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A Quick Guide to Social Chat Channels for Businesses

Cision

Recent updates to Facebook Messenger and Twitter DMs have renewed interest in social chat for customer communication, yet this is a medium that has been productive for communications professionals for quite some time. Direct Messages are more dynamic than ever with read receipts, typing indicators, and web link previews.

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Powwowing With Pepco on Social Media

Waxing UnLyrical

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Powwowing With Pepco on Social Media September 28th, 2010 Tweet I haven’t been the biggest fan of my local energy company, Pepco, recently. Completely. Here’s the interview.

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2 Gr8 2 B 4Got10: Will Texting Kill Language As We Know It?

Waxing UnLyrical

We then got into the topic of the impact of the Web and mobile on language, and whether texting is affecting our ability to write “properly.&#. It is a living, breathing thing, and the Web and mobile have simply given it a new energy that will make language and our use of it more effective. Sound familiar? I couldn’t agree more.

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Is Voicemail Dead?

Waxing UnLyrical

Working within PR, and particularly in media relations, I’ve found that voice mail is bordering on pointless. There’s no reason for me to leave a voice mail on somebody’s mobile phone (or landline), not when I can text them, email them, Skype them , tweet them and Facebook them – all far more effective than leaving a voice mail.

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The Motorola XOOM: A Revolutionary Tool

Waxing UnLyrical

The XOOM has both a camera on both sides, making video chatting on Skype a pleasure. It runs Flash, so you don’t miss large portions of the web like you would on the iPad, and it sounds like Honeycomb is only going to be getting better. He does social media management for KimberMedia and teaches for @bgckids.

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How PR and corporate communications can use animated gifs

Stuart Bruce

However, many PR professionals are put off the idea of using gifs because their main knowledge and experience of them are the the humorous ones they see on social media with brief clips of characters from popular films or TV shows. Mobile friendly and work across platform including social media, web sites.

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25 Free Digital Marketing Tools for Nonprofits

Waxing UnLyrical

Skype : Similar to Zoom, this video/phone conferencing platform allows free video conference one-to-one and free unlimited audio conferences for groups. The Skype emojis are the best in the business and a good reason to use this platform all by themselves. Community Building and Social Media Hacks. Discover.ly : Discover.ly