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About Shonali Burke

Founder and publisher of Waxing UnLyrical, Shonali Burke helps purpose-driven brands bring big ideas to life. She teaches at The Johns Hopkins University, has gone back to school herself with the Harvard Business Analytics Program, and is creator/lead instructor at The Social PR Virtuoso® online training hub , where ambitious PR pros learn how to unleash their inner Social PR superheroes. Owned by Lola the Basset Hound, she's mad about ABBA, bacon, cooking, dogs, and Elvis, though not necessarily in that order. Wouldn't you like to be in her kitchen?
14 Sep 2010

The Problem With PR

Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes

You know what the problem with PR is?

Most PR pros (and firms).

We in the PR industry have done a poor job of defining and promoting what we do.

The term “PR” has become synonymous with “press releases” (easy enough to understand why), “buzz,” “publicity,” and “spin.”

Ugh.

Image: marcelinoportfolio‘s Flickr stream, CC 2.0

What good PR actually entails is a lot more.

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13 Sep 2010

Get PR Measurement Off The Island

Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes

Seeing as how I’ve been ill for the last several days (sinus infection, burn on arm, you don’t want to go there), my blogging took a back seat to lying on the couch (or bed), feeling sorry for myself and immersed in a Lost marathon.

Image: Flickr user Bart, CC 2.0

No, I didn’t watch it when it was on the air. And I’m kinda-sorta happy about that, because I don’t know if I would have been able to put up with […]

08 Sep 2010

Seven Steps To A Better Twitter Daily

Estimated Reading Time: 8 minutes

I first heard about Paper.li via Gautam Ghosh on Facebook a few weeks (or was it a month?) ago.

It looked cool, but I didn’t really start playing with it until last week, and when I Amplify’d Neville Hobson’s excellent assessment of it.

If you’re not already using it, I think you should check it out. IMHO.

What is Paper.li?

Much has already been written about what Paper.li is, so I won’t bore you with too many details.

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