dna13's new Enterprise edition is the next generation of reputation monitoring
We’re now far enough along in the development of the Internet and desktop software that corporations can now access very sophisticated tools to monitor the messages flowing out there in the world about them. I recently had a chance to demo dna13′s new Enterprise software and it looked to me like the future of reputation [...]
Maybe Dan Abrams Is On To Something
Dan Abrams, the MSNBC talker and would-be PR counselor, has been taking some heat (from this blogger and elsewhere) about the stated strategy of his Abrams Research shop to use working journalists as moonlighting PR consultants to his clients. With journalism under siege and journalism jobs vanishing faster than you can say “Huffington Post,” it [...]
Dan Abrams Update: My "Journalists" Are Really Freelancers And the Like
As previously discussed here, I’ve been quite skeptical about whether MSNBC’s Dan Abrams had a viable business plan when he created his Abrams Research, a new PR shop that claims to use working journalists as corporate communications consultants. Dan is speaking this morning at the Bulldog Reporter Media Relations Summit, so I’ve got some fresh [...]
UC San Diego PR Nightmare!
It’s that time of year again, as parents and high school seniors anxiously await the ‘fat’ or ‘thin’ envelopes from the colleges of their choice. Only this year and for some time, colleges have also sent out emails announcing the news. That’s what UC San Diego did this week — except they sent the “you’re [...]
The Online-Only SeattlePI.com Will Be a Media Relations Challenge
Take a moment and note that this is a landmark day in American journalism, and by extension, American public relations. A major American metropolitan newspaper, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, has completely dropped its print edition and gone online only. It’s hard to imagine this not being the first of a trend, and perhaps even the beginning [...]
If your corporate web site looks credible, media sites will link to it
Time and again, the biggest complaint from journalists trying to do company research on the web is corporate web sites are hard to navigate and hard to use. “If they’re not usable, we’ll just go to Google,” says Dan Gaines, managing editor of LATimes.com. But a good credible corporate site? Gaines says that more and [...]
Newspapers Are Still A $60 Billion-a-Year Industry
Great piece this morning on CNN.com/Fortune about the current state of the newspaper industry. Despite all the bad headlines, reports Richard Siklos, newspapers are still generating $60 billion in sales and still generating “decent profits.” Yes, public stock investors are unhappy with the performance of newspaper stock prices, but that’s another issue. And for sure, [...]