V3′s Daily Social Media Digest

Posted by Shelly on January 6, 2011 · Leave a Comment

Share Wondering why we’re doing this Daily Social Media Digest? There’s actually a method to the madness. Ever see a link in someone’s Twitter stream and want to check it out — but forget? Or spend time digging through someone’s stream to try and find that one item you seek? Or maybe you have a [...]

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3 Free PR Resources You Should Be Using

Posted by Shelly Kramer on November 11, 2010 · 11 Comments

Share We recently wrote about about how social media and things like Twitter, LinkedIn and other social mediums have and are changing the relationship between PR professionals and journalists and media outlets. If you missed that post, you can read it here (and of course we hope you will) (because it’s good) and also because [...]

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Gini Dietrich, My Idol

Posted by Shelly Kramer on August 24, 2010 · 19 Comments

Share Gini Dietrich is a good friend, a smart gal and someone I’d hire in a minute if I needed a whole bunch of marketing know how. And, of course, if I didn’t do that shiz myself. Her niece was hanging out in Chicago and spending time with her hip and trendy Aunt Gini recently [...]

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F**K You, Cee Lo’s Viral Marketing Phenom

Posted by Shelly Kramer on August 22, 2010 · 12 Comments

Share Two hours ago, I discovered Cee Lo Green’s new single, F**K YOU, on YouTube. Imagine that. Actually, I first discovered it on Facebook, and swiped it from my friend Redheadwriting’s wall, posted it on my own and ultimately ended up on YouTube, where it had a little more than 750,000 views. It’s a brilliant [...]

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Want to Vlog? Steve Garfield is Your Guy

Posted by Shelly Kramer on July 29, 2010 · 9 Comments

Share I have been vocal about my resolve to integrate video into my blogging efforts and the last time I wrote about this quest, many of you were, too. I met Steve Garfield last year at Jeff Pulver’s 140Characters Conference in LA and we’ve been friends ever since. Mostly (private joke). Oh, and when Newsweek [...]

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Snake Oil Salesmen? Stick It.

Posted by Shelly Kramer on July 21, 2010 · 34 Comments

Share Sitting in the office, minding my own beeswax today, cranking out work and living large. You know. The story of my every day existence. Glam beyond belief. The phone rings. I answer. Yes, you’ve guessed it. No administrative assistant. No gatekeeper to hide behind. Just me. And the phone. It rings, I get it. [...]

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My Debut: Video Blogging. I Really AM a Dork.

Posted by Shelly Kramer on June 24, 2010 · 80 Comments

ShareWe all have our strengths. One of mine is words. I love them. I love thinking about them, rolling them around in my head, lovingly putting them into sentences, crafting paragraphs out of sentences, arranging, rearranging, editing, massaging, making them perfect. I love words. I also love speaking. Big groups, small groups, one-on-one one, you [...]

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It Is, Apparently, OKAY to be GAY. But Only In France.

Posted by Shelly Kramer on June 15, 2010 · 13 Comments

Share As I trolled through this morning’s news, I stumbled upon a Chicago Tribune interview of Don Thompson, the guy who took over as McDonald’s No. 2 and COO this past January. McDonald’s has chugged right along during the course of the last few years, in spite of the economy that managed to take so [...]

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Marketing and PR Pros- Would YOU Work for BP?

Posted by Shelly Kramer on June 4, 2010 · 11 Comments

Share As the BP oil spill and environmental disaster continues, I find myself having almost daily conversations with friends and colleagues involved in the intertwined worlds of marketing, PR and social media about BP. Their strategy (or apparent lack thereof) in dealing with the crises (both the environmental one and the public relations one) is [...]

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