Growing Smart Business And a PRapalooza
If you live in or near the DC area, this week’s a big one.
The second GrowSmartBiz conference, co-hosted by Network Solutions (disclosure: client) and the Washington Business Journal is coming up on Friday.
Last year, I was invited to attend the conference as “media/blogger” – the first time that had ever happened to me.
So of course I went.
I had a blast, as you can still tell (I think) from my live-tweeted blog post last year, as well as my recap on why I thought the conference rocked.
I’ll be heading back this year, not just because I had such a great time last year, but also because this time around, I’m speaking.
Filed under Career, Events, Shonali Burke, Speaking | Tags: danny brown, gini dietrich, growsmartbiz, joe hackman, prapalooza | Comments (4)Tweetup… A Pocketful of Rainbows
I told you a couple of days ago about #shonalitweetup that’s being organized around PRSA2009. Now I’m really excited that we’ve added another layer to what I know is going to be a great evening and will, I hope, help an extremely worthy fund raising effort meet its goal.
We’ve partnered with 12for12K to help one of its charities, Musicians on Call. If you’re active in the social media world, you’re already familiar with 12for12K and Danny Brown, the brains and passion behind it. If you’re not, you can learn more here and here.
So, in a nutshell, if we all give a little, we’ll be able to help some extremely worthy causes. $12K per charity sounds like an awful lot, but not if we all chip in $10, $20, whatever we can (and companies, you should be giving more!). Little drops of water, little grains of sand, etc.
All the charities that have been selected for 12for12K are worthy causes. Even if we haven’t lived in a war zone, been excruciatingly hungry, or have been blessed with keeping our vision, we can identify with those who have/do, have been/are, and haven’t/can’t. If you haven’t been touched by these issues directly, you have been, in some way, shape or form, indirectly.
Filed under Personal, Philanthropy, Public Relations, Shonali Burke, Social Media, Twitter | Tags: #shonalitweetup, 12for12k, danny brown, elvis, jennifer wilbur, musicians on call, tweetup | Comments (5)Pinch Me. A “PR Readers’ Choice Blog Award”?
The one thing I never expected when I started this blog was for it to be nominated in an awards program. Blogging, in and of itself, is an adventure for me, and while I’m thrilled with the warm reception “Waxing UnLyrical” has received, I’m also humbled by it. After all, I don’t blog as regularly as all the gurus tell you you should; so the very fact that anyone reads this blog is quite a thrill.
One of the great advantages about being active on Twitter is the excellent PR and communications practitioners I’ve met through it. More than that, it exposes me to excellent blogs and posts and is truly a great learning experience.
One of the said practitioners is Arik Hanson, APR; so I’m really flattered that this teeny tiny blog has been nominated in the “most thought-provoking” category (there are four) in the PR Readers’ Choice Blog Awards. Several of the blogs I read on a daily basis, and whose authors I admire greatly, made the grade as well, such as Danny Brown, Shannon Paul, Bill Sledzik and Ryan Stephens. If birds of a feather flock together, I’m in great company.
So to whoever nominated me, thank you. While I personally think hell will freeze over before I win, I’d be tickled if you’d scoot over and vote for me. And if you’d rather vote for someone else – that’s fine too. Just vote!
Filed under Communication, Shonali Burke, Social Media, Twitter | Tags: arik hanson, bill sledzik, danny brown, ryan stephens, Shannon Paul, Twitter | Comments (7)
