In honor of the Thanksgiving holiday, here are my top 25 things a public relations practitioner can be thankful for:
(in no particular order)
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- Vocus, BurrellesLuce and Cision (and others)
- PR Newswire, BusinessWire, PRWeb, etc.
- ProfNet
- HARO
- Free conversation monitoring tools, like Netvibes, and the enterprise level Radian6 (and those like it)
- Cotweet
- WebNotes (a start-up worth your curiousity)
- Clipping services (take your pick)
- Chris Brogan, Brian Solis and far too many to mention, for leading a new conversation about PR
- The emergence of social media as a strategic communications platform
- Media of all stripes and dominions
- Bloggers
- Flip cameras
- Digital audio recorders
- SEO and Web traffic analytic tools
- Adobe Creative Suite 3 (and CS4), which allow us to communicate graphically and artfully
- The iLife suite of products available on Macs, which make anyone an amateur post pro
- Smart phones
- PRSA
- Journalists, new and traditional
- Trusting and loyal clients
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What did I miss? Light it up in the comments section.