Articles in the Online Category

Is Social Media the same in the East as in West?
Posted in Online, Public Relations, Social Media on 8 March 2010

In just under a month, I’ll be speaking at the IABC Global Conference for Asia Pacific in Hong Kong: Loads of great sessions and speakers! As well as my good pal Adrian Cropley leading the charge on Internal Comms expertise, Aussie evaluation specialist Jim McNamara from UTS will be giving updates on how the world [...]

Web2.0 crisis management at IABC, Hong Kong
Posted in ORM, Online, Public Relations, Research, Social Media on 17 February 2010

Engage ORM’s Gerry McCusker is confirmed to speak on “Crisis management for a Web 2.0 world” at the IABC Global Conference in Hong Kong 7-9 April.
In his PR textbook ‘Public Relations Disasters’, Gerry wrote that the first 24 hours of any PR crisis usually defines how the issue plays out. Well, he’s changed his tune [...]

Gerry McCusker designated IABC ‘all star’ speaker
Posted in ORM, Online, Public Relations, Social Media on 13 July 2009

As a speaker and trainer, it’s always useful to get feedback about the seminars and sessions you run. Feedback is just in from IABC’s World Conference where I staged an in-depth session on CEOs relationship with Social Media. I’m informed that (Gerry McCusker) “Your excellent audience evaluations, rating 6.3 or higher, at the IABC 2009 [...]

Slow progress on corporate adoption of Social Media
Posted in ORM, Online, Social Media on 2 February 2009

ORM expert Gerry McCusker says while Web2.0 can deliver communications cost efficiencies, it’s not the newest form of free advertising.

McCusker discusses online reputation management with radio 2UE
Posted in ORM, Online on 5 January 2009

PR and online reputation management adviser Gerry McCusker discusses Social Media with radio 2UE’s Bill Woods and Deb Knight.

Stats on how Aussies are using the webnet
Posted in Mobile technology, ORM, Online, Public Relations, Social Media on 9 December 2008

ACMA statistics and report on how Australians are using the Internet.

Heritage media accept social media’s creeping influence
Posted in Blogging, ORM, Online, Social Media on 5 December 2008

http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/biztech/using-social-media-for-commercial-gain/2008/12/04/1228257189521.html
Over at Aussie broadsheet The Age, Scribe Paul Mcintyre cites recent Universal McCann research on social media. Basically, they accept Web2.0’s growing significance in comms portfolios. With stats such as: Bloggers globally: 184 million; Those who watch video clips online: 82.9% Social network members: 57% Have uploaded photos to a network: 55%  Uploaded videos to a [...]

Calculating the value of Web2.0 conversations
Posted in Blogging, Online, Public Relations, Social Media on 11 November 2008

Over at her Conversations blogsite, Dina Mehta explores the notion of evaluating Soc Med engagement by assessing the richness of the conversations that take place, rather than with traditional metrics. For a taster of Dina’s article and thoughts, she suggests the following be considered: Participation, Engagement, Influence, Imagination, Energy, Loyalty and stickiness…

Using Social Media for stakeholder research
Posted in ORM, Online, Research, Social Media on 27 October 2008

Engage ORM is developing a new training module to assess the role and value of Social MEdia as a stakeholder research tool.

50% of social media campaigns will flop
Posted in Online, Social Media on 22 October 2008

Many social media campaigns will fail due to what Gartner calls lack of “mutual purpose”.