Lara Kretler’s blog

Central Ohio bloggers, PR pros and Twitter fans, it’s good to be us. Tomorrow night, Wednesday, October 22, is our next official Columbus Tweetup. This one’s being held at Opera Columbus and the food sounds terrific. We even have out of town VIP guests driving down just for the Tweetup. Have you RSVPd yet? If not, you can do that here. [...]

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I love reading blogs and learning about the myriad of cool tools, widgets and mashups that can be so useful in our personal and professional lives. My new favorite site is Wordle, which I discovered reading Leo Bottary’s CSI/Season 2 blog yesterday. It allows you to enter a bunch of words and then adjust colors, patterns and [...]

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Thanks to all of you, my last blog post about Twitter was my most successful entry yet into the blogosphere. I am excited by all of your comments here and conversation about it via Twitter and email. I’m hoping to give you more of the same - information you can really use - with this [...]

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I was interviewed last week by an editor at Ragan Communications about using Twitter to reach the media. She admitted she’s never tried Twitter and didn’t know much about microblogging. By the end of our interview, I think I had her interested enough to give it a shot. The article should be posted in the [...]

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One of my recent posts was pretty defensive about bloggers considering PR folks as spammers, but you know what? We really are sometimes. Chris Brogan just Tweeted (one of my favorite uses of Twitter, by the way) about a blog post on ITSinsider about “Splommenters” or PR people who leave blog comments blatantly plugging their product [...]

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