Should You Start Issuing Social Media Releases?

The Social Media Release is a new press release template that attempts to provide bloggers and other Internet media with news release information in a completely new format.
There’s a lot of talk about this subject in PR 2.0 circles, and you can get in on some of it through this free webinar (sponsored by Vocus) [...]

Google is Your Home Page

Another great Bulldog Reporter audio seminar today on the subject of “writing PR copy for the web.” I was a panelist on this call, and I welcome any listeners who found the Catching Flack blog through the call.
Since the web is such an interactive medium, our panel ranged far and wide from the topic of [...]

Getting Your Online Newsroom in Shape

Great webinar today featuring Ibrey Woodall of TEKgroup International and Keith Jenkins of the Washington Post on the subject of online media relations. I hope you had a chance to join us.
One of the takeaways for me as moderator was the need to really focus on the online newsroom component of your corporate web site. [...]

Proving the Value of PR to Management

Chances are, you’re starting to wonder if and when this talked-about recession is going to hit and how bad it will be. Or maybe you are already feeling the pinch. Either way, it doesn’t take long to make you start wondering about the next question: is my job safe?
One of the age-old problems of being [...]

How Journalists Use the Internet to Report News

There’s no doubt that the Internet has dramatically impacted the way journalists report and create stories. From the ability to search online for information about subjects to the “tipsheet” aspect of blogs, the process of newsgathering has been permanently altered by the web.
But how are journalists really using the web — and how can PR [...]

More Ideas About Using Facebook for PR

Earlier this month, I started talking about how to use Facebook for PR. As I’ve been getting more and more involved with Facebook, I’ve noticed some other uses that you ought to know about:

Creating pages: anyone can create a “page” to promote a product, service, business, organization or person. This is a great way to [...]

The Cautionary Tale of GMnext

General Motors has enough problems that it didn’t need another one. But in an effort to do something good — jump into the social media world with its ambitious GMnext site — it created some new problems for itself. The story is a cautionary tale for marketers seeking to harness the social media marketing opportunity.
At [...]

Time to Add Gawker to Your RSS Feed

In my Best PR Blogs posts of a couple of weeks back, I included the PRWeek blog because it was everything — fresh, lively, snarky — that PRWeek the trade rag isn’t. One of the main reasons that blog is/was any good were the contributions of former staffer Hamilton Nolan.
Shortly after my post, Nolan moved [...]

Sign of the ‘Times:’ Old Gray Lady Cuts Newsroom Staff

One of my mantras of 21st century media relations is that “the New York Times is not going away.” In other words, just because we’re seeing a rise of social media and new important online media outlets such as TechCrunch and Light Reading, you shouldn’t assume that means that long-standing mainstream media are no longer [...]

To Get Attention, You Need to Take Chances

Following up on my post about media-friendly messages: no one wants to hear about how you played it safe. We live an inherently risky world — after all, none of us knows if today will be our last. Even if we don’t think about our mortality all the time, we are drawn to stories of [...]

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