At the risk of sounding like a total dork----what format do you guys
use for your social media news release?  I downloaded the awesome pdf
of the template provided by the nice people at SHIFT.
But what document/program do you build your releases in.  Thanks for
helping a newbie.
Michelle Lamar

I saw this online...a site to build a social media-esk file.

I'm guessing that there isn't any default "social media file" as much
as it is simply a guideline for how to present social media. I could
be wrong.

Dave
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David Andrew Thompson
www.myotherskills.com
http://dathompson.blogspot.com
http://quasiaccurate.blogspot.com
http://pecatores.blogspot.com

On 12/4/06, michelle lamar <lamar.miche...@gmail.com> wrote:

sorry..here's the link...http://www.prxbuilder.com

--
David Andrew Thompson
www.myotherskills.com
http://dathompson.blogspot.com
http://quasiaccurate.blogspot.com
http://pecatores.blogspot.com

On 12/4/06, michelle lamar <lamar.miche...@gmail.com> wrote:

Ask me later this week... *grin*

This topic is very timely.  My personal opinion is that we should have a
variety of formats or themes to choose from.  For those who worry that
this might be confusing for journalists, I think journalists will have
other tools that will allow them to view the releases in a common and
familiar format.

PRX Builder is actually running a little contest of sorts, just to see
how creative we can be with the release format.

Anyone is welcome to submit a template.  We'll review the pages, make an
extremely biased decision, and pick some winners.

The winners will be prominently featured on the PRX Builder.com site and
will have a permanent attribution on the template.  The templates will
be available for anyone to use.

More info. is available on my blog:

http://urlcut.com/1chgd

Shannon Whitley
Whitley Media
Direct Dial: 510.205.9504
Email: swhit...@whitleymedia.com
Create A Release:  http://www.prxbuilder.com

P.S. - Thanks for the mention, Dave.  (BTW - I checked out 'My Other
Skills' and it looks really interesting.)

Michelle - where is your blog?  What company do you work with?

Chris Heuer
http://www.socialmediaclub.org/

On 12/4/06 9:49 AM, "michelle lamar" <lamar.miche...@gmail.com> wrote:

So you all are going to finally take the wraps off your service?  Good news
- been wondering when we were going to see that from you guys.  Is
technorati involved?

Chris Heuer
http://www.socialmediaclub.org/

On 12/4/06 6:59 PM, "Phil Gomes, Edelman" <phil.go...@gmail.com> wrote:

Yeah... Very soon. I'll run up another thread here when we go public
with it.

Technorati isn't involved, though. Not the kind of thing they'd be
into, I would think.

Hi Chris
I write one business blog and two "other" blogs.
Business blog is called the emerging customer.  It's at
emergingcustomer.typepad.com.  Can be found at the direct url later
this week.
Blog is a customer/crm based blog.  Just started it a few weeks ago.

I write a parenting blog called...white trash mom.  It's at
whitetrashmom.blogspot.com.
Believe it or not, it's going to be a book published by St. Martin's
press in 2007.  Pretty funny, huh?

I also write a blog called "Shallow and Tacky".  It's silly and really
random.  Don't know if it's going anywhere yet but it's fun.
I was a partner in a niche social network, second chance fashion.  But
we are selling it and so can't say that for much longer.  I am excited
to join the social media club and plan to do so in the next few days.

Thanks everyone for the suggestions.  I really appreciate the help.
This is so new and I have found that professionals in the PR field
(that don't know about social media, new media formats, technology)
tend to blow off innovative things like the social media press release.
 So it's been hard for me to get advice about smpr until now.  Glad I
found this forum and the social media club.  It's awesome.