Archive for the ‘Conversation’ Category

T2T008: The Social Media Press Release

Friday, September 5th, 2008

I’m a bit late this week! Apologies! And rather than talking about your social media newsroom which I will discuss next week, I thought we should look at the social media press release first. So today’s episode will consider how the social media release differs from the traditional press release, why you might want to use one and how you create one.

News

Chrome
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/150639/early_security_issues_tarnish_googles_chrome.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7597699.stm

Etailers
http://www.nma.co.uk/Articles/39442/Etailers%20must%20up%20their%20game%20in%20customer%20care.html?liArticleID=39442

Your Social Media Newsroom
http://www.briansolis.com/2008/02/definitive-guide-to-social-media.html
http://skitch.com/briansolis/gymk/smr-services-comparison.pdf-1-page
http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2008/04/digging_deeperthe_social_press.html

http://www.gmeurope.info/social_media_newsroom/
http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/—816994.html

http://www.shiftcomm.com/downloads/smprtemplate.pdf

Your Resource
http://www.tweetdeck.com/beta/

Music
In The News by Motion Soundtrack
http://music.podshow.com/music/producers/producerLibrary/artistdetails.php?BandHash=8fdd9d931564f6920760599f03f86baa

The beginning and ending track, as well as the mini excerpts are from the song Going On by Chances End
http://podsafeaudio.com/jamroom/bands/1913/

Img: b_d_solis

T2T003: The Online Conversation

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

Today’s show runs a little long. Just goes to show that as soon as I dispense with the script, I talk twice as much! I apologise for the length - I will aim to bring it back under 30 minutes for next week.

In this week’s podcast I discuss the online conversation. In it, we will look at what the online conversation is and how you can get involved with it. We will also discuss what to expect when you do get involved with the conversation and we will touch on how the conversation is changing. In fact, Web 2.0 is just one big conversation – that’s what makes it unique. But there are ways to work with it, and ways not to work with it. Irrespective though, if you are at all concerned with using the internet for communication or promotion, then you simply must be involved in the conversation to some degree.

In the news we will take a look at the pros and cons of allowing employees access to social media and the ability to blog. This is a long standing conversation which unfortunately is still in the news as there are plenty of employers who feel that allowing employees that access will result in security violations, reputation issues and time wasting. We will also revisit Mr Mathew Firsht, who has won his libel suit against the false Facebook profile producing Mr Raphael. This item is complimented by another article which sees social media in the courts which raises the question of how much fact checking must be done when using the internet as a source.

Your resource from across the pond is Brian Solis’s blog, PR 2.0.

I look forward to your feedback on how the podcast sounds. And to warn you in advance – the sock didn’t work so I will try something else next week.

Intrigued? Have a listen and find out!

News

Trusting your staff

http://www.hrzone.co.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=185966&d=1064&h=387&f=388&dateformat=%o%20%B%20%Y
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/071508-employees-social-networking.html
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20080728005273&newsLang=en

The Firsht Libel Case
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article4389538.ece
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7523128.stm

Mother Sues
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/mother-sues-over-tale-of-drunken-party-lifted-from-bebo-865039.html

The Online Conversation

My sources and further reading

http://www.alistercameron.com/2008/07/14/can-friendfeed-save-us-from-conversation-fragmentation/
http://www.briansolis.com/2008/01/value-of-online-conversations.html
http://www.pr-squared.com/2008/04/the_broken_conversation.html
http://blog.holtz.com/index.php/weblog/the_irrelevance_of_the_broken_conversation/

An example of great conversation

http://www.skepchick.org

Across the Pond

Brian Solis’s Blog
http://www.briansolis.com/index.htm

You can also access his eBooks at
http://www.scribd.com/people/view/83197-brian-solis

Or check out Geoff Livingstone’s book which Brian Solis assisted with
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Now-Gone-Primer-Executives-Entrepreneurs/dp/0910155739/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1217332922&sr=8-1

Image: Jurek D