In the ever-evolving world of social media, public relations professionals (PR) and journalists have more opportunities than ever to build strong relationships. It serves each of us well to stay up on social media trends-learning faster, easier ways to share information. With that, here are 10 of the best social media tools for PR professionals and journalists:

If you want to see the comments someone left for the group - click "comments" under the bookmark or click the "Expand All" button... You can leave a comment as well to start a discussion thread.

If you want to share something - check "Share to Group" when you are bookmarking. There you will also be able to leave a comment to the group for discussion.

If you want to see a slideshow of all the bookmarks, click the play button next to the RSS subscription icon. Oh, and don't forget to subscribe to the RSS feed :)

You can also setup email notifications. If you want a weekly digest of all the posts tagged, you can do that... If you want no emails at all - you can have that as well.

That sounds like a great idea!

Martin Bendig wrote:
> I'd suggest that we also use the voting function in Diigo, means that we click on the thumbs up-button if we like a bookmark. So, we can also use the "thumb ups" list for orientation.
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> Andy Brudtkuhl wrote:
> > If you want to see the comments someone left for the group - click "comments" under the bookmark or click the "Expand All" button... You can leave a comment as well to start a discussion thread.
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> > If you want to share something - check "Share to Group" when you are bookmarking. There you will also be able to leave a comment to the group for discussion.
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> > If you want to see a slideshow of all the bookmarks, click the play button next to the RSS subscription icon. Oh, and don't forget to subscribe to the RSS feed :)
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> > You can also setup email notifications. If you want a weekly digest of all the posts tagged, you can do that... If you want no emails at all - you can have that as well.

A great guide on trying to get more user interaction with your blog or website. Comments are the first and easiest way to start a discussion... Discussions with your community are KEY to an effective web strategy.

But even when your blog software hands you all your commenting capabilities, there are other things you can and should do to get people to comment. So here it is: the 7 step guide to getting more comments.

Twitter is a great resource for doing research...

Twitter search for Web Strategy

An intro to Diigo Groups and a call to join Diigo if you haven't yet. Oh.... and join the Web Strategy Group...

If you are a Diigo user (you *have* to be if you do Social Bookmarking) - check out the group I made today - Web Strategy. If you are interested in Web Strategy, Social Media, Internet Marketnig, etc… you are advised to join the group to share great articles and get in on the Web Strategy discussions.

Have you ever tried to look at your website/blog/etc on a mobile phone? If you have you know it generally renders crappy and takes forever to load. This is a great option for WordPress users to make their blogs iPhone friendly... It is the #2 smart phone now - do you want to turn potential readers away?

Simply put, it's a complimentary theme installed as a plugin on your WordPress blog or website that will format your content with this Apple-inspired, full-featured theme when your visitors are using an iPhone or iPod touch.

Good intro into SEO for New Media

Some great insights into SEO for New Media... Excellent thoughts and best practices from some gurus in the space...

I am hoping to create somewhat of a free mastermind group here to share links & thoughts about web strategy... which means I don't want to see spammers. If you join I'll get you added as soon as possible.

Thanks,
Andy

This group will be an integral piece of a membership community I am building... Stay tuned for details..

As far as content - if you see anything on the web that you think is about web strategy - tag it (You're using the FF extension to make it easy, right?).

Web Strategy includes many topics... including, but not limited to:
- Internet Marketing
- Social Media
- Social Marketing
- Traffic Generation
- Link Generation
- PR / Blogging
- Microblogging
- Email Marketing

etc, etc, etc...

Please share and enjoy!

A great tool to build social media press releases

PitchEngine shakes up the PR industry making it possible for PR pros, brands, and agencies to build and share digital, social media releases with their contacts for free. Our PitchEngine SMR takes the press release to the next level, eliminating the need for antiquated email attachments, word documents, image CDs, and more. Upgrade to a customized newsroom for your brand or client and we'll host a full archive of your PitchEngine SMRs for your corporate website and share them with our database of media users. Save money, save time, and step up your PR to the next generation with PitchEngine.

A list of great post from Jeremiah Owyang - THE web strategist

An example of bad email marketing...

Let's start with the subject… They used the horribly generic "Newsletter" in their subject. What most people don't realize is the easiest way to fail at email marketing is to use generic, non-descriptive subjects in their emails. A subject must be compelling, brief, and indicate the content of the message. This fails at all three and it doesn't even indicate a brand. This will be passed up in most users' inbox.