I’ve recently fielded several questions stemming from the article on social networking in the New York Times that came out last week. One in particular caught my attention and I’d like to address it a bit more comprehensively.
The question was from a guy about to launch a Bed & Breakfast in Colorado and was [...]

Over the past several months I’ve shared updates on the research being conducted by the Society for New Communications Research into the ROI of online press releases.  The research group, lead by Dr. Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Jen McClure, and Shel Holtz has recently finished the executive summary, available for download in the research & publications section [...]

Common Craft is a small shop with a big reach. Their ‘Plain English’ video series has been viewed over 5 million times globally and has helped countless people understand Internet technologies such as RSS and social networking. Sachi and Lee (Common Craft) have also helped a number of companies and brands (including PRWeb) [...]

A few months back I was talking with a former television producer who had recently transitioned to a bi-weekly magazine that was preparing to launch an online version that integrated high-quality video content.
She was a bit wary when I brought up the opportunities latent in some of the video sharing sites and it was her [...]

In public relations (and I am sure other professions), you often hear people talk about the distinction between tactics and strategy.
Simplistically put, tactics are activities that are executed everyday by PR practitioners while a strategy refers to an underlying approach that drives various tactics. Tactics are easy because they involve bite-sized chunks of activity - [...]

I wrote an article for the most recent version of online news releases. The metaphor that I use as a device in the article was inspired by a discussion that took place concerning the role of the newswire contextualized in the new world of social media. At any rate, if anyone is interested [...]

A close friend of mine Ryan Petersen recently became the managing director at a start-up based out of Scottsdale, Arizona called ImportGenius, a Web application that allows you to search international trade records to find out where your competitors are buying their products overseas,
Ryan and I go way back and even spent time working together [...]

Our presser went out today announcing the initial conclusions from our research into the ‘ROI of Online Press Releases.’
The top-line findings included:

Press releases are increasingly a tool for marketing and sales - The press release is becoming a communications tool for both public relations and marketing professionals alike. Approximately one-third of respondents were marketing professionals [...]

I spoke on a panel last week with some of my industry peers on how social media is impacting Public Relations, Marketing and Advertising. There were some great people on the panel including Thomas Burg from DoubleClick, Sarah Skerik from PR Newswire, Larry Thomas from Medialink, Robert Fitzgerald from BizBash, Miranda Tan from MyPRGenie, [...]

A Forrester Research, Inc. report released at the Forrester Consumer Forum in Chicago this past month provided survey results from a sample of 344 interactive marketing professionals who were asked about their budgeting decisions throughout various forms of interactive marketing.
Forrester extrapolated that over the next five years, spending on interactive marketing will grow [...]