by Shannon Paul on July 15, 2008
Check out Chris Brogan’s extremely comprehensive list of 50 ways marketers (he means PR people, too) can use social media to improve what they’re already doing. Although, they’re listed in no particular order of importance, here are the top 5: Add social bookmark links to your most important web pages and/or blog posts to improve [...]
by Shannon Paul on July 3, 2008
Pardon my French, but that’s the title of a really great presentation put together by Marta Z. Kagan, social media evangelist and online marketing professional. Check out the great statistics on social media participation, connectivity and the comparisons to ROI for traditional advertising — Yikes! The link to the original post on SlideShare can be [...]
by Shannon Paul on June 30, 2008
Why? Because you can’t fake community. If you want to manipulate me, you have to get to know me first and it helps if you seem to care about me, too… in addition to other worthy causes. I read about Verizon’s Twittering Teddy a couple of weeks ago in PRWeek and there were a number [...]
by Shannon Paul on June 29, 2008
Last week I wrote a post about writing better press releases, err, rather, things to avoid when writing a press release. Later in the week, Melissa Underwood wrote a post on Ragan.com about a new, online press release grader developed by internet marketing company HubSpot. The press release grader and I definitely agree on many [...]
by Shannon Paul on June 23, 2008
Our behaviors as consumers and individuals are often based on lies – not lies told by marketers and PR professionals, but on lies that we tell ourselves. Edward Bernays, considered the father of PR, understood this truth better than most, and unlike others, he was willing to explore the realities of how human behavior is [...]
by Shannon Paul on June 15, 2008
A friend of mine asked that very question a few days ago and I realized that I hadn’t given the differences between the two areas very much thought. Honestly, from what I understand, many of the elements of each job function are almost identical. In Marketing and PR, we focus on communicating the messages of [...]
by Shannon Paul on June 11, 2008
Before I started working in public relations, I never thought anyone would reject my ideas for being too creative. However, just a short time in the profession has taught me that great ideas are frequently rejected in favor of staid approaches to communications that never aim to improve company positioning. strengthen customer relationships or even [...]
by Shannon Paul on June 9, 2008
I was at a fundraiser last week where people were being honored as pioneers for the cause of diversity within the legal profession, and one of the presenters spoke about the qualities it takes to be what he referred to as a trailblazer. He said that trailblazers are only really special in their ability to [...]