PR Needs Social Media to Survive
In a world where the traditional has been turned upside down, Public Relations is not exempt. All Paul Revere had to do was ride his horse through the town shouting but these days who uses horses any more! A good relationship with reporters can be important but it is not the end of the discussion. It seems as if social media does a much better and faster job of sharing information and building word of mouth than traditional newspaper, magazine or even TV or Radio.
Of course, these modes of communication are not dead but if they are to survive and be a viable way to create public awareness for business, social media will have to embraced and respected for what it brings to a PR campaign.
I found a great video from Web Marketing Toady that gives some advice on how local businesses can increase their presence by using social media tools for their PR efforts.
How Local PR Can Increase Traffic To Your Site – Lorrie Thomas
Here’s the DQ:
What has your business done to increase traffic either to your website or to your physical location by combining PR and social media tools? What do you want to understand how to do better in this area?


















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Hello. How is it going, today? You have here such a well kept blog. I have recently started my own site, and i have some trouble with alot of generic replies to my posts. What do you do with your site, do you have this kind of problems too? Best wishes, Tom I. Johnson
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Hi Tom, thanks for the compliment. Writing a blog is lonely work at first so it helps when someone lets you know they are reading. Well, I do have the standard amount of trouble with spam in the comments if that’s what you mean by generic. I use a wordpress plug in called Akismet. It tries to filter out the spam by pulling it onto a section on the dashboard so until I can have a chance to look at it. If it’s spam then I can delete it without having it hit the public post or if not then I can approve it. This helps. BTW, your English is just fine.