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Tips & Tricks for your Corporate Social Media Efforts

As I wrote last week’s post on the MarketingProfs’ B2B Forum, one particular session stood out to me – it was insanely interesting, interactive and valuable. Hosted by Jason Baer (of Convince and Convert fame), the session entailed three actual attendees letting the audience evaluate, analyze and critique their B2B social media efforts – [...]

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My [belated] Top 10 Take Aways from MarketingProfs’ B2B Forum

Earlier this summer, I attended the MarketingProfs’ BtoB Forum in Boston and had every intention of posting my thoughts the following week. In a nice (for me) twist, I came away with so many ideas and to dos that I focused on incorporating them into my existing program and quickly forgot about writing a blog [...]

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Marketwire saves (and kills) the press release

Today’s news that Marketwire has revolutionized the social media release caught my eye. In case you haven’t seen it, Marketwire is integrating social media components into their newswire.
However, I don’t think this “Social Media 2.0″ is going to be the press release’s salvation, because it’s still plagued by bad, buzzword-laden writing. For example, take the [...]

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What wasn’t in 60 Minutes’ Facebook piece

Everyone’s talking about last night’s 60 Minutes interview with Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook. I watched it and came away thinking “what a wasted, multi-million dollar PR opportunity.”
The piece started out sounding like an early Valentine for Zuckerberg, but then it turned into an uncomfortable — and sometimes painful — interview. I won’t spend much [...]

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Recap of last week’s SNRC Research Symposium

Last week, I attended the SNRC’s Annual Research Symposium in Boston. It was an interesting day, with the majority of the agenda focused on communications professionals presenting real world case studies (refreshing).
I was planning to digest the content and then write a few smart posts, but figured I’d share what I took away from the [...]

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Some thoughts from ad:tech

This week’s ad:tech was insane … my feet are still sore. Unfortunately, I didn’t get to sit in on a lot of sessions, but I did hit a few and got some great nuggets that relate to PR/communications:

I think I might want to (eventually) work for a consumer company. With lots of money. Several All [...]

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A tiny social media backfire …

Everyone’s focused on the Facebook/Microsoft investment news. It’s been a topic in the rumor mill for several weeks, so it’s really not that shocking anymore. I’ve been watching the rumors and the news closely, though, because on the PR front, we all knew that at some point before the official announcement, the rumor would be [...]

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Transparency vs. authenticity … does one trump the other?

Rohit Bhargava recently posted a presentation he gave about marketing in a Web 2.0 world that got me to thinking about transparency and authenticity.Let’s face it – transparency is one of the most used social media buzzwords (perhaps not too far behind conversation, blogosphere and, well, social media). It’s also a word that is both [...]

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Blurring boundaries …

Looking for proof that we’re all still trying to find our way in the blogosphere? Check out a recent gaf by a PR newbie pretending to be someone else. Todd uses the event as a reason to remind PR agencies that to err is expected, but to publicly acknowledge mistakes is demanded in this social [...]

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To Facebook … or not?

Here’s a post about Facebook that resonated with me, as I suspect it will with many of you in PR: Should CEOs be on Facebook. Lois (who I used to work for) really captured an ongoing debate I’m having with myself about Facebook as the next great social media tool: do I jump in feet [...]

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