Sprout Social

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Looking forward, building a sophisticated program requires strategic content planning and cross-functional collaboration. In this article, we offer prescriptive recommendations for how you can curate a pipeline of content and ensure the long-term success of your advocacy efforts in 2023—and beyond. Recruitment content.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk A Look at Muck Rack’s Twitter Press Release Service, 51 Releases Later by Adam Sherk on October 20, 2009 I’m definitely a fan of Muck Rack – it offers an easy way to track major media journalists on Twitter and pick up on trending topics.

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Social Media Strategies Summit

DECEMBER 29, 2022

What content should you create. Jennifer Davies , Digital Content Supervisor for the City of Las Vegas, led the discussion, featuring expert insights from: Glorymar Rivera-Diaz , Social Media Manager at the National Science Foundation (NSF). Press Releases: Still Relevant or Yesterday’s News? How you talk to them.

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Proactive Report

APRIL 1, 2012

Great news for PR practitioners: Despite rumors to the contrary, the trusty old press release is not dead. Text 100 surveyed 72 journalists and found that the press release is still the preferred format for receiving corporate news. Nipping right at the heels of the press release is the corporate website.

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Proactive Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Every so often we hear that press releases are dead. Just recently the Google updates about treating press releases as advertisements had PR folk jittery once again. However, there is ample evidence to show that the digital age has given press releases a new lease on life. 2 and included a video.

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Socialmedia.biz

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The community offers 4 tiers of membership, tied to the level of access to content. The highest tier of membership is aimed at CMOs and other decision makers, providing access to the full range of content in the community. About B2B Marketing.

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Adam Sherk

JULY 30, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Videos in Press Releases are Cool – If They Provide Meaningful Content by Adam Sherk on July 30, 2009 Executive quotes in press releases are notorious for lacking any kind of substantial information. Watch and judge for yourself.

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Proactive Report

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Ten years ago the Internet was in its infancy and most people got their news from newspapers and TV and the public, journalists and PR people alike were all accustomed to a 24-hour news cycle. This has wrought some major changes in how journalist go about news gathering and reporting. Just 5% had broadband at home.

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Writtent Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

So you’ve finally generated some great interview ideas for your company’s content marketing strategy. Tip #5: Use Varying Media A major component of every good content marketing strategy is using many different types of content, and this interviewing tip is all about maximizing the potential of your content.

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Adam Sherk

MAY 26, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Where Do You Want Your Social Media Press Releases to Live? Whether it is individual releases or your entire newsroom, hosting on PitchEngine means that the content is not on your site, so your domain loses the SEO benefit of the links pointing to that content.

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Proactive Report

AUGUST 11, 2013

It’s just over a hundred years since the first press release was issued by a company in an effort to tell their story in the media. Soon press releases and media relations became a core part of public relations. This was a new medium with new technology and it needed new content.

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Adam Sherk

MARCH 24, 2011

Social media news releases have lots of advantages, and what’s not to like? While multimedia content can be added to any press release, SMNRs are much more likely to incorporate images and video. That all sounds great, but do social media news releases actually generate more media coverage?

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Writtent Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

But what is a press release, exactly? Wikipedia defines a press release as “a written or recorded communication directed at members of the news media for the purpose of announcing something ostensibly newsworthy.” You’ve heard of them. You know big corporations use them. PRWeb shows [.].

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Laurel Papworth

JULY 1, 2015

Writing a social media press release for customers, vendors, clients, stakeholders to pick up and deliver the news into their Facebook and Twitter and Google Plus networks is a totally different beast. What are the Main Features of a Social Media Press Release? Let’s tame it.

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Waxing UnLyrical

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Waxing UnLyrical personal, possibly poetic, musings on public relations, media, communication, and everything in between About Shonali Four Steps To Optimize A News Release For Google News November 15th, 2010 Tweet Guest post by Erica Holt Please stop yawning Don’t worry. You likely want your story to be news, now.

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Proactive Report

APRIL 27, 2010

Ian Capstick posted an excellent piece about news releases and online newsrooms in the PR column of the PBS MediaShift blog yesterday. And of course we were delighted that he chose a social media press release about the Social Media Roadmap webinar series I did with Marketwire as his example.). News Releases.

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Google News Optimization Tips by Adam Sherk on September 3, 2009 This week Google put out a video to give publishers more information on how Google News works and how best to optimize for it. Three digit URLs are not required if you submit an XML news sitemap.

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Adam Sherk

JANUARY 11, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk PEJ Study Shows Print Still Primary Source of Original News Reporting by Adam Sherk on January 11, 2010 The Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism released a study today of the modern news ecosystem, examining a week of news activity in Baltimore, MD.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Most bloggers understand that online press releases can drive traffic. Press releases are powerful ways to reach people through search. ProBlogger has offered reasons to use press releases to promote a blog, and very sound editorial guidance on how to turn a press release into a blog post.

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Proactive Report

AUGUST 8, 2009

Paul Gillin makes an excellent case for the value of the press release: Yahoo changed the rules of marketing more than a decade ago when it elected to define press releases as news. Company searches in Google turn up press releases from the wire services – see this search for Reed’s Inc.

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Proactive Report

AUGUST 8, 2009

Paul Gillin makes an excellent case for the value of the press release: Yahoo changed the rules of marketing more than a decade ago when it elected to define press releases as news. Company searches in Google turn up press releases from the wire services – see this search for Reed’s Inc.

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Adam Sherk

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

I’d actually like to see this happen…it would make for an interesting case study demonstrating that the only one hurt by such a deal is News Corp itself. Believe it or not, being indexed in Google and Google News is actually good for news sites. – If You de-Index Will They Still Come? Google-less?

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 31, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Most Popular News Sites on YouTube by Adam Sherk on August 31, 2010 YouTube is both a major opportunity and an interesting challenge for news sites. So I thought I’d investigate how well news sites are doing at building channel subscribers and video views.

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Adam Sherk

AUGUST 14, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Great Example of a Multimedia News Article from ESPN.com by Adam Sherk on August 14, 2009 Recently I wrote about the importance of including meaningful content in videos embedded in press releases. What Horrible Things Did Time Magazine Do in 1964?

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Adam Sherk

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Facebook Pages: Which News Sites Get the Most Engagement? by Adam Sherk on September 17, 2009 Now that the improved Facebook Pages have been around for a while I wanted to check the level of engagement that major news sites are achieving with them. ABC News 7,482 8.4

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Webbiquity SMM

JANUARY 12, 2011

How can you amplify and extend new releases through social media? Optimize company news for SEO benefit? The Most Overused Buzzwords and Marketing Speak in Press Releases by Adam Sherk. Public Relations: The best press release is no press release by MarketingSherpa. ‘Loser.

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Webbiquity SMM

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Both are critical tools for dealing with bad news or crisis situations. In this example, a press release is distributed online, posted to the company’s Facebook and Twitter updates, and used to create a social media release (using a tool such as PitchEngine ). The social media release is used for blogger outreach.

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ProBlogger

DECEMBER 11, 2010

Writing good content for a blog is only half of the equation: promoting your blog to drive traffic is the other half. Previously we offered five reasons to promote your blog with press releases as part of an overall content marketing strategy. Choose a strong press release topic. Use anchor text links.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement? by Adam Sherk on October 6, 2010 It is safe to say that most news sites are now experimenting with various forms of user engagement and content promotion through social media. on their site).

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Small Business Mavericks

AUGUST 19, 2013

When it comes to content marketing, it isn’t enough to simply post high quality content on your own website. If you really want to reach your target audience and develop relationships with more of the people you want to do business with, then you have to take the content to them. You can expand your reach in powerful ways.

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Adam Sherk

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk The Most Common Causes of Duplicate Content on News Media Sites by Adam Sherk on October 8, 2009 Although search engines keep improving on their ability to deal with duplicate content, this continues to be one of the main SEO issues facing news and content sites.

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Convince & Convert

JANUARY 15, 2018

The Facebook algorithm is changing again, and it’s bad news for brands who want to show up in the news feed. In a recent, inscrutable, Kremlin-esque press release , Mark Zuckerberg and team announced that they are changing the Facebook algorithm and will henceforth. That’s great content from a business.

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Adam Sherk

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Does Google News Sitemaps New Format Help Publishers? by Adam Sherk on December 1, 2009 In November Google announced a new format for Google News Sitemaps with several changes including new tags that provide additional detail on each submitted article.

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ProBlogger

MAY 11, 2011

If you’re an ace at writing blog copy, you can write an excellent press release. You already know that press releases are a powerful way to promote your blog , and they’re an effective way to get your message out without duplicating content. Make sure it’s news. A press release has to announce something.

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Adam Sherk

JUNE 9, 2010

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk News Sites Not Making Much Use of Static FBML on Facebook Pages by Adam Sherk on June 9, 2010 Between privacy issues, a sweaty CEO and technical problems with its “Like&# buttons Facebook is having a rough time lately. The short answer? Not so many.

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Webbiquity SMM

MARCH 12, 2012

And some multi-author blogs have morphed into hybrid portal/news/blog sites that are difficult to categorize. What are the best practices for pitching journalists in this new environment? What are the best practices for pitching journalists in this new environment? How to Turn a Blog Post into a Press Release by ProBlogger.

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Webbiquity SMM

DECEMBER 28, 2010

On-page optimization (content, headings, meta tags). Blogs are a source of fresh content, which search engines love. It’s easier to incorporate new keyword groups, naturally, in a blog post or series of posts than it is to rewrite sections of a corporate website. Links (external and internal).

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