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Big Research Smarts for Small Budgets

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It’s a post by Andrew Hutchinson on Social Media Today , which has been languishing in my inbox for a while. Geological Survey uses Twitter data to track earthquakes: “For example, the U.S. Twitter Facebook Google+ LinkedIn Big Research Smarts for Small Budgets. Wouldn't you like to be in her kitchen?

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Harnessing the Power of Big Data for Public Relations

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Public relations professionals must sift through the millions of status updates, photos, videos, check-ins and other digital breadcrumbs to uncover meaningful, valuable insights and then decipher the best ways to act upon that data. It is surely becoming part of your daily PR research function. So, what is big data ?

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On Research, Measurement’s Oft-Forgotten Sibling

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However, prior to that we had a great chat with Steve King of Emergent Research , and I wanted to give you the much-delayed recap from that chat. And that is because far too many public relations practitioners still don’t understand the importance of research. On the different types of research: primary, secondary, etc.:

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State of Crisis Communications and Social Media from a Professor’s Perspective

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Social media and crisis communications has become one of the fastest growing areas of both practice and research for today’s communication landscape. Additionally, “over half of respondents (52%) feel that the benefits of using social media as a crisis communications tool outweigh the risks” (page 4).

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I Need to Develop a Strategy. Now What? The Winnie-the-Pooh Way Forward

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What story opportunities exist for both traditional and social media? Using the above fictitious business as an example, here are some findings: Part of the upfront work will also include researching social media. There are many your team can use to streamline this research.

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How Much do Senior Pros Care About Using Social Media? Not Much

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really don’t care about using social media. PR pros using social media… not. If you look at the research report , you’ll see that metrics and analytical skills don’t even make the cut when it comes to hiring senior pros. How Much do Senior Pros Care About Using Social Media?

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How AI May Impact PR Pros

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Your work is repetitive, rote and/or data intense. Role players like the person whose primary job is to like all social media responses and reply, or review social data and come up with reports, should be concerned. However, the real issue with analytics is the data and whether or not it’s clean.

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