Ed
Marketing, PR and communications departments are facing a crisis in successfully combining all forms of media under a single umbrella. Only a few select companies have successfully integrated Paid, Owned and Earned Media (POEM) under the guidance of one department. A small company faces budget constraints to make paid media meaningful, and in larger companies silos are created for each media that minimizes the optimization across all platforms.
Analysis by Springfield Lewis, Newsroom Ink’s VP of Strategic Communication, of the recently released Oriella Digital Journalism Study is featured on today’s Bulldog Reporter’s Daily’Dog. The study concluded that PR is best suited to “own” digital media, shows an increasing trend by worldwide journalist to use online news tools.
Oriella Digital Journalism Study finds journalists are turning increasingly to online tools. Brands wishing to stand out must communicate their stories and messages effectively to their own digital followings, as well as complementing conventional written collateral with visuals, videos and opinion-led content which journalists can re-publish.
In the dawn of the digital social media era, PR hacks and flacks worked with computer programmers to devise an algorithm that would drive reputation-damaging stories deep into search engine archives. Using “fake” websites equipped with often-nonsensical SEO posts, damaging articles were targeted.
Recent findings have revealed the pervasive spread of social media within companies, and both the companies and their IT departments have good reason to be worried about potential risks. A company experiences an average of nine social media incidents a year, such as employees publicly posting confidential information. More than 90 percent of these companies suffer negative consequences that include damage to their reputations, loss of customer trust, data loss and lost revenue.
Social Media & PR Daily features a story posted on Newsroom Ink on Symantec’s recent study, 2011 Social Media Protection Flash Poll, concerning issues surrounding social media security.
