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Should we be de-prioritizing engagements in 2022?

Communications Conversations

Social media is not the same space as it was when I got started in this business in 2009. Facebook posts would have hundreds of comments with active conversations happening in the threads. But first, let me remind you of the backdrop. Back then, engagements were everything. Twitter chats were popular (all engagements).

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PR and Social Media Measurement: A Bright Outlook

Waxing UnLyrical

Back in 2009, PR measurement professionals were cautious, to say the least. Fifty-four percent of AMEC (The International Association of Measurement and Evaluation of Communications) members were worried about the health of the industry, predicting worsening market conditions. Guest post by Richard Bagnall.

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Measurement… Supplemented

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Measurement… Supplemented October 22nd, 2010 Tweet Last week, Priya Ramesh, CRT/tanaka ‘s director of social media, joined us for the bi-weekly #measurePR chat. The results? Sales of what?

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Bad PR Measurement Gets a Smackdown

Waxing UnLyrical

for the last few days, speaking on measurement at the 2011 Oregon Governor's Conference on Tourism. when I'd be speaking on measurement. So I asked my good friend and measurement guru Sean Williams to guest-moderate the chat. 55 minutes of near universal agreement that there’s too much crappy measurement out there , and.

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Get PR Measurement Off The Island

Waxing UnLyrical

Is measurement lost? I didn’t think I’d get back into the blogging saddle for a few days yet, but I couldn’t help it when I read this excellent post from Nick Lucido on the problem with PR measurement. The biggest problem with measurement is a lack of understanding of the basic principles of this art.

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Measuring Public Relations Outcomes With Seth Duncan

Waxing UnLyrical

“Business outcomes tend to have two qualities in common; first, they have to be a measure of behavioral change (sales or otherwise); and second, as a metric, business outcomes must make sense/be recognizable across an organization.&# He then said, “The second way to measure offline business outcomes is to use primary research.

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Turning Insights into Impact – Cision releases Cision Communications Cloud™ Updates

Beyond PR

However, many professionals continue to use disjointed platforms and standalone measurement tools to manage and analyze their campaigns. Facebook, Instagram and YouTube content are now on the Comms Cloud so users can be confident that they are monitoring the complete story across all important channels.