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Lara Kretler

Lara Kretler
Vice President

Lara Kretler leads the social media practice group at Fahlgren Mortine Public Relations and is passionate about the strategic use of the social web. Lara brings over a decade of online community building and social media expertise to her public relations work. She leads several national accounts and provides strategic counsel, national media relations and social media strategy and support to other client service teams. She served global clients at national public relations firms in New York City and spent six years managing North American External Relations for The Iams Company, a division of Procter and Gamble. An avid social Internet user since 1994, Lara began building and growing online communities in 1998. She is a frequent, lively presenter about social media at regional conferences and meetings and will gladly connect with you via LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook or her various blogs.


January 6th, 2012

Strategic Social Media Never Sleeps

How to ensure your social media program works around the clock.

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When you returned to the office this week after a few days off for the holiday break, did you know if any surprises would be waiting for you on your social media profiles? At Fahlgren Mortine, we recommend that social media should ideally be monitored at all times as part of a responsible online reputation management program. This [...]

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Categories: Public Relations, Social Marketing
Tags: Fahlgren Mortine, monitoring, online reputation management, ORM, reputation, social media, socialmedia, strategy
February 23rd, 2010

Chance Encounters in Social Media

Put down your Blackberry and step away from the keyboard. Seriously.

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breakfast-with-jeremiah-owyangSocial media monitoring is important for countless reasons, many of which we’ve elucidated on this blog. But sometimes, a very real benefit of social media monitoring is to find cool opportunities to make genuine human connections with other people — the kind that can only happen face to face. We had a great moment in random social media connections last [...]

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Categories: People, Social Marketing
Tags: listening, monitoring, Networking, social media, social networking
January 18th, 2010

Color Me Impressed

Before dismissing the Facebook color status meme as pointless, consider the results.

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Underneath It AllLast week, you may have noticed your Facebook status feed was overtaken by one-word color updates from approximately half of your contacts. The female half, to be precise. It took most of us the better part of a day to figure out what was going on – and if you’re a guy, it may have taken longer [...]

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Categories: Public Relations, Social Marketing, Uncategorized
Tags: awareness, bra color, Facebook, Facebook status meme, PR2.0, results, social media, viral campaigns
October 21st, 2009

Formula for Social Media Success

Social media best practices may be simple, but that doesn't mean they are easy.

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FMPR's 70/20/10 formulaWe’ve all encountered that guy – the one who starts talking about himself or his business and just doesn’t shut up. Whether at a cocktail party, business reception or networking event, he’s the guy to avoid. No one likes to hear someone talk nonstop, one-sidedly, about themselves or their successes. So why do so many companies [...]

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Categories: People, Public Relations, Social Marketing
Tags: 70-20-10 formula, best practices, engagement, social media, social media success, social networking
June 24th, 2009

Does Your Agency Know Social Media?

The importance of walking the talk.

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Walk OnBusiness acceptance of social web applications – more commonly known as social media and social networking – turned a corner in 2008. Demand for expertise, counsel and programming related to the social Web continues to grow rapidly. As a result, there are untold legions of social media consultancies, agencies and solo practitioners now positioning themselves as experts [...]

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Categories: Public Relations, Social Marketing
Tags: Business to Business, Marketing Communications, pr agencies, pr firms, PR2.0, Public Relations, social, social media, social networking
February 5th, 2009

We’re Twitterpated

Do you follow?

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twitter - What are you doing?If you’re a fan of Twitter, the unique one-to-many microblogging service, then you know that Twitter people (aka Tweeple) are fond of lists. There are lists of journalists on Twitter, lists of Twitter-related resources, even lists of Twitter users in particular geographic areas, like central Ohio. Here’s a list we love of Twitter users in Columbus representing restaurants, [...]

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Categories: People, Public Relations, Social Marketing
Tags: socialmedia, socialnetworking, Twitter
December 8th, 2008

Calling All PR Students

PR Students: Do you have what it takes?

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Stand outBy now, you may have read Paul Vetter’s post about why students should get into agency life. You may be wondering “how do I get started?” Well, here’s a great opportunity. We are accepting applications for the Fahlgren Mortine Founder’s Award. Created in 2000, the award is named in honor of Walt Seifert, founder of the Public Relations Student Society [...]

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Categories: Public Relations
Tags: agency, award, internship, students
October 1st, 2008

Twitter For Business

Watch and learn: tweeting your way to business success

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Recently we teamed up with our friends at Webbed Marketing to present a free webinar about using Twitter for business. It was well attended and we got great feedback afterward, so we’re sure to partner on more webinars in the future. Using Twitter for Business Webinar View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: media social) In [...]

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Categories: Social Marketing
Tags: Marketing Communications, resources, SlideShare, Twitter, web 2.0
September 17th, 2008

The Social Media Balancing Act

Where do bloggers fit within media relations?

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IMG_0134Our agency recently hosted Keith O’Brien, editor of PR Week, while he was in Columbus to speak at a Central Ohio PRSA luncheon. I had the opportunity to ask him whether he sees more PR agencies developing separate social media departments or integrating social media into the organization holistically. He said it was about half [...]

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Categories: Public Relations, Social Marketing
Tags: blogger relations, blogs, mainstream media, Marketing Communications, media relations, social media
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