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Media Monitoring News
Best PR Articles
Bloggers Are Promotional Partners, Which is Bad for PR
Social Media Explorer (Stephanie Schawb)Bloggers Are Promotional Partners, Which is Bad for PR argues against PR professionals being prime corporate contact with bloggers. Blogger outreach is not equivalent to pitching journalists, Stephanie Schawb maintains. Reason: bloggers are not journalists and blogs are not earned media. In most cases, blogger outreach is equivalent to paid media. Comments are welcome — and there are 82 of them as of Friday. Here's one telling comment by Janet Thaeler: "Both the bloggers and PR pros need education. I see very few who get it. Bloggers can be unreasonable or unprofessional. PR people can ask for the world and don't plan to pay. Or they send pitches that are so off-topic that it's annoying, insulting, or just a waste of time." Ouch!
The World's Biggest and Worst PR Machine
ForbesNow, here's something with which all PR professionals can agree. The U.S. Congress is The World's Biggest and Worst PR Machine. PR gaffs are endless in both houses and both sides of the aisle. Congress' disconnect from middle-of-the-road voters — the ones who ultimately decide elections — is palpable. Is there a way to stop the grandstanding and get the Congress back to legislating?
The Instant Curated E-Newsletter That Your Prospects Will Love
Click ZThe Instant Curated E-Newsletter That Your Prospects Will Love analyzes the marketing power of e-mail newsletters containing news articles selected for a specific client base. (Example: The Media Monitoring News Newsletter you are now reading.) CyberAlert's news monitoring service makes it easy to aggregate articles for the e-mail newsletter or for posting on your website. Just monitor the key words of interest to your client base.
Top 10 Brands in Video: News Names and Killer Campaigns
iMedia ConnectionHalf of the names on this month's chart are newcomers, demonstrating how quickly brands can rise in the ranks of online video. Top 10 Brands in Video: News Names and Killer Campaigns explains how they did it.
29 Tips to Make Your Video Marketing Easier
Social Media ExaminerWhere the previous article uses case studies to illustrate the keys to success in video marketing, 29 Tips to Make Your Video Marketing Easier offers up straightforward instruction.
Burson Marsteller Digital Crisis Media Study
Slide ShareThink your organization or brand is immune to a full-blown PR disaster? Think again. Consider BP's oil spill, Toyota's recalls, Tiger Woods' issues, and News Corp. phone hacking. According to the Burson Marsteller Digital Crisis Media Study, PR crisis has become an ordinary part of business with nearly 60% of current business leaders having confronted some sort of major crisis including controversial company developments such as layoffs, product safety issues, logistical difficulties, technical difficulties, negative media campaigns, and political, legal or regulatory scrutiny.
The 10 Percent Rule is a Myth: 6 Smarter Ways to Determine the Right Amount of PR Research
Thought Leaders (Mark Weiner)The long-held rule that PR departments should allocate 10% of the annual budget to research and evaluation (measurement) does not hold up according to Mark Weiner of Prime Research. 6 Smarter Ways to Determine the Right Amount of PR Research offers some alternative guidelines for determining a PR research budget. You'd expect a PR research company to recommend a higher percentage, but that's not entirely true here.
What Brand Marketers Can Learn from PR
iMedia Connection (Rebecca Lieb)In spite of using the pejorative phrase "planting stories", What Brand Marketers Can Learn from PR analyzes the differences between the old-fashioned "press release" and the search engine optimized "news release" — in a sense transforming PR professionals into "the media" itself — and lays out the resulting new challenges.
Study: Will You Abandon Facebook in Favor of Google+?
Brian SolisAnd then there were three — social networks that is. Facebook. Linked-In. Google+. Sort of like the big three TV networks — ABC, CBS, NBC. For a corporate PR department, brand or customer service department though, it means having to increase staff and budget to maintain an effective presence on three different social networking services. Brian Solis's study Will You Abandon Facebook in Favor of Google+ provides early clues on the intentions of the digerati.
Top 10 Resources to Keep Up with the Pulse of Marketing in this Social Media Age
41 Stories / Strother Communications GroupWe just about totally agree with the Top 10 Resources to Keep Up with the Pulse of Marketing in this Digital Social Media Age. The list, valuable for both marketing and PR, includes Mashable, AdAge, TechCrunch, Search Engine Land, Marketing Profs, Social Media Examiner and ClickZ — all frequently cited in Media Monitoring News Newsletter. Put them all in your favorites tool bar a call them up daily. And add #11 to the list: AllTop PR News.
12 Things to Tweet About on Twitter
Succeed as Your Own BossAimed at entrepreneurs, 12 Things to Tweet About on Twitter offers useful advice for anyone with responsibility for business marketing or PR on Twitter. It includes four basic approaches: find news articles helpful to your target audience, tweet your own helpful content, tweet other people's stuff at a 4:1 ratio to your own, and send personal tweets so that people can get to know you on Twitter.
30 Tips to Blog with Confidence
Soulati-tude (Jayme Soulati)Intended primarily for independent or personal bloggers, 30 Tips to Blog with Confidence, starting with tip #6, can help bloggers for businesses develop more interesting content and a distinctive approach — the two primary keys to business blogging success.
5 Tips for Running Successful Cause Marketing Campaigns
MashableSupporting a good cause in a PR or marketing campaign can be powerful tool to connect businesses with special constituencies and build goodwill. 5 Tips for Running Successful Cause Marketing Campaigns outlines the planning and implementation steps to assure success. If you want to know more, check out 8 Tips for a Successful Social Media Cause Campaign, an earlier article in Mashable.
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