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?

09 Oct 2009

Carry On Kofta

Estimated Reading Time: 3 minutes

I “borrowed” the title for this recipe post from Shashi Bellamkonda‘s Carry On Curry, because I knew he wouldn’t mind (you don’t, right, Shashi?). If you haven’t read CoC, you should check it out, it’s great fun and extremely valuable for foodies in the DC metro area.

Koftas are basically the Indian version of meatballs. Just like the feringhis, we rarely eat them without some kind of gravy (or curry, which means many more things to us than a spice or herb). But we’ll often […]

By Shonali Burke|Oct 9, 2009|Categories: Public Relations|Tags: Cooking, food, kofta curry, shashi bellamkonda|3 Comments

06 Oct 2009

The Business of Business Cards

Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes

Last week I spoke at Communitelligence’s “Rethinking Corporate Communications 2009” conference just two days after the GrowSmartBiz conference. GSB was a veritable smorgasbord of networking and ideas, with Steven Fisher’s presentation on killer business cards definitely a highlight.

So when I met Mahmoud Arafa of designframe at RCC and saw his business cards, I couldn’t but help think of Steve’s presentation. Check them out.

And this is the back.

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By Shonali Burke|Oct 6, 2009|Categories: Business Building|Tags: communitelligence, grow smart business, mahmoud arafa, steven fisher|10 Comments

05 Oct 2009

Some Days You’ve Got to Hit the Panic Button

Estimated Reading Time: 14 seconds

… Like today. So if you too are drowning in work (and other stuff), have a laugh on me. And Michelle Hinson, thank you for sending this button my way.