Weekly Roundup: Happy Birthday To Me!

January 16th, 2011 | Shonali Burke | 0 Comments

How’s my birthday weekend going? Just lovely, thanks so much for asking!

I haven’t ever done a “top posts of …” kind of blog post so far.

Not quite sure why, maybe I was too lazy, maybe I didn’t want to pimp my own posts, maybe I just never got around to finding a good enough hook for it.

But today I’m going to try that. Since it’s my birthday weekend and all.

Here are seven posts that have been published on this blog – both from guest authors as well as myself – that I’d love you to check out, if you can.

And if you like them, or have a different point of view to add, it would be an awesome birthday present if you were to comment and/or share it in any way you felt comfortable.

Hey, just because my birthday was over yesterday doesn’t mean the presents can’t keep rolling in!

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Ten Reasons PR Pros Should Blog

November 10th, 2010 | Shonali Burke | 20 Comments

Last week, Joe Hackman hosted Danny Brown, Gini Dietrich and me on his BlogTalkRadio show, aptly entitled PRapalooza.

Boy, was it fun!

I hadn’t actually spoken (voice-to-voice) with Gini before, so it was great to finally do so, as well as talk to Danny after ages and Joe after not-so-long.

Image: Chris Lott via Flickr, Creative Commons

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Guest Blogging to Jump Start Your Career

September 22nd, 2010 | Shonali Burke | 13 Comments

If you’ve been following Waxing UnLyrical regularly, you’ll have noticed a slow but steady influx of guest bloggers.

These include Narciso Tovar, Bryce Keane and…

you’ll have to read on to see who else is coming on board (as well as the tips).

“Why guest bloggers?”

you might ask. And you’d be well within your rights to do so.

After all, isn’t Waxing UnLyrical supposed to be “personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communications, and everything in between”?

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