Tag Archives: community

Nissan Embraces Social Media to Improve Customer Experiences and Foster Advocacy

In this episode of (R)evolution, Nissan’s David Mingle, Director of Customer Management and Erich Marx, Director of Marketing join me for a refreshing conversation about social media’s impact on business transformation, customer experiences, and building an adaptive business model to learn and evolve based on new opportunities. We explore Nissan’s approach to new media for [...]

Business Wire Gives Back: BW Staff Goes Back to School to Help Students Find Success

Business Wire’s 50th Anniversary celebration this year features the BW Gives Back volunteer program, which affords employees the opportunity to “go to work” in their communities for the educational or charitable organizations that mean the most to them. Executive Vice President Laura Sturaitis spent last Thursday sharing her time and expertise with job seekers among the students, alumnae and members of the [...]

PRTV Q&A With @KratzPR

Public Relations TV, better know as PRTV, was founded by Harrison Kratz of Kratz PR.  Harrison hosts a series of interviews and webisodes every week to educate public relations students and professionals, and to provide a good resource for information about the PR industry. I was interested in learning more about PRTV and caught up [...]

The PR Influencer: A #PRStudChat Discussion with @ChrisBrogan

On January 19th, we announced a very special guest for our #PRStudChat February session. @ChrisBrogan, co-author of Trust Agents, joins our Twitter discussion to enlighten our community on the PR influencer and how to build trust online. Today it’s very important for PR and communications professionals to realize that they are moving from a liaison role to an influencer role, as they become bloggers and educate through democratized media.

Blogger Relations: A Grass Roots Approach

Last week, a friend from Switzerland reached out and asked me a few questions about blogger relations. She was concerned with the time it takes to initiate and nurture relations with bloggers before you “need” them to write about a client. But, at the same time, she realized that unless you are specialized in a certain field, there is no way that you can converse with all these bloggers.

#PRStudChat January 19th Special Announcement

anuary 19th from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. ET is our #PRStudChat session, which will focus on a hot topic that’s weighing on the minds of many executives: the social media policy. Our discussion will cover everything from team development (who is responsible for policy creation) and the important areas to be addressed in a policy to how policies should be guiding employee social outreach and participation.

What’s Going On at Blasterous

Like most PR and communications professionals, I’ve been paying attention to the location based companies and how this space is growing and capturing the attention of our brands. I met Tim Reeth, founder of Blasterous and took an immediate interest in what his company was doing with its location based services.

Social Media at CIC

This week, I had the pleasure of co-presenting with Dr. Walter Kimbrough, who is the President of Philander Smith College in Little Rock, Arkansas. We spoke at the Council of Independent Colleges (CIC) Conference in Palm Springs on the topic of Social Media 101.

Kicking off #PRStudChat in 2011

Happy New Year and all the best to our friends and colleagues in 2011! #PRStudchat is ready to begin another exciting year of insight, fun, friendship and opportunity. We want to start 2011 with a strong focus on social media strategy, planning and policy-making. Our topic has been in the news and is on the mind of employees, executives and business owners. It’s the social media policy and there’s a lot of ground to cover in one chat session.

New Year’s Resolutions

It’s that time of year again…when we all share New Year’s resolutions. Here are my resolutions for 2011, as they relate to PR and communications. I hope that you will share yours with me. I hope that your New Year is healthy, happy and prosperous!