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Want to know the best part of utilizing social media as part of your public relations campaigns? There are no rules.

PR people are constantly being reminded of rules. We have to follow the AP Stylebook, news releases have to be written a certain way and executed at certain times.

Social media is an opportunity for your company to break the mold and create unique content that actually matters to your public. The key word is content. Content is the silver bullet. If you can create interesting and fresh content, then you will be one step closer to meeting your goals and objectives.

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You already know what I’m talking about. Have you ever decided to search for a company’s website or Facebook page only to find that it doesn’t exist? Or that is hasn’t been updated since March 2008? Those companies fall off your radar, and lose your trust and respect.

Creating new and interesting content not only draws people to your sites, but it also entices them to return. The key to finding the right content is simple: find out what your visitors want, and keep doing it. It does not matter what platform. Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, Foursquare, or a blog…develop content for your targeted user and keep it coming.

Social media strategy is powerful, but also fun for PR people because we are able to try different things and evaluate the results almost in real time. From there we can modify our campaign to meet the demands of our public. In order to be successful online you cannot be afraid try something new. If your customers want photos of your business then give them photos. If they want to see news from in and around your industry, then give it to them.

Public relations is not changing. It has changed. It is up to you as a PR professional to understand the power and possibilities of social media, and then develop a strategy to utilize all of the tools at hand. These tools are new and it is just as important to learn from your successes, as you would with your failures.

This post was written by Ryan Smith

Ryan is Manager of Social Media and Business Development at Raidious. He is a public relations professional that specializes in utilizing social media as a marketing communications tool. Ryan's has experience in sports, politics, real estate, and many other industries.

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I have several different blogs for just as many reasons. One is private and I use it to keep up with private thoughts and feelings and it helps me to see what changes I have made and what worked and what didn’t work. I have a blog where I post photos for family and friends since we live quite far apart. Another blog is for keeping track of quotes, YouTube videos and sites that I find interesting. On here (360) I have my “speed” blog where I put down one or two liners now and then to reflect something that is going on at the time. Then I have a blog where I post short stories that I’ve written for my family to read. And my whine and feel sorry for myself blog that I delete posts in after a couple of months. It’s mostly there to let me rant and vent for a while.
The best part is that it is visual and interactive. It’s so much more fun with a living and dynamic blog and that paper book that you hide in a drawer.

I have a wordpress site and I am trying to set up the nextgen gallery to display all my photos, but when I do, it overlays my flash countdown on top of the slideshow image.http://www.hauntonthehill.com/?page_id=1…
If you click on one of the images, you will see it pop up like it should, but the flash countdown on the right sidebar is on top of it. How do I fix this?

I’ve been using Google Wave now for a number of months. When I first heard about Wave, I thought it sounded like it might be interesting. I then watched the incredibly long video about the tool and was overwhelmed by the power and potential of what seemed to be a pending revolution in online communication.

After requesting an invite and finally receiving access to the service I slowly began picking up connections to other friends and colleagues that also had access to Google Wave. For a communication tool, it makes it far less helpful if you can’t talk to the people you’re regularly interacting with anyway on a daily basis.

Google Wave promises to provide opportunities for organizing events, sharing communication and documents evenly distributed. You can share photos, ideas, videos, notes, documents, and even games all on the same platform within an existing browser window.

The reality is I still haven’t experienced the real revolution in communication for myself. The most extended use I’ve seen from Google Wave is the collaboration I’ve done with a friend of mine that’s writing for one of my blogs. We share goals, ideas, questions and strategies with each other in a Wave and it works well.

I’m still waiting for it to really take off though. I think the way they could put the use into overdrive would be to almost replace the existing Gmail functionality with Google Wave. Oh, and while they’re at it, just incorporate Google Documents and Google Chat in there as well. Maybe even a sprinkle of Google Groups to carry over as well.

I still think Google Wave will revolutionize online communication. I just don’t think it’s going to happen until an even wider user base is capable of getting on the platform and other Google services are either incorporated or eliminated.

This post was written by Jason Bean

Jason has been blogging since 2005 on topics ranging from technology, television, music and his home city of Indianapolis. He's been a writer on a variety of blog networks and websites, and continues to develop his own web presence and properties as he goes. Trying to balance teaching himself more about technology and social media, his ultimate goal is to be helpful to anyone he can. Jason has two wonderful children and an amazing wife and lives on the south side of Indianapolis.

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I’m looking for a photo-blog style Wordpress theme that I can add a Paypal cart feature to each photo, but also contains photo albums and not just a gallery. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks x

I’ve been wanting to start a blog lately and I want to find one just for teens. Are there any blogs were you can have your own name as your blog address? And one were you can upload photos and videos.
Sorry if some of these questions are stupid; I’m new at this.

In Facebook, you can tag multiple people in your photos. So, when someone scrolls over the people, it says there name or whatever tag you wish. I am looking for something like this for Wordpress.
Can anyone help?

i recommend wordpress powered blogs. it’s fully customizable, it let’s you add plugins, change themes, track traffic, and you can post blogs anytime, anywhere, and how many number of times you want. my website runs on wordpress, and so does 90% of all my friends. I have photos and videos uploaded on my website. if you want you can check it out. Here are the exact links:http://keysinunez.com/images/http://keysinunez.com/video/

I realized I have many photos of memorable experiences stashed away in my library. I want to share them with my friends, narrative style.
I want to be able to write a description with every photo, taking the viewer through the story by clicking a link that loads the next photo. Also, seamless integration between video and photo would be a plus ^^ Like say for one part of the story you see a picture and the next only expressble through a video?