Adam Sherk

JANUARY 21, 2010

The flip side to that is that not everything gleaned from monitoring social media activity is accurate or reliable. The section on sources used had an interesting stat that relates to the discussion of press release usage by bloggers and local news sources.

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Social Media Press Release Microblogging Survey 122

Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

To judge user engagement and activity, I also calculated the average number of “likes” and comments that the last 10 updates/links to each page received. Fox News is strongly ahead in terms of fan engagement and activity – their like and comment numbers are significantly greater than any of the other sites. NPR 489,413 513.5

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Sites News Engagement Facebook 238

Adam Sherk

JANUARY 6, 2010

To investigate further I did a quick check for Twitter activity. I don’t have any data on what kind of traffic the Tumblr site is getting, but either it is fairly low or visitors simply aren’t starting discussions there. I didn’t find any shared newsweek.tumblr.com URLs through Bit.ly

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Tumblr Engagement Press Release Syndication 131

Proactive Report

MAY 1, 2010

(And of course we were delighted that he chose a release about the Social Media Roadmap webinar series I did with Marketwire as his example.). News Releases. Looking back at the history of the press release one can see that the way we format a release to reach the media has changed as the media has changed.

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Press Release Syndication News Journal 83

Adam Sherk

AUGUST 11, 2010

Since the new Digg is so, well, new, we’re still figuring out the best way to stay active. As for user activity, in going through all of the NBC Local profiles most of the automatically submitted articles have not attracted a high volume of diggs. Related posts: News Sites on the New Digg: Who is Active, Who is Gaining Followers?

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Digg Marketing News Press Release 166

Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 22, 2009

Data like this is interesting to check out, and it can provide useful insights for marketers and content producers in getting a better understanding of user interest and activities in both search and social media. And throughout December we’ve gotten top 2009 searches lists from Google , Yahoo , Bing and Ask. Happy New Year.

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Trends How To Digg Press Release 167

Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 27, 2009

Since many stories do not appear to allow comments this results in quite a few “popular” stories with zero comments, which sends a mixed message to users: NewsPulse is still in beta so there’s likely to be some changes based on user activity and input.

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Content Press Release Digg Survey 112

Adam Sherk

JULY 13, 2010

Where Do You Want Your Social Media Press Releases to Live? Related posts: Pro PR Tips: 100 PR Tips from Rafe Needleman Published as a Book Does Social Media Increase a Journalist’s Value? Does Google News Sitemaps New Format Help Publishers? Sean @CommAMMO Adam Sherk July 20, 2010 at 11:51 am Good points Sean.

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Press Release SEO News Survey 141

Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

After reviewing several days’ worth of activity, I have to say that nearly anything Fox News posts to its page ends up getting a decent amount of likes and comments from fans. So I thought I’d take a closer look at what Fox News is doing on its Facebook Page , as well as some engagement examples.

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News Engagement Facebook Press Release 104

Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Mashable was one of the first to set up a branded profile and they’ve done well in attracting more than 18K followers to date, although at least for now they are not choosing to follow their audience back: Despite this their followers are actively engaging with the content; many Mashable submissions are getting a decent number of “likes” and comments: (..)

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Sites News Google Facebook 118

Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Since I’ve been comparing major news sites in variety of areas ( Facebook and Twitter impact; YouTube and new Digg activity; site speed and domain authority , among others) I thought I’d look at overall social media engagement too. So I ran 30+ news sites through the tool.

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Sites News Postrank Engagement 176

Adam Sherk

AUGUST 7, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Diversified Twitter Strategies for News Sites by Adam Sherk on August 7, 2009 This week’s Sysomos study of the 5% most active users on Twitter includes a list of the top 25 users (with more than 50,000 followers) ranked by average tweets per day. tweets per day.

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Sites News Strategy Twitter 105

Adam Sherk

MAY 4, 2010

With the second round of the playoffs recently under way I thought now was a good time to pull the numbers since all 16 teams were still recently active. I realize that counting likes and comments is a very limited measurement of engagement but it offers a simple way to compare user activity on each team’s Facebook Page.

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Team Engagement Facebook Press Release 165

Adam Sherk

AUGUST 16, 2010

According to Ruder Finn the page currently has a daily active user base of over 10,000 fans. This likely explains why the sweepstakes is still active on the JVC Facebook page. And many fans are coming back regularly. It’s since been cleared. It is a clever promotion that has done well for JVC so I am glad to see it continue.

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RFI Guidelines Facebook Press Release 156

Adam Sherk

APRIL 26, 2010

The Washington Post The Washington Post is using Facebook to create a branded featured called Network News that takes the form of a small widget on their home page and on editorial templates: This looks like a nice, simple, useful integration but apparently it has caused user uproar to the point where they had to add an opt-out feature to the widget (..)

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News Module Widget Facebook 149

Adam Sherk

AUGUST 25, 2009

Reach out – You’ve been meaning to get more involved in brand and content awareness building activities such as social media marketing; now’s the time. There are lots of good approaches to “link bait” – find the topics and hooks that work for you. Special promotions like contests and giveaways can also be effective.

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Engineering Hitwise Health Care Press Release 102

Adam Sherk

JUNE 15, 2010

News Sites on the New Digg: Who is Active, Who is Gaining Followers? Related posts: Diversified Twitter Strategies for News Sites News Sites Not Making Much Use of Static FBML on Facebook Pages Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement?

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News Sites Twitter Digg 165

Adam Sherk

JANUARY 26, 2010

Advantage: SAINTS __ 2nd Quarter: Digg Ok, which team has seen the most activity on Digg? On Icerocket the Colts have 24,526 total / 2,466 past week, and the Saints have 29,603 total / 3,666 past week. And Technorati is showing 4,973 posts related to the Colts and 6,178 for the Saints.

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Team Social Media Digg Press Release 150

Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

I was curious to know the activity of all o the franchises and you’ve summed it up here. They are going to need a groundswell to get the NFL network on every cable tv in the country and that is the goldmine ahead of them. Thanks for sharing. November 22, 2009 at 6:50 pm Great info.

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Team Twitter Facebook Sports 209

Adam Sherk

JULY 23, 2009

Related posts: News Sites on the New Digg: Who is Active, Who is Gaining Followers? It should also be noted that what’s most important is social news success is quality of content and user appeal, not to mention who the submitter is. But it does appear that some major news sites are more likely to be buried than others.

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Digg Sites News Yahoo 119

Adam Sherk

MAY 18, 2009

Glad to see this was addressed, and hopefully they didn’t lose too many visitors during the critical early period when people were actively seeking out the interview. Watch the Video on the New Newsweek.com&# , which links to the video on the Newsweek site.

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Facebook Press Release Syndication Blogroll 100

Adam Sherk

MAY 18, 2009

Glad to see this was addressed, and hopefully they didn’t lose too many visitors during the critical early period when people were actively seeking out the interview. Watch the Video on the New Newsweek.com&# , which links to the video on the Newsweek site.

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Facebook Press Release Syndication Blogroll 100

Adam Sherk

AUGUST 31, 2010

The Most Buried News Sites on Digg News Sites on the New Digg: Who is Active, Who is Gaining Followers?

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Sites News YouTube Press Release 182

Adam Sherk

MARCH 16, 2010

Monitor hot topics and trends to understand what users are searching for and talking about Add keyword support to tweets and updates and utilize hashtags Coordinate content promotion activities, timing tweets and Facebook Page updates for shortly after articles and blog posts are indexed in Google News or Google Blog Search Mobilize fans and followers (..)

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Sites News Yahoo Engineering 143

Adam Sherk

JANUARY 12, 2010

As a Bulls fan living outside of Chicago I don’t get to watch many games, but I feel connected to the team when I see a scoring update: Here are a few other things NBA teams should think about: Dish: offer insights and information that fans can’t get anywhere else Go behind the scenes: give them sense of what the organization is really like Humanize: (..)

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Team Twitter Facebook Press Release 179

Proactive Report

DECEMBER 4, 2013

This is measured by registered users who are actively using the site. Outputs: Press release, blog posts, influencer outreach, Twitter party. Write the body of the release, blog post article. Distribute via paid syndication, wire, pitching the media, influencers, blogger outreach. Make it interesting and sharable.

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Netvibes Repository Metrics Press Release 81

ProBlogger

MAY 19, 2022

Modern blog software allows you to format the layout to resemble magazines, corporate web sites or for syndicating videos. Send out press releases. It is more about prioritizing your time to get the most out of social sites and activities. (Driving people to offline store is out of the scope of this post.).

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Marketing Blogger Forums Syndication 34

ProBlogger

MAY 19, 2022

Modern blog software allows you to format the layout to resemble magazines, corporate web sites or for syndicating videos. Send out press releases. It is more about prioritizing your time to get the most out of social sites and activities. (Driving people to offline store is out of the scope of this post.).

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How To Marketing Blogger Forums 26

Social Media Strategies Summit

OCTOBER 7, 2021

People you want to attend are likely active on social media, and that’s where you need to be available if you want to reach them. Alternatively, consider using press releases as one of your online event marketing ideas. These include posting content on other blogs, syndication websites, and forums. Leverage Ads.

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Eventful Marketing Upcoming Influencer 206

Proactive Report

JULY 23, 2018

These rules apply to all your content – web pages, newsroom, articles, press releases, and blogs. Even when that content is syndicated to other sites, or distributed on the wire and picked up by other sites, it is still owned media. Your media relations activity just expanded – it has to include getting those earned links.

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Content Press Release Yahoo Guidelines 45

Razor Social

APRIL 4, 2018

guest blogging, content repurposing, content syndication) are also safe when used as part of a wider link building campaign and not abused. Maybe the site is not actively maintained anymore. Content syndication. If you want to get the most out of your syndication, write a custom title and introduction for each platform.

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NoFollow Directory Press Release Syndication 98

Adam Sherk

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

One journalist has a large following and active presence on several social media sites. Journalists who are active in social media bring more value to their news organizations and strengthen their own job security. Where Do You Want Your Social Media Press Releases to Live? The other does not.

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Social Media Press Release News SEO 146

Adam Sherk

MAY 17, 2010

The Social Page Evaluator (SPE) provides an estimated “Annual Page Value” for any single Facebook Page based on the last 30 days of activity. According to its disclaimer the SPE factors in fan count, user activity, brand activity and “a proprietary engagement multiplier” and then calculates an “Earned Media Value” using a default CPM of $5.

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Sites News CPM Facebook 167

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

MAY 28, 2010

Lead generation and client acquisition can be had on LinkedIn, especially in the B2B space, just as long as you’re active and engaging. If you’re active in any particular medium, you become influential. I’ve seen press releases, non-English releases, and everything else in between.

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Social Media Strategy Yahoo Communities 278

Adam Sherk

MARCH 2, 2010

Large organizations with large natural traffic(regular users) generally have about 1% come from social media, if they are active on them. Most of their web traffic comes from more traditional web sources as well. For big traffic social media stills needs more people! Anyone have any new or related numbers on that please contact me or post.

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Survey Twitter Digg Hitwise 193

Buffer Social

JUNE 1, 2016

But don’t renounce wire services just yet: according to HubSpot, traditional press releases are syndicated 20% more often than social media ones. Reps are also active on Facebook, Google+, and Twitter, in that order. Lastly, you can amplify company announcements and updates by sharing them on social.

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Social Media Hubspot Marketing Engineering 40

Laurel Papworth

OCTOBER 22, 2011

Or putting out a Press Release on How Press Releases Are No Longer Effective. Or are the stories mishmashes of other people’s original content – interviews, tweets, blog posts, statistics on Analyst websites and PDFs and press releases? Seriously ? The New Fourth Estate is Social Media.

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Communities Social Media Journal Diagrams 108