The Independent, A UK newspaper, recently highlighted the PR trend of publishing content. Instead of relying on the media to tell their stories, as they have for the last 100 years, companies are beginning to act like the media. Public relations is flexing its media muscles like never before and strong-arming its way into areas [...]
A new survey from Nielsen set out to show that as people use social media they use email less – and surprise! it came out completely the other way around. “It actually appears that social media use makes people consume email more, not less, as we had originally assumed – particularly for the highest social [...]
It seems that Baseball did not get the memo about the power of online influencers: A recent study of 127 Baseball teams found that although many independent bloggers, such as MLBTradeRumors.com and Yahoo! Sports, have upward of two million pages views daily and represent some of the Internet’s heaviest traffic, they rank far behind traditional [...]
“Anyone looking for a job in today’s competitive market without using social media is at a distinct disadvantage.” So says Leonard Witt, the Robert D. Fowler Distinguished Chair in Communication and founder and executive director of the Center for Sustainable Journalism at Kennesaw State University. Witt points to data from CareerBuilder: Social media is one [...]
Two events held recently focused on the future of journalism and the education of journalists: The second World Journalism Education Congress (WJEC2) in South Africa and Journalism as News Providers: Challenges and Opportunities held in Denver. One of the key findings from WJEC2 was that social media has become an integral part of journalism and must be included in the [...]
Active Twitter users are three times more likely to impact a brand’s online reputation via Tweets, blog posts, articles and product reviews than the average consumer, according to a new survey by Exact Target. Although Twitter’s active user base remains smaller than Facebook’s, these daily users are the most influential online consumers, and their conversations [...]
