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An xPotomac Flashback: Social Scoring

Waxing UnLyrical

About a month ago I told you of my xPotomac experience , and we had a pretty engaged conversation around civility in the digital age. The video quality is really good; Vocus , which provided the videography services, did an excellent job not just of filming but of editing them – so thank you, Vocus! And mine is below.

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6 Things The Army Taught Me About PR

Waxing UnLyrical

To the Army, engagements often mean meeting with people in the community. If we engage the community, build trust, and demonstrate they have a vested interest in the outcome, we might tip the scale of favor. The people we want to engage are the “influencers&# – people who have the ability to cause measurable actions.

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

Webbiquity SMM

The Radian6 Dashboard enables you to monitor conversations in real time, while the Engagement Console lets you respond directly or route posts to appropriate individuals or teams and analyze the results of social media interactions. Through PRWeb, which Vocus acquired in 2006 , it offers extensive news distribution and tracking capabilities.

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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. Pitching Basics – Rules of Engagement by Blogging PRWeb. Social Media Marketing Social PR.

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Social Media Dominates 2010 PR Planning, But SEO Increasingly in.

Adam Sherk

Another chart of interest in the Vocus whitepaper demonstrates how social media monitoring has become an essential part of the PR practioner’s toolkit: News monitoring and online media databases have traditionally received the lion’s share of PR tool spending. Which News Sites Get the Most Social Media Engagement?

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Four Ways to Measure Social Media Marketing Results

Webbiquity SMM

Engagement: A level deeper than influence, these metrics include the number of RT’s and #followfriday recommendations you get on Twitter, posts to your company’s Facebook wall, questions answered on LinkedIn or Yahoo! Again, more is generally better (spammy blog comments aside), as engagement is the “social&# in social media.

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

Adam Sherk

Social monitoring tools like Radian6 and PR suites like Vocus and Cision offer the greatest range of functionality for research and contact management. All my + is a useful tool for evaluating the activity and engagement of specific profiles, as I did in my post on Google+ engagement for news sites. Pinterest Tools.

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