ShareSometimes you have to change things that are perfectly good just to make them your own. – Jack Donaghy, 30 Rock Towards the end of the second quarter in 2010, we made a difficult decision to move forward and transition PRWeb to our host Vocus environment.  At that point in time we knew that this [...]

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ShareBack in November, we foreshadowed the launch of the next version of PRWeb and invited users to participate in the beta.  There have certainly been hiccups along the road but the overall feedback has us all very excited. Here’s what some beta customers are saying: PRWeb has taken their website to the next level, the [...]

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ShareThis past Friday at midnight, we rolled out a brand new PRWeb.com.  This launch was the result of countless hours of effort logged by a wide variety of individuals – from developers, to designers, to writers and more, this was truly a collaborative effort that spanned the company. Also worth noting is that the launch [...]

Filed under: Distribution, Multimedia, News Release Features, SEO, Updates, User Experience, Visibility, Web site by Jiyan
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ShareIn Fall 2008, we rolled out a newsroom product in beta. The newsroom was a fairly lightweight tool that was initially envisioned as a hub for PRWeb news releases. The newsroom was developed with the intention of providing customers with a place to put additional information about their company that bloggers and journalists would find [...]

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ShareLast Summer, we began having conversations with customers as well as a handful of influentials in the communications space, regarding how to effectively revise the PRWeb news release template.  Concurrently, we also launched internal research efforts that focused on tracking a variety of key performance indicators for PRWeb news releases and attempting to correlate positive [...]

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ShareFor the past several years we have offered podcast production and syndication services through PRWeb. In the past two years or so, a number of factors have resulted in declining usage of our podcast services. Most notably, our launch of video integration has resulted in increasing numbers of customers focusing on video as opposed to [...]

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ShareFor several years now, we have allowed customers to select a Web page that is displayed in a frame at the bottom of the news release.  Out initial goal was to provide those reading the news release with an easy way to interact with a customer’s Web site by placing it directly within the release.  [...]

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ShareThis Friday we are going to be rolling out several additional updates to our analytics dashboard including the following: Hovers for ‘impressions breakdown’ – We will be adding hover menus with help text over the various fields in the breakdown table for impressions to better explain what those different values mean. Table with exact counts [...]

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ShareToday we are announcing the launch of our updated news release creation tool.  I wanted to take this opportunity to provide background into the thinking and effort that went into this update, which is probably one of our most significant user experience enhancements we have made in the past several years. Planning for this revision [...]

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ShareThis 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 [...]

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