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Transportation Social Media Corporate Agency 122

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

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 14, 2010

Image: Arturo Sotillo via Flickr , Creative Commons How about you? As always in good company with the Tinu and the others. PR and the power of ideas , from Richard Bailey’s PR Studies. 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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Blogging Facebook Twitter Measurement 85

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

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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Blogging Facebook Twitter How To 96

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. Thatll be totally cool."

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NewsWhip

APRIL 28, 2021

Kirsty O’Connor leads the Innovation + Creative Hub in Dubai for H+K, supporting the Middle East, Turkey, India, and Africa region (METIA). She brings specialisms in social media, data and digital integration to the agency, and sits across H+K’s sector teams to support the continuous evolution of communications.

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Maxim Behar

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Media drives the communication between people around the world. People who work in this area are the ones who invent new creative products and influence the hearts and minds of millions. The creativity comes from the way you describe it to people so that they can understand it. Now it's in my room. I tell them it's a simple job.

Hotels 64

Hotels Newspapers Journalism Ethics 64

Landis PR

JANUARY 3, 2022

Communicating will always be important, but now more than ever taking a role as communicators and advisers being conciliators, raising values such as the ability to listen to the other, the value for the environment and respect for the communities. Companies will continue to redefine what the workplace actually is.

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Trends Trade Shows Agency Communications 52

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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Policies Twitter Facebook Writing 86

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. One of the most creative cover letters I received was one sentence; 14 words, to be exact. Creativity will only get you so far.

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Interviews Creativity Twitter Facebook 83

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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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. These fine folk did: Jan.

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Reputation Measurement Social Media Tourism 73

Waxing UnLyrical

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. These fine folk did: Jan.

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