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A Look at Muck Rack's Twitter Press Release Service, 51 Releases Later

Adam Sherk

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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The Press Release is not Dead Yet!

Proactive Report

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. Watch this video of how to craft a Social Media News Release with multimedia.

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Where Do You Want Your Social Media Press Releases to Live?

Adam Sherk

Home About Contact PR Publishing SEO Social Media Subscribe Adam Sherk Where Do You Want Your Social Media Press Releases to Live? But what caught my eye were the options for archiving releases and creating a custom newsroom. Specific to the SEO implications, I believe that is still the best approach.

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How to Tie Social Strategy into Broader Communications Strategy

Social Media Strategies Summit

We released them first on social media on Twitter, and then later in the day, we did other platforms and traditional channels.”. Press Releases: Still Relevant or Yesterday’s News? The “traditional” formal press release seems far removed from the contemporary world of government on social media.

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Social Media Press Releases and Social Media Newsrooms – Just Good PR

Proactive Report

(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. 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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Media Relations Gone Wrong: How Not to Pitch a Journalist (Video)

Adam Sherk

At my first PR job I had to type in contact addresses from the hard-copy Bacon’s guide so we could mail merge and send out the press materials. Or stand over the fax machine feeding through one press release at at time. Seriously though, did you get my press release? –My press release.

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Tony Clement: the tweeting minister

Sherrilynne Starkie

Clement started out on Twitter only after he realised that people were mentioning him there. “I As a defensive mechanism, I thought that I should try to understand Twitter better. I didn’t want to be tweeting nothing but links to press releases. As a result his Twitter feed is a tsunami of news.