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Thanks to those of you who attended my talk on Social Media press releases. I’m sorry the projector didn’t work but I think the discussion was very helpful. I have loads and loads of information so I will share a bit for you. For starters here are my slides.

Here is a great video that reiterates most of the points i had.

Here is the SMPR template I refered to
http://www.shiftcomm.com/downloads/smprtemplate.pdf

Here is the defacto site about SMPRs’
http://www.socialmediarelease.org/

Here are some good examples of other SMPR’s:

• Ford Motor Company
• Gatorade
• Doritos
• NutriSystem
• Geocommons

If you would like to read further here are the sites I used to learn about Social Media press releases.
http://del.icio.us/mherzber/smpr

I think the main things to remember about SMPRs’ is

• They don’t have to replace the old school press release, they can work in unison
• This template is just that, that idea is to make an enhanced experience with multimedia
• This enables a conversation about your business to happen and you can get really feedback.
• It allow people to get to useful information in a quick short easy to digest format.
• Gets your media more views via multiple mediums and sites, which in turns get you in front of more people

Please feel free to ask any questions or leave comments below. Or you can email me at mherzberger [at] gmail [dot] com. I’m always will to help so feel free to ask. You can also get great info about interactive marketing at http://bloghighed.org.

I’ll finish with one last video that cover the points in a fun manner, Thanks - Matt

• 1 - Social Media Release
• 2 - ShareThis | Quick Sharing to MySpace, Email, and More!
• 3 - AddThis - #1 Social Bookmarking Sharing Button - Del.icio.us Digg Facebook Widget
• 4 - Social Media News Release - Social Media Training
• 5 - Social Media Releases from IABC » Blog Archive » IABC assumes Social Media Release leadership role
• 6 - Web 2.0 Public Relations and the Social Media Press Release
• 7 - Social Media Relations » SlideShare
• 8 - Social Media Release » Blog Archive » Elements of the Social Media Release

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I have been following the development of Buddypress for some time now and it was recently acquired by Automattic (the company that runs Wordpress). I think this was a great move, the person who was working on BuddyPress has an opensource project and was building it on top of WPMU, each “blog” was a profile. I look forward to seeing where it goes from here and see if it competes in the loaded, roll your own social network field, including Ning, Elgg and others.

BuddyPress can be seen in action on the site Chickspeak. Which was created by the BuddyPress creator who is now working for Automattic.

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