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readMedia Makes Local Press Release Delivery Easy

March 1, 2010 · Comments

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 to media outlets in a specific geographic boundary or target — are the lifeblood of publicity. The PR 2.0 world kinda forgot about that. Thankfully, readMedia has a solution that serves the local press release target, serves up web and social media-friendly release tools and helps clients appear in online news aggregators like Google News, all for a reasonable price.

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Discussing Digital Snippets, Social Media Release

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 [...]

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Word of Mouth Driven by Others

February 4, 2008

By Jason Falls and Geoff Livingston (Posted simultaneously on The Buzz Bin)The following chart from eMarketer.com shows a Burst Media survey indicating the best source for automotive information according to U.S. in-market internet users in December.

The most trusted place? Websites that other than an automobile company’s site (and blog). Thirty-nine percent — much higher than [...]

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Rebranding The Social Media Release

January 25, 2008

Encouraging the evolution of breakthroughs in technology, be it gadgets, processes or just theories, is what defines thought leadership. Maggie Fox and the Social Media Group have done just that with the recent launch of Digital Snippets, a progress milestone in the evolution of the social media press release (or just social media release) and [...]

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New Version Of Social Media Release Lacks Essentials

January 22, 2008

The 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 [...]

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Social Media Release Crux: When Time Prohibits Proper Approach

October 1, 2007

The crux of wading into the estuary between social media and public relations is that you want to play nice, but may not be perceived that way. At an advertising agency, the speed of business is more aptly described as business on speed. Still, clients want to connect with social media influencers.
You can’t put the [...]

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