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Tips on How PR Pros Can Create Social Media Success

Mindjumpers

Not necessarily because you have to share an actual press release here, but rather since it can take form of a great news source. Develop social news backgrounders. This means that it can be of great value to consider creating a social news backgrounder together with your pitch, using a site such as Delicious.

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This Week in Social Media – 8/7/2013

Social Media Marketing

Why Bezos bought the Post , Facebook gets a CMO and starts bumping, time on digital surpasses TV, Facebook ads are undervalued, Vietnam outlaws sharing news on social sites, GE wants to put an end to press releases, the effect of tweets on TV ratings and more, it''s This Week in Social Media. million a day.

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The New Media Relations

Proactive Report

A national survey conducted by Cision and Don Bates of The George Washington University’s Master’s Degree Program in Strategic Public Relations found that an overwhelming majority of reporters and editors now depend on social media sources when researching their stories. 65% to social media sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn.

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The New Media Relations

Proactive Report

A national survey conducted by Cision and Don Bates of The George Washington University’s Master’s Degree Program in Strategic Public Relations found that an overwhelming majority of reporters and editors now depend on social media sources when researching their stories. 65% to social media sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn.

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Social Media Visitors More Loyal But Still a Very Small Percentage.

Adam Sherk

But I wouldn’t have expected Digg to be a strong second, since the social news site is known for sending large spikes of visitors that quickly scan the page and then move on. According to a Hitwise US News & Media Report back in 2007, on average search engine referrals represent about 23% of traffic to print media sites.

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The Blogger and Marketer's Cheat Sheet to Getting High Profile.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

Some blogs cover software only by being voted upon by the user , for example, and your press release won’t even fly for that category. If the post does not allow commenting, send a relevant press release to the editorial team showing that you have done your research and understand what the blog is looking for.

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Blogging Etiquette in the Face of a PR Pitch: What Miss Blogging.

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

They’re tasked with contacting bloggers about different initiatives, sending out story ideas and “press releases&# (hopefully with a social component, since those are preferred by many bloggers). The job of someone who does blogger outreach can be difficult. There is supposed to be a wall between the two.

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