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    Modern PR:
    the art & science
    of integrated
    media influence
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                                        Modern PR: the art & science
                                        of integrated media influence
                             Today, PR professionals must manage the integrated flow of
                             influence amongowned, social, traditional and hybrid media – and
                             learn to trigger each in ways that set the others in motion.




                             New media, owned media, social media – each represents a giant step in
                             modern public relations. In little more than a decade, they have reinvented the
                             way information flows through business and society. Traditional media ceded
                             audience share to upstart Web-based outlets for news and information. Brands
                             began to produce content in their own right. And then social media emerged to
                             rewire the way people find, consume and share information.
                             Now, consensus is emerging that only by coordinating communications in an integrated
                             way across all four of these spheres of influence can today’s communications professional
                             maximize influence. The good news? An Edelman PR model shows how these traditional,
                             new (which Edelman calls “hybrid”), owned and social spheres intersect, enabling you to
                             leverage existing skills and content from one sphere in pursuit of influence in others.

                             This white paper focuses on today’s fastest growing sphere of influence – social media –
                             with an eye toward its role in integrated PR strategy. More specifically, the paper explores:
                                   > Locating audiences and their influencers
                                   > Using new influence analytics
                                   > Engaging big and small influencers
                                   > Turning owned media into earned media




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                             The rise of social media
                             Americans now spend some 15% – and counting – of their time online using a social
                             network, according to research firm comScore.1 Companies have moved right along with
                             them onto Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Groupon and the like. For example, 84% of Fortune
                             Global 100 companies participate in at least one social media platform, and many have
                             a growing number of accounts in multiple social venues, according to Burson-Marsteller
                             research.2

                             This is the new decision landscape; it’s where your customers and potential customers are
                             considering purchases and making decisions. As they do, they are turning for advice not
                             only to traditional media, but to their networks of friends, peers and favorite tastemakers,
                             trendsetters and thought leaders. Think of them all – yourself included – as influencers.
                             Today, influencers come in a growing number of shapes and sizes and – thanks to social
                             media – their networked influence can be wielded far, fast and wide on the Web (whether
                             fixed or mobile.)

                                                “The only logical thing to do is to embrace the dialogue from the outset,” says
     “  Social media can get
                                                David Kirkpatrick, a journalist and author of The Facebook Effect. “If you’re a
                                                brand, you have this opportunity for a dialogue, and if you choose not to avail
        your pieces in front of
                                                yourself of it, it will happen anyway – probably to your detriment,” he told the
        millions of people in a
                                                Pivot 20103 conference on social marketing strategies.
        matter of moments.

                                     ”
                           Andy Cutler
                                                PR professionals who “embrace the dialogue” are seeing a wealth of
                                                benefits. “Social media gives extra life to your stories beyond a press release
                   President/Founder,           and a Web site. It gives you much more freedom and can get your pieces
                 Cutler & Company PR
                                                in front of millions of people in a matter of moments,” says Andy Cutler,
                                                President/Founder of the Cutler & Company PR firm.

                             Helping to fuel social media’s rise for PR professionals are emerging tools that can track
                             some of the benefits Cutler describes. At the same time, search engine results and visits
                             to companies’ Web sites increasingly reflect the impact of social conversations. The
                             “networked influence” of social sharing is now generating more than 30% of Web site
                             referral traffic, according to June 2011 research published jointly by Rubinson Partners Inc.,
                             ShareThis and StarcomMediaVest Group.4




                             1. the 2010 U.S. Digital Year in Review, comScore, 2/7/2011, http://www.comscore.com/Press_events/Presentations_
                                Whitepapers/2011/2010_US_Digital_Year_in_Review
                             2. 2011 Global Social Media Check-up, Burson-Marsteller, 2/2011, http://www.slideshare.net/BMGlobalNews/bur-
                                sonmarsteller-2011-global-social-media-checkup
                             3. Video: Pivot 2010 Day 1, “Media in the Social Age,” http://testing.pivotcon.com/Video/pivotvideopage.html
                             4. “Sharing: More than Just Fans, Friends, and Followers,” Rubinson Partners inc., Sharethis, StarcomMediaVest
                                Group, 6/2011, http://www.slideshare.net/Missypoo/sharing-more-thanjustfansfriendsfollowersiwny-8224709



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                             Identifying influence in social media
                             The trick for PR professionals is to find the formula that unleashes that social networked
                             influence for their brand.

                          Influence is clearly in evidence whenever the social sphere sifts rapidly through its own
                          cacophony of content to surface what is new, entertaining, appealing or even essential.
                          Information flows or stops dead – a brand shines or tarnishes, action is taken or the moment
                          simply passes – depending on whether influence is engaged in social media. Every day,
                                                                            this happens over and over through 200
           Ten ReaSonS PeoPle Re-TweeT                                      million daily tweets on Twitter,5 750 million
                                                                            worldwide members posting on Facebook6
           What could motivate your audience to act upon your               and growing conversations on dozens of
           information? A recent survey by Microsoft highlights             other social networks.
           these reasons:
                                                                            And yet, “in a world where all information
           1. To amplify or spread tweets to new audiences                  is crowdsourced, how is it that an agenda
           2. To entertain or inform a specific audience, or as an act      gets set? What bubbles to the top …
              of curation                                                   political issues, entertainment, products
                                                                            that people get excited about?” asks
           3. To comment on someone’s tweet by re-tweeting and
                                                                            HP Labs Social Computing Lab Director
              adding new content, often to begin a conversation
                                                                            Bernardo A. Huberman. “The very large
           4. To make one’s presence as a listener visible                  scale of the networks underlying social
           5. To publicly agree with someone                                media makes it hard for any of these topics
                                                                            to get enough attention in order to rise to
           6. To validate others’ thoughts
                                                                            the most trending ones.”7
           7. As an act of friendship, loyalty or homage by drawing
                                                                            Attempts to answer Huberman’s “agenda”
              attention, sometimes via a re-tweet request
                                                                            question abound in the recent stream
           8. To recognize or refer to less popular people or less          of introductions and upgradings of
              visible content                                               analytical tools that attempt to measure
           9. For self-gain, either to gain followers or reciprocity        an individual’s “social score.” But some
              from more visible participants                                measurements, while tempting, can
                                                                            mislead. Is popularity, for instance, a
           10. To save tweets for future personal access
                                                                            measure of influence?
                                                                     Source: Microsoft
                                                                                         Not necessarily. “There is an enormous
                                                                                         amount of passivity in the social network,”

                             5. As of June 2011: “twitter Reaches 200 Million tweets A Day, But how Many Come From Bots?” techcrunch, erick
                                Schonfeld, 6/30/11, http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/30/twitter-3200-million-tweets/
                             6. As of June 2011: “Facebook says membership has grown to 750 million,” USA Today, Jon Swartz, 7/6/11,
                                http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2011-07-06-facebook-skype-growth_n.htm
                             7. Video: ‘”What Makes a tweet influential?” hP Labs, Bernardo huberman, 8/5/2010, http://h30507.www3.hp.com/
                                t5/Data-Central/What-makes-a-tweet-influential-New-hP-Labs-social-media-research/ba-p/81855

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                             according to a report by Huberman and a team of researchers.8 As he describes it: “Most people
                             seem to attend to something – we don’t really know if they do – but very few pass it along.”
                             His takeaway is that influence in social media is not simply about popularity, as defined by the
                             number of people following any one individual or organization. The greatest impact is achieved
                             in engaged networks of influence that share and act on information, passing it on, voting it up
                             and adding their own information – actions that are increasingly being measured.

                                                  Compounding the difficulty of measuring influence is the current state
        The greatest impact is                    of flux in the social sphere. Consider just this one development: the June
        achieved in engaged                       2011 Google+ launch, which created a new social networking hierarchy of
        networks of influence                     relationships, including circles and hangouts.9
        that share and act on
                                                  “If Google+ and the ‘circles’ concept take off, companies could have a much
        information, passing
        it on, voting it up                       harder time reaching people through social media,” Forrester Research Vice
        and adding their own                      President Nate Elliott recently blogged. “If users spend more time posting
        information – actions                     content to and reading content from just their circles of friends, doesn’t that
        that are increasingly                     make it harder for marketers to get a message through?”10
        being measured.                      Eli Pariser, author of The Filter Bubble, underscores this argument from a
                                             consumer’s point of view. With increasing personalization of search engines as
                             well as social networks, “your filter bubble is this unique, personal universe of information …
                             and it’s becoming more and more difficult to escape,” he says.11

                             The long and the short of it is that “any social media user could potentially be an
                             influencer,” Neal Schaffer, President of the WindMill Marketing social media consultancy,
                             recently blogged.12 “That being said, some people or businesses use social networking sites
                             more than others, some have more reach than others and some are considered to have
                             more thought leadership in their industries or professions than others.”


                             locating your audience and their influencers
                             Try answering these three questions about your audiences to begin to identify their
                             networks of influence:
                                     > Where are they most likely to hang out online?
                                     > What do they care about?
                                     > Who else cares about these things?

                             8.    “influence and Passivity in Social Media,” hP Labs, Bernardo A. huberman and co-authors, 8/2010,
                                   http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/scl/papers/influence/influence.pdf
                             9.    Google, 6/11, http://www.google.com/+/demo/
                             10.   “is Google+ Going to Kill Facebook?” Forrester Blogs, Nate elliott, 6/30/11, http://blogs.forrester.com/nate_
                                   elliott/11-06-30-is_google_going_to_kill_facebook?cm_mmc=RSS-_-MS-_-913-_-blog_2307
                             11.   Author Q&A with eli Pariser, Amazon.com, 5/11, http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1594203008/ref=as_li_qf_
                                   sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UtF8&tag=thefilbub-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASiN=1594203008
                             12.   “there’s No Such thing as Social Media ROi,” WindMill Networking Blog, Neal Schaffer, 7/14/2011,
                                   http://windmillnetworking.com/2011/07/14/why-no-social-media-roi/

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                             Think of the ocean of information available, and think of your audiences as schools of fish
                             swimming around in that ocean. You’re not sure where they are.

                                                So the first rule of influence is this: listen.

     “  There’s one person                      Figure out which platform your audience is most likely to frequent. “If you
                                                are focusing on teens, for instance, you can cross LinkedIn and Twitter off of
        out of a hundred who
        is really active, who                   your list, and double down on Facebook and YouTube,” advises PR Newswire
        is really pushing the                   Vice President of Social Media Sarah Skerik. “Do you have a B2B focus?
        agenda.                                 LinkedIn and Twitter will be key, but don’t discount YouTube and Facebook.”
                                     ”
                            John Salak
                                           Then, ask what your audience cares about. Schools of fish on Twitter are
                       The Salak Group     often organized by people into lists they follow (think @chriskidster/tech-
                                           tech-and-tech.) People also employ hashtags (think #fairtrade) to aggregate
                                           related subject matter from across Twitter into a single feed, providing a
                             font of tweets on topics you might care about as well.

                             At this point, many PR professionals begin looking for the biggest fish, subscribing to the
                             1-9-90 rule of influence. “There’s one person out of a hundred who is really active, who is
                             really pushing the agenda,” explains John Salak of
                             The Salak Group, a communications consultancy.                                                 1
                             “Another nine might respond to the agenda,
                             though it’s more reactive. And then there are the                                              9
                             90 who are only reading this social conversation.”
                             While there is value in each group – “they all may
                             buy or grab your message,” as Salak says – “you are
                                                                                                                           90
                             going to concentrate on the 1s and the 9s because
                             they’re the ones moving the message.”



                             The many sizes of influence
                             Like any rule of thumb, the 1-9-90 approach should be applied with care. The dynamics
                             of influence, like so much else in social media, “vary by topic, by client, by circumstance,
                             and it’s a topic that has a lot of gray area,” says Edelman PR’s Steve Rubel, Executive Vice
                             President for Global Strategy and Insights.

                             Some in the field are passionate about the need to address the small fish in their small
                             ponds. “Technically, we are missing out on a thousand times more efficient word of mouth
                             than we have right now,” according to Bostjan Spetic, CEO of Zemanta, provider of an
                             online content production platform. “The mom and pop bloggers, the local gurus who help
                             their 20-30 friends with actual advice – these are the ones we should be targeting,” he told
                             the Pivot 2010 conference.13

                             13. Video: Pivot 2010 Day 2, “Mixed Media, Consumer Profiling…” http://testing.pivotcon.com/Video/pivotvideopage.html
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                                                                     Similarly, Facebook Product Manager Paul Adams has posted
             TacTIcS To engage                                       research online14 showing that “strong ties often wield the
             youR audIence                                           most influence over people’s decisions. For example, they
                                                                     are often the biggest factor in purchase decisions.” More
             1. Follow the influencers your
                                                                     evidence comes from a Facebook poll asking, “What makes
                audience follows
                                                                     you want to follow a page?” The overwhelmingly winning
             2. Use hashtags to reach                                answer was “your friends have liked it.”15
                communities of interest
                                                                     Not all friends are equal, though. “Almost everyone on
             3. Create and follow lists                              Facebook connects with people they don’t actually know in
             4. Acknowledge your own followers                       the real world, despite the intent of Facebook to the contrary,”
                and reciprocate by engaging in                       says The Facebook Effect author Kirkpatrick.16
                their conversations                                  It’s not so unlike the real world. “I’ll listen to you about
             5. Use available tools to measure                       certain subjects but not about other subjects. It’s not just
                influence, but use your                              a blanket endorsement because we’re ‘friends,’” says DIGO
                judgement, too                                       Brands Managing Director Jeff Pundyk.

             6. Post thought pieces that will                        The small but powerful influencers in their own circles
                engage others                                        are hard to identify, locate and reach. And audiences may
                                                                     atomize in yet another way with the growth of mobile social
             7. Pose questions
                                                                     networks. The number of mobile social network users will
             8. Integrate images and video                           reach some 79.1 million in the U.S. alone by 2015, according
                                                                     to eMarketer,17 with the adoption of location-based services,
             9. Reach out to influencers directly
                                                                     such as Foursquare and Gowalla, rising with it. With the
                with targeted personal messages
                                                                     growth of on-the-spot decision making, powered by
             10. Create social events                                smartphones, influence could again be on the move.

                                                                     The ten tactics listed in the accompanying box can help keep
                                                                     you in your audience’s decision loop.



                             The new tools of influence building
                             Whether in search of big fish or little, PR professionals are diving into analytics. They are
                             using new tools to help them rethink the kinds of people to develop relationships with,
                             and to stay in the loop as key audiences increasingly consult their own networks, talk to
                             advocates and enthusiasts – not just their favorite journalists or bloggers – and come to
                             their decisions in entirely new ways.

                             14. “the Real Life Social Network,” Think Outside In, Facebook Product Manager Paul Adams, 7/12/11, http://www.
                                 thinkoutsidein.com/blog/2011/07/why-i-left-google-what-happened-to-my-book-what-i-work-on-at-facebook/
                             15. Facebook poll, https://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=question&id=10150288915486729&qa_ref=ssp
                             16. Video: Pivot 2010 Day 1, “Media in the Social Age,” http://testing.pivotcon.com/Video/pivotvideopage.html
                             17. “Beyond the Check-in: Best Practices for Location-Based Marketing,” eMarketer, Noah elkin, 1/2011,
                                 http://www.emarketer.com/Report.aspx?code=emarketer_2000746

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                                                                         Increasingly, influencers are rated with such social
              How klouT RaTeS InfluenceRS                                scores as Klout18 and on the Empire Avenue “social
                                                                         stock market.” Influence is measured in terms such
              > How many people do you reach?
                                                                         as number of followers, number of individuals one is
              > How many people respond to your                          following (and the relationship between the two) and
                messages and spread them further?                        whether either advances the content received to other
                                                                         influencers and/or otherwise votes it up such indexes
              > How often do top influencers share
                and respond to your content?                             as Twitter’s Trending Topics.

                                                                   Tools like Twellow.com can help identify who is talking
                                                                   about what, in combination with how influential they are.
                                                                   Real-time search engines show popular topics. There are
                             even tools for the most influential time of day to tweet.

                             But, as in all human endeavors, there is no substitute for applying your own common
                             sense. By some measures, a hipster with a parody Twitter feed can have the same social
                             score as a dedicated social advocate. As communications and content strategist Mark
                             Evans puts it: “Professionals can use their experience and expertise to layer intelligence,
                             perspective and insight on top of the social media data.”19



                             Traditional media through the social lens
                             PR professionals have spent their careers working with influencers in traditional media. The
                             good news is that you can leverage those relationships in social media, too, as more and
                             more mainstream media outlets and journalists continue to set up shop in the social layer.

                             In fact, as proof of the need for an integrated PR strategy, traditional media has become
                             one of the top influencers in social media – and vice versa. According to another study
                             by HP Labs’ Social Computing Research Group, “mainstream media play a role in most
                             trending topics and actually act as feeders of these trends.”20 Think of all of the TV
                             segments you’ve seen about viral videos, top tweeters and social media faux pas.

                             This is blurring the lines between mainstream media and the newer hybrids, such as
                             Huffington Post, TechCrunch and Politico. Edelman’s Rubel describes these as “digitally born
                             and bred with extremely strong amplification in social media.” Leading PR professionals are
                             now approaching both traditional and hybrid media using similar tactics, and social media is
                             a key and growing part of the mix. Illustrating this approach, an Arketi Group survey of B2B
                             journalists showed 64% spending more than 20 hours a week online, of which 69% are using
                             social networking in their work.21
                             18. Klout, http://klout.com/corp/kscore
                             19. “Social Media Monitoring: A Beautiful Marriage Between Man & Machine,” SocialMediatoday, Mark evans,
                                 4/5/10, http://socialmediatoday.com/index.php?q=SMC/186623
                             20. “influence and Passivity in Social Media,” hP Labs’ Social Computing Lab, Bernardo huberman, 9/20/11
                             21. “2011 Arketi Web Watch Media Survey: inside BtoB Media Usage of Social Media,” Arketi Group, 2011,
                                 http://www.arketi.com/pdfs/Arketi_Web_Watch_2011.pdf
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                             “It’s happening on two fronts: inside out and outside in,” Cutler says.

                             On the one hand, company information that once made it onto a media outlet’s news
                             pages or Web sites now “earns” greater visibility via social media outlets used by
                             publishers and individual journalists. Traditional media outlets troll social media for trends
                             and stories. Individual journalists use Twitter feeds as a latter-day “man in the street”
                             interview.

                             On the other hand, following a journalist or mailing directly via social networks are
                             new ways for PR to make contact. Early adopters in the media “are almost more likely to
                             respond to somebody if they see something on Twitter than if something is sent to them
                             randomly in an e-mail box,” Cutler says. “You might want to track those people. Watch
                             what they write about. Make your contact relevant to what they have written about –
                             almost like a pitch. Only now you can do that directly. And with smartphones, they’re going
                             to see that before they even get back to their desks.”

                             Exercise caution, though. Directly contacting some journalists and bloggers via social media
                             can, at times, be viewed as noisy – interviewees warned. Personalizing the message can help.



                             Turning “owned” media into “earned” media
                             Great content, strategically communicated, creates influence. Content is the “currency” of
                             social media,22 with companies today increasingly publishing “owned content” in the form
                                            of white papers, videos, blogs and other online media.

     “  People need to hear
                                                 With a strategy integrating owned media and social media, a brand’s own
                                                 content can readily be found, consumed and shared by online audiences,
        something three to
                                                 creating the type of credibility associated with earned media and triggering
        five times before it
                                                 additional visibility across social networks and search engines as a result.
        sinks in.

                          Steve Rubel
                                     ”           However, to make inroads, the content must be of intrinsic value to your
                                                 audience – whether it’s actionable, entertaining or otherwise compelling,
           executive Vice President of
                                                 depending on your brand and its goals.
         Global Strategy and insights,
                          edelman PR
                                            Atomizing and re-distributing owned content in tweetable increments over
                                            time is a new best practice that can extend content life and ensure wider
                                            uptake. “What we’ve seen is that people need to hear something three to
                             five times before it sinks in,” Rubel says.

                             Be open to using various kinds of content on the social internet. Videos and infographics
                             are considered by many in PR to be particularly effective. Specialized social networks,
                             such as Quora, offer additional opportunities – in Quora’s case, to post informed answers
                             to socialized questions, thus establishing yourself or your brand as a subject-matter

                             22. Content: marketing’ ‘currency’ in social media that accelerates performance, PR Newswire, 2011
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                             expert. And entirely new forms of output are being incorporated into the PR social toolkit,
                             including sharable Twitter-based newspapers enabled by such startups as Paper.li and
                             The Tweeted Times, which aggregate news in an individual’s Twitter stream and rank it by
                             popularity in that person’s network.

                             Take care that all of your social interactions are not just about your brand or ideas, though.
                             Interaction is another watchword in social media. Burson-Marsteller reports that 67% of
                             companies use the @ sign to reference or direct
                             tweets at other Twitter accounts, which “suggests a
                             much higher level of engagement by corporations, as
                                                                                                                         70
                             they use Twitter to converse with others and not just
                             push out their own messages.”23 A popular rule-of-
                             thumb is the 70-20-10 rule: 70% of a brand’s social
                                                                                                                         20
                             media should involve content of general interest to
                             the community or industry, 20% should simply be
                             conversation – responding to others – and then the
                                                                                                                         10
                             community will accept 10% direct promotion.24



            fIVe TIPS foR SocIalIZIng conTenT

            one                                Two                      THRee                        fouR                                       fIVe
            Tweet all of the angles            Spread multiple          Use correct and              Structure the                              Encourage
            of your content to                 tweets out over          effective hashtags           content to be                              re-tweets (RTs)
            maximize interest in your          time to expose           to make your                 Twitter-friendly.                          by keeping
            message. Press releases,           the content to           content easy to              Encourage others                           tweets short.
            white papers, blog                 the broadest             find. Take the               to tweet your                              Pithy tweets are
            posts and case studies             possible                 time to research             messages by                                catchy and leave
            often contain multiple             audience.                and identify (and            offering plenty                            plenty of room
            angles. Find and tweet             Remember                 then use!) the               of “tweetable                              to accommodate
            them all. Additionally,            that Twitter is a        hashtags used by             tidbits” like bullet                       others
            if the content includes            real-time news           others. (Hashtags            points and well-                           re-tweeting the
            infographics, photos or            service for many         aggregate related            edited headings.                           message.
            video, you can tweet               people. Timing           subject matter in
            those separate elements.           matters.                 a single feed.)

                                                                        Source: “Five Tips For Tweeting Press Releases & Other Content,” Beyond PR blog




                             23. 2011 Global Social Media Check-up, Burson-Marsteller, 2/2011
                                 http://www.slideshare.net/BMGlobalNews/bursonmarsteller-2011-global-social-media-checkup
                             24. Mastering Public Relations in Social Media, PR Newswire, 2011

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                             Integrated PR-and-social-media in real life
                             To understand how an integrated PR strategy emphasizing social media actually works,
                             we’ve closely examined a specific instance at Brown University. Researchers with the
                             Costs of War project at the university’s Watson Institute for International Studies
                             released findings in June, in advance of the tenth anniversary of 9/11. In the interest of
                             immediacy, and to engage a broader audience, they decided they could not rely only on the
                             conventional and lengthy academic publishing route.

                             They instead built a highly accessible costsofwar.org Web site summarizing findings in
                             plain English with dramatic infographics, videos and social media hooks (and, yes, PDFs of
                             nearly two dozen academic papers.)

                             Implementation of media outreach and social media strategies began weeks before the
                             release, with a media alert and invitations to a Facebook event on related Facebook pages.
                             Also building anticipation were an @costsofwar Twitter feed as well as other Brown
                             University and Watson Institute Twitter and Facebook feeds, a Tumblr blog and a blog on
                             Brown’s own globalconversation.org site. Relevant news stories from around the world
                             were curated and shared via these social network feeds.

                             Advance work with Reuters on a global rollout preceded a targeted press release
                             distribution. Hybrid media was key. Huffington Post was offered an exclusive Costs of War
                             video and ran it with the Reuters wire report in its coveted lead story spot. Journalists,
                             bloggers and analysts were followed on Twitter and Facebook, with some contacted
                             directly via Twitter.

                             Following the launch, integrated outreach has been continuing through 9/11 and beyond.
                             Among the features:
                                   > Staged roll out of five videos
                                   > Tweets and Facebook posts of “facts of the day,” infographics, videos and other
                                     information “atomized” from the academic papers
                                   > Curated posts of others’ articles, blogs and commentary on the findings – including
                                     some with deep links to related project research
                                   > A Reddit interview with researchers
                                   > Hashtags, including #AfghanistanTuesday to widen the audience beyond @costsofwar
                                   > A second Facebook event featuring radio station KPFA’s 3-1/2 hour live program
                                     with many of the project researchers
                                   > A second media advisory offering interviews to journalists working on 9/11 features
                                   > An alert on PR Newswire’s ProfNet Connect expert community
                                   > Tools including a HootSuite dashboard for managing messages, TweetDeck
                                     monitoring and Google analytics



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                             So far, this integrated approach has helped deliver hundreds of resulting traditional and
                             hybrid media placements in print and on air, and earned tens of thousands of visits to the
                             Costs of War Web site – levels that are far beyond what’s typical for the institute. According
                             to Google Analytics, Facebook (both Web-bound and mobile) was the second largest
                             source of referrals, following Yahoo! News.



                             conclusion: integrated influence has changed PR forever
                             Integrated PR strategies require investment – in time, money and creativity – but
                             experience shows that the returns can be worth it. Owned media, social media, traditional
                             media, hybrid media – the modern PR professional not only engages in all of these spheres
                             of influence, but also triggers them in ways that set the others in motion.

                             Is it too much to say that the Twitter list has become the new rolodex? Perhaps – or
                             perhaps not. Either way, what’s clear is that the prototypical well-connected PR agent of
                             today must possess more and more social media panache. And the business of influence
                             will never be the same.




                             about PR newswire
                             PR Newswire (www.prnewswire.com) is the premier global provider of multimedia platforms
                             and solutions that enable marketers, corporate communicators, sustainability officers,
                             public affairs and investor relations officers to leverage content to engage with all their key
                             audiences. Having pioneered the commercial news distribution industry 56 years ago,
                             PR Newswire today provides end-to-end solutions to produce, optimize and target content –
                             from rich media to online video to multimedia – and then distribute content and measure
                             results across traditional, digital, social, search and mobile channels. Combining the world’s
                             largest multi-channel, multi-cultural content distribution and optimization network with
                             comprehensive workflow tools and platforms, PR Newswire enables the world’s enterprises
                             to engage opportunity everywhere it exists. PR Newswire serves tens of thousands of clients
                             from offices in the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa and the Asia-Pacific region, and is a
                             UBM plc company.




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  • 1. White PaPer Modern PR: the art & science of integrated media influence ............ ENGAGE OPPORTUNITY EVERYWHERE
  • 2. ............ ENGAGE OPPORTUNITY EVERYWHERE White PAPeR Modern PR: the art & science of integrated media influence Today, PR professionals must manage the integrated flow of influence amongowned, social, traditional and hybrid media – and learn to trigger each in ways that set the others in motion. New media, owned media, social media – each represents a giant step in modern public relations. In little more than a decade, they have reinvented the way information flows through business and society. Traditional media ceded audience share to upstart Web-based outlets for news and information. Brands began to produce content in their own right. And then social media emerged to rewire the way people find, consume and share information. Now, consensus is emerging that only by coordinating communications in an integrated way across all four of these spheres of influence can today’s communications professional maximize influence. The good news? An Edelman PR model shows how these traditional, new (which Edelman calls “hybrid”), owned and social spheres intersect, enabling you to leverage existing skills and content from one sphere in pursuit of influence in others. This white paper focuses on today’s fastest growing sphere of influence – social media – with an eye toward its role in integrated PR strategy. More specifically, the paper explores: > Locating audiences and their influencers > Using new influence analytics > Engaging big and small influencers > Turning owned media into earned media Copyright © 2011 PR Newswire Association LLC. All Rights Reserved. 2
  • 3. ............ White PAPeR Modern PR ENGAGE OPPORTUNITY EVERYWHERE The rise of social media Americans now spend some 15% – and counting – of their time online using a social network, according to research firm comScore.1 Companies have moved right along with them onto Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Groupon and the like. For example, 84% of Fortune Global 100 companies participate in at least one social media platform, and many have a growing number of accounts in multiple social venues, according to Burson-Marsteller research.2 This is the new decision landscape; it’s where your customers and potential customers are considering purchases and making decisions. As they do, they are turning for advice not only to traditional media, but to their networks of friends, peers and favorite tastemakers, trendsetters and thought leaders. Think of them all – yourself included – as influencers. Today, influencers come in a growing number of shapes and sizes and – thanks to social media – their networked influence can be wielded far, fast and wide on the Web (whether fixed or mobile.) “The only logical thing to do is to embrace the dialogue from the outset,” says “ Social media can get David Kirkpatrick, a journalist and author of The Facebook Effect. “If you’re a brand, you have this opportunity for a dialogue, and if you choose not to avail your pieces in front of yourself of it, it will happen anyway – probably to your detriment,” he told the millions of people in a Pivot 20103 conference on social marketing strategies. matter of moments. ” Andy Cutler PR professionals who “embrace the dialogue” are seeing a wealth of benefits. “Social media gives extra life to your stories beyond a press release President/Founder, and a Web site. It gives you much more freedom and can get your pieces Cutler & Company PR in front of millions of people in a matter of moments,” says Andy Cutler, President/Founder of the Cutler & Company PR firm. Helping to fuel social media’s rise for PR professionals are emerging tools that can track some of the benefits Cutler describes. At the same time, search engine results and visits to companies’ Web sites increasingly reflect the impact of social conversations. The “networked influence” of social sharing is now generating more than 30% of Web site referral traffic, according to June 2011 research published jointly by Rubinson Partners Inc., ShareThis and StarcomMediaVest Group.4 1. the 2010 U.S. Digital Year in Review, comScore, 2/7/2011, http://www.comscore.com/Press_events/Presentations_ Whitepapers/2011/2010_US_Digital_Year_in_Review 2. 2011 Global Social Media Check-up, Burson-Marsteller, 2/2011, http://www.slideshare.net/BMGlobalNews/bur- sonmarsteller-2011-global-social-media-checkup 3. Video: Pivot 2010 Day 1, “Media in the Social Age,” http://testing.pivotcon.com/Video/pivotvideopage.html 4. “Sharing: More than Just Fans, Friends, and Followers,” Rubinson Partners inc., Sharethis, StarcomMediaVest Group, 6/2011, http://www.slideshare.net/Missypoo/sharing-more-thanjustfansfriendsfollowersiwny-8224709 Copyright © 2011 PR Newswire Association LLC. All Rights Reserved. 3
  • 4. ............ White PAPeR Modern PR ENGAGE OPPORTUNITY EVERYWHERE Identifying influence in social media The trick for PR professionals is to find the formula that unleashes that social networked influence for their brand. Influence is clearly in evidence whenever the social sphere sifts rapidly through its own cacophony of content to surface what is new, entertaining, appealing or even essential. Information flows or stops dead – a brand shines or tarnishes, action is taken or the moment simply passes – depending on whether influence is engaged in social media. Every day, this happens over and over through 200 Ten ReaSonS PeoPle Re-TweeT million daily tweets on Twitter,5 750 million worldwide members posting on Facebook6 What could motivate your audience to act upon your and growing conversations on dozens of information? A recent survey by Microsoft highlights other social networks. these reasons: And yet, “in a world where all information 1. To amplify or spread tweets to new audiences is crowdsourced, how is it that an agenda 2. To entertain or inform a specific audience, or as an act gets set? What bubbles to the top … of curation political issues, entertainment, products that people get excited about?” asks 3. To comment on someone’s tweet by re-tweeting and HP Labs Social Computing Lab Director adding new content, often to begin a conversation Bernardo A. Huberman. “The very large 4. To make one’s presence as a listener visible scale of the networks underlying social 5. To publicly agree with someone media makes it hard for any of these topics to get enough attention in order to rise to 6. To validate others’ thoughts the most trending ones.”7 7. As an act of friendship, loyalty or homage by drawing Attempts to answer Huberman’s “agenda” attention, sometimes via a re-tweet request question abound in the recent stream 8. To recognize or refer to less popular people or less of introductions and upgradings of visible content analytical tools that attempt to measure 9. For self-gain, either to gain followers or reciprocity an individual’s “social score.” But some from more visible participants measurements, while tempting, can mislead. Is popularity, for instance, a 10. To save tweets for future personal access measure of influence? Source: Microsoft Not necessarily. “There is an enormous amount of passivity in the social network,” 5. As of June 2011: “twitter Reaches 200 Million tweets A Day, But how Many Come From Bots?” techcrunch, erick Schonfeld, 6/30/11, http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/30/twitter-3200-million-tweets/ 6. As of June 2011: “Facebook says membership has grown to 750 million,” USA Today, Jon Swartz, 7/6/11, http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2011-07-06-facebook-skype-growth_n.htm 7. Video: ‘”What Makes a tweet influential?” hP Labs, Bernardo huberman, 8/5/2010, http://h30507.www3.hp.com/ t5/Data-Central/What-makes-a-tweet-influential-New-hP-Labs-social-media-research/ba-p/81855 Copyright © 2011 PR Newswire Association LLC. All Rights Reserved. 4
  • 5. ............ White PAPeR Modern PR ENGAGE OPPORTUNITY EVERYWHERE according to a report by Huberman and a team of researchers.8 As he describes it: “Most people seem to attend to something – we don’t really know if they do – but very few pass it along.” His takeaway is that influence in social media is not simply about popularity, as defined by the number of people following any one individual or organization. The greatest impact is achieved in engaged networks of influence that share and act on information, passing it on, voting it up and adding their own information – actions that are increasingly being measured. Compounding the difficulty of measuring influence is the current state The greatest impact is of flux in the social sphere. Consider just this one development: the June achieved in engaged 2011 Google+ launch, which created a new social networking hierarchy of networks of influence relationships, including circles and hangouts.9 that share and act on “If Google+ and the ‘circles’ concept take off, companies could have a much information, passing it on, voting it up harder time reaching people through social media,” Forrester Research Vice and adding their own President Nate Elliott recently blogged. “If users spend more time posting information – actions content to and reading content from just their circles of friends, doesn’t that that are increasingly make it harder for marketers to get a message through?”10 being measured. Eli Pariser, author of The Filter Bubble, underscores this argument from a consumer’s point of view. With increasing personalization of search engines as well as social networks, “your filter bubble is this unique, personal universe of information … and it’s becoming more and more difficult to escape,” he says.11 The long and the short of it is that “any social media user could potentially be an influencer,” Neal Schaffer, President of the WindMill Marketing social media consultancy, recently blogged.12 “That being said, some people or businesses use social networking sites more than others, some have more reach than others and some are considered to have more thought leadership in their industries or professions than others.” locating your audience and their influencers Try answering these three questions about your audiences to begin to identify their networks of influence: > Where are they most likely to hang out online? > What do they care about? > Who else cares about these things? 8. “influence and Passivity in Social Media,” hP Labs, Bernardo A. huberman and co-authors, 8/2010, http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/scl/papers/influence/influence.pdf 9. Google, 6/11, http://www.google.com/+/demo/ 10. “is Google+ Going to Kill Facebook?” Forrester Blogs, Nate elliott, 6/30/11, http://blogs.forrester.com/nate_ elliott/11-06-30-is_google_going_to_kill_facebook?cm_mmc=RSS-_-MS-_-913-_-blog_2307 11. Author Q&A with eli Pariser, Amazon.com, 5/11, http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1594203008/ref=as_li_qf_ sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UtF8&tag=thefilbub-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASiN=1594203008 12. “there’s No Such thing as Social Media ROi,” WindMill Networking Blog, Neal Schaffer, 7/14/2011, http://windmillnetworking.com/2011/07/14/why-no-social-media-roi/ Copyright © 2011 PR Newswire Association LLC. All Rights Reserved. 5
  • 6. ............ White PAPeR Modern PR ENGAGE OPPORTUNITY EVERYWHERE Think of the ocean of information available, and think of your audiences as schools of fish swimming around in that ocean. You’re not sure where they are. So the first rule of influence is this: listen. “ There’s one person Figure out which platform your audience is most likely to frequent. “If you are focusing on teens, for instance, you can cross LinkedIn and Twitter off of out of a hundred who is really active, who your list, and double down on Facebook and YouTube,” advises PR Newswire is really pushing the Vice President of Social Media Sarah Skerik. “Do you have a B2B focus? agenda. LinkedIn and Twitter will be key, but don’t discount YouTube and Facebook.” ” John Salak Then, ask what your audience cares about. Schools of fish on Twitter are The Salak Group often organized by people into lists they follow (think @chriskidster/tech- tech-and-tech.) People also employ hashtags (think #fairtrade) to aggregate related subject matter from across Twitter into a single feed, providing a font of tweets on topics you might care about as well. At this point, many PR professionals begin looking for the biggest fish, subscribing to the 1-9-90 rule of influence. “There’s one person out of a hundred who is really active, who is really pushing the agenda,” explains John Salak of The Salak Group, a communications consultancy. 1 “Another nine might respond to the agenda, though it’s more reactive. And then there are the 9 90 who are only reading this social conversation.” While there is value in each group – “they all may buy or grab your message,” as Salak says – “you are 90 going to concentrate on the 1s and the 9s because they’re the ones moving the message.” The many sizes of influence Like any rule of thumb, the 1-9-90 approach should be applied with care. The dynamics of influence, like so much else in social media, “vary by topic, by client, by circumstance, and it’s a topic that has a lot of gray area,” says Edelman PR’s Steve Rubel, Executive Vice President for Global Strategy and Insights. Some in the field are passionate about the need to address the small fish in their small ponds. “Technically, we are missing out on a thousand times more efficient word of mouth than we have right now,” according to Bostjan Spetic, CEO of Zemanta, provider of an online content production platform. “The mom and pop bloggers, the local gurus who help their 20-30 friends with actual advice – these are the ones we should be targeting,” he told the Pivot 2010 conference.13 13. Video: Pivot 2010 Day 2, “Mixed Media, Consumer Profiling…” http://testing.pivotcon.com/Video/pivotvideopage.html Copyright © 2011 PR Newswire Association LLC. All Rights Reserved. 6
  • 7. ............ White PAPeR Modern PR ENGAGE OPPORTUNITY EVERYWHERE Similarly, Facebook Product Manager Paul Adams has posted TacTIcS To engage research online14 showing that “strong ties often wield the youR audIence most influence over people’s decisions. For example, they are often the biggest factor in purchase decisions.” More 1. Follow the influencers your evidence comes from a Facebook poll asking, “What makes audience follows you want to follow a page?” The overwhelmingly winning 2. Use hashtags to reach answer was “your friends have liked it.”15 communities of interest Not all friends are equal, though. “Almost everyone on 3. Create and follow lists Facebook connects with people they don’t actually know in 4. Acknowledge your own followers the real world, despite the intent of Facebook to the contrary,” and reciprocate by engaging in says The Facebook Effect author Kirkpatrick.16 their conversations It’s not so unlike the real world. “I’ll listen to you about 5. Use available tools to measure certain subjects but not about other subjects. It’s not just influence, but use your a blanket endorsement because we’re ‘friends,’” says DIGO judgement, too Brands Managing Director Jeff Pundyk. 6. Post thought pieces that will The small but powerful influencers in their own circles engage others are hard to identify, locate and reach. And audiences may atomize in yet another way with the growth of mobile social 7. Pose questions networks. The number of mobile social network users will 8. Integrate images and video reach some 79.1 million in the U.S. alone by 2015, according to eMarketer,17 with the adoption of location-based services, 9. Reach out to influencers directly such as Foursquare and Gowalla, rising with it. With the with targeted personal messages growth of on-the-spot decision making, powered by 10. Create social events smartphones, influence could again be on the move. The ten tactics listed in the accompanying box can help keep you in your audience’s decision loop. The new tools of influence building Whether in search of big fish or little, PR professionals are diving into analytics. They are using new tools to help them rethink the kinds of people to develop relationships with, and to stay in the loop as key audiences increasingly consult their own networks, talk to advocates and enthusiasts – not just their favorite journalists or bloggers – and come to their decisions in entirely new ways. 14. “the Real Life Social Network,” Think Outside In, Facebook Product Manager Paul Adams, 7/12/11, http://www. thinkoutsidein.com/blog/2011/07/why-i-left-google-what-happened-to-my-book-what-i-work-on-at-facebook/ 15. Facebook poll, https://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=question&id=10150288915486729&qa_ref=ssp 16. Video: Pivot 2010 Day 1, “Media in the Social Age,” http://testing.pivotcon.com/Video/pivotvideopage.html 17. “Beyond the Check-in: Best Practices for Location-Based Marketing,” eMarketer, Noah elkin, 1/2011, http://www.emarketer.com/Report.aspx?code=emarketer_2000746 Copyright © 2011 PR Newswire Association LLC. All Rights Reserved. 7
  • 8. ............ White PAPeR Modern PR ENGAGE OPPORTUNITY EVERYWHERE Increasingly, influencers are rated with such social How klouT RaTeS InfluenceRS scores as Klout18 and on the Empire Avenue “social stock market.” Influence is measured in terms such > How many people do you reach? as number of followers, number of individuals one is > How many people respond to your following (and the relationship between the two) and messages and spread them further? whether either advances the content received to other influencers and/or otherwise votes it up such indexes > How often do top influencers share and respond to your content? as Twitter’s Trending Topics. Tools like Twellow.com can help identify who is talking about what, in combination with how influential they are. Real-time search engines show popular topics. There are even tools for the most influential time of day to tweet. But, as in all human endeavors, there is no substitute for applying your own common sense. By some measures, a hipster with a parody Twitter feed can have the same social score as a dedicated social advocate. As communications and content strategist Mark Evans puts it: “Professionals can use their experience and expertise to layer intelligence, perspective and insight on top of the social media data.”19 Traditional media through the social lens PR professionals have spent their careers working with influencers in traditional media. The good news is that you can leverage those relationships in social media, too, as more and more mainstream media outlets and journalists continue to set up shop in the social layer. In fact, as proof of the need for an integrated PR strategy, traditional media has become one of the top influencers in social media – and vice versa. According to another study by HP Labs’ Social Computing Research Group, “mainstream media play a role in most trending topics and actually act as feeders of these trends.”20 Think of all of the TV segments you’ve seen about viral videos, top tweeters and social media faux pas. This is blurring the lines between mainstream media and the newer hybrids, such as Huffington Post, TechCrunch and Politico. Edelman’s Rubel describes these as “digitally born and bred with extremely strong amplification in social media.” Leading PR professionals are now approaching both traditional and hybrid media using similar tactics, and social media is a key and growing part of the mix. Illustrating this approach, an Arketi Group survey of B2B journalists showed 64% spending more than 20 hours a week online, of which 69% are using social networking in their work.21 18. Klout, http://klout.com/corp/kscore 19. “Social Media Monitoring: A Beautiful Marriage Between Man & Machine,” SocialMediatoday, Mark evans, 4/5/10, http://socialmediatoday.com/index.php?q=SMC/186623 20. “influence and Passivity in Social Media,” hP Labs’ Social Computing Lab, Bernardo huberman, 9/20/11 21. “2011 Arketi Web Watch Media Survey: inside BtoB Media Usage of Social Media,” Arketi Group, 2011, http://www.arketi.com/pdfs/Arketi_Web_Watch_2011.pdf Copyright © 2011 PR Newswire Association LLC. All Rights Reserved. 8
  • 9. ............ White PAPeR Modern PR ENGAGE OPPORTUNITY EVERYWHERE “It’s happening on two fronts: inside out and outside in,” Cutler says. On the one hand, company information that once made it onto a media outlet’s news pages or Web sites now “earns” greater visibility via social media outlets used by publishers and individual journalists. Traditional media outlets troll social media for trends and stories. Individual journalists use Twitter feeds as a latter-day “man in the street” interview. On the other hand, following a journalist or mailing directly via social networks are new ways for PR to make contact. Early adopters in the media “are almost more likely to respond to somebody if they see something on Twitter than if something is sent to them randomly in an e-mail box,” Cutler says. “You might want to track those people. Watch what they write about. Make your contact relevant to what they have written about – almost like a pitch. Only now you can do that directly. And with smartphones, they’re going to see that before they even get back to their desks.” Exercise caution, though. Directly contacting some journalists and bloggers via social media can, at times, be viewed as noisy – interviewees warned. Personalizing the message can help. Turning “owned” media into “earned” media Great content, strategically communicated, creates influence. Content is the “currency” of social media,22 with companies today increasingly publishing “owned content” in the form of white papers, videos, blogs and other online media. “ People need to hear With a strategy integrating owned media and social media, a brand’s own content can readily be found, consumed and shared by online audiences, something three to creating the type of credibility associated with earned media and triggering five times before it additional visibility across social networks and search engines as a result. sinks in. Steve Rubel ” However, to make inroads, the content must be of intrinsic value to your audience – whether it’s actionable, entertaining or otherwise compelling, executive Vice President of depending on your brand and its goals. Global Strategy and insights, edelman PR Atomizing and re-distributing owned content in tweetable increments over time is a new best practice that can extend content life and ensure wider uptake. “What we’ve seen is that people need to hear something three to five times before it sinks in,” Rubel says. Be open to using various kinds of content on the social internet. Videos and infographics are considered by many in PR to be particularly effective. Specialized social networks, such as Quora, offer additional opportunities – in Quora’s case, to post informed answers to socialized questions, thus establishing yourself or your brand as a subject-matter 22. Content: marketing’ ‘currency’ in social media that accelerates performance, PR Newswire, 2011 Copyright © 2011 PR Newswire Association LLC. All Rights Reserved. 9
  • 10. ............ White PAPeR Modern PR ENGAGE OPPORTUNITY EVERYWHERE expert. And entirely new forms of output are being incorporated into the PR social toolkit, including sharable Twitter-based newspapers enabled by such startups as Paper.li and The Tweeted Times, which aggregate news in an individual’s Twitter stream and rank it by popularity in that person’s network. Take care that all of your social interactions are not just about your brand or ideas, though. Interaction is another watchword in social media. Burson-Marsteller reports that 67% of companies use the @ sign to reference or direct tweets at other Twitter accounts, which “suggests a much higher level of engagement by corporations, as 70 they use Twitter to converse with others and not just push out their own messages.”23 A popular rule-of- thumb is the 70-20-10 rule: 70% of a brand’s social 20 media should involve content of general interest to the community or industry, 20% should simply be conversation – responding to others – and then the 10 community will accept 10% direct promotion.24 fIVe TIPS foR SocIalIZIng conTenT one Two THRee fouR fIVe Tweet all of the angles Spread multiple Use correct and Structure the Encourage of your content to tweets out over effective hashtags content to be re-tweets (RTs) maximize interest in your time to expose to make your Twitter-friendly. by keeping message. Press releases, the content to content easy to Encourage others tweets short. white papers, blog the broadest find. Take the to tweet your Pithy tweets are posts and case studies possible time to research messages by catchy and leave often contain multiple audience. and identify (and offering plenty plenty of room angles. Find and tweet Remember then use!) the of “tweetable to accommodate them all. Additionally, that Twitter is a hashtags used by tidbits” like bullet others if the content includes real-time news others. (Hashtags points and well- re-tweeting the infographics, photos or service for many aggregate related edited headings. message. video, you can tweet people. Timing subject matter in those separate elements. matters. a single feed.) Source: “Five Tips For Tweeting Press Releases & Other Content,” Beyond PR blog 23. 2011 Global Social Media Check-up, Burson-Marsteller, 2/2011 http://www.slideshare.net/BMGlobalNews/bursonmarsteller-2011-global-social-media-checkup 24. Mastering Public Relations in Social Media, PR Newswire, 2011 Copyright © 2011 PR Newswire Association LLC. All Rights Reserved. 10
  • 11. ............ White PAPeR Modern PR ENGAGE OPPORTUNITY EVERYWHERE Integrated PR-and-social-media in real life To understand how an integrated PR strategy emphasizing social media actually works, we’ve closely examined a specific instance at Brown University. Researchers with the Costs of War project at the university’s Watson Institute for International Studies released findings in June, in advance of the tenth anniversary of 9/11. In the interest of immediacy, and to engage a broader audience, they decided they could not rely only on the conventional and lengthy academic publishing route. They instead built a highly accessible costsofwar.org Web site summarizing findings in plain English with dramatic infographics, videos and social media hooks (and, yes, PDFs of nearly two dozen academic papers.) Implementation of media outreach and social media strategies began weeks before the release, with a media alert and invitations to a Facebook event on related Facebook pages. Also building anticipation were an @costsofwar Twitter feed as well as other Brown University and Watson Institute Twitter and Facebook feeds, a Tumblr blog and a blog on Brown’s own globalconversation.org site. Relevant news stories from around the world were curated and shared via these social network feeds. Advance work with Reuters on a global rollout preceded a targeted press release distribution. Hybrid media was key. Huffington Post was offered an exclusive Costs of War video and ran it with the Reuters wire report in its coveted lead story spot. Journalists, bloggers and analysts were followed on Twitter and Facebook, with some contacted directly via Twitter. Following the launch, integrated outreach has been continuing through 9/11 and beyond. Among the features: > Staged roll out of five videos > Tweets and Facebook posts of “facts of the day,” infographics, videos and other information “atomized” from the academic papers > Curated posts of others’ articles, blogs and commentary on the findings – including some with deep links to related project research > A Reddit interview with researchers > Hashtags, including #AfghanistanTuesday to widen the audience beyond @costsofwar > A second Facebook event featuring radio station KPFA’s 3-1/2 hour live program with many of the project researchers > A second media advisory offering interviews to journalists working on 9/11 features > An alert on PR Newswire’s ProfNet Connect expert community > Tools including a HootSuite dashboard for managing messages, TweetDeck monitoring and Google analytics Copyright © 2011 PR Newswire Association LLC. All Rights Reserved. 11
  • 12. ............ White PAPeR Modern PR ENGAGE OPPORTUNITY EVERYWHERE So far, this integrated approach has helped deliver hundreds of resulting traditional and hybrid media placements in print and on air, and earned tens of thousands of visits to the Costs of War Web site – levels that are far beyond what’s typical for the institute. According to Google Analytics, Facebook (both Web-bound and mobile) was the second largest source of referrals, following Yahoo! News. conclusion: integrated influence has changed PR forever Integrated PR strategies require investment – in time, money and creativity – but experience shows that the returns can be worth it. Owned media, social media, traditional media, hybrid media – the modern PR professional not only engages in all of these spheres of influence, but also triggers them in ways that set the others in motion. Is it too much to say that the Twitter list has become the new rolodex? Perhaps – or perhaps not. Either way, what’s clear is that the prototypical well-connected PR agent of today must possess more and more social media panache. And the business of influence will never be the same. about PR newswire PR Newswire (www.prnewswire.com) is the premier global provider of multimedia platforms and solutions that enable marketers, corporate communicators, sustainability officers, public affairs and investor relations officers to leverage content to engage with all their key audiences. Having pioneered the commercial news distribution industry 56 years ago, PR Newswire today provides end-to-end solutions to produce, optimize and target content – from rich media to online video to multimedia – and then distribute content and measure results across traditional, digital, social, search and mobile channels. Combining the world’s largest multi-channel, multi-cultural content distribution and optimization network with comprehensive workflow tools and platforms, PR Newswire enables the world’s enterprises to engage opportunity everywhere it exists. PR Newswire serves tens of thousands of clients from offices in the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa and the Asia-Pacific region, and is a UBM plc company. Copyright © 2011 PR Newswire Association LLC. All Rights Reserved. 12
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