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NOVEMBER 17, 2010

They might be helpful to you as you continue on your path as a blogging Grasshopper. This is hugely helpful, because each theme is different and, as a result, the way a post looks when published on one blog, might look completely different on another. I just get kicks out of mobile blogging w/ multimedia.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

You don’t have to be Einstein to start measuring smartly. There are no absolutes when it comes to measurement, as Don points out… only – and, perhaps most importantly – context. by Daniel Sitkin at Metrica’s Measurement Matters. Why: Measuring the channels is not important. Who owns the news?

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Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

“Business outcomes tend to have two qualities in common; first, they have to be a measure of behavioral change (sales or otherwise); and second, as a metric, business outcomes must make sense/be recognizable across an organization.&# He then said, “The second way to measure offline business outcomes is to use primary research.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Ten Reasons PR Pros Should Blog November 10th, 2010 Tweet Last week, Joe Hackman hosted Danny Brown , Gini Dietrich and me on his BlogTalkRadio show, aptly entitled PRapalooza. Blogging is a strange beast.

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Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Is measurement lost? I didn’t think I’d get back into the blogging saddle for a few days yet, but I couldn’t help it when I read this excellent post from Nick Lucido on the problem with PR measurement. The biggest problem with measurement is a lack of understanding of the basic principles of this art.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 18, 2011

What this does is let you select a certain number of blogs from your blogroll, and only that number of blogs will be displayed. I love how, when you click on an image, it starts the slideshow right on your blog! Don’t forget I started out this post with my initial list of five ways for you to spice up your blogging.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

A while back, I was looking at my Google Analytics for WUL and I noticed that my 404 page , i.e. the one you get when the server can’t find the page you’re looking for on a particular site, was the 4th most highly-trafficked page on my blog. And they wouldn’t bother to poke around on the blog to find it.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Establishing your voice A blog post with pointers isn’t only meant to teach, it is also meant to connect with readers. Umair Haque , blogging for the Harvard Business Review , places the Gap logo debacle into this context of creativity. When it comes to blogging, anyone can compile data and churn out a post.

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Deirdre Breakenridge

OCTOBER 20, 2015

I am going to share what I learned from this informative chat in two separate blog posts because there’s a lot to be covered. I resonate with what Valerie Simon tweeted, “A good PR education can change the way you research, question, plan and measure!” What courses does/did your school’s PR major offer?

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

whatever, I never can tell) and revel in blog posts that make you feel the writer is talking to you, no doubt you are already familiar with Olivier Blanchard ‘s The BrandBuilder Blog. Olivier has one of those remarkable blogs I know I can go back to time and time again, because I will find something to re-read, and re-read again.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 24, 2010

Cause-related marketing: seeing RED and pink , from Katya ‘s Non-Profit Marketing Blog. Cause and effect , by Michael Martin from MediaPost’s Marketing: green blog. Shannon Pauls Very Official Blog Spin Sucks TopRank Online Marketing Blog Writing Boots - David Murray Love WUL? No way around it. Lets play.

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Waxing UnLyrical

AUGUST 27, 2010

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali The MetricsMan Comes To #measurePR August 27th, 2010 Tweet What’s a Twitter chat on measurement without a Metrics Man? I wonder how respondents were thinking about and defining ROI. pts Settings.

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Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Mark as read Approve comment Okay wow, you brought with the poetry and the blogging. Totally impressed and Ill have to steal this idea, use it when Im stuck for a blog post. " Blogging poetic by @shonali: An Ode To Monday [link] [.] Oh, one other thing: my blog = my sandbox. Except my ode to Monday would be more.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Your news release will not be competitive with well-known Beth Kanter’s Beth’s Blog. Shannon Pauls Very Official Blog Spin Sucks TopRank Online Marketing Blog Writing Boots - David Murray Love WUL? Oh, one other thing: my blog = my sandbox. Your keywords might be “social media for non-profits.&#

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 11, 2010

Mark Storys The Intersection of Online and Offline Mary's Garden Party - Mary Barber, APR, Fellow PRSA Measurement Matters Media Bullseye More With Les (Potter, ABC) NetWits Think Tank New Media Lisa - Lisa Hoffmann Occam's RazR - Ike Pigott PR Conversations Sean Williams' Communication AMMO! Wanna Subscribe? Abusiveness is not.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 6, 2010

Mark Storys The Intersection of Online and Offline Mary's Garden Party - Mary Barber, APR, Fellow PRSA Measurement Matters Media Bullseye More With Les (Potter, ABC) NetWits Think Tank New Media Lisa - Lisa Hoffmann Occam's RazR - Ike Pigott PR Conversations Sean Williams' Communication AMMO! Wanna Subscribe? Abusiveness is not.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 27, 2010

Mark Storys The Intersection of Online and Offline Mary's Garden Party - Mary Barber, APR, Fellow PRSA Measurement Matters Media Bullseye More With Les (Potter, ABC) NetWits Think Tank New Media Lisa - Lisa Hoffmann Occam's RazR - Ike Pigott PR Conversations Sean Williams' Communication AMMO! Wanna Subscribe? Abusiveness is not.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 20, 2010

That is a real opportunity to see how they put their plans and/or campaigns together, and how they measured success. Capitol-Cast » Blog Archive » 10 Reasons to Attend IABC/DC Metro’s Silver Inkwell Awards Gala says: October 21, 2010 at 12:36 pm [.] the entire posting at Shonali’s blog, Waxing Unlyrical.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Mark Storys The Intersection of Online and Offline Mary's Garden Party - Mary Barber, APR, Fellow PRSA Measurement Matters Media Bullseye More With Les (Potter, ABC) NetWits Think Tank New Media Lisa - Lisa Hoffmann Occam's RazR - Ike Pigott PR Conversations Sean Williams' Communication AMMO! Wanna Subscribe? Abusiveness is not.

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Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

and Don, in true self-effacing-yet-no-BS style, continued to offer up nuggets on this oh-so-hot topic in PR, such as On not letting the tool wag the measurement dog : And O. Shannon Pauls Very Official Blog Spin Sucks TopRank Online Marketing Blog Writing Boots - David Murray Love WUL? Oh, one other thing: my blog = my sandbox.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 16, 2010

Mark Storys The Intersection of Online and Offline Mary's Garden Party - Mary Barber, APR, Fellow PRSA Measurement Matters Media Bullseye More With Les (Potter, ABC) NetWits Think Tank New Media Lisa - Lisa Hoffmann Occam's RazR - Ike Pigott PR Conversations Sean Williams' Communication AMMO! durgapuja [.] Wanna Subscribe?

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Mark Storys The Intersection of Online and Offline Mary's Garden Party - Mary Barber, APR, Fellow PRSA Measurement Matters Media Bullseye More With Les (Potter, ABC) NetWits Think Tank New Media Lisa - Lisa Hoffmann Occam's RazR - Ike Pigott PR Conversations Sean Williams' Communication AMMO! [link] (esp. Wanna Subscribe?

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 9, 2010

Mark Storys The Intersection of Online and Offline Mary's Garden Party - Mary Barber, APR, Fellow PRSA Measurement Matters Media Bullseye More With Les (Potter, ABC) NetWits Think Tank New Media Lisa - Lisa Hoffmann Occam's RazR - Ike Pigott PR Conversations Sean Williams' Communication AMMO! Reply Rate Up div.livefyre-comment).removeClass(livefyre-hidden)"

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JANUARY 2, 2011

Social Media Measurement 2011: Five things to forget and five things to learn , by Don Bartholomew. Why: public relations measurement really isn’t tough. Shannon Pauls Very Official Blog Spin Sucks TopRank Online Marketing Blog Writing Boots - David Murray Love WUL? Oh, one other thing: my blog = my sandbox.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 10, 2010

What makes real blogging success? Mark Storys The Intersection of Online and Offline Mary's Garden Party - Mary Barber, APR, Fellow PRSA Measurement Matters Media Bullseye More With Les (Potter, ABC) NetWits Think Tank New Media Lisa - Lisa Hoffmann Occam's RazR - Ike Pigott PR Conversations Sean Williams' Communication AMMO!

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

While I try to keep it updated, it certainly does not reflect all the blogs I subscribe to in my Reader. Part of this is because some of the blogs I Read (yes, that’s a capital “R&# ) have nothing to do with public relations… but I love them any way. and break up the blogs accordingly. Dave lays out how.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Mark Storys The Intersection of Online and Offline Mary's Garden Party - Mary Barber, APR, Fellow PRSA Measurement Matters Media Bullseye More With Les (Potter, ABC) NetWits Think Tank New Media Lisa - Lisa Hoffmann Occam's RazR - Ike Pigott PR Conversations Sean Williams' Communication AMMO! pts Settings. Wanna Subscribe?

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Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

Why: how many countries measure their success in terms of happiness? Shannon Pauls Very Official Blog Spin Sucks TopRank Online Marketing Blog Writing Boots - David Murray Love WUL? Oh, one other thing: my blog = my sandbox. How to be happy in business , from What Consumes Me. Gross National Happiness , from PBS.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 3, 2010

Mark Storys The Intersection of Online and Offline Mary's Garden Party - Mary Barber, APR, Fellow PRSA Measurement Matters Media Bullseye More With Les (Potter, ABC) NetWits Think Tank New Media Lisa - Lisa Hoffmann Occam's RazR - Ike Pigott PR Conversations Sean Williams' Communication AMMO! Wanna Subscribe? Abusiveness is not.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Mark Storys The Intersection of Online and Offline Mary's Garden Party - Mary Barber, APR, Fellow PRSA Measurement Matters Media Bullseye More With Les (Potter, ABC) NetWits Think Tank New Media Lisa - Lisa Hoffmann Occam's RazR - Ike Pigott PR Conversations Sean Williams' Communication AMMO! pts Settings. Wanna Subscribe?

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Mark Storys The Intersection of Online and Offline Mary's Garden Party - Mary Barber, APR, Fellow PRSA Measurement Matters Media Bullseye More With Les (Potter, ABC) NetWits Think Tank New Media Lisa - Lisa Hoffmann Occam's RazR - Ike Pigott PR Conversations Sean Williams' Communication AMMO! pts Settings. Wanna Subscribe?

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Mark Storys The Intersection of Online and Offline Mary's Garden Party - Mary Barber, APR, Fellow PRSA Measurement Matters Media Bullseye More With Les (Potter, ABC) NetWits Think Tank New Media Lisa - Lisa Hoffmann Occam's RazR - Ike Pigott PR Conversations Sean Williams' Communication AMMO! pts Settings. Wanna Subscribe?

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Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 25, 2010

calendars – Google Blog Search [.] Shannon Pauls Very Official Blog Spin Sucks TopRank Online Marketing Blog Writing Boots - David Murray Love WUL? Oh, one other thing: my blog = my sandbox. And you take responsibility for your comments - just as this is my blog, those are your comments, not mine.

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Communications Conversations

JULY 23, 2019

She consistently keeps the intended audience at the center of her work ensuring that strategies, tactics and measurements are developed in alignment with their needs/wants and those of the business. “Natalie works tirelessly on behalf of Minneapolis Northwest Tourism as its communications and social media manager.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 1, 2010

As usual, the community came up with gems to share with others (and you), including talking about how our measurement journey has changed over time And sharing resources, like Katie Paine’s social media measurement checklist , and IPR’s new website. Oh, one other thing: my blog = my sandbox. It was fun. pts Settings.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 24, 2010

Mark Storys The Intersection of Online and Offline Mary's Garden Party - Mary Barber, APR, Fellow PRSA Measurement Matters Media Bullseye More With Les (Potter, ABC) NetWits Think Tank New Media Lisa - Lisa Hoffmann Occam's RazR - Ike Pigott PR Conversations Sean Williams' Communication AMMO! Wanna Subscribe? Abusiveness is not.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Not because I’m a former client of CS, but because Jen is an avid #measurePR fan and all-round measurement smartie. Seeing as how it’s coming close to the end of the year and everyone’s in a prediction kinda mood, Jen thought it would be cool to chat about what might be coming our way in terms of PR measurement in 2011.

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