By Palin Ningthoujam on Jun 29, 2010 in NBD, mediarelations | comments(10)
My colleague Soumya forwarded me some of these tweets by some journos in India. Check them out below. By the way, I also don’t like dropping names without permission. However, it also matter on what context the names are mentioned. During a pitch, if the client asks us if we can tell them about the top technology journalists in India. I don’t think saying mentioning a name there hurts. Saying I know such and such can be little sensitive. But definitely we should mention all relationships are professional. What do you folks say?
By Palin Ningthoujam on Nov 5, 2009 in PR tools, PR2.0, mediarelations, social media marketing | comments(19)
We have talked about using Twitter to enhance your media relations practice in the past. We talked about how many journalists are using Twitter today and some of us are now directly pitching to them using the 140 characters miracle. Our media friends love it too – it’s fast, crisp, and devoid of any fat adjectives.
By Bhawna Sharma on May 6, 2009 in PR2.0, mediarelations | comments(52)
Most of us today are active on various social media sites and in fact, some of us use these sites in our day to day work. So what are the various sites we can get started with? One of the ways I have used social tools successfully in my PR job is in the media relations bit – forming new contacts, pitching to journalists, getting fast information about the media, etc. Below are the top five sites for me. Which are yours?
By Palin Ningthoujam on Apr 27, 2009 in Pressrelease, clientservicing, mediarelations | comments(3)
We are creating Newscast, a news release distribution site at India PR Blog. Everybody is free to register and submit their company/ client press releases. This is how you can start.
By Palin Ningthoujam on Apr 8, 2009 in mediarelations | comments(10)
My colleagues were sending out media invites for a press briefing tomorrow and I happened to chance upon the invites that were sent out yesterday and today. Mr. Chidambaram’s press conference incident yesterday sure has its consequences in the PR industry.
SPOT THE DIFFERENCES
This invite was sent out yesterday morning:
This was sent out today:
(ok I was [...]
By Palin Ningthoujam on Mar 26, 2009 in mediarelations | comments(16)
My wife pointed out this very interesting information and I think it’s one of its kind. Murali D, Deputy Editor of The Hindu Business Line, has a blog called ‘Just In, Just Out‘ where he publishes press releases he receives on his inbox. Very apt name! The subhead reads ‘What’s hot in my inbox’. It [...]
