I recently did an e-mail based Q&A with Social Media Portal, which focused primarily on my experiences working in product management to drive PRWeb.  Here is an excerpt:
Social Media Portal (SMP): What is your full job title and role at PRWeb.com?
Jiyan Wei (JW): I’m the Director of Product Management – I drive product platform strategy [...]

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 [...]

This morning we announced our new online newsroom product, which allows customers to easily create a newsroom that contains their releases, company information, multimedia collateral, etc.  Their newsroom is then hosted on a newsroom directory on our site and linked to from their news releases.
I chatted with John Mulligan of SEO-PR about the new product [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Strategic Public Relations Center at USC Annenberg released its fifth study of practices in the PR industry late last week.  Each year, Annenberg surveys a broad sample of practitioners across organizations of varying sizes.  Their study is one of the more notable to benchmark the state of Public Relations as an industry.
I have not [...]

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, [...]

Got a tip from the kind folks at ZexSports the other day who I met at ad:tech last week, that Ypulse had a great list of tips for self-promoting your book, including a nice toss-in about using PRWeb to get your press release out.

In a recent blog posting, Chris Anderson, executive editor of Wired magazine published e-mail addresses from 329 e-mails he had blocked from PR firms who had sent him pitch e-mails including Edelman, 5W Public Relations, Fleishman-Hillard, Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide and Weber Shandwick.
The posting was titled, ‘Sorry PR People: You’re Blocked‘.
Actually, it is not that [...]