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June 2012: Issue 3
For the first time this week, Media Monitoring News includes a "Featured Article" - the one article to read if you're reading only one. The featured article this week is an in-depth analysis in "The Atlantic" that examines, from many angles, the impact of the Twitter hash tag and social media on major corporations, explained through the story of Molly Katchpole who used social media and hash tags to force Bank of America to rescind their newly announced $5/month checking account fee.
Media Monitoring News focuses this week on its "hard core" subjects of media monitoring and PR measurement with six important articles including Katie Paine's report on the new PR measurement standards set by the IPR Commission on Measurement and Evaluation. The issue also contains a large dose of articles on content marketing and social media marketing. You may also enjoy the juxtaposition of two articles that recommend diametrically opposed approaches to copy and program development. The first, "The Art of Polish", recommends careful editing to polish all copy. On the other hand, "5 Dos and Don'ts of Social Media" suggests "Just Ship It" - that is, put it out there as quickly as possible, even with flaws, and then improve it later. Interestingly, the two positions are not contradictory. The two articles on Twitter are also helpful in using the microblog more successfully. Finally, the Mary Meeker Presentation on the State of the Internet is an annual must-read for anyone involved in online marketing or communications technology.
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Editor: | William J. Comcowich
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How Hashtags and Social Media Can Bring Megacorporations to Their Knees
The Atlantic
The article tells the story of Molly Katchpole and the $5 checking account fee by Bank of America. How Hashtags and Social Media Can Bring Megacorporations to Their Knees is an eye-opener for any C-level or communications executive in most any company. It presents an in-depth, informative and insightful assessment of the impact of social media (and the lowly hashtag) on major corporations.
Companies Use Social to Track and Follow Up on Brand Mentions
eMarketer
How many businesses and brands monitor social media? Companies Use Social to Track and Follow Up on Brand Mentions quantifies usage of both B2B and B2C companies in monitoring social media for mentions and customer service. The data indicates that monitoring is pervasive, but not universal. B2C brands are far more likely to monitor and follow up than B2B brands.
You Want Engagement and Relationships? Listen Up!
The Measurement Standard
When you see the byline Jim Mcnamara (he from down under) and a topic on media monitoring or PR measurement, yes, listen up! The article almost assuredly contains important findings and insights. You Want Engagement and Relationship? Listen Up! includes some fundamental ideas and research findings about "engagement" as a key influence on human behavior. Major point: Before you engage, you must listen. Media monitoring is a key requisite of engagement. Other prerequisites: let the other party participate and give them a say. Those three essentials must be incorporated to achieve success in any social media program for marketing and PR.
Monitoring the Social Media Conversation
Vocus
Monitoring the Social Media Conversation, a white paper from Vocus, is a primer on social media monitoring designed primarily to be helpful for neophytes to online media monitoring. It offers solid grounding on the rationale for monitoring social media and the steps to begin a monitoring program.
Employers Face New Laws on Social Media Monitoring
WindMill Networking
When a few smaller employees asked job candidates for their social media passwords or were asking to "shoulder surf" personal sites during a job interview, it caused a media uproar. Now it's causing legislative action. Employers Face New Laws on Social Media Monitoring examines the race in many states to write new laws preventing employers from performing social media monitoring of employees.
Standards Agreed Upon for Traditional PR Measurement
K. D. Paine's PR Measurement Blog
In Standards Agreed Upon for Traditional PR Measurement, Katie Paine outlines the standards approved last week by the IPR Commission on Measurement and Evaluation. The subheads tell the progress:
- Standard #1: How to Calculate Impressions.
- Standard #2: Items for Analysis - What Counts as a Media "Hit".
- Standard #3: How to Calculate Tone or Sentiment.
- Standard #4: Options for Assessing Quality Measures.
- Standard #5: Advertising Value Equivalency (AVEs) Should Not Be Used as a Standard of Measurement.
Assessment: Notable progress for PR measurement and evaluation.
AVEs Don't Measure PR: Here's Why
Gorkana
Katie Paine has another anti-AVE (advertising value equivalent) proselytizer. The UK media monitoring service (a.k.a. Durrant's) published a detailed analysis AVEs Don't Measure PR: Here's Why. Its arguments solidify the case against using AVEs to measure PR. Suggestion: Save the article for reference against the day when a client or boss demands AVE measurements. NOT!
CMO Reports on the Value of Social Media [Infographic]
Business 2 Community
When the chief communications officer or chief marketing officer asks about the ROI of social media, CMO Reports on the Value of Social Media is a good place to start in assembling data for your report. The infographic includes the most-favored metrics for social media measurement and the relative value of the major social media platforms.
The Art of Polish: 7 Steps to Making Your PR Writing Shine
PR News
It's the final 5% that turns the ordinary into the exceptional. That sign in the CyberAlert offices typifies the sentiment behind The Art of Polish: 7 Steps to Making Your PR Writing Shine by Andrew Hindes who outlines proven techniques to move PR copy from ordinary to exceptional.
5 Dos and Don'ts of Social Media
Jeff Bullas
The opposite of "polish" is to "Just ship it" - akin to Nike's "Just Do It." The core idea: don't worry about the product being perfect. Just get it out the door. Avoid paralysis by analysis. That's the approach suggested in 5 Dos and Don'ts of Social Media. It's at least worth thinking about just diving in and tweaking later based on consumer feedback - though that's not the usual style of most corporate, government, or not-for-profit PR and marketing departments.
The 10-Step Content Marketing Checklist
Copyblogger.com
If you're looking to use "content" as a key element in your marketing strategy (almost a necessity these days), The 10-Step Content Marketing Checklist offers solid advice on how best to develop and market content. Key advice: don't build on rented land. Think in advance about where and how the content you develop will live and how audiences will get to it. In most cases, put it first on a domain you control.
To Gate or Not to Gate: That is the B to B Content Marketing Question
Target Marketing
Should you require folks to register in order to get a copy of your white papers and other PR or marketing content or should you publish it with open access for all? Or, stated otherwise, To Gate or Not to Gate: That is the B to B Marketing Question. Author Ruth P. Stevens examines the question in a balanced way - providing the arguments both for and against registration - and comes down on the side of requiring registration in order to identify potential customers, and develop a relationship with them.
Mary Meeker's Latest Presentation about the State of the Internet
Business Insider
Former investment banker Mary Meeker, now of venture firm Kleiner Perkins, has published her "State of the Internet" presentation since, well, pretty much the beginning of the commercial Internet. The annual presentation is widely recognized as the most thorough and thoughtful examination of Internet developments - and is pretty much "the bible" for investment decision-makers. Mary Meeker's Latest Insights about the State of the Internet gives you access to the entire 112-slide presentation. Almost guaranteed, somewhere in the presentation are data that will be crucial for what you're doing or want to do in PR or marketing.
The New Funnel
ClickZ
If you're into marketing and sales funnels, The New Funnel by Jim Sterne will likely be a special toy box for you. It digests dozens of existing sales funnels into The Digital Analytics Funnel composed of data, metrics, reports, benchmarks, alerts, automation and insights. Agreed: insight is the preferred outcome when data is the initial input.
20 Tips to Avoid Being a Social Brand Gone Wrong
Pam Moore Marketing Nut
Where do brands go wrong in social media? Let us count the ways: strategy, design, content, messaging, engagement - and that's just for starters. 20 Tips to Avoid Being a Social Brand Wrong! lists 20 "must haves" of social marketing to avoid becoming a brand (or corporate web site) gone bad. (Microsoft spellchecker thinks "badly". I think not.)
Business Tips from the Google+ Trenches
iMedia Connection
Admitting that achieving success is not easy or quick in social media, Business Tips from the Google+ Trenches explains that Google+ requires tender love and care in order to flourish. Author Jessica Sanders suggests the most useful approaches to do Google+ well, and to do well with Google+.
The Beginner's Guide to Twitter
Mashable
OK, so you're not a beginner on Twitter. Nonetheless, The Beginner's Guide to Twitter offers a Twitter glossary and important guidance on effective use of Twitter, both personally and for corporate accounts.
The Twitter Thesaurus: Gives You Shorter Synonyms
Bit Rebels
If you have a proclivity for humungous words, you may overshoot the 140-character limit of Twitter. To meet character limitations, the Twitter Thesaurus gives you shorter synonyms for words you used in your first draft. e.g. like to use, big, exceed, limit.
PR Meetings, Seminars, White Papers
F.R.E.E. — Virtual Conference - Social Media Marketing, sponsored by MarketingProfs, will be held June 8.
Meeting — info360 Conference & Expo, will be held in New York, NY on June 12-14. Cost to attend is $1,195 for the gold pass.
Meeting — The Corporate Social Media Summit, will be held in San Francisco, CA on June 19-20. The cost to attend is $1,800.
Meeting — The Taste of Tech, sponsored by PR Week, will be held June 21-22 in New York, NY. The cost to attend is $1,295.
Meeting — IABC World Conference, sponsored by IABC, will be held June 24-27 in Chicago, IL. Cost to attend is $1,700 for members and $2,100 for non-members.
Meeting — New Realities: Campus Coverage and the Media, will be held June 27-29 in Washington, DC. The cost to attend is $695.
Meeting — AllFacebook Marketing Conference, will be held June 28-29 in San Francisco, CA. The cost to attend is $599.
Meeting — PR & the Media, sponsored by PR Week, will be held July 3 in London. Cost to attend is 250 (+ VAT 300) if registered before June 8.
Meeting — PRSA Midwest Conference, sponsored by PRSA, will be held July 19-20 in Chicago, IL. Cost to attend is $200.
Meeting — SES San Francisco, sponsored by ClickZ, will be held August 13-17 in San Francisco, CA. The cost to attend is $2,795. Early bird rates are available.
Meeting — Explore!, sponsored by Social Media Explorer, will be held August 16-17 in Minneapolis, MN. Price to attend is $250.
Meeting — Meeting - B2B Marketing Summit, sponsored by MarketingSherpa, will be held August 27-30. The cost to attend is $1,695.
Meeting — PR Best Practices Summit, sponsored by Ragan Communications, will be held September 10-11 in Washington, DC. The cost to attend is $795 for members; the cost for non-members is $545.
Meeting — PRSA International Conference, sponsored by PRSA, will be held October 13-16 in San Francisco, CA. The cost to attend is $1,275 for members, $1,575 for non-members.
Meeting — DMA 2012, sponsored by Direct Marketing Association, will be held October 13-18 in Las Vegas, NV. The cost to attend is $1,899 if registered before June 29.
Meeting — Social Media Strategies Summit, will be held October 23-25 in Boston, MA. The cost to attend is $1,595.
PR Awards — WebAwards, sponsored by Web Marketing Association, "Recognizing the Best Web sites in 96 industries." Extended deadline is June 15.
PR Awards — Digital PR & Social Media Awards 2012, sponsored by PR Daily. Deadline without penalty is June 22; July 13 with penalty. Finalists will be announced September 19.
PR Awards — PR News Digital PR Awards. Submission deadline is July 13. Event to be held in Washington, DC in October.
PR Awards — PR News 15 to Watch. Submission deadline is August 17. Event to be held in Washington, DC in December.
PR Awards — SNCR Excellence in New Communications Awards, sponsored by Society for New Communications Research. Submission deadline September 7; no extensions granted. The cost to enter is $75.
Webinar — PR Agency New-Business Generator Workshop, sponsored by Bulldog Reporter, will be held July 13 from 1pm -5pm ET. The cost to attend is $695.
PR & Marketing Job Openings
The listing for this issue includes PR job openings and marketing positions — with detailed job descriptions for each. Readers are invited to submit job postings to jobpostings@cyberalert.com.
Best of Previous Issues
Determining Your Media Monitoring Needs
Print News Monitoring Vs. Online News Monitoring
Broadcast Monitoring for TV & Radio News
Selecting a Social Media Monitoring Service
F.r.e.e & Low-Cost News Release Distribution Services
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