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Brittany Aguilar

Web Now Second Only to TV as News Source


March 16th, 2011

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For media relations and communications professionals, understanding where target audiences go for news is critical. A new report from the Pew Research Center reveals that for the first time, the web has passed newspapers as the second most popular source of news. It’s second only to television.

We’ve been anticipating this milestone, but now that it’s here, it has significant impacts for our industry. Most importantly, this shift makes corporate blogs, Facebook pages and Twitter feeds even more important as official sources of news content from major brands.

News Consumers Are Turning to the Web

The Pew study explains that the web is a premier source for news,

For the first time, too, more people said they got news from the web than newspapers. The internet now trails only television among American adults as a destination for news, and the trend line shows the gap closing. Financially the tipping point also has come. When the final tally is in, online ad revenue in 2010 is projected to surpass print newspaper ad revenue for the first time. The problem for news is that by far the largest share of that online ad revenue goes to non-news sources, particularly to aggregators.

As aggregators, bloggers and community sites continue to pull in ad revenue, they will add staff and will become top sources for news and opinion online. This means that a solid digital strategy is critical for any communications department. Building relationships with online media – bloggers, influencers, key opinion leaders, Twitter users, Facebook fans and blog commenters – will become the more important than some relationships with traditional media.

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Bob Feldman

Nine More Characteristics of the Engaged Enterprise


May 17th, 2010

Originally Published PR Week, May 14, 2010

In my last column, we looked at seven internal changes that can help prepare your organization to become an “engaged enterprise” (def: a corporate business model that achieves an authentic, dynamic relationship between the company and its various stakeholders in which conversation and business ideas are shared up, down, and sideways).

As promised, this column focuses on the nine external moves necessary to achieve full engagement:

1. Recognize that media relationships have migrated. The communications group should have knowledge of and strong relationships with the top 10 digital influencers in each business segment of your company. The concept is not that different than the old days of media relationships, but not knowing these influencers is as wrong as not knowing your top-tier journalists.

2. Engage with customers for product innovation. Engaged enterprises regularly tap into their customers for product design and innovation. Regular use of crowdsourcing techniques makes such broad-based insight easy – and powerful. Check out Dell’s IdeaStorm for a good example. Great opportunity for communication executives to add real value across corporate functions.

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Joah Spearman

Have Press Releases Ever Meant So Little?


August 7th, 2009

In the old world, press releases were the preferred route to communicate important messages about your business or organization. Quarterly earnings? Press release. New board member? Press release. New produ

ct? Sure, there may be a blog or video, but typically only after the press release.

Then the higher powers (those brainiacs from Harvard, MIT and Stanford) created Web 2.0.

Now, some employee can catch wind of something, blog about it anonymously and it shows up in your Google alert with your company’s name on it. And changing your Network on Facebook is basically sending a press release to your friends saying “Hey! I changed jobs/cities!” Subsequent wall postings with “congrats” and “what next?” are to be expected.

In essence, the press release’s main job – to share previously withheld information with the public – is no longer one of exclusivity. (more…)

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