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Social Media Usage Skyrockets in Last Decade

The Proactive Report

Back in 2005 when Pew started tracking social media usage just 7% of adults where active on social networking sites. Over the years Pew has monitored how the rise of social media has affected our work, relationships and communication patterns and how these changes have affected business and politics.

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Today, we say goodbye to HARO [PR Tech Sum 52]

Sword and the Script

And now onward with this month’s PR Tech Sum. >>> Sword and the Script Media can help with B2B marketing, PR and social media. Acquisitions PR software company Vocus acquired HARO in 2010 for an undisclosed sum. Sword and the Script Media can help with B2B marketing, PR and social media.

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The State of PR Measurement

The Proactive Report

At the PR News Measurement conference last week in Washington DC I was disappointed to discover that 70 percent of the attendees surveyed prior to the event had not heard of the Barcelona Principles. The Barcelona Principles were first published in 2010.). – measuring the qualitative value of PR. Albeit it VERY slowly.

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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

Although the accelerating decline in the influence of national and local media signalled an end to the dominance of a journalist-to-PR career pathway, it also weakened the established case for the importance of PR in the C-suite (boardroom).

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Gamification Delivers Results

5W PR

Gamification peaked in 2010, then went on a steady decline for several years. They added points, leaderboards, and badges to software, and gamification became more popular than ever. Remember the popularity of Mozilla badges or games like Farmville in the early 2000s?

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Happy 4th Birthday, #measurePR: The Queen of Metrics Returns!

Waxing UnLyrical

Yes, the chat which has become somewhat of an institution as far as industry-wide digital PR events go (and I am thrilled about that), has been going strong for four whole years. Back in 2010, Ms. Go on, guess, I’ll wait… It was #measurePR’s 4th birthday! Whodathunkit?! Katie Paine was our very first guest.

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The Making of Cision: A Brief History of 15 M&A Transactions that Consolidated a Sizable Chunk of the PR Technology Market into One Company

Sword and the Script

Today, the company is perhaps the largest of its kind, and I think understanding how it got to the place it is now, offers an interesting window into the world of PR and the evolution of technology for the digital PR community. Vocus , a provider of cloud-based PR software announces it will be acquired by GTCR for $447 million.