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User-Generated Content: How to Use It for Good and Avoid a PR Crisis

Contently

Think customer reviews, social media posts, and photos or videos shared by loyal customers. To achieve this, Always launched a social media campaign that encouraged girls and women to share their stories and experiences using the hashtag #LikeAGirl. UGC leverages the voices and experiences of real people to promote your brand.

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Glassdoor.com: Social Media Tool or PR Nightmare?

Marketing Craftmanship

For many of the 65,000 companies it currently covers, Glassdoor.com can be a PR nightmare waiting to happen. The most notorious of these early sites included RateMyEmployer.com (currently on life support), F**kedCompany.com (died in 2007) and JobVent.com, which was acquired by Glassdoor.com in 2009.

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You’re the culmination of what you’ve shared and kept online

Biznology

You’ll be happy to know that unlike emerging technologies, the pace of marketing and PR is a little slower. While I have been writing about digital marketing and PR every week for at least 9 years on sites like Socialmedia.biz and Biznology, I have been writing about digital PR and marketing since 2002 and blogging since 1999.

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Best Interactive PR Articles and Blog Posts of 2009

Webbiquity

Interactive PR, sometimes called social PR, is a combination of search-optimizing press releases, creating social media releases through tools like PitchEngine , blogger outreach and the use of social media to promote company news and announcements. The Very Basics of Blogger Outreach by Social Media Today.

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The 8 Wrong Questions PR Firms Are Asking About Social Media | PR.

Convince & Convert

But, under pressure from digital and advertising agencies each looking to be the driver of the social media express, PR firms are sometimes turning over inquisitional rocks that do not portray them as strategic caretakers of brands’ social presences. What’s the hot new trend in social media that we can bring to our clients?

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(Almost) 100 (of the) Best Social Media Marketing Blog Posts and Articles of 2009

Webbiquity

Social media marketing activity exploded in 2009, and so did coverage of these practices. Every social media consultant , corporate marketer and PR professional was challenged to keep up with the latest writing on the topic. Social Media Measurement. Understand the Impact of Social Media by ClickZ.

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The 6 Most Important Social Media Trends of 2017

Contently

Social media—once a competitive, dynamic space—has gotten predictable. And you’ll notice I only brought up Facebook news, since it’s now by far the most significant social media player. In 2016, Facebook accounted for almost two-thirds of all social media ad spending. What else is new ? Par for the course.