Best Practices for the Successful Press Tour
Recently I had the opportunity to conduct a press tour with one of our clients who is preparing to introduce a groundbreaking new software solution. The tour was very successful with every journalist agreeing to write one, and in some instances two, articles about the solution and its likely impact on the industry. Given this […]
Best Practices for Case Study Development
Often as part of our PR activities, our clients employ our help in developing case studies of successful product implementations with their products. We’ve worked closely with Toyota Motorsport and Continuum Dynamics, Inc. on behalf of Tecplot, Inc., and several prominent universities on behalf of Serials Solutions, among others. Over that time, we’ve worked our […]
YouTube Tips for PR Pros
Mashable has a regularly occurring series on its website called “The Social PR Guide Series.” One of the most recent contributions to this series focuses on YouTube, and how PR professionals can successfully implement and manage the solution within their companies. While many companies are becoming quite savvy at using social media sites such as […]
Formalizing Your Social Media Program
So you’ve got a Facebook page, a Twitter handle and a corporate blog, now what? Many organizations have realized the value social media can bring including increased brand awareness, improved customer relationships and thought leadership. While leveraging these platforms to educate and engage with key audiences is critical, oftentimes companies have several different handles, fan […]
The Face of Your Social Media Account
On Sunday night, we were reminded once again how prevalent social media is in today’s communications landscape and how quickly information is disseminated through platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. Prompted by President Obama’s announcement that Osama bin Laden had been killed, Twitter recorded the “highest sustained rate of Tweets ever,” an average of 3,440 […]
Pop Culture PR Lessons
As we’ve mentioned previously on this blog, analogies often help make complex topics more digestible for a broader audience. While this normally happens more often in business-to-consumer scenarios, the same principle can be useful for learning lessons in any context. Earlier this week, Ragan’s PR Daily writer Arik Hanson posted an article about the “4 […]
Content Creation and the Marketing Department of the Future
Jeanne Miller, communications manager with Tecplot, Inc., recently forwarded me an interesting article from BtoB magazine about how changes in the discipline of marketing are driving organizational changes. The article focuses on how business-to-business marketing teams at Intel Corp., Sybase and Xerox Corp. are “rethinking the organizational structures and even their cultures” so they can […]
How Well Do You Know Your Social Media Policy?
With more than 500 million active users on Facebook and nearly 200 million registered accounts on Twitter (as last reported on Jan. 29, 2011 in Forbes), it is likely that your company is one of the many to have a presence on either one or both of these social media platforms. And it is even […]
How Well Do You Know Your Social Media Policy?
With more than 500 million active users on Facebook and nearly 200 million registered accounts on Twitter (as last reported on Jan. 29, 2011 in Forbes), it is likely that your company is one of the many to have a presence on either one or both of these social media platforms. And it is even […]
The Keys to Becoming an Industry Thought Leader
Over the last two months, we’ve had the pleasure of working with Verdiem to execute a targeted media relations campaign to generate coverage in national and local business publications as well as IT and green IT vertical publications for a new product announcement. Our objective was to help Verdiem continue to establish itself as a […]