Comments for Virginia Miracle

Comment on Back to the Heart of Texas by Elizabeth OBrien

Elizabeth OBrien — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:39:46 +0000

You have left a hole in my D.C. children’s heart, but I am glad you are closer to us now. Hope the move goes smoothly. Best love, Liz

Comment on Back to the Heart of Texas by Sarah Marchetti

Sarah Marchetti — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:41:43 +0000

Congrats! I’ll miss you here in DC, but know that the whole team will benefit from your awesomeness. (I went with sincere and decided to leave all the sassing to the real masters ahem, Kai and Karen)

Comment on Back to the Heart of Texas by Matt R

Matt R — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:38:24 +0000

Just as I move to DC from Austin, you do the opposite! Lucky!

Glad to hear all is well! Would love to catch up soon!

Comment on Back to the Heart of Texas by virginia.miracle

virginia.miracle — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:21:01 +0000

I appreciate even more coming from a guy dressed like a 90s rapper in his avatar. I hope you will continue to sass me daily from afar.

Comment on Back to the Heart of Texas by kai macmahon

kai macmahon — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 03:25:39 +0000

Congrats Veedub! Less snow is a pretty major benefit, for realz

Mad pshop skillz there btw, too!

Comment on Socializing CSR by Deron Triff

Deron Triff — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:20:07 +0000

Virginia,

Your comments are right on. Pepsi also has an interesting opportunity to keep the campaign “fresh” (no pun intended) by empowering the winners to tell their ongoing stories AFTER the cash grant is awarded. If they could assemble a smart social media strategy and network of partners (disclosure: admittedly Changents would be perfect for this) to propagate the stories of these “change agents” as they unfold in interesting locations and communities around the country, they could catalyze the second wave of public support by using crowd-sourcing to pull in skills and talent from individuals who could help the winners take their projects to the next level. That would be really putting “social” into CSR.

Deron Triff

Comment on Enthusiast vs Influencer Event Best Practices by John Wood

John Wood — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:01:51 +0000

Focus groups for social media aficionados – cool! Anyone know of any in the UK?

Comment on Addressing Social Media Ageism by Teresa Basich

Teresa Basich — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 01:07:19 +0000

Since I haven’t gotten the chance to discuss this topic in the workplace, the dinner table is where it’s at! I find stories to be incredibly effective in warming people up to social media. For older generations, one of their big concerns is health care, so discussing some of the things that hospitals around the nation have been doing with social media to proliferate information about the industry and improve patient care has been effective in helping them open up to the idea of using social media for their own lives.

Also, I would imagine that if you can find ways to connect these new tools for communicating with more traditional means of communicating that might help open some eyes.

Last resort? Tell ‘em they can keep tabs on their kids with social media.

Comment on Thoughts on PR Blackout Week by Isabel Kallman @AlphaMom

Isabel Kallman @AlphaMom — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:14:33 +0000

Lindsay Maines highlighted this post for me. Fabulous food for thought on a Monday morning.

Comment on Thoughts on PR Blackout Week by Rock and Roll Mama

Rock and Roll Mama — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 06:49:50 +0000

I love the questions you pose from all sides of the issue, and in fact may need to get them tattooed in some inconspicuous place for easy reference- palms, perhaps? It’s easy to take yourself for a spin up the primrose path, based on something that sounds like it’s beneficial to the blogger.
But if it, at some point, doesn’t give value to readers as well, they (completely legitimately) begin to question the value of their presence. Thank you for posing this in a way that’s so free of hysteria and hyperbole that it takes guesswork out of the process.