Dell's Take Your Own Path campaign is a very smart combination of traditional PR and social media. The campaign features pioneering entrepreneurs and showcases how their use of Dell technology helps make their businesses successful. What led to this bright idea? Listening to their market of SMBs. Dell research shows that these companies make purchase decisions “based … [Read more...]
Social Media Club LA Looks at Guidelines for Citizen Journalists
Last night's panel at the Social Media Club of LA got into a spirited discussion about the pros and cons of citizen journalism. The event was covered by Fox 11 news. Alexia Tsotsis, tech/business lifestyle reporter for the LAWeekly was the moderator. (@alexiatsotsis) Panelists were: David Sarno, a Los Angeles Times Internet business reporter. (@dsarno) Christina … [Read more...]
Media vs the Internet – Game Over
I just read a post titles The Week the Media Crashed on the Communication and Leadership Policy blog from the Annenberg School of Communication at USC. It's one of the best posts I've seen about the shifts in media consumption and what this means for mainstream media news outlets. This is a 'must read' for anyone in PR or marketing. Since there are no comments on the … [Read more...]
Blogging Tops Internet Marketing Tactics Poll
Lee Odden of Top Rank Blog is conducting a poll on which Internet marketing tactics are most favored for 2009. Blogging is the #1 tactic - supporting the findings of the HubSpot study. Hubspot queried 167 respondents. Of those asked, 75% said their blogging activities where “useful”, “important” and “critical” to their businesses’ … [Read more...]
Online Media Room: What Journalists Really Want
Jakob NIelsen of the Nielsen Norman Group is known in the online world as the guru of usablity.Back in 2001 he wrote his first rpeort on the usablity of online media rooms and his latest insights on how journalists use the web is out today. Summary: As 3 studies of journalists show, they use the Web as a major research tool, exhibit high search dominance, and are impatient with … [Read more...]
