Aaron Brazell, Director of Technology at b5media has lined up a handful of respected voices on both sides of the PR game to host a “roundtable” discussion on Social Media. It will be a five part series with the first running today at Technosailor. Question #1 – What do you think the biggest challenge is for the Public Relations industry to fully embrace social media? Brian Solis: What if we asked the question this way, “Should the PR industry participate…
Participation Is Marketing: Now Is Gone Podcast Series #2
As the official Social Media Release from Bartelby Press hitting the streets today, so does part two of our podcast series discussing the seven principles of community engagement uncovered in the upcoming book, Now is Gone. In the “Participation Is Marketing” podcast we discuss: Most companies make the mistake of assuming that merely publishing blog posts is all they need to do to “participate.” Participation requires a shift from organizational-centric based communications to customer or community-centric communications – Think Customer…
Now is Gone Set for Release on November 12, 2007
Bartelby Press issued a Social Media Release announcing that Now Is Gone: A Primer on New Media for Executives and Entrepreneurs by Geoff Livingston with yours truly will be available for sale on Monday, November 12th. In one sitting, the book helps business executives and communications professionals understand social media and how to integrate it into the marketing mix: Introduces Social Media, the benefits, and the importance of engaging with influencers and customers directly Explains the new culture of two-way…
Dear Chris Anderson, an Open Letter to Make Things Right
Chris Anderson, Editor in Chief of Wired and also author of The Long Tail, is someone whom I deeply admire and respect. We’ve linked to each other in the past and for the most part, I agree with his views and observations. Every now and then Anderson discusses the state of PR and when he does, it causes nothing less than a full-blown blogstorm that reverberates across the entire industry. But, what matters is that we all learn from it….
MicroMedia Paves the Way for Macro Influence
Warning! This post is about MicroMedia and the emerging market for Media Snacking, but it is not served as a “byte” sized snack. It is instead, a full meal, so I hope you brought your appetite. The inspiration for this story comes from a meme circulating through the Web that discusses “snacks” and the market for “media snacking.” It was started by Forrester analyst Jeremiah Owyang when he publickly asked whether or not you respect media snackers. He then tagged…
Further Defining Social Media Releases
Duncan Riley, whom I greatly admire and respect, offered a very enlightening response to a recent question posed concerning the distribution of Social Media Releases on Gooruze, a new social network dedicated to helping marketing, advertising, search, and PR professionals learn, share and grow together. Disclosure, Duncan and I are among the eight founding “gooruze.” His points are very important and worth sharing as they will make us “think” about how, when, where, and why to use social media releases,…
Blog This – October 28, 2007
Please take a moment to vote for the Social Media Manifesto, the Future of Marketing Communications here. You can read it here. PR and Bloggers Officially in “Beta” – Finally Stuart Henshall really nails it on how PR can more effectively work with bloggers. Social Media Forces PR’s Evolution Social Media is forcing PR to stop lobbing grenades from behind the wall and to jump into the front lines of conversations Definition of Social Media by Brian Solis I took…
The New Rules for Breaking News, Robert Scoble Should be in PR
Part Three of a series discussing blogger relations, “Building a Bridge Between Your Story, Bloggers, and People.” Now that blogging is crossing over into the mainstream, certain bloggers have earned a right of influence and clout that rival many of the top journalists. Good friend Robert Scoble recently discussed the subject of blogger relations, embargoes and the process of news and launches in tech PR. Scoble, for those who may or may not know, is probably the one of the…
Blog This, October 21, 2007
Please take a moment to vote for the Social Media Manifesto, the Future of Marketing Communications here. You can read it here. Future to Newspapers: Jump in the river Doc Searls, “To be truly alive, truly new, truly part of the life of its readers, a newspaper needs to be on the live web and not just the static one. It needs to flow news, and not just post it. It needs to flow rivers of news, or newsrivers.” Anti-Gaming…
The Future of the Social Media Release is in Your Hands
Todd Defren and Brian Solis. The Social Media Release (SMR) is gaining traction and visibility and is now looked to by many as the savior of the traditional press release – which may honestly be too great a task for any one tool. But, at the very least, the discussions around the SMR are fueling the evolution and improvement of the press release overall. Each day new examples are emerging and will only continue to be showcased as Social Media…
