Deirdre Breakenridge

How do you teach a group of PR professionals to build a social media plan in one hour? Not an easy feat, especially because planning can take months. To teach planning, you have to have a plan and a streamlined approach to your presentation. I’m presenting at the PRSA Digital Impact Conference on May 6th in New York City and there is a tremendous amount of information to cover. My session begins at 3:15 p.m. and runs until 4:15 p.m. and when it’s over, I’m hoping that the PR pros in attendance walk away with a clear Roadmap to social media communication success.

In 2003, my book “The New PR Toolkit” was published by Prentice Hall. I co-authored this manuscript with a very talented journalist, Thomas DeLoughry, who at the time was the editor of Internet Week. Our goal was to present to PR professionals a better way to develop and implement online media relations strategies, from both a PR professional and an editor’s point of view. To this day, it was one of my favorite projects and a book that I believe did a good job educating PR people on early web PR (or web 1.0) best practices.