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Social Sharing Feeds Our Appetite for News

David PR Group

A few years ago when traveling to meet a client, a story about his business was published in the local newspaper that very morning. You don’t get your local paper?” Well, I get The Wall Street Journal at my house, but I dropped the local paper a while ago,” he said. “If He replied that he hasn’t read a newspaper in years.

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Delta Troop Fail - Consider the Bigger, Less Popular, Business Picture

Bad Pitch Blog

My experience involved one soldier, in 2009 I think. When he was charged for a third bag, he decided to alert a local newspaper. Pete Blackshaw (now with Nestle) has been talking about the need for customer service to be aligned with social media efforts by companies for years. The public reacted as they are now.

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How to Generate Leads From Social Conversations

Cision

This post is an excerpt from the e-book, Listen: 5 Social Audiences Brands Can’t Afford to Ignore. . Back in June of 2009, an engineer posted a seemingly random tweet: That individual might not have had many followers on Twitter, and more than likely only a fraction of them ever saw the tweet. Social Listening: Text vs. Visual.

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8 lessons from 10 years of blogging

Communications Conversations

I’ve been asked to speak at a number of events over the years in locales like Seattle, Destin, Tampa, Las Vegas and many in the Minneapolis area. Over the last 10 years, I’ve also learned a ton–about blogging, about social media, about writing, and about human behavior. In 2009, the economy was in a rough spot.

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How to Generate Leads From Social Conversations

Beyond PR

This post is an excerpt from the e-book, Listen: 5 Social Audiences Brands Can’t Afford to Ignore. . Back in June of 2009, an engineer posted a seemingly random tweet: That individual might not have had many followers on Twitter, and more than likely only a fraction of them ever saw the tweet. Social Listening: Text vs. Visual.

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A call for a public inquiry into the impact of media and tech on democracy

Stephen Waddington

Trust in the media was 37%. The rise of social media and tech platforms in the last decade means that anyone can create and share content. Social media fulfils an unhealthy trait of the human nature that rejects the truth unless it confirms a bias. It’s not hard to understand why. It’s not all bad news.

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

Masters in Communications

Today, we use many information sources to see what is going on around us, locally, nationally, and globally, with more emerging all the time. The printing press emerged around 600 years ago, but printed media technically existed for thousands of years. Websites and digital television are technically broadcast media at the same time.

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