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Journalists Love Twitter, and if Your Job is Media Relations, You Should too

Sword and the Script

If you work in PR and have responsibility for media relations , then you have in a sense, a professional obligation to be on Twitter. Ways to use Twitter to Earn Media Coverage Later this month, I’ll be part of a roundup of PechaKucha presentations for the Social Media Club of Atlanta.

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Maxim Behar: Social media is the realm of free speech, which makes our world better

Maxim Behar

Maxim: First, I'm surprised there's such a day because every day should be a day of freedom of speech, especially now that we have social media. Everything has changed in the last twenty years, mostly thanks to social media. Now we have 4 billion publishers worldwide, which means 4 billion people who own media.

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Does Social Media Marketing need a Reboot? Drew Neisser Chimes in

Flack's Revenge

I have been blogging about challenges confronting digital PR and social media marketing. Are the social media waters still safe for marketing? What’s not safe is ignoring social conversations, especially those related to your brand and category. What comes after social media? Absolutely. Yes and no.

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Comparing top 2021 media monitoring vendors

Onclusive

Capturing every relevant piece of earned, owned and social media coverage around your brand, industry and important keywords can make all the difference if you want to break away from the competition or avert a full-blown crisis. Don’t miss out on social listening. Stacey Hedman. Global Marketing Strategy, IFAW.

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Enhance PR Through These Simple Social Media Tips

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Our public relations clients are always looking for ways to leverage traditional media on social channels in a relevant, traffic-building way. We observed how well some organizations and businesses are using social media to amplify other efforts and want to pass on a few current tips. Rethink the 70-30 rule.

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Why do social media marketers continue to invest in organic reach?

Communications Conversations

But, it continues to be a topic of discussion–mostly because not every brand has the budget of Walmart and can continue to sink hundreds of thousands of dollars each year into social media advertising. But, I still can’t help but get a bit twitchy when I see studies like the one recently offered by Social Media Examiner.

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5 Offline Marketing Tactics That Boost Social Media Engagement

Cision

The study surveyed 1,802 Americans and found that traditional engagement channels — such as television and print — offer the most reach. Another study by Statista found that as many as 43 percent of Canadians relied on traditional media to research Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals in November 2015.