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How Much Does Customer Social Media Angst Really Matter?

Harvard Business Review

Most brands are playing catch-up : in 2013 only 30% of brands had a dedicated customer service handle on Twitter, and only 10% of those brands with customer service handles reply to more than 70% of their mentions. As a consultant in PR and social media, I thought I knew. But what’s the real impact of such programs?

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Narrowing the Chasm Between PR Professionals and Wikipedia

Harvard Business Review

Public relations and communications professionals—and the academic programs that train them—find themselves operating in a radically new environment. As Emily Yellin describes in her book Your Call Is (Not That) Important to Us , “public relations” was the phrase initially used to describe customer service.

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