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Are small businesses using social media?  Are they finding success?  Here’s a survey of surveys – a quick look at some of the statistics and figures from around the Web on small business and social media.
Adoption is up among US small businesses.
“According to a survey conducted by Network Solutions and the Center for Excellence in [...]

Filed under: Facts and Figures, Small Business, Social Media by Frank Strong
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If you took an informal survey today about where people get their commercial information, it’s highly likely most folks would avidly reply: “The Web, of course!” Or, when asked, “where did you hear that?” Their reply? “I ‘Googled’ it!” Easy—and immediate–enough.
But what does this mean behind the scenes? How does “stuff” get “Google-able, “Tweet”-able, or [...]

Filed under: Content, Social Media, Updates, Web site by Sophie Shiatis
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Over the next few weeks you will see some modifications to the actual news release template being rolled out. These modifications are aimed at accomplishing several important goals including.  Top-level goals include A) Improving the experience for those reading and interacting with the news release, and B) Improving the search friendliness of the news [...]

Filed under: Distribution, SEO, Social Media by Jiyan
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This morning we announced an exciting, new partnership with Zemanta, aimed at enhancing the reach of our customer news releases into the blogosphere.
I like to think about Zemanta as an Associated Press for bloggers.  They basically are a resource that provides contextually relevant content for bloggers while they are writing their stories.  Through our partnership, [...]

Filed under: Distribution, Social Media by Jiyan
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This is just a note that we are phasing out Technorati and Keyword tags from PRWeb news releases.  Our rationale for doing so is as follows:
Why We Removed Technorati Tags
The initial function of the Technorati tags was to serve as a directional tool for news release visitors who might want to see what was being [...]

Filed under: News Release Features, Social Media by Jiyan
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Over the past year or so we’ve seen more and more PRWeb customers share their news release through Twitter once it is published on PRWeb, which doesn’t come as much surprise considering we are blessed with some of the most innovative and technologically savvy customers out there!
So we decided to help make things a little [...]

Filed under: Distribution, Social Media, Updates by Jiyan
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New and Improved NewsPad – PRWeb’s NewsPad search engine has been completely overhauled to provide more than just press releases in the search results. Images, Web sites (including blogs) linking to releases, and podcasts are now included. Newspad.com is a PRWeb property used for searching the PRWeb archive of content. NewsPad searches also create RSS [...]

Filed under: Content, News Management Console, Social Media by Jiyan
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A new “BlogThis” tool appears now on PRWeb press release pages.  BlogThis allows bloggers to post without even leaving the press release page. By clicking the BlogThis link, bloggers can quickly and easily write posts about the press releases they’re reading without the hassle of having to log into a blog and copying the headline and web [...]

Filed under: Social Media by Jiyan
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