5 days ago

Submitted by Shonaliburke from blog: Lee Odden gets complete credit for this post, title and all. I was catching up on my reading when I saw his post on what Google thinks of social media, SEO and advertising. You’ve got to read it, it’s great.I couldn’t resist experimenting with what Google “thinks” of PR.And then I tried “public relations.”Oh well. [...] (Read More)

7 days ago

Submitted by Shonaliburke from blog: Because you’ll need it after reading this press release from Pepto-Bismol®. This great photo – just in case my words aren’t enough to convey how I feel – is from ducamendes’ Flickrstream. (Read More)

Nov 08, 2009

Submitted by Shonaliburke from blog: We had a great time last night at #shonalitweetup and yes, I will be posting photos from that event, but I’ve got just a few minutes before Arianna Huffington’s keynote begins at PRSA2009.Very quickly, though, here are some of the cutest shoes I’ve seen at the conference so far.Why shoes?There’s a lot of walking and [...] (Read More)

Nov 07, 2009

Submitted by Shonaliburke from blog: As I write this, I’m about two hours away from San Francisco en route to San Diego for PRSA09. I’m on Virgin America’s Flight 67, which is my first time traveling with the airline. I’m sold… mostly. I’ve heard quite a bit about the Virgin experience (mostly on Twitter), but you really have to fly it to [...]. (Read More)

Nov 06, 2009

Submitted by Shonaliburke from blog: 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 [...] (Read More)

Nov 05, 2009

Submitted by Shonaliburke from blog: Disclosure: no one’s asked me to write this post, and I’m sure not getting paid for it, but I do thank sponsors of a certain event coming up. Now that you know all that… read on. I don’t know what’s gotten into everyone lately, it’s tweetup this, tweetup that… oh wait, it’s that whole thing about [...]. (Read More)

Nov 03, 2009

Submitted by Shonaliburke from blog: In a few days I’ll be Westward-bound; one of several hundred (or is it thousand?) PR and communication professionals converging on San Diego for PRSA’s 2009 International Conference (that’s me on Coronado Beach a couple years ago). My first experience of PRSA’s annual shindig was last year, when I was lucky enough to co-pre (Read More)

Oct 31, 2009

Submitted by Shonaliburke from blog: Growing up as a middle-class kid in India, Halloween was fascinating to me. We didn’t really celebrate it there as one does here in the U.S. and other countries (though it might be a different story now, I don’t know). It felt a little forbidden, probably because of its pagan roots, so that was appealing [...]. (Read More)

Oct 29, 2009

Submitted by Shonaliburke from blog: I don’t know how you organize your RSS feeds, but except for the feeds I have set up for client monitoring, mine are in alphabetical order. So my usual M.O. is to check my client feeds, and then go through the rest from A-Z. Some day I might progress to Amy Mengel’s system, but for [...]. (Read More)

Oct 29, 2009

Submitted by Shonaliburke from blog: Thanks to H1N1 whirling through my house and a whole bunch of other things, it’s been a while since I’ve blogged. It’s even been a while since I tweeted like I normally do. Not because I couldn’t figure out what to say, but because I was too tired to say anything. Somewhat like Jon Newman, I [...]. (Read More)

Oct 22, 2009

Submitted by Shonaliburke from blog: … between work, illness and events (which I’m still excited about, so if you’re going to be at IABC/Washington’s Silver Inkwell Awards gala tonight, or BlogPotomac tomorrow, make sure you say ‘hello’).And until things settle down, I won’t be *here* for a while. So if you miss me (hah!) just press play, and you’ll be [...] (Read More)

Oct 14, 2009

Submitted by Shonaliburke from blog: I’ve “talked” so often to Rebecca Denison recently that I’m liable to forget I haven’t met her IRL yet. Tell you what, this young lady knows the right way to network. Rebecca, a “new professional,” and I first connected on Twitter, where she asked if she could pick my brain on career options. (Read More)

Oct 09, 2009

Submitted by Shonaliburke from blog: I “borrowed” the title for this recipe post from Shashi Bellamkonda’s Carry On Curry, because I knew he wouldn’t mind (you don’t, right, Shashi?). If you haven’t read CoC, you should check it out, it’s great fun and extremely valuable for foodies in the DC metro area.Koftas are basically the Indian version of meatballs. Jus (Read More)

Oct 06, 2009

Career Hub Last week I spoke at Communitelligence’s “Rethinking Corporate Communications 2009″ conference just two days after the GrowSmartBiz conference. GSB was a veritable smorgasbord of networking and ideas, with Steven Fisher’s presentation on killer business cards definitely a highlight.So when I met Mahmoud Arafa of designframe (Read More)

Oct 05, 2009

Submitted by Shonaliburke from blog: … Like today. So if you too are drowning in work (and other stuff), have a laugh on me. And Michelle Hinson, thank you for sending this button my way. (Read More)

Shonali Burke

I'm an accredited communications consultant living and working in the Washington, D.C. metro area. I love Twitter, cooking, dogs, oh - and people. And I'm really good at what I do.