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Facebook is getting a lot of publicity lately, and not all good. The Bulldog Reporter’s Daily’Dog features Newsroom Inks vice president of strategic communication Springfield Lewis, and founder Ed Lallo’s article -Facebook: Not the Place For the Public Face Of a Company’s PR Strategy -in PR Opinion and Issues section.
Let’s face it….Facebook is not the place for the public face of a company’s PR Strategy. The conversations being held on the many pages of Facebook are fleeting, have no structure, cannot be directed to a higher level and are not tied to the company’s executive agenda.
Springfield Lewis, the new vice president of strategic communications for Newsroom Ink, knows how to tell an interesting story for clients. That’s because he’s a journalist, a corporate communicator and a student of business – many businesses.
Newsroom Ink continues to be recognized as the strategic thought leader on the topics of brand journalism and online newsrooms. For the second time in two weeks, Bulldog Reproter’s Daily’Dog has selected a Newsroom Ink post written by Ed Lallo for its PR and Issues Column.
In a recent PRSA seminar on measurement led by Shonali Burke, ABC, attendees were informed that there are two kinds of measurement; bad measurement and good measurement. In reality, careful study of best practices shows that measurement numbers are never intended to tell the whole story – only a specific part over a specified period of time.
Upon wrapping-up a SXSW panel discussion on brand journalism, NPR’s On The Media co-host Bob Garfield gave an off-the-cuff comment, that in the course of a second, may have inadvertently relabeled “Brand Journalism” as “Semi-Journalism.”
