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Ethical Public Relations in the New Age of Wikipedia

Convince & Convert

David King , Founder and Director at Ethical Wiki , joins the Social Pros Podcast this week to talk about the impact Wikipedia has on social media in today’s world, the future of PR, and how companies can update their Wikipedia pages to more accurately reflect their corporation and their message. Please Support Our Sponsors.

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Are you turning your marketing into PR?

Biznology

Photo credit: Wikipedia. Some of you might be scandalized to here me urge you to turn marketing into PR. I mean, I have a reputation as someone who is constantly advising people to measure everything they do in terms of sales–the direct marketing playbook–and it’s very hard to do that in public relations.

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Is There A Connection Between SEO Link Building and PR-Based Brand Mentions?

KoMarketing Associates

Google might be doing it’s best to create a divide between PR professionals and SEO practitioners. The public relations industry has been under threat and misconception for quite a while. ” Are “brand mentions”, in the classic sense of public relations, truly the objective in this portion of the patent?

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Chris Abraham joins Frank Eliason and Shel Holtz on FIR

Biznology

Magic in the form of Shel Holtz , godfather of Digital PR and Social Media Communications, asking me to join him on his globally-popular communications podcast, For Immediate Release (FIR). And since I am in PR and marketing, I might have personally taken myself off the invite list based on my past bad behavior. Can we even?

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Tips for Next Gen Digital Marketing and PR Pros

Biznology

Photo credit: Wikipedia. What’s the future of digital media marketing and social public relations? What advice can we give the next generation of digital media marketing or PR pros for landing a job in digital marketing or communications? The great news for marketing and PR students? These students are sharp.

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Don’t Make These Enterprise SEO Mistakes

Biznology

Photo credit: Wikipedia. In addition to the SEO team or person, there is the PR team, the social media team, the content team, etc. The marketing managers, the content team, the PR team, and the department managers all want to have a say in how the site is optimized, meaning that any SEO content needs to be viewed by a lot of eyes.

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Tracking Social Media ROI

Biznology

Image via Wikipedia. For some uses of social media, such as public relations, they might be right, because there are precious few companies that can calculate ROI even for offline PR. I'm starting to hear more an more people despair of being able to determine return on investment for social media.