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26 Jan 2010

Scones, Sparkle and Sharing at DC’s First Social Media Breakfast

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I attended my first Social Media Club (DC) event yesterday – a “social media breakfast,” which was founded by Bryan Person (read more here) – and the inaugural event of its kind in DC.

Wow – what a great time. First of all, it was sold out (well, it was free, but if you wanted to share in the extremely tasty, hot breakfast, you had to shell out $10, which I think is a deal). Teaism‘s cup was running […]

By Shonali Burke|Jan 26, 2010|Categories: Social Media|Tags: #smbdc, #smcdc, alex howard, alex priest, andi narvaez, ashley settle, bryan person, geoff livingston, james walker, kim oser, lorna webster, mashable, mike schaffer, mobile, prezi, rachel rule, shashi bellamkonda, social media examiner, teaism, trends|10 Comments

15 Jan 2010

Of Sugar And Spice And Everything Nice

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It’s my birthday, and I’m taking the day off, but I needed to say this to you, so here goes:

Remember the nursery rhyme? “Of sugar and spice, and everything nice, that’s what little girls are made of.” Little boys seemed to get the shaft on that one (I mean, who wants to be made of snips and snails and puppy dogs’ tails?).

That popped into my head this morning as I was looking at the incredible kindness and warmth flowing towards me today, my 40th birthday. Actually, the flow started a few days ago, […]

By Shonali Burke|Jan 15, 2010|Categories: Personal|Tags: birthday, facebook, iabc, iabc washington, jakub konysz, kids with cameras, relationships, shashi bellamkonda, Social Media|8 Comments

12 Jan 2010

Year Two, Here We Come

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As I mentioned yesterday, this blog turned a year old on January 10. Another milestone for me in a year of milestones (another one’s coming up on January 15, in case you missed my post from yesterday).

It’s been quite a ride, which is why I decided to use this wonderful photograph from West Zest’s Flickrstream (CC-licensed, of course) as a visual accompaniment to this post.

Because I felt quite childlike when I started my journey through the blogosphere; wonder that you cared what I thought, glee when it made you […]

By Shonali Burke|Jan 12, 2010|Categories: Personal|Tags: blogging, jeff crites, joe perez, kami huyse, lisa hoffmann, robin lane, shashi bellamkonda|8 Comments

06 Jan 2010

Mirror, Mirror, On The Wall

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With IABC/Washington’s first chapter meeting of 2010 coming up next week, I thought it would be interesting to see what our moderator, Daria Steigman, had to say of the communication changes over the past decade (h/t Geoff Livingston for giving me the idea from the final BlogPotomac). That’s what our meeting’s focusing on, or “looking back, looking ahead,” as its title goes.

I know Daria will have a lot more to say come next Thursday, but in the meantime, here’s a peek into her grey matter to […]

By Shonali Burke|Jan 6, 2010|Categories: Social Media|Tags: blog potomac, Communication, daria steigman, facebook, flickr, geoff livingston, iabc washington, integrated communication, john taylor, linkedin, myspace, paul sherman, public affairs, shashi bellamkonda, Social Media, stakeholders, torod neptune, Twitter, web 1.0, web 2.0, wordpress, youtube|2 Comments