Thursday, September 01, 2011
Guest Blog: A “Victim” of Â鶹´«Ã½ Success
I had no idea how far reaching and immediate Â鶹´«Ã½ could be with the public until the day I got involved with Internet poker.
I had no idea how far reaching and immediate Â鶹´«Ã½ could be with the public until the day I got involved with Internet poker.
News has recently introduced a new service by making Google Translate as simple as one click on any article of the more than 100,000 in our online database. This makes clients’ news much more accessible to international journalists.
Why don’t journalists link to primary sources?
Here are a few tips for PR folks and their clients about how to really get a journalist’s attention. May just be worth sharing it with your clients the next time they ask why you didn’t get them any coverage this week.
The natural history of news releases just received an evolutionary transfusion of vitality. Â鶹´«Ã½ releases are very effective if done properly. Â鶹´«Ã½ releases have been repeatedly declared dead, but those prognostications are completely false and missing the point.
Reviewing my Twitter feed today, I’m reminded about one of the major pitfalls of this tool – the en masse tweet or re-tweet.
Embargoes are an important news phenomenon, and they are important to public relations professionals as well. It’s not often that you actually read about embargoes in the news media, but in the recent New York Times Sunday Magazine, Bill Keller executive editor of the New York Times, discusses how and why his newspaper deals with embargoes.
How does a media relations professional help a CEO come to terms with the reality of getting covered in a major newspaper and reframe the client’s expectation for “good press?”
Searching Google for “press release is dead” yields lots of self-contradicting statements. Do people that make statements like these believe their own declarations, or are they writing shock headlines for a lark?
Be suspicious if someone tells you, “XYZ is dead.” If XYZ is an inanimate thing, be especially cautious; the speaker might be a killer, one with a necrophicidal fantasy.