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MAY 7, 2012

Gini Dietrich admonishes PR professionals No One Cares About Your News Release, and goes on to advise against posting press releases (or links) to a company's Facebook page. Posting links to press releases on a company's Facebook page is not only acceptable, it's desirable. The irrelevance and death of the press.

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OCTOBER 2, 2009

You know, “we send out a press release and the Wall Street Journal prints it above the fold on the front page, which is much cheaper than buying display advertising in the Journal.&# These same companies used to divert dollars from advertising to PR with the notion that they would get “more for their money&# with PR.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2009

When there’s a buzz out in the blogosphere that your company has shipped a defective product, is closing its doors, or is under investigation for example, a press release on the wire is no longer the fastest or most effective way to to respond.

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OCTOBER 16, 2009

It is unclear how this was communicated, though I suspect it was via press release. Spinnable text seems to just be a way to bypass the rules against duplicate updates and essentially provides the same problems. Reports also state that recurring tweets would be a violation of Twitter’s Terms of Service (TOS).

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