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 learners on all [...]

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

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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 and Dierdre conclude that “every facet of a [...]

SFSU Alum John Gumas came back to school and changed our course of study . . . and our lives

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When I invited John Gumas to participate on a panel for my advertising students at San Francisco State back in February, I had no idea that his views and insights were going to change the direction of my life. That panel discussion and the meeting I had with John and the other panel members opened [...]

Viral Video — Advertising left Madison Avenue for Your Avenue

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Who knew that back in Feb 2005 three former Pay Pal employees would introduce a video-sharing website that would be gobbled up by Google a year-and-a-half later and now seems very likely to herald a powerful new way for people to sell products and services? What’s viral and how do you do it? My Public [...]

Is Facebook better for your business than your social life?

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So, once again, is Facebook a waste of time? Last post we tried to address the responses of naysayers — the “non early adopters,” the social media non-initiates. Common challenges in any evolutionary cycle. But the fact remains that life does change, and so do we. And nowhere are these changes more dramatic than with [...]

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