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The Marketing Power of Wikipedia: 8 Tips for PR Pros

MaccaPR

As PR and marketing professionals – and consumers – we often forget about the sheer power and influence that Wikipedia has on our daily lives. Wikipedia is a permanent part of our public culture. All jokes aside, Wikipedia does have a distinct influence on the business community. Facebook relies on Wikipedia.

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Why monitoring external factors is key to corporate reputation

Onclusive

While this puts communications and PR front and center as the stewards of corporate reputation, PR pros also have a formidable challenge of monitoring and addressing multiple internal and external influencers that affect their brand perception. Your brand name is only as good as your reputation. Richard Branson.

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Brand Ambassadors, Brand Advocates: These Programs Aren’t Easy!

Rock the Status Quo

Don’t Let The Plethora of Blog Posts Fool You It’s easy to tout the benefits of brand advocate programs – of which there are many – but there isn’t enough discussion around just how difficult it is to create and sustain one. They are hired by the company and have a paid role to grow the brand.

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The marketer’s challenge of the shrinking attention span

PR in High Definition

Online life can be addictive and endless, with perpetual anticipation of the next big thing and every brands’ reputation on the line. Researchers in Denmark studied a range of media types; from movie ticket purchasing habits, popular books, Tweets, as well as Wikipedia attention time.

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Trick or Tweet? The Damage of TMI

Flack's Revenge

Yes, it does, according to technology activists (and Steward Brand, who coined the phrase; see Wikipedia). And what about the Average Joe consumer? So, does information really want to be free? It does if you are an insider trading apologist or fair disclosure objector. But others may not agree. Not necessarily.

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Which Minnesota-based companies are active on TikTok (and which aren’t)?

Communications Conversations

For the last few years, we’ve heard a steady drumbeat of advice from social media experts encouraging brands to hop on TikTok. Social media teams are so stretched, asking them to add another platform, especially a time-consuming one like TikTok, is next to impossible. First, legal. Second–the time issue.

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Why Facebook & Google Can’t Afford to Legitimize Fake News Sources

Cision

Brands like Google, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube are doing nothing to prevent it, resulting in a very confusing and convoluted media world. Recently, the social media giant roped in the assistance of Wikipedia , a well-monitored news resource, as well as 133,540 moderators in an effort to reduce the instances of fake news on Facebook.

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