Archive | August, 2007

Vocus Launches Summer ‘07

By on August 31, 2007 in Public Relations

Yesterday, we announced the launch of the Summer ’07 version of our software. The new version contains some great feature upgrades. Most notably: RSS Subscription / Creation – Vocus customers now have an integrated RSS reader in-console that will allow them to subscribe to the RSS feeds for media outlets – providing a supplement to [...]

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Getting Started with Online Multimedia

By on August 28, 2007 in Multimedia

Multimedia Defined According to Wikipedia, multimedia can be described as “media that uses multiple forms of information content and information processing (e.g. text, audio, graphics, animation, video, interactivity) to inform or entertain the (user) audience.” The Rising Influence of Multimedia Online Over the past few years, several trends have contributed to the increasing prominence of [...]

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Post Coverage of Vocus

By on August 27, 2007 in Uncategorized

We have been getting some great coverage as of late. First, we had an article in Fortune on how PRWeb has helped innovate the press release, followed by more coverage in the Wall Street Journal, and most recently, we have received a feature article in the Post. The article provides a good recap. of Vocus’ [...]

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WikiScanner

By on August 24, 2007 in Social Media

There is an interesting new service, WikiScanner, that basically maps the IP address for various edits in Wikipedia to IP ranges for various company’s networks. The site was independently launched by a 24-year-old American graduate student. The impact? Well, a query of ‘WikiScanner’ in Google News reveals over 250 news stories already. Furthermore, they have [...]

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Strayform Introducing New Economic Model

By on August 16, 2007 in Online Communities, Social Media

TechCrunch covered start-up Strayform recently and their business model sort of piqued my curiosity a bit. The basic gist of it is that music producers and consumers sign-up for a community where the consumers can basically sponsor the producers. I don’t know how successful the site is, especially because their branding and general design strike [...]

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Online Video Q&A

By on August 16, 2007 in Online Distribution, Public Relations

I recently moderated a webinar that explored online video, with an amazing trio of participants including Bart Feder from the FeedRoom, Stephen Harris from TLC, and Lee LeFever from Common Craft. It turned out to be a raging success and were flooded with questions that we didn’t have the time to answer due to time [...]

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Wall Street Journal Coverage of PRWeb

By on August 14, 2007 in Online Distribution

Following on last week’s exciting article from Fortune, on PRWeb, we got a mention in today’s Wall Street Journal Online’s Small Talk, which discussed how PRWeb can be a tool for getting publicity on a budget.

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Rocking Fortune

By on August 8, 2007 in Online Distribution

Wow. Fortune did a great piece on Vocus and PRWeb, focusing on the changing environment for online news distribution. An excerpt from the article: PR Newswire and BusinessWire are the Big Two of press release land, and together they still control roughly 70% of the market in the U.S. It’s this quasi-monopoly position position that [...]

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Issues Wire

By on August 8, 2007 in Online Distribution

We publicly announced the launch of Issues Wire yesterday, which is powered by PRWeb.  Issues Wire is going to be news distribution oriented towards the political and policy folks and we are going to be looking at adding vertical distribution points in the coming months.  Initially, there are a number of issues-focused RSS feeds we [...]

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Market Wire’s PRNN Purchase, the SM community response, and other stuff

By on August 6, 2007 in Online Distribution, Social Media

So last week Market Wire purchased an online news service called “Press Release News Network.” A couple of days later, Brian Solis shared his thoughts on the PRNN purchase and on the Market Wire announcement on his blog. The basic gist of it was that Solis was critical of the excessive ‘social media’ angle that [...]

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