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Discussing Digital Snippets, Social Media Release

by · March 13, 2008

The social media press release is one of my favorite topics. When Maggie Fox, Collin Douma and the crew at Social Media Group released Digital Snippets (TM) back in December, the SMPR became a frequently discussed topic again after a few months of dormancy. The end result of that flurry of interest has been the recent news that the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) is leading the charges to try and standardize a format.

I met up with Maggie and Collin at South by Southwest (SXSW) last week to chat about Digital Snippets, SMPRs, the IABC and more.

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New Version Of Social Media Release Lacks Essentials

by · January 22, 2008

Digital Snippets splash imageThe evolution of the social media release took another step this week with the unveiling of the Social Media Group’s Digital Snippets. The template (click here for the PDF) differs from the Todd Defren and Shift Communications’ industry standard in several ways, mostly in providing a basic content menu of items for the online user instead of the narrative, digital resource hybrid from Shift’s.

See their application of it with Ford Motor Company here.

The new version is being talked about by industry thought leaders like Geoff Livingston and Paul Gillin, among others, but no one seems to notice the void in what I’ve always considered one of the essential elements of the SMR: embracing context.

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