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Bringing Open Community To Public Relations

Waxing UnLyrical

Because if there’s one thing I believe takes public relations from good to great, it’s when your audiences start becoming your community through the relationships you develop with them. But I was curious to see how Maddie and Lindy perceived not just Open Community , but its juxtaposition with public relations.

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Hotels and Social Media Travel Tourism

Laurel Papworth

In 2009, even the top 30 major hotel brands t increased their dependence on the Online Travel Agencies (OTAs)-from 25.4% a year ago to 30% of CRS bookings in Q3 2009 (eTRAK). No wonder that according to the recent Business.com’s 2009 Business Social Media Benchmarking Study, 83% of U.S. PR in Global Economic Crunch (1).

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Tourism: Festivals are Powerful Economical Tools | Bare Feet Blog

Bare Feet Studios

We hope the local business and tourism community will collaborate with us to showcase our beautiful state and akamai kama’aina. How many of our tourism, PR, communications, and advertising execs blog or podcast or twitter? What more can I say? We have this here in Hawaii, best in class. Virtually none.

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What's your social currency?

Akamai Marketing

What I AM suggesting is that you brands and companies give serious consideration to what they have to OFFER the community and what motivates their community to be part of social media at all. What you give your community, otherwise, seriously, why should they care? Its all about “What’s in it for them&#.

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10 Reasons to Attend IABC/DC Metro's Silver Inkwell Awards Gala

Waxing UnLyrical

Photo of the 2009 Silver Inkwell awards merriment courtesy Marvin T. Jones & Associates. So here are 10 reasons for you to attend the IABC/DC Metro Silver Inkwell awards gala on October 26, Letterman-style: 10. Read All About It! Greenbanana - Heather Yaxley Jon (Newman)'s PR 1.5 These fine folk did: Jan. Glad thats over with.

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MeasurePR: The BrandBuilder Edition

Waxing UnLyrical

Mark Storys The Intersection of Online and Offline Mary's Garden Party - Mary Barber, APR, Fellow PRSA Measurement Matters Media Bullseye More With Les (Potter, ABC) NetWits Think Tank New Media Lisa - Lisa Hoffmann Occam's RazR - Ike Pigott PR Conversations Sean Williams' Communication AMMO! Read All About It!

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Book Review Wednesday: Wikibrands: Reinventing your company in.

Akamai Marketing

But understanding how to begin your social media presence is the first phase, building community then analyzing and measure the community and Wikibrands includes those very important topics as well. Understanding the needs of humans, rather than computers is the essence of Wikibrand success.

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