Social Media - Shonali Burke Consulting

21 Apr 2010

Measuring PR: Data Is Just Data Without Actionable Intelligence

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We had a great discussion at #measurePR last week, when Chuck Hemann (the “oldest 30-year-old” Sean Williams knows) was our featured guest. It’s tough to recap all the nuggets shared, not just by Chuck, but very briefly, we focused on measuring social media.

These were the three questions we (primarily) discussed:

1. How do we use monitoring and analytics tools to inform benchmarks for social media campaigns?

2. Is there a “right” suite of tools to utilize?

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By Shonali Burke|Apr 21, 2010|Categories: Measurement & Metrics, MeasurePR, Public Relations, Social Media|Tags: #measurepr, chuck hemann, PR measurement|3 Comments

20 Apr 2010

What Darby Taught Me About PR

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It was about a year ago that my husband’s family (and therefore mine) went through the traumatic experience of learning that one of the uncles tragically passed away very suddenly while on vacation abroad.

Dealing with death is never fun.

While the family started coming to terms with their loss, I tried to put my PR background to good use: to find our late uncle’s “orphaned” dog, Darby, a home, using social media.

If you’re just tuning in to the Darby saga, you can catch up on my posts from last year here, […]

By Shonali Burke|Apr 20, 2010|Categories: Public Relations, Social Media|Tags: darby, pr, Public Relations, Social Media|10 Comments

09 Apr 2010

Riding the Social Media Measurement Waterfall

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Image: Hamed Saber, Creative Commons

I’m tickled pink (and not just because that’s the color of the Elvis hoodie I’m sporting today, a little like this one) that Chuck Hemann will be our featured guest on the next #measurePR Twitterchat (have you marked your calendars? April 13, 12-1 pm ET, follow/participate on Twitter using the #measurePR hashtag).

Chuck Hemann, a 2010 Society for New Communications Research Fellow, is currently a social media associate for WCG, a global media […]

By Shonali Burke|Apr 9, 2010|Categories: Measurement & Metrics, MeasurePR, Public Relations, Social Media|Tags: #measurepr, chuck, PR measurement, SNCR, Social Media|7 Comments

10 Mar 2010

3 Questions to Ask – and Answer – When Launching a Twitter Chat

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As founder of the #measurePR Twitter chat, I was invited to, and participated in, #chatmixer last night (party image, David Domingo, Creative Commons).

The idea was to bring together folks who routinely participate in specific chats, in an online/Twitter “mixer,” in an effort to widen their Twitter circles (would that be Twircles?) – hence the choice of #chatmixer as a hashtag. Truth be told, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect, though Justin Goldsborough, Heather Whaling and Valerie Simon […]

By Shonali Burke|Mar 10, 2010|Categories: Social Media|Tags: #chatmixer, #measurepr, david spinks, heather whaling, how to launch a twitter chat, jeff hurt, justin goldsborough, katie paine, kellye crane, kim wells, sarah evans, Twitter, twitterchat, valerie simon|15 Comments