Submitted by Adamsherk
from Google Reader:
Raise your right hand and repeat after me.I [insert name], Chief Marketing Officer of [insert company name], do solemnly swear to:Prevent squatters from taking over our company URLs on Twitter or other major social media websites and get them back if/when they doPrevent employees from reserving important company names, bran (Read More)
Teaching PR:
This year I decided to attend the National Communication Association meeting for the first time. My first session of my first NCA conference turned out to be a great one, focusing on how social media can be incorporated into public relations classes. Here are brief summaries of the presentations.Tiffany Derville, University (Read More)
Mashable!:
It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section.Is your event not on this list? Contact us at least one month before your event and let’s establish a media partnership.Ma (Read More)
Teaching PR:
Teaching the Facebook Generation, Elaine Young (h/t @lizazzolino); Why Education Needs Social Media, Vanessa Miemis (via @jgombita); and PR Students Need to Learn Social Media Business Strategies, Sally FalkowDiscovering Social Media in China, Michael DarraghJack O'Dwyer: Web Will "Filter Down to Experts" (video), Joe Ciara (Read More)
Submitted by Mogston
from blog:
Recently, I presented at PubCon on the intersection of social media and PR. The session title was “experts on PR and Twitter,” however the session description went on to discuss a variety of networks. Therefore my interpretation was to speak on the intersection of social media and PR, and not just PR and Twitter.The socia (Read More)
PR 2.0:
Source1 million, 5 million, 10 million…?If you guessed 10 million, you weren’t even half right.According to new data from Pingdom, Twitter users are averaging 27.3 million tweets per day, with an annual run rate of 10 billion tweets. Just last month, Caroline McCarthy of CNET reported that the 5 billionth tweet was posted. (Read More)
Submitted by Catepol
from Google Reader:
I Social Network come infrastrutture delle relazioni: i casi Iphone e TwitterView more documents from Davide Bennato. La settimana appena trascorsa sono stato invitato in qualità di relatore all’evento annuale che Digital PR organizza per far incontrare le aziende italiane che si stanno muovendo sui temi legati ai social me (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
We've added a couple of more events to this week's events guide. You can download the entire event calendar in iCal format or import it into your Google Calendar. You can also import individual events using the link beside each entry. This events guide is a weekly feature here on ReadWriteWeb. We publish it every weekend, a (Read More)
The Future Buzz:
Everyone is buzzing about social media marketing. You can’t turn your head without hearing about it at a conference. Marketing and PR professionals are either engaged today or thinking about how to engage tomorrow. Everyone is suddenly claiming expert status (by the way: you don’t need a social media expert, you just ne (Read More)
Submitted by Johnfairley
from blog:
There has been a lot of talk surrounding how social media is changing the way reporters gather information and seek sources, how the public absorbs information, and how it’s being incorporated into many everyday job descriptions – publicists and PR professionals being no exception. Some have even likened the advent of socia (Read More)
mashable:
Shashank Nigam is the CEO of SimpliFlying.com, an award-winning blog on airline branding. He tweets at @simpliflying. Special thanks to @Z_simpliflying for his contribution to this article.Twitter has a huge aviation community — from airlines and airports, to cabin crew and aviation enthusiasts. Whether you like to fly plan (Read More)
Submitted by Danielpatricio
from blog:
Should your company be engaging through social media?In my eyes it is a simple answer.Would you fire your customer service department? PR team? Cut off the whole customer satisfaction department?The fact is, your customers are talking about you through social media. They are asking questions, creating community groups in yo (Read More)
Diva Marketing (Blog):
Just Thoughts for a Friday the 13th afternoon ... Over the past few years I've asked hundreds of people what they thought social media meant. Duncan Wardle's, VP Global PR for Disney, response was typical of most. - "Creating dialog with consumers." Spent the last 2 days at social media events in Atlanta. Blogwell, compleme (Read More)
Delicious/Adgenius:
The role of influence is changing and diversifying and with it, the rules and responsibilities of engagement are also reshaping. While PR, analyst, and investor relations were clear yesterday, the rise of new influencers, tastemakers and authoritative users and customers becomes both pervasive and uncertain. As such, new op (Read More)
Submitted by Courane01
from Google Reader:
Our team of experts on last week’s Social Media Today webinar decided to add more colour to the palette by not only leaving marketing and PR blended on the communications canvas, but adding IT, Human Resources and customer service to the mix. What did you think dear listeners?If you missed it, the Social Media Today webina (Read More)