Social Media & SEO

While revolutionizing the identification and measurement of influencers, social media—and its coolness factor—can also cloud the picture. PR Measurement Conference speakers Gary Lee of mBLAST and Katie Paine, among others, weigh in on the relevancy factor.

Communicators are getting really good at monitoring what their customers are saying—it’s taking action on behalf of customers that’s lagging. But organizations large and small are starting to pick up the customer service pace.

Despite all the talk of Facebook and Twitter taking over the digital communications space, corporate execs say that e-mail and Web sites command the best ROI online. Still, PR practitioners are working to realize better returns from social media.

PR News looks at the Twitter following of companies included in Fortune‘s 2010 best workplaces list.

Winner: Sesame Workshop – Sesame Street’s 40th Anniversary Tasked with honoring Sesame Street’s 40th anniversary, Sesame Workshop crafted a robust campaign to cement the show’s iconic legacy and to market its new segments, format and CGI animation style. With… Continued

Google leads Fortune’s Best Places to Work list in number of Twitter followers.

Campaign: WWF’s Earth Hour 2009 Winner: World Wildlife Fund & Creaxion On March 28, 2009, at 8:30 p.m., hundreds of millions of people from around the world came together in a global call for action… Continued

Tonka trucks, Barbie and Ken, Etch-A-Sketch, Cabbage Patch Kids, Beanie Babies—these iconic toy brands were each best-sellers in their own right, having become symbols for entire generations of children over the years. LEGO Systems, the company behind the toy building brick sets, is among these long-standing toy leaders, having emerged as a favorite among children of all ages.

PR News presented its Platinum PR Awards at a luncheon event in New York on Oct. 21, honoring the past year’s most innovative and envelope-pushing communications efforts, and what a year it was.

Showtime Networks’ PR pros were named PR Team of the Year at the CableFAXIES Awards luncheon held today at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C, where CableFAX: The Magazine (sister publication of PR News)… Continued