Tag Archives: SMNR

What is a Social Media Release? (PodCamp)

Although I wasn’t able to attend PodCamp Toronto this year, I’ve been doing my best to catch up on some of what went on there. One of those sessions was a live recording of Inside PR, and I just got a chance to listen to it today. During the course of that recording, one of the [...]
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The 4M Theory of Social Media Releases

Over the past few months, I’ve given a lot of thought to Social Media Releases. They are a great tool, but only if used correctly. In the few years that they’ve been out, there have been a lot of different types and styles, successes and failures, but no real agreed-upon strategy for how to use [...]
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SMR? SMPR? SMNR?

If you’re involved in PR and social media you’ve probably heard people talking about social media releases, social media news releases or even social media press releases and the accompanying acronyms. In the olden days, journalists were called ‘the press’ (an example of synechdoche) because the primary form of media was the newspaper, which was printed [...]
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The Social Media Release

Normally I refrain from writing about what I’m doing at work.* Today, however, I’m going to share the Multi Media News Release that I helped develop to launch Access CNW, my company’s new, online client portal. (One of the main reasons that I haven’t been blogging lately is because I’ve spent so much time with this). Have [...]
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Interweb in any language

 Well, they’ve done it. Those crazy party animals down at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN to their friends, I CAN’T to their enemies) are finally letting people test out their new system of top domain names in 11 different international scripts. At first, this doesn’t sound like terribly exciting news. “People around [...]
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News Doesn’t Matter…

…Only the medium in which it was conveyed matters. Or at least that is the impression I get after reading a recent post by Dave Armano about how he used Twitter to report some teenagers heroically saving an old woman’s life. Technorati reports that Armano’s Twitterophilic post has 13 links to it (at the time [...]
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