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29 Apr 2009

Social Media, Social Karma

Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes

There’s an awful lot of social karma going around lately.

JOTW: My First Experience With Social Karma

For the last few years, I’ve occasionally guest-edited the free “Ned’s Job of the Week” e-newsletter. If you don’t know about it, it’s a free weekly newsletter that lists job postings sent to Ned Lundquist, ABC, by subscribers (as well as many he finds himself) in the spirit of sharing.

For a couple of weeks every year, I experience what Ned goes through on a daily basis: sifting through job postings sent by readers, […]

By Shonali Burke|Apr 29, 2009|Categories: Public Relations, Social Media|Tags: arik hanson, communications, community, heather huhman, jotw, mark story, ned lundquist, Networking, social karma, Social Media, Twitter|32 Comments

13 Apr 2009

Of Job Hunting, Cologne… and Twitter

Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes

On April 2, a few friends and I put on the “Dream Team” hats that Ned Lundquist, ABC, bestowed on us some years ago, to help folks “Pimp My Job.”

What on earth is “Pimp My Job,” you ask?

If you subscribe to Ned’s free, weekly “Job of the Week” newsletter, which I sometimes guest-edit, you know what we’re about. But in essence, we’re a group of communicators from near and far who provide advice – sometimes mercilessly – to those […]

By Shonali Burke|Apr 13, 2009|Categories: Career Development, Social Media|Tags: beth harte, Career Development, iabc, jobs, jotw, kate perrin, ned lundquist, Networking, Social Media, Twitter|4 Comments

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

06 Mar 2009

PR, Please Think It Through

Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes

Twitterverse was buzzing about Skittles‘ foray into social media this week. No, I’m not going to give you my take on that, there are quite enough of those already. I did find Laura Fitton’s early summary of it extremely interesting, though, and Lauren Vargas’ and Liana “Li” Evans’ posts summed up my opinion beautifully.

My point is this: when you embark on PR of any kind, have you thought it through?

In my mind, it doesn’t matter […]

By Shonali Burke|Mar 6, 2009|Categories: Public Relations, Social Media|Tags: communications, contingency, crisis communications, laura fitton, lauren vargas, liana evans, planning, Public Relations, Social Media, Twitter|11 Comments