Shonali Burke

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?

02 Feb 2010

Job-hunting Long Distance? Five Do’s and Don’ts To Jumpstart Your Search

Estimated Reading Time: 12 minutes

Job-hunting’s still very much on people’s minds, judging by the number of emails I get – and, I’m sure, you do as well. As I was reading Chuck Hemann’s fabulous guest post from yesterday on how to land a job in social media, as well as Thursday Bram’s post on online networking over at Women Grow Business, I thought I’d share what I’ve learned about job-hunting long-distance – because that’s what I did when I moved from the San Francisco Bay Area to the nation’s capital.

1. With an […]

By Shonali Burke|Feb 2, 2010|Categories: Career Development|Tags: getting a job, job hunting, long distance, Networking|17 Comments

01 Feb 2010

Five Ways to Land a Job in Social Media

Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes

This is a guest post from Chuck Hemann, someone I’ve enjoyed connecting with in the online world, and whom I very much hope to meet offline soon. Read on for great tips on landing a job using, and in, social media.

Social media jobs are popping up around every corner, and so are the people looking for those jobs. Unfortunately, the economic downturn took a heavy toll on the PR profession. Jobs aren’t as available for the experienced, or entry-level, professional. Because of the dearth of opportunities, many pros have taken to the […]

By Shonali Burke|Feb 1, 2010|Categories: Career Development, Social Media|Tags: chuck hemann, jason falls, job hunting, lisa hoffmann, Social Media, teresa basich|12 Comments

27 Jan 2010

Speaking Season Begins

Estimated Reading Time: 1 minute

I didn’t think this would happen so quickly, but my 2010 speaking “season” has kicked off.

So – here’s where I’ll be over the next few months, adding new dates as we go along. Do let me know if you’ll be anywhere that I am, so that we can say “hello” to each other (and if you can join a webinar or teleseminar, I’ll be delighted).

By the way, if you’re interested in measurement, tomorrow I’m doing a webinar for PRSA Tampa Bay that reprises my turn at PRSA’s 2009 International Conference. […]

By Shonali Burke|Jan 27, 2010|Categories: Speaking & Presenting|Tags: Measurement & Metrics, prsa tampa bay, Speaking & Presenting|0 Comments

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