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How People Made 2010 What It Was

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali How People Made 2010 What It Was December 31st, 2010 Tweet Just a few more hours before we put our 2010 calendars away and start our New Year, eh? My, time flies. I turned 40. Bring it on!

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Bringing Open Community To Public Relations

Waxing UnLyrical

Because if there’s one thing I believe takes public relations from good to great, it’s when your audiences start becoming your community through the relationships you develop with them. But I was curious to see how Maddie and Lindy perceived not just Open Community , but its juxtaposition with public relations.

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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. Sales of what?

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An open thank you letter to AMEC's Barry Leggetter

Stephen Waddington

AMEC’s 10th Global Summit of Measurement kicks off in Barcelona today. You’ve spent more than 10 years building a community that has consistently driven up standards in the measurement and performance of public relations. Principle No 5 condemns AVEs as a faux metric, stating “AVEs are not the value of communications”.

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This Semrush Acquisition of Backlinko hits PR, SEO and Content Marketing Trifecta [PR Tech Sum]

Sword and the Script

In 2010, Vocus acquired the Help a Reporter. Second, these weren’t just emails lists from downloaded content – but communities of engaged readers. For example, the domain authority (DA) metric invented by Semrush rival Moz, has become the defacto standard for measuring the quality of third-party sites. Case in point?

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Reflexivity Memo on PR practice from craft skills to education. A case of ‘plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose’.

PR Conversations

But, but, but… a post by Philip Kitchen on PRC in 2010 shared research showing PR departments were ‘now staffed mainly by young, well-informed technologically sophisticated professionals’. Long-established reputations were at risk from online activism (commonly termed clicktivism) and technological advancements.

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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.