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20 December 2009

1,734 Uses for Social Media – Look ‘em Up in Tamar’s “Text”

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You’ve got to be more than a Social Media Newbie to appreciate the depth and breadth of research that went into compiling the 334-page compendium The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web.
Author Tamar Weinberg is a community manager for Mashable, clearly the best source for Social Media …

1 November 2009

Handbook to guide your success in social media and more effective Public Relations efforts

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As both a PR teacher and professional journalist for many years,
I was blown away when I found the perfect new text:
Making News in the Digital Era
by David E. Henderson
If elections were held today for Social Media Expert, David gets my vote. His 2009  narrative/guidebook is perfect for helping …

20 September 2009

Change is never, never easy: The Old PR Pitch must evolve to PR 2.0 Dialogue

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“PR 2.0: A Promising Future” — Part 4 of Putting the Public BACK in PR is quite an ambitious undertaking

I covered the first section, ch. 15 on Community Managers in an earlier post. And today’s article only begins to summarize some of the key points in the three very diverse …

16 September 2009

Yes, Shari, Micromedia can support and inspire great conversation

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See how things intersect & support
When I first read chapter 13 in Putting the Public Back into PR, I had my doubts as to whether Twitter was really the place for great convo — i.e. conversation.
But two recent experiences convinced me that rapid-fire, off-the-cuff, succinct wordings could …

13 September 2009

Community Managers: Your organization’s guide along Social Media Revolutionary Road

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Center of Community, center of influencers
Hiring or Applying?
You’ll do well to check out chapter 15 in the social media/PR 2.0 book I’ve been reviewing  — Putting the PUBLIC Back in Public Relations by Brian Solis and Dierdre Breakenridge.
Who OWNS the responsibility of managing social media conversations for an organization?
Brian …

11 September 2009

Social Media Tools — are just “tools,” not the all-important-strategies

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Part 3: Putting the PUBLIC Back in Public Relations
Add air to molten glass
If you think about the title of this post, I hope you’ll get the message that even though it’s the SM platforms, i.e. Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed, etc. that get the “Buzz,” it’s HOW YOU USE THEM that is …

8 September 2009

No apologies from this PR 2.0 evangelist: Putting the PUBLIC Back in Public Relations

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Many of us who have taught Shakespeare know that the Great Bard based his renowned plays on history or legend — in other words, his genius was not in the originality of plots, but in the art of his storytelling.
Art, imagination, creation are products of passion. Passion is the …

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