PR 1 dot OH, PR 2 dot OH,
PR 3 dot OH,and counting…
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   Emerson College, Boston
        Kasteel Well
What’s in a name?
• Ward van Beek
• In PR since 1990
• Datastream (now Thomson Reuters)
• Sun Microsystems
• Whizpr (2000 – 2010)

• Communications agency
• All about content
• International PR & Social Media
PR 1.0
a.k.a. traditional PR
Tools and Instruments?
PR 1.0
a.k.a. traditional PR
Tools and Instruments?
Press Release
Press Conference
One-one briefing
Interview
Photo-opp
PR 1.0 evolving
Media used
• Letters
• Faxes
• Face to Face
• One-one
• One-many
• Photo’s
• Phone calls/Lobbying
Names and Network
PR 1.0 evolving
Media used
• Letters
• Faxes
• Face to Face
                    +   • E-mail
                        • Web sites
                        • Blogs
                        • Microblogs
• One-one               • Wikipedia
• One-many              • Video
• Photo’s               • Games
                        • Social Media
• Phone
                        • Twitter
  calls/Lobbying
Names and Network       •USER Generated
                        Content
PR 2.0, online PR
•   Interaction
•   User generated content
•   Real-Time
•   Fragmentation of media
•   Disintermediation
•   Losing Importance of Gatekeeper/Journalist
•   Less Control
•   (News)media are suffering
•   Advertising down, budgets down
Flat Earth News
                         Nick Davies

Traditional Press
Losing authority
Losing readers/viewers
Losing advertisers
Losing budgets
Losing time
Losing…

   – Publishing on web is easy
   – Need great content to feed and capture target audience
New trends forPR:
      Journalism becomes Churnalism
• Individuals are gatekeepers
• Individuals as publishers:
  –   Blog
  –   Wiki’s
  –   Podcasts
  –   Citizen journalists
  –   Cybersmears / gripe sites

  – No scrunity -> often
    inaccurate, incomplete, biased, poorly written:
    CHURNALISM
On the upside
• PR is all about relationships; online and offline
• PR knows how to write
• PR knows how to tell a story
• PR has the resources
• PR has the credibility
• PR can now communicate directly with
  audience, no more gatekeepers
• More need for content
• Press has less more time…
On the downside
•   Everybody is now gatekeeper
•   Everybody can write and publish
•   The audiences are all over the place
•   10 times more media and contacts
•   Monitoring and webcare: fultime jobs
•   Listening added to talking
•   Constant hunger for good and fast content
•   Press has too little time
•   Media disappear
•   No more embargoes
GotContent?
– Deal with fragmentation
– Produce for multiple uses: write once, publish
  everywhere
– Be alert, open, honest
– Be willing to share, and give
– Listen before you talk
– Earn Friends, earn ‘likes’
POEM
–Paid Media (bannering/advertising)
–Owned Media
 (Blog, Twitter, Newsletter)
–Earned Media (third party)
When things go wrong
• admit the error in the social space where the error was
  made
• apologize – make a genuine apology, and contact
  directly those who have complained
• take corrective action – contact key influencers in the
  target audience, asking them for feedback on how to
  make amends, and be seen to use the feedback.
• Be fast
• Be visible
• Be open and honest, transparant
But please consider
• Social media are not a replacement for the old
  tactics: It’s and… and… and…
• Always combine message, public and channel
• Advanced technology is useful tool
• Adapt content to media: Social Media Release,
  Video Release, Blog
• Think before you start
• Combined tactics strengthen a campaign
Issues
•   Astroturfing
•   Faking identity (Spoofing)
•   Anonymous mudslinging (Facebook vs Google)
•   Wrong material for media selected
•   Deal with loud & unhappy customers
•   Answer argument or not?
•   Twitterized Press Release?
Trends
•   Infographic
•   Video (not same as Viral)
•   Sharing on Facebook
•   Further merge of editorial and commercial
•   Merge of Paid/Owned and Earned
•   (press release next to editorial articles)
•   Combined tactics!
•   Growing role of Webcare
•   Measurement ROI/Dashboards
•   Spinning and Framing become more difficult
Conclusion
The future is social
Is real-time
Is all about relevant content
about transparancy
about multiple way relationships and interaction


The future is all about PR