This document discusses how communications and public relations are evolving with new media. It notes that consumers now get news through social networks and companies want direct access to engage audiences through continuous messaging. The traditional PR model of working with journalists has changed, and content must now be optimized for search and shared across online networks to reach audiences through the "long tail." Tips are provided for creating shareable content and using multimedia, social media, and analytics to measure engagement.
2. Rakefet Sudri
Head of Sales,
PR Newswire Israel
Tel: 0772005042
rakefet.sudri@prnewswire.co.il
Twitter / @PRNewswireIL
3. Disclaimer: I am not a Guru.
All tips, recommendations, and ideas are from
reading, exploring, and learning anyway that I can. I
consider myself a B+ Student at best.
6. “In 1965, 80 percent of adults could be
reached with three 60 second TV spots.
Today it requires117 prime time
Commercials to produce the same result”
(Jim Stengel, CMO, P&G)
7. Michael Pranikoff
Director, Emerging Media
PR Newswire
michael.pranikoff@prnewswire.com
www.delicious.com/michaelpranikoff
Twitter / @mpranikoff
Twitter Event Hashtag: #prncl
16. Communications Comes
Into Focus
Companies want:
Marketing
Public
• Direct access to consumers
Relations
• Opportunities to engage with
audiences
• Continuous Messaging that is
easy to share
• Analytics, ROI
They want to communicate in a
way that combines PR, Marketing Advertising
and Advertising.
20. News Traffic Landscape
• Yahoo ranks as the top global news site.
Google News is the second largest online
news property in the world in terms of traffic.
• Yahoo News
• Google News
• New York Times
• CNN
• China’s QQ.com
• BBC
• MSN
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21. Pew Research Center’s
• 57% of internet users share links to news stories
• 30% get news through Social Networks
• 6% get news via Twitter feeds
30. Tips for SEO & News Releases
• Create Tweetable Headlines – 120
Characters to allow for the ReTweet
• In reality – Headlines need to be 65 – 80
Characters with spaces. Headline is the
Title Tag
• Think Keyword Phrases not Keywords –
42% of searches performed use 3-5
Keywords – Comscore
• Use links in releases – Deep Links!
Concentrate those links in the first 3
paragraphs of the release.
40. PRSA 2010 International Conference
Washington, DC
Oct. 16 – 19, 2010
• Open to all attendees with a
smartphone
•Placed codes all over the
conference, name tags, sessions,
even other exhibitor booths
•Over 1000 Tweets with #prngame
in 3 days
•19% of all Tweets with the #prsa_ic
official hashtag included
#PRNGame
#prngame
41. “It’s not about using new
media; it’s about using media in
new ways”
Dr. Craig Lefebvre
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63. Rakefet Sudri
Head of Sales,
PR Newswire Israel
Tel: 0772005042
rakefet.sudri@prnewswire.co.il
Twitter / @PRNewswireIL
Special thanks to Michael Pranikoff
Global Director, Emerging Media, PR Newswire