Where Social Media and PR Meet by by Jeff Barrett

Where Social Media and PR Meet by by Jeff Barrett

When it comes to content, there are no accidents. Most videos or pieces of content that go “viral” follow a formula intentionally or unintentionally.

Perhaps a great example is the “Double Rainbow” video. It went from thousands of views over a couple months to millions of views in days when it appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Not every video or piece of content follows such an exact or linear path but there are common elements. While content can thrive digitally, traditional media is still a beneficial tool to reach the masses.

If digital content benefits from traditional media then that means it requires having relationships with decision makers at various media outlets. That’s public relations. Social media is not a billboard, it’s a conversation. Public relations is about leveraging relationships to frame and position that conversation.

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Jeff Barrett is the CEO of Status Creative and a contributor to the HootSource blog.

NEW Google has used Earth and Maps to tell tales of unfolding tragedies

Google has used Earth and Maps to tell tales of unfolding tragedies and soldiers fighting for our country. Now its opening up those tools to the public, allowing users to build what they're calling "Tours" through Google Earth. Tour Builder was released in honor of Veterans Day and it allows users to create narratives tied to points on a map. The process is pretty simple: you drop a marker, add some text, photos or videos and you're on your way. As you piece together your tale, dropping pins, you can pull the viewer down into Street View or fly to a particular angle on a 3D landmark.
While the release of Tour Builder was inspired by Google's work on projects like Map The Fallen and VetNet, it obviously has much broader application. Whether it's spicing up your typical vacation slideshow or building a presentation to teach students about the Civil War. Check out the video demo after the break.

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Ways to get traffic to a new website with passion and effort

Ways to get traffic to a new website with passion and effort.

Ways to get traffic to a new website
By Jane Sadowy

Founder of TV Channel Online.com, Swaphandmedowns.com, Video Subject.com, and Media Technology News Ways to get traffic to a new website with passion and effort. Your web business is your passion and with some effort you can gain lots of traffic by following these tips.

Optimize your site for search engines.

Update your website content often and publish your pages when you update them. Don’t forget to add a site map to your site. Guest and XML site maps are not only useful to your visitors to locate your products and services faster but are useful for search engine to index your pages. Google offers a free search box script to add to your site. Attract more visitors to your website.
Submit your web address URL to major search engines such as Bing and Google.

Smartphones soon to get real-time 3-D video conferencing

Video, especially 3-D video, creates very large image files that transmit across wireless or wired networks too slowly to keep up with the words that go along with the pictures.  Read more

Studies show 60% of U.S. retail sales will involve the web by 2017

Studies show 60% of U.S. retail sales will involve the web by 2017 (which by the way is not that far off)

Researching products or buying products  by lap top and cell phone is clearly on the rise.  From buying food to household items the Internet is gaining favorable among buyers of all ages.

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NoMoreRack.com triples web sales this year and raises $40 million

profitable.

Stefany Moore

Senior Editor, Research

Topics: Deepak Agarwal, Groupon Goods, investment funding round, NoMoreRack.com, Top 500

After only three years of selling discounted products online, NoMoreRack.com Inc. is on track to bring in $300 million in e-commerce revenue in 2013, three times last year’s total of $100 million, says CEO Deepak Agarwal.
Investors are taking notice, as the e-retailer secured $40 million in new funding this week, on top of $12 million it raised in November 2012. Investors are fond of NoMoreRack because it’s growing fast, Agarwal says, but also because it’s a lean operation that relies more on technology than it does manpower. So it’s very profitable, he says, though he wouldn’t disclose specifics.  read more....