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September 10th, 2008 · 5 Comments

I must mention Chris Brogan a lot in my house, because anytime I’m faced with a challenge related to my blog or social media work in general, my husband gets a mock-serious look on his face and asks “what would Chris Brogan do?!” CB really is that influential when it comes to web 2.0 stuff. Now, he [...]

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Tags: Blogging · PR · social media

PR is delicious.

September 7th, 2008 · 2 Comments

If you’re connected to me on Plaxo, Friendfeed or Facebook or you’ve subscribed to this blog’s RSS feed, you probably already know that I’m a huge fan of Delicious. I use this social bookmarking site in place of my Internet favorites to save sites, articles, videos, blogs and other links I like so I can refer back to them at [...]

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Tags: Blogging · Networking · PR · social media

Presenting is like blogging

June 19th, 2008 · 8 Comments

Today I had the pleasure of being the guest speaker at the Dayton Area PRSA chapter’s June luncheon. The Dayton chapter was my first exposure to PRSA as I had never joined while I was working in NYC. I was on that chapter’s board for two years as membership chair, during which time we grew from about 60 to nearly [...]

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Top 5 things I love about social media

May 20th, 2008 · 7 Comments

I’m on a real tear with social media lately - I talk about it with anyone who will listen. I talked about social media with my Mom while she was visiting, to the point where she was able to tell the lady at Hallmark all about Webkinz World (I was so proud). I’ve talked about social media to [...]

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Tags: PR · social media