Each year at this time new technology ideas emerge and tech predictions are made at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. In his keynote speech Robert Kyncl, vice president, global head of content for YouTube, predicted that in a few years video will be 90% of all the traffic online. In case you [...]
A few months ago when PRSA announced that it was engaging the PR community in an ‘open and collaborative effort’ to modernize the definition of PR, there was a spate of posts from PR people. Many applauded the crowd sourcing approach, but there were also detractors. As with any such effort, there’s always the risk [...]
Social media impacts every part of your business. Online PR has assumed greater importance and in 2012 it is imperative that a business Knows who their customers are and where they are active online Understands the power of social media for positive and negative impact Makes social media a part of their risk management strategy [...]
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In the summer of 2010 Google completed the Caffeine update, which allowed them to rapidly index fresh content across the web. This week Google announced that they had done another major update based on freshness of content to cope with the burgeoning amount of social content available online. “Search results, like warm cookies right out [...]
People today are always on the look out for new and faster ways to get their news. According the 2011 State of the Media report, not only do they want to be able to find it and get it fast, they also want to contribute to, and participate in, reporting the news. This can be [...]
Ten years ago the Internet was in its infancy and most people got their news from newspapers and TV and the public, journalists and PR people alike were all accustomed to a 24-hour news cycle. That has changed dramatically in the last five years and we now live in a 24/7 news cycle where people [...]
Brian Solis laid out the finding of his recent study on social advertising and how marketers are using this tool in this Fast Company article “The future of advertising will be largely influenced by consumer behavior in social networks. Those brands that listen, measure, and evolve programs as a result, will push advertising forward — [...]
In a recent Pew Research report about how people get their news today, sharing was highlighted as one of the integral activities associated with news content online. “If searching for news was the most important development of the last decade, sharing news may be among the most important of the next.” Share This just released [...]
For years we’ve been told that email is still far and away the best way to reach our audiences, but a new study from Pitney Bowes released in April shows that social media is nipping hard on the heels of the number one position. Rated for cost effectiveness and ease of use, social media is [...]