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Do I Need a Social Media Marketing Manager?

Landis PR

In 2005, the year after Facebook went live, that number was 5 percent. A recent article in The Washington Post , “ Before Twitter and Facebook, There Was Morse Code: Remembering Social Media’s True Inventor ,” details the history and relevance of Morse code, complete with early versions of today’s “OMG” and “LOL.”.

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Emergency communications in the era of social media

Presspage

Since Wilma in 2005, no hurricanes have made landfall with such destructive power. The Cape Verde type hurricane was typed as the most intense since Dean in 2005. Yet, according to CNN , hundreds of stranded Texans sought help by posting on Facebook and Twitter. They organized rescue missions through Facebook groups.

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PR 2020: What will it be like?

Marketwired

If you had asked public relations professionals in 2005 what their daily routine would look like, there’s a good chance none would have predicted the landscape of 2016. It’s hard to believe that by that time social networks like Facebook and Twitter will be over ten years old. Twitter and Facebook led to Instagram and Vine.

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PR Heroes Of The Hurricanes

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

He seized national attention with a Facebook video inviting all who could safely make it to one of his Gallery Furniture stores to come and even bring their pets. McIngvale has navigated these waters before; he offered shelter to victims of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

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I Sold PR 20/20, but That’s Just the Start of the Story

PR 20/20

I started PR 20/20 in November 2005 out of a spare bedroom in my Cleveland home with a $25,000 loan and a belief that there was a better way to build an agency. I created the PR 20/20 tagline, “Look Beyond,” in 2005 when I launched the agency. iPhone, Alexa, Netflix, Spotify, Facebook, Amazon, Gmail).

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Web3: Time To Practice Smart “Reputation Hygiene”

Reputation Us

Web3 will combine the open infrastructure of Web1 (static websites of 1998-2005) with the public participation of Web2 (interactive, social web with user-generated content). So the good reputation you’ve built on Facebook, for example, can’t be moved to your Twitter account. What is Web3? Maintaining Good Reputation Hygiene .

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7 of the best PR podcasts for 2018

The Resolution Blog

For Immediate Release (FIR) Originally started in 2005 these guys know what they are talking about. from tools to use, to Facebook for business, local SEO, GDPR and using data to create data-driven personas. Available in i Tunes Wednesday?—?For

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