Communications Conversations

MARCH 29, 2019

Last week, I shared my news that I’ll be teaching social media at the University of St. Now, she’s crushing it at Best Buy in social media marketing. So, I asked a few key local leaders for up-and-coming social media or communications superstars they admire. They had to be younger than 30.

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Cision

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Social Media Week 2015 concluded just as it started – with tons of great information and ideas. Each delved into how social intelligence can help you listen to conversations online to benefit your brand’s customer service, marketing, product development, sales and PR initiatives. Measurement.

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Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Powwowing With Pepco on Social Media September 28th, 2010 Tweet I haven’t been the biggest fan of my local energy company, Pepco, recently. Completely. Here’s the interview.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 15, 2011

Someone who is going to cover your business in a façade will not engage your community on the same level as a trust agent speaking his/her mind. As a cable company, Comcast is notorious for poor customer service. Bill Gerth is the trust agent for Comcast and he responds to customer inquiries and issues with his own voice.

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Waxing UnLyrical

APRIL 11, 2012

Tarnishing your brand doesn’t have to happen in such a dramatic fashion. Nothing says, “I care more about money than customer service” than that. You’ve got to know your online community well to be “in the know” on how to best speak with them when this kind of thing happens. You lose credibility.

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Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

, consider this instead: The customer is your media. Repeat after me: the customer is your media. I’ve written before about how good customer service is the best kind of PR. Finally I went on Twitter when I’d had enough of the “senior fashion writer&# giving me what I thought was fluff.

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Reputation Us

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Having a crisis communications plan enabled Stacie Wyss-Schoenborn, president/CEO of the $248 million Central Willamette Community Credit Union in Albany, Ore., Having too many people on a crisis communications team may cause confusion. That’s what good customer service is,” Huey explained. “I

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