Networking

20 Mar 2009

Balancing the PR Bubble

Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes

If you follow me on Twitter, you’ll know that I tweet quite a bit. (Today I apparently crossed the 8,110 tweet-mark without realizing it). But every now and then, I’ll “go dark,” as they say in the theater.

You’ll hear from me once, maybe twice a day. Sometimes I just don’t have anything to say; sometimes I don’t come across conversations I want to engage in. And sometimes I happen upon conversations that are so negative or ridiculous or (enter your adjective of choice here ______ ) that I just […]

By Shonali Burke|Mar 20, 2009|Categories: Public Relations, Social Media|Tags: communications, daily show, david gregory, ellen degeneres, iabc, jon stewart, nbc, Networking, Public Relations, today, Twitter|14 Comments

10 Feb 2009

Writing: PR’s Sleeper “R”

Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes

My foray into the U.S. public relations world dates back to 2000, when I had just moved to this country. Apparently “networking” was the way to go (in India we called it the “old boys’ club”) and, dutifully following the lead of more experienced professionals, I plunged myself into monthly meetings of the San Francisco Bay Area Publicity Club (which we fondly called “The Pub Club”).

Of all the characters – some offbeat, some extremely colorful – that I met, no one left a more lasting impression on me than “Mr. T.” I can’t remember his full name, but […]

By Shonali Burke|Feb 10, 2009|Categories: Career Development, Public Relations|Tags: communications, Networking, peter shankman, pr, precis, Public Relations, SFBAPC, Writing|10 Comments

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