Shonali Burke

28 Sep 2010

Powwowing With Pepco on Social Media

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I haven’t been the biggest fan of my local energy company, Pepco, recently.

Granted, we’ve had some pretty crazy weather… and that tends to send the power diving down the tubes.

That, I understand.

But what really started getting on my nerves was how seemingly useless their communications were.

I ranted a fair amount about this, so I won’t repeat myself here.

To pick up where I left off

I was all set to do a humdinger of a post about how terrible Pepco was, particularly in its use of […]

By Shonali Burke|Sep 28, 2010|Categories: Public Relations, Social Media|Tags: andre francis, debbi jarvis, pepco, Social Media|3 Comments

27 Sep 2010

How A Fake Taxidermist Is Keeping AT&T On Its Toes

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Remember how @BPGlobalPR, the fake BP “PR” Twitterfeed took off?

Meet @ATT_Fake_PR (formerly @ATT_Wireless_PR).

No, I’m not doing my best Rip Van Winkle impersonation. I’ve been following and “talking” to ATT_Fake_PR for a while.

Vest-less

Now, I am not, and have not been, an AT&T customer (I’m quite happy with Verizon Wireless).

I have no experience of, and no beef with, AT&T. I’m sure there are many nice, decent people who work there.

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By Shonali Burke|Sep 27, 2010|Categories: Social Media|Tags: at&t fake pr, brandjacking, parody, roger|4 Comments

26 Sep 2010

Weekly Roundup: Time and Space

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Time, space, and how we inhabit the two have been a bit on my mind lately.

Image: Brisbane Falling via Flickr, CC 2.0

Not that they’re normally too far from it – because everything we do is a function of time and space, isn’t it? – but they’ve been slightly more on my mind lately.

To that end, here are seven posts for you to read/listen to/watch crossing the gamut of time and space that you might enjoy… or, at the least, find thought-provoking.

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