Deirdre Breakenridge

If you’ve done your listening exercises (monitoring the social landscape through keyword searches) you may have discovered your competition is on Twitter. As a part of your own social media strategy and planning audit, it’s important to evaluate what your competition is doing, how they are connecting with influencers and how quickly they’re advancing on this network.

The last time I wrote about Marketwire, I was praising the company for their progressive technology and social media 2.0 service. I had also just worked with them jointly on a book signing in their exhibit booth at the PRSA International Conference in Detroit back in 2009. I’ve been watching Marketwire ever since, and thought it was time to write about them again.

I took a vacation this week for some rest and relaxation. With vacation comes time to reflect and self-evaluate. It’s already the end of June and I thought it would be a good idea to check on my progress toward 2010 PR and social media related goals.

Did you know that if Facebook were a country, it would be the third largest in the world after China and India?  Facebook’s global growth is explosive and for many professionals, it’s difficult to find a book that captures the intricacies of Facebook without being overwhelming, offers the opportunity to learn how to create community [...]

I met David Spinks (@davidspinks) in May at the PRSA Digital Impact Conference in New York City. I felt like I already knew David just through our interactions on Twitter. After meeting him IRL and learning about his company, Scribnia, I thought it would be interesting to have a Q&A with him to find out more about an organization that helps PR professionals find and rate bloggers.

Graduation is over and we’ve had a great time celebrating the class of 2010. Now, it’s time to get back to learning and to focus on the role of the PR professional in the organization. We have a very special guest on June 16th at 12:30 p.m. EDT, who will enlighten us on his experience as a Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) and how PR interacts with the CMO and different marketing disciplines within a company.

Today is the PRSA T3PR Pre-Conference chat session. We have several of the program’s speakers joining to participate in our session. If you don’t know @prsarahevans, @missusp, @jacobm, @sandrafathi and @eschipul, you can get to know them a little better and learn more about what they will be discussing at T3 on June 11th. At 3:00 p.m. EDT, these experts will give you a prelude to the T3PR Conference by answering the following questions:

A few weeks ago I wrote a blog post about the differences between the tools in the traditional PR toolkit and the resources we use today in the PR 2.0 toolkit. However, there was one tool that I completely overlooked. I’ve used this tool in the past. And, it’s definitely worth discussing how this tool has evolved over time to provide us with branded content and good PR results.