I recently gave a keynote address to the Content Strategy Applied conference in London. My talk was well received, but when I went to post the slides, I realized that…
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Stop doing short-term digital campaigns
Regular readers know my work focuses on building more relevant content for the target audience. One of the common objections to this goal is that it is very difficult. How…
Read MoreIs your website’s newsroom missing key pieces of content?
If one of your company’s goals is to gain media attention, then your website can be a supporting factor with the information that the press and even your customers might…
Read More5 Marketing skills that digital journalists will need
How do you horrify a tough editor? Just let him know that an inviolate grammar rule no longer matters. When the Associated Press told editors at the American Copy Editors…
Read MoreCreating great content for content marketing: Don’t overthink it
Frequently, we hear our clients worry about how to keep a steady stream of content flowing. Many of them don’t realize that they’re making more of the problem than they…
Read MoreMobile is dead: Start thinking mobility now…
Since 2005, we read and hear that each approaching year is going to be the “year of mobile” or that “mobile advertising will become more than important than digital”. At…
Read MoreThe dirty little secret of media relations
When reporters speak in public about how they gather information and decide which stories to write, they tend to sound like scientific researchers, claiming to spend long hours objectively sifting…
Read MoreWhat’s changed, what hasn’t in media relations
When blogs and social media rose to prominence about a decade ago, pundits were quick to declare that these innovations would likely spell the end of the news media. After all,…
Read MoreWhat’s missing from your social media playbook?
Some people think that B2B and B2C social media are very different. I think they are similar, however. But one thing people often see as the hallmark of B2B social…
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