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PRSA 2009: Measuring the Influence of Social Media

How have public relations metrics changed with the advent of social media?  Katie Paine of KDPaine & Partners addressed this question during a professional development workshop at the 2009 PRSA International Conference.

Paine began her presentation with some statistics:

91 percent of Inc. 500 companies are using social media – however, 38 percent are not monitoring their [...]

PRSA 2009: The Value of Online Video

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then imagine the impact of a video.  During the 2009 Public Relations International Conference, Laura Sturaitis of BusinessWire and Greg Jarboe of SEO-PR discussed the use of multimedia as a way to increase news announcement visibility.

Search engine optimization efforts often focus on Google, but a substantial number of searches [...]

PRSA 2009: How to Optimize News Content

Ninety percent of journalists rely on online search engines to perform key elements of their job, whether researching a story, locating a subject matter expert, or researching a word’s precise meaning.  As newsrooms reduce their staff, journalists are writing more articles with less time and fewer resources, making it ever more critical that companies and [...]

PRSA 2009: Digital Revolution – The Chaos Scenario

Are traditional media falling apart before our eyes?  And, more important, are we prepared to pick up the pieces?  Bob Garfield, host of National Public Radio’s “On the Media,” Advertising Age columnist and author, explored this topic during his keynote address at the 2009 PRSA International Conference.  Garfield argued that the yin and yang of [...]

PRSA 2009 International Conference

Last week I attended the 2009 Public Relations Society of America International Conference (PRSA) in San Diego.  More than 3,000 public relations professionals from around the world attended the conference, which is the industry’s largest annual learning and networking event.  This year’s theme, “Delivering Value” celebrates public relations as a driver of business outcomes critical [...]

Educators’ Use of Social Networking and Content-Sharing Tools

We had the opportunity to participate in a Webinar hosted by MMS Education, edWeb.net and MCH, Inc. on Nov. 4, 2009, where they discussed the findings of their new Survey of K-12 Educators on Social Networking.

The survey was distributed to 82,000 teachers, librarians/media specialists and principals, with a 1.6 percent response rate. Focusing [...]

Public Relations’ Role in the Corporate Twittersphere

As people turn toward Twitter to build their personal and professional brands, one practice that’s sparked some controversy throughout the Twittersphere is ghost tweeting.

Ghost-written celebrity biographies are commonplace, but hiring someone to tweet on your behalf is a hot topic among Twitter users.  The controversy stems from the notion that Twitter (and other social networks) [...]

Tech & Learning Announces 2009 Awards of Excellence Winners

Tech & Learning magazine recently announced the winners of its 27th Annual Awards of Excellence. The awards program recognizes software, hardware, network, and web products that bring something new and innovative to the industry, as well as those that add significant enhancements to proven educational tools. A panel of more than 30 educators chose the [...]