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#measurePR Recap (Feb 2016): Measuring Community

Waxing UnLyrical

Seeing as how February, as a month, is all about love, I wanted to focus this month’s #measurePR chat on the folks who give us the most love in our businesses: our community. On whether impressions are a valuable metric for PR in the social age: A2: Impressions are one tool in the arsenal, but not the most important.

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2016 Global Social Journalism Study: How to Reach More Journalists on Social Media

Cision

According to Cision’s 2016 Global Social Journalism Study published this week, nearly half (48 percent) of U.S. Audio-visual sharing tools like YouTube see the biggest difference between age groups and journalistic content. Uncover more social media trends by downloading our 2016 Global Social Journalism Study now.

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What Are Your Social Media Marketing Resolutions for 2016?

Cision

I like the tool CrowdFire to follow people who use a particular hashtag, or who follow another user with similar content to my own. Even if you hire someone part time for a few hours each week to update your accounts, it’ll do a world of good for building your brand’s community online. But remember: not all followers are created equal.

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Meltwater acquired as private equity tightens grip on PR software market [PR tech sum no. 47]

Sword and the Script

The largest PR and comms tech companies, along with many startups, are now controlled by PE firms; is this good for the PR community? This adds to a growing collection of private equity firms (PE) that have taken an ownership stake in software companies that provide tools to PR and communications professionals.

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How To Use Hashtags More Effectively in 2016

Cision

These are the obvious places for hashtags: platforms where the community uses hashtags as a means to organize information. Request a demo of Cision’s social software and discover how it can help you identify trends, view sentiment and stay ahead of competitors who are still relying on manpower and multiple tools.

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Why innovation in PR tech is so slow

Stephen Waddington

A market gets the tools that it deserves. There is a long-standing joke in the PR industry that the most popular tool is Excel. Excel isn’t used to track the value that the PR industry creates but instead as a crude relationship management tool. It’s the wrong tool for the wrong job. It isn’t very funny.

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Solo PR FPRA 2016 Conference Recap

Solo PR Pro

Last week some of the members of the Solo PR PRO community joined us in Tampa Bay, Florida for our main event of 2016. Cheers to another great conference where the Solo PR community learned, laughed, and broke bread together. Her audience was treated to tips, tricks and tools on how to find more purpose and balance.