Public Relations

If you did a tag cloud on what was being bounced around the social media echo chamber in the last 14 days, the word “influence” would probably be the largest. Yes, even larger than “Old Spice.” Whether it’s the sadly lacking Fast Company Influence Project or the various voices in the social world trying to defend or attack it, we’ve suddenly become obsessed with measuring influence, finding out who is influential and figuring out how to generate influence.

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Six Steps For Dealing With Detractors

July 6, 2010

Share Dealing with detractors is perhaps one of the biggest pain points for companies just starting and even well entrenched in social media marketing. “What if someone says something bad about our company?” is often asked by brand managers, executives and more when opening their websites or even Facebook pages to conversations and interactions with [...]

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PR Reader’s Choice Blog Award Voting Is Open

June 17, 2010

Share My friend Arik Hanson started compiling a reader’s choice awards for public relations blogs last year. Arik is a smart guy and a hell of a blogger in his own right and the program was both a kind way of elevating good PR bloggers in several different categories but also a smart way to [...]

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Here’s A Little English To Doctor The Spin

June 7, 2010

Share It’s amazing what good public relations can do. And by “good” I mean fair and honest. Fortunately, the power-to-the-people shift brought about by corporate scandals, economic uncertainty and social media is forcing more and more public relations firms, professionals and departments to be that or be embarrassed … or finished. Unfortunately, the education most [...]

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The Top 25 Tumblr.com Blogs

June 2, 2010

Share As we saw with our look at the top WordPress, Blogger and Typepad blogs recently, my friends at Postrank have been busy crunching some numbers. Their engagement comparison tool allows you to compare and contrast three separate websites based on their engagement scores. The analysis includes sub-dividing engagement by domain, which allowed us to [...]

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A First-Ever Look At The Top Blogger.com WordPress.com & Typepad.com Blogs?

May 19, 2010

Share My friends at Postrank unveiled yet another cool public tool this week. Postrank Labs now allows you to compare and contrast three separate websites based on their engagement scores. Consider it kind of a Compete.com view of a given blog or website’s engagement rather than traffic. Something I noticed about Labs was that it [...]

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The Digitization of Research And Measurement In Public Relations

May 12, 2010

Share Note: In another of our periodic visits to various public relations firms and agencies, I asked Don Bartholomew, vice president, digital research at Fleishman Hillard, to share some of his thoughts, and his firm’s approach to measuring social media and public relations. Fleishman has a different way of looking at metrics for communications and makes [...]

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Targeting Influencers: A Case Study With Chevy Volt

March 17, 2010

Share I don’t write about cars. I don’t really even write about gadgets. But I’m writing about the Chevy Volt electric car today. Why? Because the folks at Chevy are using influencer targeting as a method to get the word out about their car. No, I’m not succumbing to the power of a good pitch. [...]

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What Bloggers Should Know About PR And Advertising

March 15, 2010

Share I was dumbfounded when I read a recent New York Times article about mommy bloggers that indicated a conference session topic at an event called Bloggy Bootcamp was how to let public relations firms know you don’t work for free. A few months ago, I reached out to a prominent mommy blogger on Twitter [...]

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readMedia Makes Local Press Release Delivery Easy

March 1, 2010

Share Let’s get one thing straight about press releases: They are not the primary driver for good public relations. Words on paper does not a relationship make. They are, however, an important component to delivering information to those who wish to cover your organization, event or company. For most, local press releases — those sent [...]

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