Start your week right! Every Sunday I post my favorite links from around the web and share my goals for the upcoming week.
Links
On Freelancing:
The Pros and Cons of Freelance Work: My friend and fellow PR professional Lauren Cox shares three pros (and cons) of working as a freelancer in the communications/PR field.
On Blogging:
Blogger Media Kits: When You Don’t Have Much Traffic: Think you don’t need a media kit because you’re not a “big blogger?” Think again. Katy Widrick explains why you need a media kit and how to create one.
On Social Media:
7 Little-Known Tricks to Maximize Your Facebook Page: I thought I knew a lot about changes with Facebook Timeline (Facebook Scheduling is AMAZING!) but this PR Breakfast Club post written by Shelly Kramer proved that I still have some GREAT tricks to learn. Repositioning photos, what?!
On PR:
A Fantastic Starbucks Customer Experience Story: LOVE stories like this! Gini Dietrich, PR pro and head blogger at Spin Sucks outlines her four-month relationship with a Starbucks barista by communicating through messages on a coffee cup.
On Time:
168 Hours: Where Does the Time Go?: Caitlin, one of my favorite healthy living bloggers, reviews the book 168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think. Caitlin even tracked her hours for an entire week to find out how she was spending most of her time!
Shameless Promo:
Faces of PRSA: Jessica Lawlor: I was honored to be featured in PRSA Philly’s latest e-newsletter as their monthly “Face of PRSA.” Huge thank you to my good friend Sarah Stackhouse who interviewed me and wrote the fantastic article.
Goals
- Rock my presentation in El Paso, Texas this week! I head there on Tuesday to speak at the Social Media Tourism Symposium (#SoMeT12).
- Eat delicious Mexican food in Texas…you may or may not know that I’m obsessed with Mexican food…any suggestions on restaurants to check out in El Paso?
- Continue to get all my workouts in and keep training strong for the Philadelphia Half Marathon, even while traveling.
Have any links or goals you’d like to share? Leave them in the comments!
Huge congrats on the redesign, Jessica — I love it!! I’m working on one too (for JennyBlake.me) — it’s definitely an intense project. I really loved reading about your whole behind-the-scenes process — thanks so much for sharing it with all of us! 😀
Eek – wrong post! I meant to comment on the re-design 🙂
Thanks so much, Jenny! You’re right…it totally is an intense project, but it was so worth it in the end. I love my site! Can’t wait to see your redesign!