Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.
“Pooh!” he whispered.
“Yes, Piglet?”
“Nothing,” said Piglet, taking Pooh’s paw.
“I just wanted to be sure of you.”
- A.A. Milne
Moi in Central Park w/ my 800 page, 3 lb. Alexander Hamilton biography book I bought off of a street vendor 
This week’s Rules of PR is going to be completely different than anything else I’ve done before and that’s because it’s personal…in a good way.
Last week, I was in New York City visiting my familia { Hi Billy, Crystal, Matt & Christina } and I had the opportunity to meet up with @KathyCash, @SSmirnov, @Aerocles, @TheBeautyFile and @CiaoChessa. Not to mention the fact that @BitsOfBeauty, who I’ve known for years and went to UF with, was in town too!
So why on the world am I telling you this?
Besides, for the fact that it’s super cool that Twitter helped me build relationships — I’m telling you this because my experience is a product that is rooted in the core fundamentals of relationship building.
I know, I know, we’re all in communications and have lots of relationships.
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
- Henry David Thoreau
{L-R} moi, @TheBeautyFile, @CiaoChessa, @BitsOfBeauty
But do we, really?
I mean how many people do you “work with,” “network to,” or “know” that you really have a relationship with? Or that you can truly say that you do?
Also, on that note, before asking yourself what is the power of a relationship, ask yourself: what is a relationship?
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
- Joseph F. Newton
moi & Mr. Awesomeness himself, @Aerocles
A relationship is:-
- a connection
- an involvement
- an association
- it an an alliance
- a form of kinship
- it doesn’t have to be happy
- it doesn’t have to be sad
- it just has to be.
Think about it.
Now think about the people you know and your relationships with them. About three weeks ago, my college roomie, @ReviewRomance was in Miami, and I joined her at one of her blogger-tweet-ups:-
{L-R} Susy, @ReviewRomance, Isa & moi
In public relations, we build these things called “relationships” for our clients. We research, we build, we facilitate, we nurture, we set them free and we start all over again. But if anything, the past few weeks have taught me and reminded me of something very important, something very special I supposed you could say:-
Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there.
What you choose to do with them is up to you.
- Richard Bach
{L-R} The fabulous @SSmirnov, moi & the other fabulouista @KathyCash
Little Pink Book’s Rule of PR #22:
Every person is a new door to a different world.
- from the film, “The 6 Degrees of Separation”
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Sasha Muradali runs the ‘Little Pink Book’ . She holds a B.S. in Public Relations from the University of Florida (’07) and an M.A. in International Administration from the University of Miami(’08). She loves Twitter and all things social media, so you should find her @SashaHalima.
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