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

Webbiquity SMM

This tool is fast, easy to use, and offers a useful set of filters for finding mentions of a company or topic in specific types of social interaction (e.g. Vocus provides a rich set of tools for traditional and social media monitoring, media outreach and news distribution. blogs, microblogging sites, social networks, etc.).

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6 Things The Army Taught Me About PR

Waxing UnLyrical

These are the similar to the types of questions we consider when planning PR strategies both on and offline. And I’d be remiss if I didn’t give a shot out to my own community, including my employer Vocus, which has gone above and beyond to be supportive and understanding. Frank Strong is the director of PR for Vocus.

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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. You can find a much fresher version of this type of content in the recently posted 33 (of the) Best Social Media Guides, Tips and Resources of 2012 So Far. PR Monitoring and Management Tools: Which is Best?

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Media Relations Gone Wrong: How Not to Pitch a Journalist (Video)

Adam Sherk

At my first PR job I had to type in contact addresses from the hard-copy Bacon’s guide so we could mail merge and send out the press materials. Fortunately today there are much better tools at our disposal be it PR software suites like Vocus and Cision or networking services like HARO and Seek or Shout.

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The Social Media ROI Debate

Webbiquity SMM

Executives don’t care about shiny sparkly things or the latest fads or buzzwords; you’d better know what you want to accomplish, be able to quantify both expenses and revenue, and have the analytics in place to track results before even murmuring the words “social media&# in the presence of C-level types.

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Clearing Clouds of Confusion – the 5 Categories of Social Media Software

Convince & Convert

The questions you need answered will (and should) guide you to the right type of software. There are other types of social media software, such as social sign-in, social advertising, etc. investor), Vocus. Important notes on this taxonomy: This list is not exhaustive. There are WAY more companies than this.

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The Brand View When Looking For a PR Pro

Waxing UnLyrical

I had been given a test drive of Vocus which some of the applicants used. If you don’t have the contacts needed for my client’s type of business, tell me how you accumulated the ones you do have. So if they hadn’t done national publicity, they needed to explain how they intended to execute this. See what comes up.

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