Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

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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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The November edition of #measurePR focused on measuring engagement. Our trio of guests included: Ashley Brown , Head of Global Communications at Spredfast; Austin Gaule , Media Analysis Director at Universal Information Services; and Angie Jeffrey , Vice President Brand Management at ABX Advertising Benchmark Index. PESO measurement!

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 18, 2012

What happens when the doyenne of the nonprofit world and the queen of measurement decide to write a book together ? You get Measuring the Networked Nonprofit , by Beth Kanter and Katie Paine, an absolute gem of a book not just for nonprofit communicators, but for all measurement geeks (and most certainly for nonprofit executives).

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 28, 2013

A bright spot was that we were due to talk with my friend John Friedman , who recently moved into the role of Corporate Citizenship Communications Director for Sodexo (for whom he’s worked for years). On how Sodexo specifically measures its Corporate Citizenship efforts: A3: #Sodexo uses 3 year survey of stakeholders.

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wiredPRworks

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Book a Social Selling Secrets Masterclass Discovery Call. In this engaging and immersive experience, you’ll discover routes to social media success: strategic maps, memorable moment,s and relevant ROI measures. Diligent Data Measure: turn up online presence and connections to create your own communities. *

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 28, 2016

The October 13th edition of #measurePR focused on measuring content. When we got on the topic of the most useless way of measuring content we’ve ever seen, there was lots to say: A4 “Likes” on Facebook. If no engagement from the community, numbers mean nothing #measurepr. For now, let’s catch up on #measurePR.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 7, 2015

What do you do if you’re constantly inundated with questions on PR measurement, even if everyone seems to have written a book on them? Why, you write a book, of course! Writing the book on PR measurement. I wrote a book. So now everyone can stop asking me when I’m going to write a book!

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 29, 2013

” “How can we help our communities do better?” So, once they got to know one another and each’s shared passion for changing the world through what each did best … what else would they do but write a book together? I thought measurement was Darth Vadar, hated it.But felt it was imp. D’uh!

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Waxing UnLyrical

MAY 29, 2015

Maddie is a culture change consultant and digital strategist who is recognized for her authority on productive workplaces and communities, and co-author of the new book, When Millennials Take Over. Rich is CEO of Menlo Innovation (featured in Maddie’s book) that is re-inventing the workplace, as well as author of Joy, Inc.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Ho ho ho, Merry PR Measurement! On common PR measurement fails: A2 Biggest PR #fail to #measurePR is focusing on eyeballs & impressions w/o setting objectives. How do you know what you’re measuring? It has never been a valid measurement for PR #measurepr. Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Time-bound.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 5, 2015

Since January at SBC kicks off with measurement – literally, as tomorrow is the year’s first #measurePR chat (12-1 pm ET, Rebekah Iliff and Deirdre Breakenridge will be guests, so don’t miss it!) Ian Cleary clearly explains how to set up GA so that it’s helping and not hindering your measurement.

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 11, 2016

I was absolutely delighted to welcome back three of the most notable women in measurement as guests: Jen Zingsheim , Sally Falkow , and the redoutable Katie Delahaye Paine. On the most effective way to report PR initiatives to executives: @shonali A3:Get agreement on what role PR plays in the path to purchase, then measure it.

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PRSay

OCTOBER 12, 2018

The theme: “Communications Convergence” covered a range of topics including conflicts, creativity and client relationships. Crunching numbers (data and measurement) was a hot topic as well. On data and measurement: “It’s not activity-based and about a book of news clips. Join the group here.

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Critical Mention

JANUARY 22, 2019

In this interview, she shares her insights into how marketing has changed over time, the most valuable social media channel for marketers and how to make more of an impact as a marketing professional in your community. I craved community, comments, Twitter, Facebook (even if social media hadn’t happened yet… LOL). Full report.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 9, 2015

And how will you know whether or not you’re benefitting from it unless you are measuring your work? At the end of the day, you have to know how to measure whether or not you’re moving ahead, whether or not you’re actually getting somewhere, whether or not all that effort you put into your work is … well, worth it.

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Stephen Waddington

MARCH 10, 2019

Measurement, PR management lessons from the 50s, inaugural Comms School session, AI is marketing lipstick, wisdom of middle age, and Insta woe. I shared a thread on Twitter this week about measurement that proved so engaging that I thought I’d use it to kick off this week’s letter. Effective measurement isn’t easy.

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Stephen Waddington

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

Podcasting is back in vogue, using LinkedIn effectively, Tortoise slow journalism project, Netflix Fyre documentary, unreasonable briefs, a new AI marketing book and dates for PRFest. It's published a guide to community management on the platform. I use Notes on my iPhone or iPad to create the first draft of almost everything.

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PR Conversations

JULY 20, 2015

It’s understood that the play’s the thing; however, it was the vibrant community found around each performance that proved an unexpected volunteer adventure at The Toronto Fringe festival 2015. Many of the Fringe community stakeholders are clear: the artists (actors, writers, directors, stage managers, etc.);

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Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

If you’ve created neat Listly lists the WUL community and I should know about, please leave the URL(s) in your comment below! Adding context and community. Use it as part of your strategy but not as your measure of success. Context and Community: the 2 Cs That Can Make Social Scoring Work is a post from: Waxing UnLyrical.

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Stephen Waddington

JANUARY 15, 2020

Social media activism: brands don’t listen In 2012 Steve Earl and I wrote a book called Brand Anarchy. The book holds up almost ten years on because most organisations are lousy at using social media to listen to their customers. It is almost a sport on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Brand shaming has become commonplace.

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Waxing UnLyrical

OCTOBER 22, 2010

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? pts Settings.

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PR Conversations

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Effectiveness in PR/communications practice usually involves thinking about evaluation and measurement metrics. If you read as many self-improvement books as I do, you could say “I’ve been on a journey”. My other thought relates to whether and how we could – or should – measure happiness.

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Cision

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

These are the obvious places for hashtags: platforms where the community uses hashtags as a means to organize information. Sites like Facebook and LinkedIn don’t share this utility with the others. Facebook’s utility is largely derived from its enormity and from the rich connections that its size enables.

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Critical Mention

JANUARY 22, 2019

In this interview, she shares her insights into how marketing has changed over time, the most valuable social media channel for marketers and how to make more of an impact as a marketing professional in your community. I craved community, comments, Twitter, Facebook (even if social media hadn’t happened yet… LOL). Full report.

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Karen Freberg

MAY 11, 2020

Twitter Flight School has been around for a while now, but got an update with their latest features and areas in advertising, measurement, and content creation. Facebook Blueprint Educators Portal. The only thing to note here – which Facebook is working on – is the cost of the exam for students to take.

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NewsWhip

JULY 21, 2020

People paid more attention to news from mainstream sites and less attention to Iffy sites, at least if the URLs that were most shared on Facebook and Twitter provide any indication. Measuring the flight to quality. He co-authored the book Building Successful Online Communities: Evidence-Based Social Design.

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Stephen Waddington

DECEMBER 30, 2019

There are long standing issues such as alignment with management, measurement, talent and diversity where incremental progress is made each year. Public service media is failing the public Thank you My thanks to the following communities and individuals. The #FuturePRoof community goes from strength-to-strength. Happy New Year.

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Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

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.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 16, 2013

So this week, we thought we’d bring you up to speed on all the chats so far, as well as some super PR measurement-related articles. Why: On July 2nd, #measurePR did not have a featured guest, but instead held a community chat where everyone talked about how they got interested in measurement. Here you go.

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Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

“Business outcomes tend to have two qualities in common; first, they have to be a measure of behavioral change (sales or otherwise); and second, as a metric, business outcomes must make sense/be recognizable across an organization.&# “PR outcomes usually refer to any end results of the communication campaign.

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Stephen Waddington

JANUARY 17, 2019

Gini Dietrich first described the relationship between different forms of media as four overlapping circles in 2014 in her book Spin Sucks: Communication and Reputation Management in the Digital Age. It reflects the innovation in digital media over the last 20 years driven by Facebook and Google. Its simplicity is compelling.

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The Resolution Blog

JANUARY 8, 2018

Check out this interview to begin to improve your measurement today. All models are wrong, but some are useful… Orin Puniello, part Ketchum Global Research & Analytics team shares why some PR measurement models will never tell you the whole truth. Could just one metric measure PR? A standard in article scoring?

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Karen Freberg

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

In fact, he is featured in my new SAGE book under measurement! When I realized I was going to do a Humans of Social Media – I knew without a doubt Dennis needed to be here in my book. You got to build your community for your brand to help amplify your message and personal brand. How cool is that?!!

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 5, 2018

We still had Bacon’s Books :-/ so I remember embracing tech with open arms. Pre-release #measurement research will give you an understanding of your position in the industry landscape, plus what matters most to your audiences. – Measurement & analytics. So stay tuned to our Facebook page for more info.

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Scott Public Relations

JANUARY 24, 2019

Public relations has always been a bit of a murky field when it comes to measuring success. Several key metrics to keep track of were highlighted by Ilana Plumer in her article “ 6 metrics to track when measuring digital PR.”. Download our e-book, “ The C-Suite Asks, We Answer: The Top 6 Questions About Healthcare PR.”.

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Karen Freberg

AUGUST 15, 2017

From how to approach Facebook Live to creating Snapchat ads for students and many more. Specifically, more of these ideas are shared in a designated Facebook group called Social Media Professors Community , and on Twitter (@SMprofessors). Lots of books to choose from that focus on social media today.

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 28, 2019

In fact, the very idea of “Social PR” would not be possible without the social technologies that allow us to build and maintain communities of influence. How to get started: I wrote a post on how to get started with your measurement program quite a while back. ” Yes, it is, and perhaps they didn’t.

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