The document outlines an emerging media seminar presented by Michael Pranikoff, the Director of Emerging Media at PR Newswire. The seminar discusses best practices for using social media and emerging technologies to optimize public relations efforts, including listening to audiences, leveraging push and pull communications, and utilizing the long tail of coverage over time through various online and print publications.
1. PR NEWSWIRE
EMERGING MEDIA SEMINAR
LONDON APRIL 2009
Created by: Michael Pranikoff, PR Newswire Director of Emerging Media
2. Michael Pranikoff
Director, Emerging Media
PR Newswire
michael.pranikoff@prnewswire.com
www.delicious.com/michaelpranikoff
Twitter / @mpranikoff
Created by: Michael Pranikoff, PR Newswire Director of Emerging Media
3. Social Media – Who, What,
•
Where, Why & How
Listening to the audience(s)
•
The Power of Push & Pull
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15. Cardiff School of Journalism, The Quality and Independence of British
Journalism; February 2008
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17. The Long Tail of Public Relations
Mainstream Media Pickup
News Release
Blogs / Twitter / Online Pubs
Immediate Online Pickup
Weekly Trade Pubs
Monthly Trades
Quarterly Pubs / Journals
Search
Release Crosses Wire
Share
Blog
Conversation
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18. The Long Tail of Public
Relations Over Six Months
Conversation
Coverage/
Amount of
Time From Origination
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34. The Power of
PUSH & PULL
Photo credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alvarezandz/3296307865/
35. “I would expect that next year, people will share twice as
much information as they share this year, and next
year, they will be sharing twice as much as they did the
year before,” he said. 11/6/08 Web 2.0 Summit
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43. More RSS Feeds Makes
Your Content More
Accessible, Viewable,
and Useable by your
Audience
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45. Who Are The Global Bloggers?
technorati.com/blogging/state-of-the-blogosphere/
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46. Who Are The Global Bloggers?
technorati.com/blogging/state-of-the-blogosphere/
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49. So How Does This Relate to Me?
• Find out how many people are linking to my site in Delicious
• Find out how people are characterizing my company by words / tags
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51. How Do You Optimize a News Release?
o Front-End Optimization: Write
better news releases using
researched keywords, not jargon or
technical terms.
o Back-End Optimization: Work with
an optimization partner that can
establish a search-engine friendly
environment for your news release.
52. Front End Optimization
o Use well researched keywords or phrases
that you know are being used in searches.
Tools You Can Use for SEO
www.google.com/trends
www.google.com/insights/search
www.freekeywords.wordtracker.com
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53. Front End Optimization
o Use well researched keywords or phrases
that you know are being used in searches.
o Use your keywords/ phrases in your
Headline and Sub-headline (if you use
one)
o Keyword Density
o Use links in your release....but not just to
your homepage.
o Multimedia Content – like photos and
video add HUGE value to your release!
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54. Keyword Density: The number of times a
word or phrase appears in a block of
text. Optimal keyword density is between
1.5% - 3.5%. Text with a keyword
density greater than 4% will be identified
by search engines as spam.
Optimal Keyword Density =
1.5% - 3.5% per 250 words
OR
3 – 4 times for a 400 word release
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63. Michael Pranikoff
Director, Emerging Media
PR Newswire
michael.pranikoff@prnewswire.com
www.delicious.com/michaelpranikoff
Twitter / @mpranikoff
Created by: Michael Pranikoff, PR Newswire Director of Emerging Media