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Sawmill Marketing Public Relations, headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, is a full service public relations firm offering social media, traditional media relations programs, crisis communications planning and execution and media training. MBE-09-043
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Baltimore PR Firms Share Social Media Tips

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Thanks to everyone who came out to the Baltimore Business Journal‘s “Crash Course in Social Media” event yesterday at Sheppard Pratt in Towson. Attendees were treated to a half day of solid content from some of the top PR and social media companies in Baltimore. Here are links to the tools I mentioned during my presentation:

Dashboard for monitoring social media accounts: HootSuite; daily emails with mentions on Twitter: Twilert; instant alerts from across the web: Google Alerts; advanced monitoring and analytics: Radian6

For social media policies, the policies by Southwest Airlines and Ford are good examples. For a searchable database, check out Social Media Governance.

For examples of crisis situations, search for Domino’s Pizza and Chrysler. The new book I mentioned is #FAIL: The 50 Greatest Social Media Screw-Ups by Bernhard Warner.

Finally, here is my slide on steps to take to protect your reputation:

• Listen so you are aware of the conversations
• Implement and enforce a social media policy
• Conduct training so employees understand the role of social media in your organization
• Have an experienced communicator in place who understands the fundamentals of crisis PR
• Recognize that media is becoming a secondary (yet still important) audience
• Crisis is not the time to set up Twitter or YouTube account
• Integrate social media with your crisis communications plan
• Speed rules – mobile is key

 

 

 

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