Adam Sherk

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Social Media Dominates 2010 PR Planning, But SEO Increasingly in.

Adam Sherk

Another chart of interest in the Vocus whitepaper demonstrates how social media monitoring has become an essential part of the PR practioner’s toolkit: News monitoring and online media databases have traditionally received the lion’s share of PR tool spending. Both rightly deserve credit for increasing awareness industry-wide.

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The Best Free (or Cheap) Tools for Blogger and Influencer Outreach

Adam Sherk

Social monitoring tools like Radian6 and PR suites like Vocus and Cision offer the greatest range of functionality for research and contact management. You can also use Google+ Ripples to examine shares and comments for a specific URL or Google+ post and see how it spread. But the same general approach applies to any industry.

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The Most Overused Buzzwords and Marketing Speak in Press Releases

Adam Sherk

My list of terms could have gone on endlessly but I decided to cap it at 75 100 (the list is growing based on suggestions in the comments). Feel free to hit me up offline if you are interested — fstrong-at-vocus-dot-com. I enjoyed your comments. If there are any glaring omissions please let me know and I’ll add them in.