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Facebook And The Perils Of Opposition PR

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

The question came up after a recent report in The New York Times about Facebook’s handling of its PR problems over the past three years. Facebook’s posture under pressure should surprise no one. Definers also sought to paint Facebook’s critics in a negative light. Facebook was calling the shots.

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5 Social Sites That Aren’t Facebook

Waxing UnLyrical

Facebook has been struggling since its IPO in May. Facebook was not initially built to monetize; it was built to go viral. Unlike Google, I am not on Facebook to look for products, hence I’ve never clicked on a Facebook ad. Guest post by Kate Endress. I really just want to check in and connect with my friends.

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ICON 2021 Recap: Randi Zuckerberg on Harnessing the Entrepreneurial Spirit

PRSay

The founder and CEO of Zuckerberg Media talked about receiving a call from her brother, Mark, to help with digital marketing for his new venture, which was called The Facebook at the time. However, Facebook faced the same obstacles as other Silicon Valley startups in the early days — no resources and competing companies, she said.

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The Financial Drain of Misinformation

PRSay

Paid promotions can appear on a fake news site or run alongside a conspiracy theory-fueled Facebook page without an advertiser even realizing it happened. Like a game of Telephone , Nooyi’s relatively innocuous words were compounded by errors as reports of the interview spread across the web. Stop funding fake news.

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Shaping My World In 2011: Tackling The Triangle

Waxing UnLyrical

While I’m not calling them my un-resolutions, here’s what I will try to do more – or less – of in 2011. In 2011, I would like to see WUL really take flight; not just from a content point of view, but continue to expand and become a landing pad for global voices of public relations and social media.

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Content Marketing: How S. Pellegrino Uses Content to Appeal to Foodies

Polaris

The brands repurpose content from Fine Dining Lovers on a number of social media channels, including Twitter , Facebook , YouTube, Google+ and Pinterest. Facebook, for example, is notorious for changing its algorithm in a way that negatively affects the reach of a brand’s page post.) Pellegrino. Pellegrino programs. 1: An online hub.

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Public Relations. It’s Still About The People

Waxing UnLyrical

I recently spent the bulk of the day on Facebook / Twitter / Pinterest and the other “usual suspects” marveling at how incredibly much information flows between people around the world by the second. The second was a blog post by one of my Curry College PR superstars, Erika Kuzmicz , who finished her degree requirements in December 2011.