Remember the days when we read the newspaper over a cup of coffee every morning and watched the evening news on TV? We were quite happy to get our news just once a day. That’s no longer the case. Now we expect to see eye-witness accounts of events as they are occurring. This appetite for instant visual news has changed the way news is gathered, reported and consumed. While … [Read more...]
PRSA’s New PR Definition – 3 possibles
A few months ago when PRSA announced that it was engaging the PR community in an 'open and collaborative effort' to modernize the definition of PR, there was a spate of posts from PR people. Many applauded the crowd sourcing approach, but there were also detractors. As with any such effort, there's always the risk that individuals or groups with zero, limited or even slanted … [Read more...]
How Do People Find Your Content Online?
OutBrain recently released an update to their Content Discovery and Engagement Report. The original study was done in Q1 and the update is for Q2. Top 20 Traffic Sources to Content Pages 1 Google 2 Yahoo 3 AOL/Huffington Post 4 Facebook 5 MSN* 6 Drudge … [Read more...]
Are You Tracking Social Media Conversions?
US businesses have definitely accepted that social media has to be a part of their marketing and PR activity – four in five US businesses with at least 100 employees will take part in social media marketing in 2011, says eMarketer. That’s a big jump from the 42% who used social media in 2008. eMarketer expects the number of marketers using the channel will continue … [Read more...]
Corporate Spokespeople Getting Their Mojo Back?
According the to the 2011 Edelman Trust Barometer out yesterday, that appears to be the case. After taking a dive when the rise of social media saw people turning to their peers online, the wheel seems to be coming full circle. CEOs now rank among the top credible spokespeople globally – a striking rise from two years ago when they were in the bottom two. A “person like me,” … [Read more...]
