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snackersKevin Dugan tagged me on the MediaSnackers meme, a concept I’ve been digesting (pun fully intended) before juping into well-covered territory. The question: How do you respect MediaSnackers?

By way of background, Jeremiah Owyang started the meme on October 24 by presenting the video from the MediaSnackers site and offering a terse definition:

What???s a mediasnacker? Folks who consume small bits of information, data…

Shel HoltzFirst HP did it, now Cisco Systems has issued a Social Media Press Release. Not only is the release on the News@Cisco site, but it’s been distributed as a MarketWire press release (shown here picked up by CNN/Money—interestingly without the videos, but links to them instead).

This might just be an honest-to-goodness trend as large tech companies begin adopting the format!

Just to display…

UK agency

wire service WebIt PR has produced a video detailing the elements of its social media news release service and uploaded it to YouTube. The video gives credit to Tom Foremski’s post calling for the transition to the social media release as well as SHIFT Communications’ initial template. Webit PR’s Stephen Davies has blogged about the video. Nice work!

My post on August 2 about a news release issued by the Adfero Group has prompted some discussion about some of the fundamentals of the social media release. Adfero’s “interactive” news release embraces some of the elements of the social media release, but retains the narrative style of traditional releases.

Adfero representatives offered well-thought-out arguments for rejecting the bullet-listed “Core News Facts” section of the…

I get a lot of pitches and press releases these days. An intriguing media advisory crossed my in-box this afternoon about student use of social networks. I was all set to grab the PDF of the study and blog about it until I saw this on the release:

“The report, available now for media only…is embargoed until Tuesday, August 14, at 12:01 a.m.”

I…

See Update at the end of this post.

As a PR person, I have to admit things are getting pretty weird when I find myself rolling my eyes at the volume of press releases and pitches that find their way to my in-box. Most get a quick glance, just in case they might be interesting, followed by an even quicker deletion.…

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