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By: Marijean Jaggers
01/30/2008 - I was at a local coffeehouse where I stayed to work a bit after an early afternoon meeting. As frequently happens at this particular establishment, I saw someone I knew. My friend, the founder of a local nonprofit, dropped by my table to chat and…
By: Marijean Jaggers
01/22/2008 - Amber wrote a post about my trip to the UPS Store last week. I wrote a post on my personal blog about the customer service provided by the UPS Store. Yesterday, a PR person for UPS commented on my blog and asked for the specific…
By: Marijean Jaggers
01/17/2008 - I've heard some people talk about online profiles such as those in Facebook -- how they have created one "personal" and one "professional" version. Huh? This concept really has me flummoxed. It's as if people think they can live double lives online -- and I'm…
By: Marijean Jaggers
01/16/2008 - While the majority of the Standing Partnership team lives and works in St. Louis, Mo., I make my home and office in Charlottesville, Va. I moved to Charlottesville two years ago and have been busy establishing the east coast satellite office of the firm ever…
By: Marijean Jaggers
01/15/2008 - The Bivings Group has a cool wiki to collect and update the list of PR firms that blog.
By: Marijean Jaggers
01/15/2008 - Here at Chez Jaggers, we watch the mailbox like hawks these days. The first of what we hope will be several college acceptance letters has crossed our doorstep and we (well, mostly the 17-year-old) are eagerly awaiting the envelope that will share our collective fate…
By: Marijean Jaggers
01/09/2008 - Lee Aase has a great list of assignments for association executives to complete in Facebook. I've had several recent conversations with clients wishing to build their businesses and/or networks, encouraging them to sign up for and engage in social networking tools such as LinkedIn and…
By: Marijean Jaggers
01/08/2008 - I have a unique perspective on the highway 40 closure in St. Louis. All of my coworkers live and work in St. Louis and many of my clients do as well. I've been able to sit back and watch the non-news unfold from the comfort…
By: Marijean Jaggers
01/07/2008 - Before Thanksgiving last year, I took a stand for RSS and unsubscribed from nearly every e-mail list I was on. It's helped clean up my inbox significantly and I'm thrilled at the new RSS feeds I've found to which to subscribe instead. Even my church's…
By: Marijean Jaggers
12/12/2007 - I participated in a panel discussion today at CATEC, the technical education center for the Charlottesville/Albemarle region in Virginia. CATEC Director Darah Bonham gathered to the table local bloggers, social networkers, podcasters and education administrators to open the discussion of how we integrate social media…
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