PRSay

AUGUST 12, 2016

With the tremendous growth of social media in recent years, the PR landscape is continuously evolving and causing public relations professionals to adapt to the 24/7/365 news cycle we now work in as well as the instant, viral nature in which news breaks and spreads.

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Cision

MARCH 1, 2016

Take for example one of Business Week’s “2012 Year in Crisis PR” case studies: Facebook. They write: “Facebook’s IPO is a flop.” SoMe = Facebook, Twitter, YouTube. Influencer marketing and authentic word-of-mouth are as important as press releases and media placements anymore.

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Sword and the Script

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Today a kid in a garage can start a company, that goes viral and can touch a billion people,” as one technologist put it eloquently recently. The social network shed obscurity, scrambled to adjust to sudden growth – to the tune of a reported 45,000 requests to join an hour – and experienced a PR backlash in the span of just a few days.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 30, 2015

Why: “Using social media and Internet tools to amass a huge user base can create as many problems as it solves,” says Maura Lafferty in this WUL goodie. 5 Clever Social Media Marketing Campaigns that Went Viral. Most viral April Fools videos of 2014. Growth Hacking” – Ignore the Hype.

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ReimaginePR

JUNE 10, 2015

Yes, they achieved big wins: Dr Liu brought the MSF message of dire need for intervention directly to the United Nations, first to a member state briefing (video) , followed by an address to the General Assembly , in September 2014. I vividly remember reading a certain article in October 2014 that brought a tear to my eye.

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Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 10, 2019

One-person companies no longer rely solely on their own Facebook page, but on a clever mix of press work and content that they place on their social media channels and websites. 16) Social media fragments into niche communities. The social media landscape will never be more unified than it is now.

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MaccaPR

JANUARY 6, 2015

Just as we did in 2013 with " PR and Social Media Counsel from MaccaPR''s Most Popular Posts ," we''re now taking a look back at the most successful recent posts on MaccaPR, according to our readers. Top 10 MaccaPR Blog Posts of 2014. #1. Is it website or Web site? If you haven''t already, this is a great post to bookmark.

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Cision

OCTOBER 28, 2015

A 2014 study of more than 72,000 Facebook pages shows that visuals, including video and photos, generate the highest levels of engagement among users. Think about how many times you’ve seen a text-based article go viral – and compare that to cute kitten photos, the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge or infographics.

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MaccaPR

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Welcome to your Taylor Swift Master Class in Social Media Marketing! Who better to instruct us in social media marketing than this 25-year-old, 7-time Grammy Award-winning “public relations genius” (in the words of the Washington Post)? Taylor uses social media to connect one-on-one with 100 million fans at a time.

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Cision

JULY 25, 2016

A lot of statistical research has been done vetting this model for social platforms and other collaborative sites. As an example, there are a lot of people that spend some portion of their time on Facebook every week. Again, social platforms are trying to (not-so-subtly) nudge businesses to paid promotion and advertising.

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MaccaPR

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Yet, few have asked the more urgent question that faces all brands in this era when smartphones guarantee that a spokes-celebrity’s scandals will be documented for viral eternity: Why wait to act until a brand’s spokesperson is arrested, convicted and imprisoned, his perp walk (and your brand’s collapse) documented across the America?

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Flatiron Communications

AUGUST 2, 2014

In my last post , I talked about the recent Online News Association and Twitter-co-hosted meetup that explored the issue of verifying news and images that spread unchecked via social media. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond (via Israel PM Facebook page). A recent L.A. 0AEUjhDtOC.

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