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Blogchat: Sundays on Twitter
There’s one thing I’ve really gotten into the social media realm lately: Blogchat. This is a chat on Twitter where folks talk, er… tweet, about blogging-related topics. Graphic by me via iPhone, using...
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Who’s Been Commenting?
A great reward of blogging is making connections with professionals whose work I respect. Here’s a look at some recognizable figures commenting at rsmithing.com in the past 12 months. Check out the...
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PR and Social Media News: Ragan and PR Daily
A couple of my favorite sources for news and happenings in both public relations and social media are PR Daily, and Ragan Communications (PR Daily is part of Ragan). I’ve been following both sites for...
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Christie’s CEO Justifies Social Media in 5 Seconds
In an interview with Marketplace, The CEO of auction house, Christie’s, Steven Murphy, put forth one of the best justifications for businesses getting on social media there is. It stood out to me for...
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Finally, I’m Understanding Tumblr
For the longest time, I’d been baffled by Tumblr. I didn’t understand how it worked, or its popularity. Now, I’m getting it. What’s in your Tumblr? And what is that, anyway? Obviously we get blogging...
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Artwork Feature At Lensblr.com
Many thanks to Lensblr.com for featuring my photomontage art today! The folks there were kind enough to highlight my recent piece, “Find What You Love,” which I created earlier this month. Here’s what...
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Social Media, All These Years In
The way I’ve come to use social media lately is for curation, news and making new connections. Whereas a few years ago it was more about keeping in touch with friends and entertainers, these days, it’s...
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Instagram Alternatives: A Guest Post by Me
If you’re into Instagram or are curious about alternatives, see this guest post I wrote for Inkifi, a print maker of Instagram images. I cover five decent alternatives in detail (for bonus points, add...
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How to Automate Tweets
For the past several weeks I’ve been experimenting with auto-populating my Twitter stream through RSS feeds and automatically tweeting updates. RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication.” Yes, I know...
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Tweet Composition 101
Browsing some of my favorite tweets recently, I came across this and thought it too funny not to share: *writes tweet *rewrites tweet *re-rewrites tweet *edits tweet *re-edits tweet *re-re-edits tweet...
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Klout = Krap?
In the past week, I’ve signed up for WordPress, actually blogged here (twice now), linked that to Klout, posted 20 pics via Instagram on Facebook/Twitter/Flickr while doubling followers, tweeted every...
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Getting Social, and a Bit About Instagram
So I’ve been making the effort lately to get more active in the social media space (hence this blog) for my own education and entertainment. Way back when (you know, like 2003), I was one of the first...
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Hey Look, A Photo Booth! This is Private… Right?
Me and the Mrs. having fun in the photo booth. Good clean fun. So I was at this fundraiser last night, which was a huge affair and likely a roaring success. I’m very proud of our community for coming...
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6 Mandatory Posting Steps for New Bloggers
Blogging is your friend; you’re reading one now. I’ve been blogging for a few months now, incorporating some techniques for engagement that I believe can also help in composing posts. I share these...
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Looking for a Job in PR? Know Your Social Media.
You gotta’ walk the walk, not just talk the talk. In this video, Mark Ragan talks with Weber Shandwick VP of Digital Communications, Jason Wellcome, about how social media is playing an important role...
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Garbage Video Fan Art: Crowdsourcing Done Right
I love it when a plan comes together, and this one fires on my favorite cylinders: music, iPhoneography, social media and especially Public Relations. How could I not write a blog post about this!?...
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Postcards From the Social Media Edge: Postagram
Considering our ever-more-digital world, with the U.S. Post Office teetering on bankruptcy, the decline of print media, and increasing social-connectedness, it’s with pleasure that I’m writing about a...
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Stuff You May Have Missed: February 2012
Sabbath and Roses and Jurors – Oh, My! Big month here at rsmithing.com. To make sure I stay on track with blogging, I’ve set myself the goal each month of writing at least one major post about each of...
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How to Talk About Social Media In Business: 5 Points, Video Interview
Image created on iPhone with Decim8 & Photoforge2 apps So I’m reading “9 Tips That Will Change How You Use Social Media” by Jay Baer, and I go to his Google+ page (that’s one of the tips, btw)....
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To make sure I stay on track with blogging, I’ve set myself the goal each month of writing at least one major post about each of the categories covered here at rsmithing.com. Early on, I didn’t even...
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Link Instagram and Pinterest with Flickr
Flickr to Facebook: I’ll see your Instagram and raise you a Pinterest. Photo by Courtney Patubo / edit by rsmithing. Click for full size. Flickr to Facebook: I’ll see your Instagram and raise you a...
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Fast Food and Fast Lessons in Public Relations
The new PR reality of social media and brand engagement means accepting the fact that the audience can drive the conversation, and that the days of top-down, message-from-on-high broadcasting of...
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Tide Turns Tide with PR
I love it when fiction and real life intersect in clever, funny, or serendipitous ways. I especially like seeing that happen to the mutual benefit of everyone involved – including the public at large –...
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Social Media Selectiveness
Where are your contacts landing?Photo by Håkan Dahlström / Edit by rsmithing.Click for original. Are social networks a gamble? Do you spin-off your contacts from one to the next? With each new social...
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5 Really Useful, Really Easy Twitter Tools
Here are five Twitter tools to give insight or new functionality to your Twitter experience, without requiring much more than a login on your part. These utilities are so self-explanatory, I hardly...
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Stuff You May Have Missed – August 2012
I make it a point each month to write at least one post in each of the six categories here at my blog: photography, social media, PR, technology, music and writing. It’s my way of keeping myself...
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The Month in Review, Twitter-Style
So I’ve committed to writing at least one post per month on social media. Sometimes it happens organically, sometimes deliberately. This is one of those deliberate months, what with this being the...
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Happy Birthday! On One Year of Blogging
This week marks one full year of blogging here at the rsmithing.com. In some ways, it certainly feels like a year. In another ways, I can’t believe it’s been a year already. Original by Keristars, via...
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American Apparel’s “Bored During the Storm?” Campaign: PR Stunt or...
American Apparel Advertisement It would seem obvious these days that capitalizing on catastrophe via social media is in poor taste. So why would an otherwise savvy brand like American Apparel appear to...
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