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The Future of Media Relations: Expect the Unexpected

September 14th, 2009 by

In this week’s installment of “PR Advisers,” PR News asked three industry experts one question: What do you foresee as being the next frontier of social media, and how do you think it will change… Continued

More Evidence of Web 2.0’s Biz Benefits

September 14th, 2009 by

“How companies are benefitting from Web 2.0,” a report released by McKinsey in August 2009, adds to the body of evidence supporting Web 2.0 applications’ contributions to measurable business outcomes. The report, which surveyed nearly… Continued

STEPS TOWARD ACHIEVING LOYALTY (AND THE TOOLS/ACTIVITIES THAT GET YOU THERE)

September 14th, 2009 by

Awareness • Corporate Web Site • Display and Print Ads • Viral Videos • PR • Product Placement Consideration • Widgets • Experiential Marketing • Direct Mail • PR • Product Microsites • Customer Reviews… Continued

Climate Change: Emerging Front in Crisis Comms

August 31st, 2009 by

Mad Men, the hit AMC series about a 1960s ad agency, evokes a workplace culture where outrageous sexism—behavior which even hinted at today would unleash a firestorm of litigation—is standard operating procedure. In contrasting then… Continued

Quick Study: Fortune 100 Digs Twitter; Office Buzzwords Lose Their Buzz; Fraud on the Rise; Facebook-Friending at Work

August 31st, 2009 by

â–¶ Twitter Tops List as Fortune 100’s Most-Used Social Media Platform: A study released in June 2009 by ÜBERCEO revealed that Fortune 100 CEOs were overwhelmingly absent in social media—a complete contrast to a new… Continued

How To…Use Video to Advance PR Efforts

August 31st, 2009 by

With a library of more than 70 million videos, YouTube’s status as the leading video-sharing platform is indisputable. Companies of all shapes and sizes have turned to the platform to try their hands at “going… Continued

Anti-Social C-Suite: Championing Social Media to Overcome Corporate Resistance

August 31st, 2009 by

CEOs are the leaders of their corporations and the wardens of company reputation. Every day, they’re faced with making difficult decisions regarding the quality of their work in the face of pressures to maintain profit… Continued

BREAKDOWN OF POPULAR LIFESTREAMING SERVICES

August 31st, 2009 by

• FriendFeed (www.friendfeed.com):www.friendfeed.com Founded by a handful of former Google employees in 2007; bonus features include stats and a function that lets users keep track of feeds of contacts who don’t already have a FriendFeed… Continued

Life, or Something Like It: Leveraging Advances in Social Aggregation

August 31st, 2009 by

In June 2009, social media connoisseur (and Edelman VP of Digital Insights) Steve Rubel made an announcement via his blog, micropersuasion: He would be abandoning the highly trafficked platform in favor of The Steve Rubel… Continued

How to Build Your Brand on a Shoestring Budget

August 24th, 2009 by

Budgets have been slashed. Advertising is in a slump. Social media is on the rise, with a yet-to-be-defined return on the hype. Companies are struggling to make sense of the conventional landscape of the market… Continued