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06 Jun 2009

Drum Roll: Darby Has a New Home

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When I started blogging about Darby the German Shepherd a little under a month ago, I had no idea if my question, “Can Social Media Find Darby a Home?” would be answered, let alone in the affirmative.

(If you’re catching up on the Darby story, you can find the earlier posts at the bottom of this one. In a nutshell, though, Darby’s a beautiful GSD who used to belong to my husband’s late uncle, who lived in Portland, Ore., and died suddenly on vacation in late April. My mission […]

By Shonali Burke|Jun 6, 2009|Categories: Personal, Public Relations, Social Media|Tags: chip griffin, darby, janet tobiassen, jennifer zingsheim, kevin o'brien, koin, media bullseye, megan drake, oregongsdr, petrelocation.com, rachel farris, susan ragan, tim gordon, tom farrell, townhouse pet care center, Twitter|22 Comments

Follow Friday: The Cherry Blossom Edition

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For today’s edition of #followfriday, I thought I’d highlight a few DC-metro area communications professionals I enjoy interacting with on Twitter. Here goes:

1. Jon Newman (@jonnew). Jon’s a partner of The Hodges Partnership based in Richmond, Va., and authors Jon’s PR 1.5. He’s one of the nicest guys I’ve met (as in, IRL). Incredibly helpful and very smart. He “gets” Twitter and other social media tools, but isn’t so bowled over by the shiny new toys to forget what good PR is […]

By Shonali Burke|Jun 5, 2009|Categories: Public Relations|Tags: burrellesluce, daria steigman, debbie friez, followfriday, jon newman, mark story, nicole nolte, Twitter|3 Comments

Pulling My Talking Shoes Out

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I should probably have done this earlier. Don’t they say something about better late than never?

Right, then. I have a hectic couple of weeks coming up with no less than four conferences in two weeks (probably baby food for some, but for me, that’s a lot). If you’re going to be at any, I’d love to say hello in person.

June 3 is PRNews’ PR Measurement Conference at DC’s National Press Club, which I’m really looking forward to because it’s on… you guessed it, measurement. I’ve been to several […]

By Shonali Burke|May 29, 2009|Categories: Public Relations, Speaking & Presenting|Tags: blogpotomac, prnews, t3pr, Twitter, vocus|2 Comments

The Ragan Experience

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Last week I had the pleasure of presenting, for the first time ever, at Ragan Communications’ 2009 Corporate Communicators Conference in Chicago. As someone who’s wistfully devoured the CCC brochures every year, this was a big thrill for me.

My session on strategic communications planning took place a week ago today; unfortunately I wasn’t able to stay over and attend the “unconference,” so missed meeting many of the wonderful and smart people I’ve gotten to know on Twitter. I did get to meet Amy Mengel (whose […]