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28 Dec 2009

3 Reasons Why Being a Volunteer Leader Helps Your Business

Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes

One of the great things about joining a professional development organization is that you can get hands-on leadership experience as a volunteer; experience which, they say, will serve you well in your “real” job. Certainly that’s a selling point for such organizations and in the PR/communications field, organizations such as IABC and PRSA thrive on it.

What kind of leadership skills do volunteer leaders actually gain though? And do these skills actually benefit them in their careers, or are they simply good volunteer leaders because of skills they’ve acquired […]

By Shonali Burke|Dec 28, 2009|Categories: Business Building, Career Development|Tags: Career Development, grow smart business, iabc, iabc washington, jill foster, leadership, Measurement & Metrics, pr, SFBAPC, volunteering|7 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