Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 31, 2012

According to a press release issued to announce the unveiling of Digital Operations center, this center will help Red Cross to: Source additional information from affected areas during emergencies to better serve those who need help; Spot trends and better anticipate the public’s needs; and. Image: Geoff Livingston via Flickr, CC 3.0.

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Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We either work during our holidays, … except instead of being at the office we do it from home, the beach, the cabin, wherever it is we trick ourselves into believing we are getting away from it all… Image: Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com via Flickr, CC 2.0. Image: Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com via Flickr, CC 2.0.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 8, 2011

As my friend Chip Griffin put it on the CustomScoop blog (and thank you, Jen Zingsheim for alerting me to this): Disasters create enormous demands for information for responders. Media coverage, offers of help, press releases, government statements and even helpful blog posts all cascade in, but can be overlooked when managing a crisis.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JULY 3, 2013

Image: UOregon Conference Services via Flickr, CC 2.o. Like this: Image: Nisa yeh via Flickr, CC 2.0. People ask me about social media, SEO, websites, brochures, press releases, speeches, blog writing, PR, message strategies, sales, consulting…everything. Imagine you’re at a party. And you look at them confused.

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Waxing UnLyrical

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

I often write, both for Waxing UnLyrical and for my own blog , about passion and creativity, and I am constantly urging my undergrad PR students at Curry College as well as my graduate-level Organizational and Professional Communication students at Regis College to “think outside the box”… to be curious.

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Waxing UnLyrical

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Image: Shareski via Flickr, CC 2.0. Image: Joe Edwards via Flickr, CC 2.0. It’s because it’s simply ill-thought out – another piece bashing the use of social media, without actually having engaged with the concept. The author has a Twitter account , I’ll grant him that, but by the looks of it, doesn’t actually engage with anyone.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 14, 2011

From the pitcher: Shonali, The release below details a unique product that helps <blah blah blah blah> We would be happy to forward photos of the <product name> or help in any other way further. I show that you wrote for several blogs. How many readers does that blog have? Which one is this for?

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Social Media Strategery

MAY 25, 2013

Image courtesy of Flickr user stevendepolo. Rather than taking five bullets to tell me that you wrote press releases, managed social media sites, created media guides, and pitched media, tell me a story. How many press releases did you write? Then start a blog and talk about your thoughts on the industry.

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Buzz Marketing for Technology

JULY 30, 2009

Back in October of 2007 at a MarketingProfs conference I remember listening to a panel on how someone used a blog as their online news room. shout out to Andy Sernovitz who runs a blog by that name - [link] ). It was one of those marketing ideas that I walked away from it thinking – Damn I wish I thought of that!

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Waxing UnLyrical

JUNE 19, 2012

I was wondering/hoping you could tell me who is in charge of receiving press releases having to do with the garment and accessories industry? Image: dingler1109 via Flickr, CC 2.0. If you could please e-mail me back with their name and contact information that would be greatly appreciated. And how did I know that?

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The Marketing Blog

APRIL 18, 2010

47 pm Facebook & India Jump to Comments This is a statistical post, which collates data from various blog-posts, press-releases and news sites. Cross-posted at Iffort’s Blog Share this: StumbleUpon Digg Reddit 11 Comments Filed under Facebook , Web 2.0 The scope of my blog-posts span across the Enterprise 2.0

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Writtent Blog

MAY 16, 2013

Image Credit: Kukhahn Yoga/Flickr. Keeping all of that in mind while writing a blog post , optimized press release, article , or other online content can be tough. Blogging Content Creation SEO' But balancing search engine optimization with content marketing does not limit creativity. Rand Fishkin , CEO of SEOMoz.

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

After pouring blood, sweat, and tears into our blog that clearly is known for addressing a specific subject matter, we get an email from a public relations agency that takes us for someone completely different. Jonathan Fields blogged about his PR outreach nightmare. Where do they come off doing that? Guess what? His response?

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Waxing UnLyrical

MARCH 30, 2011

Image by ixographic via Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND-2.0. In between media calls and writing press releases, he does the occasional guest lecture for RMIT and has guest-written for Australian publications including The National Times and Crikey.com.au , along with publishing his own (non-PR) blog, Sporadically Pensive.

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Twist Image

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

According to a ZenithOptimedia press release on October 3, 2011, worldwide digital advertising accounted for about $64.03B. " You can read his full Blog post here: 64% of Digital Ad Spend Controlled by 5 Companies. after searching through their 10K's, it's about $40.1B, or roughly 64% of the worlds digital media ad spend.

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Kikolani

OCTOBER 11, 2012

Photo Credit: John Uhri of Sketch Note Artist on Flickr. For forum posts and other word of mouth press, use your company name and append it with words like “forum,” “blog,” “Facebook,” or “Twitter” to catch major social media sites, blogs, and forums. Engage Bad Press.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Your news release will not be competitive with well-known Beth Kanter’s Beth’s Blog. A news release is third. While mainstream news outlets have an advantage, news releases often rank quite well in Google News. Image: Andras Pfaff via Flickr , Creative Commons Was this helpful? Have any questions?

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The Way of the Web

JANUARY 27, 2011

One of the first questions that gets asked when blogging is mentioned as a topic is how quickly it will be successful. Time by M$$MO on Flickr (CC Licence). 1,100+ Youtube Views (This is all from press release videos, and is a somewhat painful process a lot of the time!). Do you already have a media presence?

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 1, 2012

As part of our Blogging the Festive Season series, we asked a few questions about how she’s squaring up for her first festive season on the blog. You started Keep the Tail Wagging on January 1, 2012, so this will be your first festive season on the blog. How’s your blogging schedule looking for the festive season?

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 18, 2012

When I was planning the launch of Keep the Tail Wagging , I heard the question “Do you know how many pet blogs are out there?” ” I’m not one to run away from a challenge; I’d been blogging since 2009 and planned to put everything I’d learned into practice on my new site. Succeeding as a small fish in a big pond.

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Social Media Network Marketing

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

You don’t want to use your blog to just pimp your products or talk about press releases. You don’t want to use your blog to just pimp your products or talk about press releases. A blog can be used for so much more. Think about who should be blogging on your corporate blog.

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Social Media Network Marketing

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

You don’t want to use your blog to just pimp your products or talk about press releases. You don’t want to use your blog to just pimp your products or talk about press releases. A blog can be used for so much more. Think about who should be blogging on your corporate blog.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 26, 2010

1st Quarter: Blog mentions Two days after the conference championships, which team is being blogged about more? Google Blog Search has 519,933 total results for “Indianapolis Colts” and 20,776 in the past week. So I’m going to gloss over all of that and just look at four things, one for each quarter in the Super Bowl.

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Jeff Esposito

AUGUST 22, 2011

Just write up what you have to say and blog, Tweet, Facebook and Flickr until you get the word out. There are two big areas where PR firms just won’t let go, and are screwing their clients in the process: media relations, press releases and connecting with the media. Even better, why bother with the reporter at all?

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Waxing UnLyrical

DECEMBER 14, 2010

Image: Nick Fletcher via Flickr, Creative Commons But I’m getting ahead of myself. Image: Marc Benton via Flickr, Creative Commons 3. Mark as read Approve comment As a PR student I have been reading your blog for quite some time and found you articles interesting as well as helpful for my PR course.

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Webbiquity SMM

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

“Participating in social media isn’t just about creating a page, making a blog post, posing a question, or tweeting. Social Sharing (YouTube, Flickr, SlideShare, etc.). And in fairness to Li, in chapter 31, she questions how “social&# Seth Godin’s blog is; a gutsy but admirable move. Social Events (e.g.,

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The Marketing Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

The site has been given the shape of a blog (why are comments closed?) and they’ve used a stand-alone a blogging platform WordPress.org. I think it’d be much better if the site Flickr stream uses dynamic thumbnails for images. prefer you to check out his blog at [link] [.] traits in media.fastrack.in

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The Marketing Blog

DECEMBER 8, 2007

Quite regularly, I am approached for such blog-posts and I quite enjoy them as they give me an opportunity to educate myself about cool developments/launches taking place. What else can you do apart from sharing a link/press-release? How is it providing value to my blog readers? From Where? What You Need to Think ?

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Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Effectively, they’re porting their press release information to the wide open, and perhaps going a little more granular by featuring content specific to elements of iTunes. Digg Diigo Disqus Dopplr Facebook Fetch Flickr FriendFeed gdgt Google Reader Identi.ca This blog is written and maintained by Tamar Weinberg.

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Social Media Strategery

JULY 21, 2009

Seeing as I’m part of a 500+ person team of strategic communications professionals here, my goal was not to create one smaller team of geeks who blog and Tweet all day, but to get all 500+ people on the team to know, understand, and use social media just as they know, understand, and use press releases, email pitches, and town hall meetings.

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Social Media Strategery

JANUARY 27, 2010

link] DaveMurr (David Murray) Twitter Comment Blog to feature people on the move and jobs in Gov 2.0 link to post] [david] – Posted using Chat Catcher [link] darthcheeta (David Johnson) Twitter Comment RT @bivings: Blog to feature people on the move and jobs in Gov 2.0 Image Courtesy of Flickr User Ben Zvan. Government 2.0

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Proactive Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

As early as 2005 Charlene Li, then at Forrester Research, said “if you do nothing else, put your press releases in RSS feeds.&#. Google Webmaster Blog. If you have questions about how to leverage your news content with feeds, email me at sally@press-feed.com. Image credit: Derek Kwa Flickr.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 27, 2014

How many times do we really want to read about your latest company press release or how your product or service is the best?! First, create categories for the type of platform the content is being shared on; Blog, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Pinterest, etc. Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger. Be mindful.

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The Marketing Blog

JANUARY 28, 2008

Rajesh makes a lot of sense when he quotes this in one of his blog-posts – ‘Though packaging is at times considered as the 5th P of marketing mix it has not received the attention it ideally should have.’ The scope of my blog-posts span across the Enterprise 2.0 Feel free to link to any of the posts in this blog.

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Bare Feet Studios

APRIL 22, 2009

at the Rotary Club of Honolulu Sunset May 28-30: Social Media Skills for Musicians: Twitter, Facebook, Blogging, & Podcasting at the N? You can follow and connect with Shane on Twitter , LinkedIn , Flickr , The Reef , Viddler , Facebook , Upcoming , and at his neglected blog.

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Laurel Papworth

OCTOBER 8, 2012

I’m a social media strategist that blogs about social media and online communities so I find it frustrating when I am sent a PDF attachment on an email with a traditional media press release using agency created content, professional film crews employed to do the traditional campaign filming and ditto with professional musicians.

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Waxing UnLyrical

JANUARY 27, 2011

Image: JKönig via Flickr, CC 2.0 Image: Andy Field (Hubmedia) via Flickr, CC 2.0 Image: marissaorton via Flickr, CC 2.0 Assume your press release is as fascinating as the State of the Union speech. I hate to break it to you, but your press release is not. Image: Leo Reynolds via Flickr, CC 2.0

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