Month: June 2008

Slideshow: New Media Promotion

Below are the slides from the presentation Dan Forbush and I gave at last week’s conference on obtaining regional and national publicity. I’m not sure the slides make much sense out of context, but here they are.

Also, Dan has created a Facebook group for discussing these sorts of things, so for those of you who don’t have enough social networks in your lives, here’s one focused on college and university approaches to social media: The College Social Media Study.

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Twitterpitching?

pitch.jpgWhile we’re on the subject of pitching to bloggers and traditional media, thought I’d pass along this article from Ragan that landed in my inbox today:

Is Twitter the newest and coolest way to pitch the media?

Slowly but surely, mainstream journalists (not just the tech media) are turning up on Twitter and often sharing thoughts on stories they’re covering. …

Of course, the day may soon come when “TwitReleases” are commonplace. In his PR Squared blog, Todd Defren, principal at SHIFT Communications in Boston, recently pondered the impact of a press release from Softbank that was just one sentence: “SOFTBANK MOBILE Corp. today announced it has signed an agreement with Apple to bring the iPhone to Japan later this year.”

Said Defren on his blog, “[I] realized that this Softbank/iPhone deal could have been announced via Twitter, with 17 character spaces to spare!”

What’s the takeaway for PR professionals? Start practicing the craft of writing 15-word pitches.

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