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Women’s Deep Trust in Blogs Converts to Purchase Action

March 29th, 2012 by

Blog-based communities of women have the highest conversion to purchase rate compared to other social media outlets.

Google Gets More Social With New Commenting System

March 29th, 2012 by

Google’s commenting system may end up benefiting both Google+ and the Web publishers that adopt it.

Spike Lee Takes Us Back to Twitter Basics

March 29th, 2012 by

After retweeting misinformation to his 252,000 followers, Spike Lee issued an apology on Twitter.

Make Your Social Media Policy a Living Document

March 29th, 2012 by

Businesses and nonprofits must stay up to date on laws related to social media but should let common sense prevail in the development of their policies.

6 Tips for Selling a Skeptic on Your Brand and Driving Customers Your Way, not Away

March 28th, 2012 by

Depending on your passions and personality, buying a car is either like death and taxes or it’s like vacations and massages. It’s either unavoidable or a much-anticipated joy.  I tend to fall into the former category where I dread the activity of …

E-Mail Still the Most Popular Digital Communication Platform

March 28th, 2012 by

E-mail may still be the most popular form of digital communication, but social networking is not far behind.

First Step Toward Meaningful PR Metrics: Focus on Bottom-Line Organizational Goals

March 28th, 2012 by

In advance of PR News’ April 18 PR Measurement Conference, American Red Cross’ Laura Howe discusses moving beyond the obvious metrics and creating useful baselines.

NYT, WSJ Dominate Financial Journalist Power Rankings

March 27th, 2012 by

A Gorkana survey of journalists reveals that the New York Times dominates the list of the top 10 most influential financial journalists.

A PR Homage to The Hunger Games

March 26th, 2012 by

If 24 PR executives were sent every year to the Arena to battle it out, would you watch? Would you be one of the “tributes” or better yet (worse yet?), would you volunteer to be a tribute to save your colleague from near-imminent death? No need to …

Social Watch: Over Half of CEOs Engage on Twitter

March 26th, 2012 by

Twitter is the most popular social media platform for CEOs, according to a BRANDfog study.