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PR Monitoring and Management Tools: Which is Best? Vocus vs. Cision

Webbiquity SMM

Vocus and Cision are both powerful and popular PR monitoring and management systems. Media Database Cision: A Vocus: B+ Both tools offer extensive databases of publications, media professionals and bloggers. User Interface Cision: C- Vocus: D User experience, unfortunately, isn’t a strength of either system.

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The Best Free (or Cheap) Tools for Blogger and Influencer Outreach

Adam Sherk

Blogger and influencer outreach is an area with strong crossover between PR, audience development and link building. Social monitoring tools like Radian6 and PR suites like Vocus and Cision offer the greatest range of functionality for research and contact management. Finding Bloggers and Influencers. Followerwonk. BuzzStream.

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12 (of the) Best Social PR Guides, Tips and Techniques of 2011

Webbiquity SMM

PR pros now use tools like Twitter, PitchEngine , PRWeb and Vocus in place of fax machines, media packets, wire services and Bacon’s , but the fundamental skills of storytelling and relationship-building remain crucial. Many “traditional” journalists now write blogs; does that make them bloggers?

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What’s the Best Social Media Monitoring Tool? It Depends

Webbiquity SMM

Vocus provides a rich set of tools for traditional and social media monitoring, media outreach and news distribution. Through PRWeb, which Vocus acquired in 2006 , it offers extensive news distribution and tracking capabilities.

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Looking Back at 300: Top 10 Posts on the Webbiquity Blog So Far

Webbiquity SMM

Vocus vs. Cision (November 8, 2011). Vocus and Cision are both powerful and popular PR monitoring and management systems. This post is starting to show its age, but the guidance is still useful to beginning bloggers. Some of the entries are surprising, but life and the web can be unpredictable.

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Best Social PR Guides, Tips and Tools of 2010

Webbiquity SMM

Effectively connect with bloggers and other key online influencers in your industry? Vocus and Cision ) to the obscure ( Butterfly Publisher ). Social Media Press Releases and Blogger Outreach. The 5 Cs of Blogger Relations by prTini. ** 5 Stars. How can you amplify and extend new releases through social media?

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How (and Why) to Map Your Company’s Digital Landscape

Webbiquity SMM

These are the journalists, bloggers, analysts (industry or financial) and others who can help amplify your content, spread your story, and lend credibility to your messages. If you’ve got the budget, the quickest and easiest way to build a list is by using a PR and social media monitoring tool such as Cision , Vocus or MyMediaInfo.

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