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	<title>Comments on: Understanding Social Media</title>
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	<description>News, notes &#38; nonsense from a Northern PR girl</description>
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		<title>By: News travels fast – lessons to be learned in covering a story swiftly &#171; Reassessthepress&#8217;s Blog</title>
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		<dc:creator>News travels fast – lessons to be learned in covering a story swiftly &#171; Reassessthepress&#8217;s Blog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 14:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] examples have illustrated is that the modern world has forced us to keep up to speed. With the surge in social media even evident as I am typing, blogging allows even those without journalistic qualifications to be [...]</description>
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		<title>By: What is &#8216;Social Media&#8217;? : Wolfstar</title>
		<link>http://twentyninetwelve.wordpress.com/2008/12/02/understanding-social-media/#comment-11</link>
		<dc:creator>What is &#8216;Social Media&#8217;? : Wolfstar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:33:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I read an excellent blog post today by Rebecca Caddy. Understanding Social Media asks the question that many people in the echo chamber of online public relations often ignore; [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Jed Hallam</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jed Hallam</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Social media is a pretty fluid area. The key to understanding its nature is simple, it’s all about community and social interaction; be it in the form of citizen journalism on blogs or through communities of consumers reacting to a product/service online. Social media is the empowerment of the consumer and the individual, all enabled by their peers who offer constant support and critique. And as I spied Stuart Bruce retweeting on Twitter yesterday; @spwalker &quot;The PR who thinks social media changes everything is a fool, the PR who thinks it changes nothing is a bigger fool&quot; me in Guardian”

We’re always going to see comparisons between old and new – as you said, it’s inevitable. But the important thing is to realise the new opportunities that social media brings and the way in which it can combine with ‘old media’ in a positive way. In terms of ‘dead tree’ media transposing into social media, it’s very interesting and at the moment I think we’re in a transitionary state where the CEO’s and the owners of media empires are beginning to look into new media (for new media, read new revenue streams). Recently Rupert Murdoch announced plans to tier content on The Wall Street Journal site – with the top tier providing completely customisable financial news. It is these sort of announcements and attempts at social media that will cause the inevitable deluge of old media jumping into new media. Some will do it correctly, and some will FAIL – I suppose it’s our jobs as social media people to help the transition and guarantee that both public relations and social media thrive in the future.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Social media is a pretty fluid area. The key to understanding its nature is simple, it’s all about community and social interaction; be it in the form of citizen journalism on blogs or through communities of consumers reacting to a product/service online. Social media is the empowerment of the consumer and the individual, all enabled by their peers who offer constant support and critique. And as I spied Stuart Bruce retweeting on Twitter yesterday; @spwalker &#8220;The PR who thinks social media changes everything is a fool, the PR who thinks it changes nothing is a bigger fool&#8221; me in Guardian”</p>
<p>We’re always going to see comparisons between old and new – as you said, it’s inevitable. But the important thing is to realise the new opportunities that social media brings and the way in which it can combine with ‘old media’ in a positive way. In terms of ‘dead tree’ media transposing into social media, it’s very interesting and at the moment I think we’re in a transitionary state where the CEO’s and the owners of media empires are beginning to look into new media (for new media, read new revenue streams). Recently Rupert Murdoch announced plans to tier content on The Wall Street Journal site – with the top tier providing completely customisable financial news. It is these sort of announcements and attempts at social media that will cause the inevitable deluge of old media jumping into new media. Some will do it correctly, and some will FAIL – I suppose it’s our jobs as social media people to help the transition and guarantee that both public relations and social media thrive in the future.</p>
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		<title>By: What is &#8216;Social Media&#8217;? &#124; Rock Star PR</title>
		<link>http://twentyninetwelve.wordpress.com/2008/12/02/understanding-social-media/#comment-9</link>
		<dc:creator>What is &#8216;Social Media&#8217;? &#124; Rock Star PR</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] was trawling through my feeds this morning when I came across Rebecca Caddy’s latest post ‘Understanding Social Media’. Which asks some excellent questions that many people in the echo chamber tend to forget are [...]</description>
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