New stats from a Text100 survey show that the public relations/blogger relationship has little room for growth.
Of the U.S. based bloggers contacted for the survey 100 percent said they’d been contacted by a PR representative in the last six months and 96 percent say such contact happens at least once a week, despite only 89 [...]
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A few people have covered the launch by Muck Rack of a new service that publishes one-line, 130 character press releases to Twitter for companies. It’s a variation on their existing offering, which aggregates tweets from journalists. The new press release distribution is designed to show off those corporate release tweets to that same journalistic [...]
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If you’re in the tech industry, especially in tech PR, then you’ve heard about the latest announcement from TechCrunch: “Death to the Embargo.” Gone are the days of pre-briefs, big bang launches, and exclusives…at least on TechCrunch. Michael Arrington’s 879 word diatribe explains the sequence of events, from cell phone stalking to [...]
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A couple of memes have sprouted up around the web from influential media and analysts about how they would like to be pitched in the future. Folks like Stowe Boyd and Marshall Kirkpatrick are turning to the communication channels they like best to help cut through the noise In an increasingly loud media space.
First [...]
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