Friday, August 08, 2014

Thought Leadership with Mitchell Levy and Michael Procopio, Episode 34: August 8, 2014

Thought Leadership with Mitchell and Michael


In this episode, Mitchell and Michael hang out with #ThoughtLeader Stuart Tracte (@stwo). Stuart hosts the digipolitichat show Beer Diplomacy and is constantly involved in forward-thinking, cutting-edge social media stories. He’s with the group that takes care of digital strategy and communication for Social@ogilvy, an award-winning company specializing in social business solutions.

Stuart TracteFor Stuart, a #ThoughtLeader is not necessarily somebody who has advanced thoughts but somebody who makes people think of things other than what is considered the norm. To push #ThoughtLeadership within brands, companies, especially the large ones, must look at different platforms and use different styles to get the message out to their target audience. Oftentimes, #ThoughtLeadership is not necessarily about your product but about building trust with your customer. People don’t like it if you’re always selling. Instead, use a personal brand to test the ground. Be active on social, use different platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. Inspire people to think. To emphasize this point, Mitchell places the question: When was the last time you posted something on Facebook that had 100 responses? 

In the interview, Stuart talks about how communication channels has evolved in which, for example, you can simply put a # somewhere and consumers will know and understand what that means. People understand that there is depth in dynamic communication channels which create unique experiences for the customer that standard advertising cannot do. Different communities online are now starting to specialize, hence there is also a need to tailor the message and use a platform that really matches their need. People get it. But it is also important to develop relevant content on the right platform and offer new ways to communicate. Stuart also gives his commentary about truth in advertising, pointing out the practice of some publishers to ‘seed in’ branded content. He notes that the lines have become really blurry between advertising and editorial. He argues that there must be some form of regulation when it comes to publishing news feeds that are actually pushing a certain brand. Journalists should not be made to write an ad copy.

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Here are a couple of aha moments from the episode. See more in the “Aha Moments from Thought Leader Life” books available in the THiNKaha App: http://AhaAmplifier.com/.
• The best way to educate yourself about something new is to get in there & get your hands dirty. @stwo
• Today, the lines have become very blurry between what is advertising and what is editorial content. @stwo
• Social media is not intended to be a shotgun blast. @michaelprocopio
• Guess what? Even as marketers, we are also consumers. @stwo

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This episode was sponsored, in part, by THiNKaha.com, helping experts become thought leaders.

You can connect with Mitchell at MitchellLevy.com, @HappyAbout on Twitter, or join his Thought Leadership Best Practices Group on LinkedIn; and with Michael at MProcopio.com, on Twitter:@MichaelProcopio; or LinkedIn: LinkedIn.com/in/MichaelProcopio.

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Thursday, August 07, 2014

FIR Presents Inside PR #381: Penalties for bad reviews and questions about online privacy

FIR Presents Inside PRMartin here.

This week, the gang’s together again…and we start by talking about a business that charges customers a penalty for negative online reviews.

Whaa?

In case you missed it, a hotel in upstate New York said it would levy a fine of $500 for bad reviews written by guests.

The company has since recanted the story claiming it was a joke that harkened back to a long-past wedding and they never removed the policy. Gini likens this to businesses that pay for positive reviews and says you can’t dictate what people say about you online good or bad. You just have to provide the best experience and customer service you can, listen and address issues. Here’s a link to the story for details.

We switch gears and discuss a study on online privacy by Craig Newmark and others that offers some insightful results. One of the main findings is that two-thirds of us either skim or don’t bother to read the terms of service. Which means we don’t know what we’re agreeing to or what rights we’re signing away.

Gini, Joe and I did a straw poll and it turns out the three of us all fall in that 66 per cent majority.

That’s not a good thing…

Joe links this to news that when Google receives a request under Europe’s right to be forgotten legislation, it has been informing webmasters about it before it takes down the links-in-question.

According to the WSJ, Google claims that alerting publishers to impending removals is the only way they can respond with their side of the story.

Joe’s concern is that we’re giving a private company the ability to make decisions about our privacy and rights based on its commercial self-interests.

I think the situation is similar to one we’ve always had with media: they have their own agendas, yet we trust them to filter stories and news.

It’s certainly a complex issue.

What do you think? About penalizing or paying for reviews? About reading terms of service, about the right to be forgotten…

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You can also reach Inside PR’s hosts by email at insideprcomments@gmail.com, or join the InsidePR Google Plus community or Facebook group. InsidePR is on Twitter at @Inside_PR. You can send us an instant voicemail via SpeakPipe, right from the FIR website. Or, call the Comment Line at +1 415 895 2971 (North America), +44 20 3239 9082 (Europe), or Skype: fircomments. You can tweet us: @FIRpodcast. And you can email us at fircomments@gmail.com. If you wish, you can email your comments, questions and suggestions as MP3 file attachments (max. 3 minutes / 5Mb attachment, please!). We’ll be happy to see how we can include your audio contribution in a show.

Thank you to the people behind Inside PR: Our theme music was created by Damon de Szegheo; Roger Dey is our announcer. Inside PR is produced by Kristine D’Arbelles and Ashlea LeCompte.

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Tuesday, August 05, 2014

FIR Live returns with panel on language translation

FIR Live Language Translation Panel

FIR Live returns on Thursday, August 14, with an hour-long panel discussion on the challenges of communicating in multiple languages online. The web demands speed in publishing content, but if your markets include multiple languages, translation can keep you from posting quickly. Among the many problems technology has tackled, translation remains one that still requires time and expertise.

If you have specific questions about language translation in the PR and communication contexts, be sure to share it on the FIR Podcast Community on Google+, or leave it as a comment to this post, so we can raise it during the discussion.

We’re still working on fleshing out the panel, but so far our guests include…

  • Renato Beninatto, chief marketing officer for language translation company Moravia. He is the co-founder of the first market research company focusing on language services. He was president and currently serves as an adviser to the European Language Industry Association is is a board member of Translators without Borders.

  • Iris Orriss, head of localization for Facebook, is also a board member at Translators without Borders. Formerly director of the business platform division international team at Microsoft, she brings more than a decade of localization-related engineering and managerial experience to her work.

  • Sherrilynne Starkie, VP Content Marketing and Social Media, Thornley Fallis Communications (Ottawa office)

  • Kevin Watson is a research editor for MultiLingual Computing and Technology.

FIR Live will be broadcast via Google+ Hangouts on Air. You can watch on the FIR YouTube channel or our Events page. After the panel, the episode will be posted as both audio and video files.

The live panel will begin at 11 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time on Thursday, August 14. See you there!

 

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Media Bullseye Roundtable 2014.7 with Guest Co-Host Jen Phillips

Media Bullseye Roundtable

In this episode of the Roundtable, we welcome Jen Phillips of 4L Strategies back to the table to discuss several hot topics:

—Jim Horton’s take on John Oliver’s bit attacking what he perceives as the diminishing separation between Church and State in news media.

—News that several major PR agencies have announced their intention not to do business with so-called “climate deniers” and what it means for the future of open debate on controversial topics.

—The importance of setting expectations early in agency-client relationships—and picking measures of success at the same time.

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Chip GriffinChip Griffin serves as CEO of CustomScoop, a media intelligence company he co-founded in 2000. CustomScoop provides a cloud-based subscription service that monitors, measures, and reports on traditional and social media coverage for Fortune 500 companies, non-profit organizations, public relations agencies, and small-to-medium sized enterprises. For two decades, Chip has worked in the public relations arena, including service in public and private sector organizations. He has co-founded more than half a dozen companies, and he writes and speaks frequently about the intersection of technology, media, and communications. He is a graduate of American University where he is President of the Alumni Association and a member of the School of Public Affairs Advisory Council. Chip lives in New Hampshire with his wife and two sons.

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Posted by Chip Griffin on 08/05 at 09:40 AM
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Monday, August 04, 2014

The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #767: August 4, 2014

FIRQuick News: OKCupid conducted its own online social experiments, Twitter testing easier-to-use hashtags, Council of Public Relations Firms convenes working group on digital, citizens of Armenia urged to write a Wikipedia entry each; Ragan promo;

News That Fits: What does hybrid blogging platform Medium’s sponsorship deal with BMW suggest for the online advertising market?; Dan York’s Tech Report: Twitter hashtags, Facebook Messenger, and more; what comes next in social media measurement?; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; listener comments from the FIR Podcast Community on Google+; if you want to increase your readership, forget about Twitter and stop posting so many stories says the Telegraph; Michael Netzley’s Asia Report: more Western multinationals find themselves under investigation in China, and more; Igloo Software promo; a new FIR Interview and more in the past week on the FIR Podcast Network; a social presence isn’t enough: brands need to engage;
Music by Sinfonia Electronique; and more.

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For Immediate Release: The Hobson and Holtz Report for August 4, 2014: A 90-minute podcast recorded live from Wokingham, Berkshire, England, and Concord, California, USA.

Links to websites, blog posts and other content we discuss in the show are posted as Delicious bookmarks to facilitate your connection with the discussions and sharing of that content.

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So, until Monday August 11…

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Wednesday, July 30, 2014

FIR Presents Inside PR #380: Digital Reach with Cision

FIR Presents Inside PRThis week we have a special guest in Heidi Sullivan, the senior vice president of digital content at Cision. She is here to talk to us about Digital Reach, a new offering from the PR media database company.

You know how you go to research a competitor, a blogger, or a journalist and you check out their numbers? You check them out on Compete and on OpenSiteExplorer and in a media database such as Cision to figure out what kind of authority they have and where your influencers might lie.

The problem, of course, is sites such as Compete are not completely correct. I checked out Spin Sucks there, just to see how accurate it is and it’s off by more than 20 percent.

Enter Digital Reach.

It takes a site’s unique visitors and combines it with the social shares it typically receives. This gives you a UVPM, or unique visitors per month, which is more accurate than anything else out there.

Listen to her describe what communicators can get from Digital Reach, what she did as her first job in the business (which makes me laugh because many of us have been there), and how you can get started.

I’m off to test it for some of our clients now.

Enjoy the listen!

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You can also reach Inside PR’s hosts by email at insideprcomments@gmail.com, or join the InsidePR Google Plus community or Facebook group. InsidePR is on Twitter at @Inside_PR. You can send us an instant voicemail via SpeakPipe, right from the FIR website. Or, call the Comment Line at +1 415 895 2971 (North America), +44 20 3239 9082 (Europe), or Skype: fircomments. You can tweet us: @FIRpodcast. And you can email us at fircomments@gmail.com. If you wish, you can email your comments, questions and suggestions as MP3 file attachments (max. 3 minutes / 5Mb attachment, please!). We’ll be happy to see how we can include your audio contribution in a show.

Thank you to the people behind Inside PR: Our theme music was created by Damon de Szegheo; Roger Dey is our announcer. Inside PR is produced by Kristine D’Arbelles and Ashlea LeCompte.

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FIR presents Inside PR is brought to you with Lawrence Ragan Communications, serving communicators worldwide for 35 years.

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Thought Leadership with Mitchell Levy and Michael Procopio, Episode 33: July 30, 2014

Thought Leadership with Mitchell and Michael

Dorie Clark (@dorieclark) is a marketing strategy consultant, professional speaker, and frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review and Forbes. Recognized as a “branding expert” by the Associated Press and Fortune, she is the author of Reinventing You: Define Your Brand, Imagine Your Future (Harvard Business Review Press, 2013), which is being translated into Russian, Chinese, French, Polish, and Thai.

Clark consults and speaks for a diverse range of clients, including Google, the World Bank, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, the Ford Foundation, Yale University, the Mount Sinai Medical Center, and the National Park Service.

Dorie ClarkClark, a former presidential campaign spokeswoman, is an adjunct professor of business administration at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. She has taught marketing and communications at Tufts University, Suffolk University, Emerson College, HEC-Paris, Babson College, the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler School of Business, and Smith College Executive Education. She has been named to the Huffington Post’s “100 Must Follow on Twitter” list for 2013 and 2014, and to the #Nifty50 list of top women on Twitter.

She has also guest lectured at universities including Harvard Business School, the Harvard Kennedy School, Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, the University of California-Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, Georgetown, NYU, the MIT Sloan School of Management, and the University of Michigan. Her work has been published in the Harvard Business Review Guide to Getting the Right Job and the Harvard Business Review Guide to Networking, and she is quoted frequently in the worldwide media, including NPR, the BBC, and MSNBC.

Join us 11 am PT / 2 pm ET / 7 pm GMT on Saturday every week. The show blog is Thought Leader Life.

Any comments or suggestions for the show please send them. Thank you for listening and if you like what you hear, please leave a review on iTunes! 

This episode was sponsored, in part, by THiNKaha.com, helping experts become thought leaders.

You can connect with Mitchell at MitchellLevy.com, @HappyAbout on Twitter, or join his Thought Leadership Best Practices Group on LinkedIn; and with Michael at MProcopio.com, on Twitter:@MichaelProcopio; or LinkedIn: LinkedIn.com/in/MichaelProcopio.

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Posted by Michael Procopio on 07/30 at 08:13 AM
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FIR B2B #13: Why Online Influencer Marketing is a Waste of Time

FIR B2BPaul again anchors the podcast solo this week. In this episode:

News & Trends

There’s good news and bad news for marketers in this week show – mostly good news. FierceCMO has an interview with Gartner’s Laura McLellan in which McLellan discusses research that indicates that companies are redirecting budgets from sales to marketing in recognition of the fact that more early-funnel work is being done independently by customers. That’s marketing’s sweet spot. Top executives are clearly coming around to the understanding that marketing matters, particularly as customer referrals become a critical lead generator. But that means marketing needs to own the customer relationship, and they’ll have to fight sales and customer support for that privilege. Nevertheless, we could be entering the golden age of marketing, she suggests.

The news isn’t as good from Forrester Research, which reports that only 14% of respondents to its survey rated their content marketing efforts as very good. Most said they’re doing only a fair to middlin’ job. Forrester lays the blame squarely at the feet of marketers, saying they’re too beholden to their thought leadership comfort zone and don’t give buyers enough of the case studies, technical advice and research that drive decisions.

Special Guest: Nick Hayes of Influencer50

Special guest Nick Hayes agrees that marketers are too reluctant to engage with customers directly. Pressure to prove ROI and use of marketing automation tools has created a culture of statistical accountability in which the only activities worth using are the ones that boil results down to a number, he says. Incredibly, most marketers he has spoken to say they wouldn’t attend a dinner with the top influencers in their market because the results couldn’t be quantified.

Hayes is particularly skeptical of influencer marketing, the hot new trend that tries to convince people with big online presences to promote products to their friends and followers. Hayes and his colleagues at Influencer50 have been on a multi-year campaign to convince people that online influence is overrated in B2B markets. His 2007 book, Influencer Marketing, makes a persuasive case for devoting much more attention to policymakers, consultants, academics and even competitors.

In our interview, Hayes draws a distinction between true influencers and social media “noisemakers” and offers advice on how to find and cultivate the influencers who really matter.

Follow Nick’s blog, The Buyer-side Journey,.


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About Your Hosts

Paul GillinPaul Gillin is a veteran technology journalist and a thought leader in new media. Since 2005, he has advised marketers and business executives on strategies to optimize their use of social media and online channels to reach buyers cost-effectively. He is the author or co-author of five books, including Social Marketing to the Business Customer (2011), the first book devoted entirely to B2B social media marketing. He is also a social media trainer and coach at Profitecture, a training firm for B2B companies and their channel partners.

Allan SchoenbergAllan Schoenberg is based Vice President, Corporate Public Relations and Communications at TIAA-CREF in New York. As part of the firm’s Enterprise Communications team within Marketing, this role helps the team drive firm-wide corporate communications, employee communications, reputation and crises management, social media, CEO positioning and public policy communications. He has more than 20 years of experience in B2B communications, including his work for Accenture, Edelman Worldwide, Fleishman Hillard and CME Group..

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Posted by Paul Gillin on 07/30 at 07:46 AM
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Tuesday, July 29, 2014

Media Bullseye Roundtable 2014.6 with Guest Co-Host Mark Story

Media Bullseye Roundtable

In this episode of the Media Bullseye Roundtable, Mark Story, author of Starting Your Career as a Social Media Manager, joins to discuss three topics:

—The role of trust and storytelling in sponsored content based on new research by the Internet Advertising Bureau and Edelman Berland.

—Wikipedia’s temporary ban on anonymous edits from the U.S. House of Representatives and the overall approach of that popular site to conflicts of interest.

—The question of whether the PR industry is ripe for disruption, as claimed by Anna Ruth Williams in a piece for Ragan’s PR Daily.

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Chip GriffinChip Griffin serves as CEO of CustomScoop, a media intelligence company he co-founded in 2000. CustomScoop provides a cloud-based subscription service that monitors, measures, and reports on traditional and social media coverage for Fortune 500 companies, non-profit organizations, public relations agencies, and small-to-medium sized enterprises. For two decades, Chip has worked in the public relations arena, including service in public and private sector organizations. He has co-founded more than half a dozen companies, and he writes and speaks frequently about the intersection of technology, media, and communications. He is a graduate of American University where he is President of the Alumni Association and a member of the School of Public Affairs Advisory Council. Chip lives in New Hampshire with his wife and two sons.

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You can also send us instant voicemail via SpeakPipe, right from the FIR website. Or, call the Comment Line at +1 415 895 2971 (North America), +44 20 3239 9082 (Europe), or Skype: fircomments. You can tweet us: @FIRpodcast. And you can email us at fircomments@gmail.com. If you wish, you can email your comments, questions and suggestions as MP3 file attachments (max. 3 minutes / 5Mb attachment, please!). We’ll be happy to see how we can include your audio contribution in a show.

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Posted by Chip Griffin on 07/29 at 04:45 PM
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FIR Interview: Photographer/Social Activist Angus Malcolm on Online Communication and Fundraising

Warwick Rowers 2012 calendarAngus Malcolm has been behind the creative force behind the Warwick Rowers naked calendar, Warwick Rowers describes itself as a large and highly active sports club with substantial ambitions. This year the club is attending over 20 competitions across the length and breadth of the country during a 40-week racing season. Whether novice or experienced, male or female, as a member of Warwick Rowing, athletes can expect to participate in a determined and enthusiastic rowing programme.” The Naked Calendar is a fundraiser, with calendars featuring nude pictures of rowers that have been a viral success.

In this interview, FIR contributor Harry Hawk interview Malcolm about the role social media played in the calendar’s success among other topics, including fundraising, online communications, and helping to fight homophobia.

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Angus MalcolmWith a background in social activism, healthcare and media production, Angus Malcolm now specializes in promoting personal empowerment and social change through innovative approaches to communications. In particular, he focuses on how we can use viral media as both consciousness-raising and fund-raising tools.

His best known project at the moment is the Warwick Rowers range of calendars and films, which he produces.  These feature a group of predominantly heterosexual male college athletes in the UK’s equivalent of the Ivy League. For six years, rowers at Warwick University have been stripping naked for calendars and films that are popular with gay men as well as women.  The athletes undress to prove the point that we can all be comfortable with a diverse sexual culture that embraces all sexualities.  Alongside production of the Warwick Rowers products, he is currently focusing on establishing Sport Allies, a charity to challenge homophobia that is being funded from the sales of Warwick Rowers products.

Malcolm divides his time between homes in London and Southern Spain, and also travel regularly for his work.  Recent projects have taken him to South Africa, California and Australia, where a Sydney gallery hosted an exhibition of his photography.

Connect with Malcolm on Twitter at @Angus_Malcolm
Connect with Harry Hawk on Twitter at @hhawk

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FIR on Higher Education #14: Best Practice Media Training Tips from Des Dearlove

What does it take to be a top management thinker? Among the criteria is the ability to be an excellent communicator, says media trainer, former journalist and Thinkers 50 co-founder Des Dearlove on FIR on Higher Education #14.

In this episode, Dearlove provides insights on the following:
- Why media training is important for academics
- How to conduct a media training session internally
- Tips professors can do to sharpen their message
- How professors and PR professionals can contribute to Thinkers 50 (global ranking of management thinkers)

In our reports section, I share some opinions on how to generate press in a media market like Brazil. I also integrate a sound byte from Mariela Castro, founder of Communications Advisors in Sao Paulo, on how PR professionals can pitch research from their institutions so it resonates with Brazilian editors and reporters. Contributor Harry Hawk shares about using Vine in the classroom.

About Des Dearlove

Des Dearlove is one of Europe’s leading business commentators and an expert on leadership communication. A former columnist to The (London) Times, his work has appeared in newspapers and magazines worldwide, including the Financial Times, the Industry Standard, Business 2.0, and Handelsblatt. His books are available in more than 20 languages.

With Stuart Crainer, Des founded Suntop Media and the consulting firm CrainerDearlove. Des and Stuart are the creators of the Thinkers 50, the first global ranking of business gurus, and the editors of the bestselling Financial Times Handbook of Management. Des is a Visiting Professor at IE Business School, in Madrid, a former contributing editor to the US based magazine Strategy+Business, and an Associate Fellow at the Saïd Business School at Oxford University.

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Kevin AnselmoKevin Anselmo is the Founder and Principal of Experiential Communications, a consultancy focused on education. He helps brands within academia - whether individual or corporate - communicate with stakeholders. He also teaches communications and public relations workshops to different individuals and groups.

Previously, Kevin was Director of Public Relations for Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and prior to that managed the media relations for IMD Business School in Switzerland. In addition, he was an adjunct communications professor at Nyack College in New York.

Currently based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Kevin lived and worked in Switzerland for eight years and in Germany for two years. He has led public relations initiatives in various countries around the world.

Find Kevin on Twitter: @kevinanselmo.

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FIR on Higher Education is brought to you with Lawrence Ragan Communications, serving communicators worldwide for 35 years. Information: www.ragan.com.

Posted by Kevin Anselmo on 07/29 at 08:15 AM
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Monday, July 28, 2014

FIR presents AllthingsIC with Rachel Miller episode 9 July 29 2014

Every month, Rachel Miller presents the latest news and views from an internal communication perspective.

AllThingsICWelcome to the ninth episode of All Things IC with Rachel Miller.

In this podcast Rachel looks at “pompous” management communication and their impact, discusses the hunt for the Top 30 under 30 IC pros from the Institute of Internal Communication, examines Microsoft’s “Hello there” memo and rounds-up the latest events for professional communicators to attend.

You can find full notes to accompany this episode via Rachel’s blog www.allthingsic.com/fir9 so you can grab a cup of tea, sit back and relax and enjoy the show.

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Rachel Miller I’m Rachel Miller, MCIPR, PG (Dip). I’m an internal communication and social media strategist who consults, speaks and blogs on all things internal communication.

In 2014 I was awarded the inaugural Best Individual Contribution to Internal Communication award from the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR Inside). I was named one of the UK’s leading social business influencers in 2013, and was a finalist for CIPR Outstanding PR Professional of the Year (People’s Choice).

Since 2009 I’ve written my own blog which led to Econsultancy recognising me in 2012 as one of the Top UK female bloggers. I was named in PR Week’s Top 29 under 29 professional communicators in the UK list (2009).

Every company is different and a one size fits all approach to communication simply doesn’t work. Though my business, All Things IC, I have the pleasure of working alongside companies to help them achieve communication excellence.

Find Rachel on Twitter: @AllthingsIC.

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FIR B2B is brought to you with Lawrence Ragan Communications,serving communicators worldwide for 35 years. Information: www.ragan.com.

Posted by Rachel Miller on 07/28 at 04:02 PM
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The Hobson & Holtz Report - Podcast #766: July 28, 2014

FIRComing soon: FIR Live Google+ Hangout On Air in the works to talk about translation, FIR Interview with Jeff Pyatt of Outbrain, Harry Hawk’s FIR Interview with Angus Malcolm on the organic reach of quality content;

Quick News: Ex-Ford social media head Scott Monty joins SHIFT Communications; Reddit Live is official: anyone can create a breaking news blog; the future looks mobile for Facebook; relevance, trust, subject matter authority required for native ads; Ragan promo;

News That Fits: PRSA report on social/emerging media use in PR practice; Michael Netzley’s Asia Report: McDonald’s and KFC take center stage in China’s latest food scandal; robot-written financial news stories have arrived: will we see the same in PR and other communication?; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; listener comments in audio and in the FIR Podcast Community on Google+; Dan York’s Tech Report: Foursquare, Plan B for live video streaming, and more; the top 7 social media marketing trends dominating 2014; Igloo Software promo; the past week on the FIR Podcast Network; what’s holding back social media adoption in the workplace?;

Music from Winter Harvest; and more.

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For Immediate Release: The Hobson and Holtz Report for July 28, 2014: An 89-minute podcast recorded live from Concord, California, USA, and Wokingham, Berkshire, England.

Links to websites, blog posts and other content we discuss in the show are posted as Delicious bookmarks to facilitate your connection with the discussions and sharing of that content.

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So, until Monday August 4…

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FIR Presents Inside PR #379: An Anonymous Marriage Proposal?

FIR Presents Inside PRThis week, Martin Waxman, Gini Dietrich and Joe Thornley are back together for the first time in several weeks to record the Inside PR podcast.

Martin talks about his experience at SxSW V2V. Martin says, it has much of the vibe of the early SXSW, with lots of opportunities to network and a program packed with strong content. One of those that left the strongest impression on him was John Maeda’s keynote “From design to DE$IGN.” Maeda talked about the central role of design and how it can be used to “make sense of chaos.” Martin was struck by his observation that a good design “is both familiar and new.” Maeda also emphasized the importance of baking in design from the outset of every project, not viewing it as an after-the-fact tack on.

And of course, Martin also delivered a presentation, “Supercharged Storytelling for Startups,” in which he talked about how anyone can use storytelling to break through the noise and clutter.

We also turn our attention to the recent move by Google+ to remove restrictions on user identities.

Finally, we extend our discussion of online identity as Martin points us to an article he read that warned us against a misplaced faith in incognito mode in our browsers to protect our privacy.

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You can also reach Inside PR’s hosts by email at insideprcomments@gmail.com, or join the InsidePR Google Plus community or Facebook group. InsidePR is on Twitter at @Inside_PR. You can send us an instant voicemail via SpeakPipe, right from the FIR website. Or, call the Comment Line at +1 415 895 2971 (North America), +44 20 3239 9082 (Europe), or Skype: fircomments. You can tweet us: @FIRpodcast. And you can email us at fircomments@gmail.com. If you wish, you can email your comments, questions and suggestions as MP3 file attachments (max. 3 minutes / 5Mb attachment, please!). We’ll be happy to see how we can include your audio contribution in a show.

Thank you to the people behind Inside PR: Our theme music was created by Damon de Szegheo; Roger Dey is our announcer. Inside PR is produced by Kristine D’Arbelles and Ashlea LeCompte.

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FIR presents Inside PR is brought to you with Lawrence Ragan Communications, serving communicators worldwide for 35 years.

Posted by shel on 07/28 at 07:55 AM
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Saturday, July 26, 2014

Thought Leadership with Mitchell Levy and Michael Procopio, Episode 32: July 26, 2014

Thought Leadership with Mitchell and Michael


In this episode, Mitchell and Michael hang out with #ThoughtLeader Alexandra Watkins, recognized expert on business names and owner and CEO of the company Eat My Words (http://www.eatmywords.com) which Mitchell “absolutely adores”. Mitchell also describes her as someone who really knows what marketing is and who is not ashamed or shy in sharing her opinion. Alexandra defines a #ThoughtLeader as someone who is an authority in their area, not just an authority in their minds. Her or she has to be not only an authority in their area but has to be really well-respected and followed not just by their customers or advocates, but by competitors and peers. For Alexandra, a #ThoughtLeader has to have an original thought which he or she expresses without fear even if it is contrary to popular opinion.

Alexandra WatkinsIn the interview, Alexandra defines a good brand name by expounding on her company’s tagline: “A name should make you smile, instead of scratch your head.” People like names that they understand and easily get because it makes them feel smart. A good name is something that does not baffle or confuse or challenge people enough to make them feel stupid. Alexandra explains the S.M.I.L.E. and S.C.R.A.T.C.H test that is available on her company’s website and which is a simple evaluation test to determine if you have a good brand name. Alexandra describes the test to be anything but complicated; it is not a scientific process but just basic common sense. SMILE is an acronym for the 5 qualities of a good brand name, namely – Suggestive, Meaningful, Imagery, Legs and Emotional connection. On the other hand, SCRATCH is an acronym that stands for the qualities of a brand name that is going to cause problems, and Alexandra says when your company name has even just one of these qualities, you must already consider changing it. She also points out that in today’s world; it is no longer too hard to change names because you can use social media and the Internet to spread the information about your name change. Alexandra’s best advice is that when you are already struggling with the current name you have, begin considering changing your name.

For #ThoughtLeaders, Alexandra’s advice is not to use your own names for your brand because that kind of brand name will not say anything about you and you don’t want to dilute your brand because you have namesakes. One example is Happy About (http://www.happyabout.com) which is a lot easier to remember than mitchelllevy.com.     

To learn more about Thought Leadership and how it can help you be successful, subscribe to the channel: http://youtube.com/user/thoughtleaderlife.

Here are a couple of aha moments from the episode. See more in the “Aha Moments from Thought Leader Life” books available in the THiNKaha App: http://AhaAmplifier.com/.
• #ThoughtLeaders think their way is not always the only way and shares great thoughts of others, not just their own. @Eatmywords
• Annoying names are the ones that frustrate the customer. @Eatmywords
• Why should you make your name challenging for people? Just because it’s creative doesn’t always mean it’s good! @Eatmywords
• Using a personal name for your brand name is not necessarily a good choice. @michaelprocopio


Join us 11 am PT / 2 pm ET / 7 pm GMT on Saturday every week. The show blog is Thought Leader Life.

Any comments or suggestions for the show please send them. Thank you for listening and if you like what you hear, please leave a review on iTunes! 

This episode was sponsored, in part, by THiNKaha.com, helping experts become thought leaders.

You can connect with Mitchell at MitchellLevy.com, @HappyAbout on Twitter, or join his Thought Leadership Best Practices Group on LinkedIn; and with Michael at MProcopio.com, on Twitter:@MichaelProcopio; or LinkedIn: LinkedIn.com/in/MichaelProcopio.

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Posted by Michael Procopio on 07/26 at 07:55 PM
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