Tag Archives: Social networks

Announcing PeerRatr: Rate Yourself and Your Peers

I’ve been writing about the subject of influence, looking at it from the perspective that influence increases when your peers are personally involved in the rating process.   In order to build your own influence and in order for someone to influence you, certain behavioral characteristics must be evaluated.  These characteristics range from Trust, Passion and [...]

Internal Social Media Education & Collaboration

I’ve been writing about the social media audit process, uncovering what an organization learns when they go through this exercise. My last post “The Social Media Audit: Five Common Missing Pieces” mentioned the fifth missing piece as “Training and Education.”

This week in Investor Relations

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The Social Media Audit

When you’re in your social media planning phases, an audit is critical to the success of your social communications program moving forward.  The social media audit is usually conducted to identify any of the challenges or problem areas within a brand’s current program, as well as to pinpoint genuine opportunities and what’s been working with [...]

This week in Investor Relations

A weekly compilation of news from around the world of investor relations. Compiled and edited by Pam Agnew, ABC. Study Recommends SEC Reorganization Congress may face a choice, the report says: Increase the agency’s budget, or change the SEC’s role “to fit available funding.” Washington Post The SEC Under Fire The Securities and Exchange Commission [...]

This week in Investor Relations

A weekly compilation of news from around the world of investor relations. Compiled and edited by Pam Agnew, ABC. Ex-Goldman Director Charged With Insider Trading The SEC charged Rajat Gupta, who has also served on the boards of Procter & Gamble and the parent company for American Airlines. Gupta was a guest at President Barack [...]

Social Media Policy Development: A Best Practice Approach

The key to building an effective social media policy is to customize the guidelines to meet the needs of your organization. A well developed policy will guide your employees in the many ways that they engage in social communications. The best practice approach requires that your organization invest the time, resources, and effort to plan and build a policy that empowers the organization, allows people to understand the value of social media and helps them to see how they can better participate as internal brand champions.

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!