03/04/11 Ben Garret Executive Producer, Vidicom Vice-chair Programming PRSA Health Academy  How Public Relations is Changing in 140 Characters or Less PRSA Health Academy Teleconference March 4, 2011  Leigh Fazzina Principal, Fazzina & Co. Communications  Chair-elect, PRSA  Health Academy Sandra Fathi President, Affect Strategies President, PRSA New York Chapter
Agenda Twitter for PR Finding Journalists & Bloggers on Twitter Tools for Monitoring & Finding Queries Engaging & Building Relationships Social Media Pitching Best Practices Finding the Story & Creating a Buzz
Did You Know?  175 million users. 95 million tweets per day.  (Twitter, Sept. 2010) 37% of journalists are required to maintain Twitter accounts (PR Week, 2010) 52% of reporters now use Twitter as part of their jobs (Cision/GSPM, 2010)
Twitter & PR Direct conduit to your target audiences; Media, Customers, Employees, Prospects, Shareholders etc. Multi-use platform; News Distribution, Monitoring, Market Research, Crisis Communications, Engagement, Customer Service etc. Rapid response, no-cost, direct channel.
03/04/11 Finding Journalists on Twitter
Twitter
Twitter: Vocus
Twitter: wefollow.com
Twitter: Listorious
Twitter: Muck Rack
Twitter: Lists
03/04/11 Tools for Monitoring & Finding Queries
Google Alerts
HootSuite
TweetDeck
Radian6
Twitter: Search
Twitter: journalisttweets
Twitter: HARO
Twitter: ProfNet
Twitter: Lists
Twitter: #journchat
Facebook: HARO
03/04/11 Engaging & Building Relationships
What To Know  Provide full disclosure Seek opportunities for relevant engagement Become a resource/thought leader Value over noise  Bring Online Offline
Retweets & Mentions
Blog Commenting
Relevant Engagement
Become a Resource
Taking the Convo Offline
03/04/11 Social Media Pitching Best Practices
What To Know  Set goals, objectives & strategies  Communicate publicly  Interaction over distribution  Quality over quantity  Be relevant  Provide value
What To Avoid  Releasing confidential information Attaching reporters’ names to irrelevant content  Blatant flattery  Repetitive content  Inadvertently outing a reporter’s story
Content Creation Keep it short & simple  Provide stats/numbers Link to images or video if possible Include links for more info
Twitter
Twitter
03/04/11 Finding the Story & Creating a Buzz
Presented to Pitney Bowes  |  May 24, 2010 Affect Strategies Trend Intervention & Story Hijacking
Promoting Special Offers
Promoting Special Offers (cont’d)
Pitching the Case Study
Pitching the Case Study (cont’d)
03/04/11 Questions?
03/04/11 Contact Information &  Resources :  On Slideshare – www.slideshare.net/sfathi Sandra Fathi  [email_address] 212 398 9680 Twitter: @sandrafathi  Web: www.affectstrategies.com Blog: www.techaffect.com

How Public Relations is Changing in 140 Characters or Less: PRSA Health Academy Teleseminar

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