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6 Pro Tips to Create Bigger Buzz for Your Business

Cision

Once Shea developed his production process, he went back to his online communities to get the word out: “The backpacking, fishing, outdoors community has a very active and robust online community of blogs, forums, and review sites. We went to those online communities and announced our product and drummed up interest.

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My Segway Ride

Flatiron Communications

Basically, an obscure mention in a book proposal about a miraculous invention called simply “IT” led to an unimaginable media frenzy at a time when Facebook, Twitter and Instagram could not be counted on to fuel such a viral buzz. This very well could have marked the epochal start of the tech media echo chamber.).

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The Essential Guide to Mass Communication: History, Methods, Ethics, and the Future

Masters in Communications

On September 11 th , 2001, a British MP said "this is a good day to bury bad news" as the world focused on the 9/11 attacks. There is some concern that the media influences the agenda too much - stories that go viral don't always have merit, they are not always completely true. There are potentially sinister reasons for doing this.

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