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Comment on IT, PR Share Common Issues (Part 2) by Sean

Sean — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:20:34 +0000

Thanks for your comment, CD — I’d say that movements begin with individuals who make the choice to push for change. The only “people” movement I’m aware of is a mob — subsuming individual reason. Social media is an individual exercise of will, not a mass movement.

Take care

Comment on IT, PR Share Common Issues (Part 2) by CommDiscussion

CommDiscussion — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:27:27 +0000

I don’t think it’s so much about an individual stepping up to lead a revolution. I think interent communications has changes to embrace community–especially with social media. I think the revolution will come from the people themselves as opposed to an individual.

Comment on Getting in Touch with My Inner Geek by Trinity Dorn

Trinity Dorn — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 16:27:04 +0000

Sehr gute Sachen.

Comment on Useful Discussion on Measuring Social Media Influence by Sean Williams

Sean Williams — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:31:59 +0000

Lynne – thanks so much for your comment. My crusade is for more research on social media in general, unbiased, unfettered, serious. My writing/research partner and I have started a project — right now just one paper, presented at the International PR Research Conference this year — looking hard at social media. The first paper was on theoretical matters — does current social media use by companies reflect the ideal 2-way, symmetry, or merely persuasion?

We’re meeting later this week to discuss our next steps.

Best regards — and thanks again!
Sean

Comment on Useful Discussion on Measuring Social Media Influence by Lynne d Johnson

Lynne d Johnson — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:20:35 +0000

I thank you very much for this feedback it means a lot. Influence is not measured easily. And we marketers will be careful not to try and measure all of this social media stuff in the same way we do television viewership, or click rates.

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People You Should Meet This Month « onPAR Writing — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:14:01 +0000

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Comment on IT Conference Reveals Unexpected Connection with PR by Davi Park

Davi Park — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 08:48:02 +0000

What a great story of parallels: IT and PR. Both striving for places at the top table: still!

But perhaps for both, the top table will be increasingly nudged closer to us via the communications revolution caused by the web. It’s changing the ground rules.

On a separate point, I’m not sure I agree fully with your final bullet point about HR. My corporate affairs experience is that HR usually piggy-backs on the strategic thinking lead provided by PR. Often they make big decisions and turn to PR/corporate affairs to make strategic sense of them and re-interpret them such that most understand. So not just tactical as you underline, but strategic as well.

Thanks for sharing your insights. I am now looking out for similar IT conferences.

Comment on IT Conference Reveals Unexpected Connection with PR by Sean

Sean — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 22:25:12 +0000

Thanks Pam — we need to chat a bit on KM — in the next post, I’m going to talk a bit about some of the presentations from ITSMF – so stay tuned!

thanks for your comment.

Comment on IT Conference Reveals Unexpected Connection with PR by Pam Calvey

Pam Calvey — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:29:54 +0000

May I say, Sean, it was a pleasure to see you in the communicator role at an IT conference! I’m sure the participants received value from your insights. Your measurement capabilities have always intrigued me as applied to the Knowledge Management process. An organization can pump out thousands of knowledge documents a year, but without measuring the quality and outcome of the communications to internal and external clients, how do we know if issues are resolved at the lowest cost level? Furthermore, we need to measure the contributor’s value to the process with sound measurement practices. If these factors are not built into the KM process, it is hard to pull the data later.

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