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What is Data-Driven PR, Part 5: Testing

Shift Communications

We’ve used the expression data-driven PR for quite some time now, but haven’t clearly defined it. What does data-driven PR mean? How do you know whether your public relations efforts are data-driven or not? To be data-driven is to make decisions with data first and foremost.

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What PR Teams Love Right Now: Valentine’s Day Edition

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Today, PR strategy is often informed by data insights. PR teams use data tools and platforms to glean patterns and insight from media coverage, measure audience engagement, and quantify campaign performance.

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20 PR and Marketing Predictions for 2022

Sword and the Script

The tactic still matters, but PR pros and writers will need to step up their game to cut through the clutter. Engage with the blogger on social media first, personalize your outreach, read and follow any requirements, and provide high-quality content. Social media livestreams will become acceptable as mainstream ‘news.’.

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SHIFT Communications: 12 Years and Counting

Shift Communications

We invented the Social Media Press Release and Newsroom templates in the heady first days of the Social Media era. We were among the founders of the now-global Social Media Club along with great friends like Brian Solis, Chris Heuer and Kristie Wells, et al. I’d do it all again in a heartbeat. Todd Defren.

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Where Do You Find Data For PR Storytelling?

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Social monitoring and listening not only give us a heads up on customer service issues or negative PR, but they can illuminate industry trends and customer behavior. A PR campaign can include a general theme or direction found in social media data or patterns, or the social data can inform a content calendar.

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PR and Marketing in 2015: The Road Ahead

Shift Communications

Social media used to be a shiny object, a channel unto itself. Fred Wilson, noted VC, said quite aptly that social as we knew it is over. Social media is now part and parcel of ordinary communications. 2015 will be the year when companies either fully embrace data-driven PR and marketing or fall far behind.

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Breaching 140: Who’s Using Twitter’s 280 Characters?

Shift Communications

Naturally, as one of the first-ever social media agencies, we wanted to understand the impact of the doubled character limits. Which industries/groups are doing so? Using tools like Facebook’s Crowdtangle social monitoring platform, we digested over a million tweets.

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