http://www.socializedpr.com Mon, 14 May 2012 17:48:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As Facebook prepares for its IPO later this week, the question of valuation, and the role of its gigantic (even by global geopolitical standards) user base is among the most contested issues. Not everyone agrees on how many users Facebook has. Like most networks/media sites, the company has various ways of ... http://www.socializedpr.com/facebook-growth-may-be-more-disorienting-than-staggering/ Facebook recently announced that they are testing a service whereby, for $2, users could highlight their status updates so they stand out from the other updates in the timeline. This has created a fuss among some people who have called this shameless self promotion (a tautology if there ever was one) ... http://www.socializedpr.com/facebook-is-commercializing-get-over-it/ Gini Dietrich admonishes PR professionals No One Cares About Your News Release, and goes on to advise against posting press releases (or links) to a company's Facebook page. Posting links to press releases on a company's Facebook page is not only acceptable, it's desirable. The irrelevance and death of the press ... http://www.socializedpr.com/night-of-the-living-dead-press-release/ Entertainment legend Dick Clark passed away yesterday, and literally, this morning, within the same 60 seconds I learned of his passing, I read a derogatory Dick Clark post on Twitter. What is it about social networking that causes people to lose all social grace and respect for other people? Every time someone well ... http://www.socializedpr.com/dick-clark-jokes-too-soon/ Both the Obama campaign and Republican campaigns have been relying heavily on e-mail marketing to get through to voters. And in some cases, accusations have been made that sleazy techniques are being used on both sides of the aisle. A February post by Loren McDonald of Silverpop, an e-mail marketing company ... http://www.socializedpr.com/fake-re-in-campaign-e-mails-creates-poor-impression-may-violate-ftc-rules/ It seems that nearly every news item that makes its way onto Twitter or Facebook is first expressed through reportage (simple links and tweets with headlines), followed by a fire hose of hate and mockery, and sometimes a backlash against the backlash. A couple examples include: Susan Boyle: "Her popularity in Britain ... http://www.socializedpr.com/social-media-love-is-all-you-need/ We have become a generation of inspirational stamp collectors. With the proliferation of lightweight infographics posted on Pinterest and Facebook, we have outsourced the personal tweet and the status update. We are present at a pivotal moment in the decline of modern civilization. The preeminence of these prepackaged ponderings is a ... http://www.socializedpr.com/lightweight-infographics-outsourcing-original-thinking/