TWITTER and PUBLIC RELATIONS – PR 2.0

TWITTER and PUBLIC RELATIONS – PR 2.0

By

VIKRAM KARVE

TWITTER

Twitter is highly effective in disseminating news almost instantaneously.

Twitter’s easy accessibility has made it everyone’s personal newswire.

Twitter is interactive.

Since it provides an interactive experience, Twitter is Web 2.0.

This means that twitter focuses on user collaboration and facilitates sharing of user-generated content by the means of “re-tweeting”.

Owing to the enormous world-wide reach, high speed and vast synergy of Twitter, if you put a news item or news link on twitter, it can go viral within seconds by re-tweeting and become “trending news”.

Users can add their own comments, content, pictures, videos and internet links and thereby add value and credibility by interpretation and analysis.

Twitter has enabled everyone to become a “citizen journalist”.

You can write a news report on your blog and post the link on Twitter, or tweet a news item you have read on the internet with a clickable link, or you can instantaneously tweet a news-picture you have clicked or write a caption or a news item.

Twitter has trending topics, which can define and prioritize news and establish news trends for the Main Stream Media (MSM) to follow.

Today, because of its sheer mass of information, Twitter has the power to drive the Main Stream Media.

The fantastic speed of dissemination of news on the internet ensures that “Breaking News” first happens Twitter much before TV News Channels.

Twitter leads, other media follows.

Twitter has thwarted attempts by the Main Stream Media to suppress, “censor”, ignore, downplay, whitewash, manipulate or misreport news.

In many cases, efforts to present news in a biased distorted or skewed manner have been exposed owing to the first-hand reporting of news on Twitter by citizens.

Main Stream Media cannot afford to ignore Twitter unless it wants to be isolated and lose credibility.

The huge presence of Journalists, Electronic and Print Media Organizations on Twitter bears testimony to the relevance, importance and power of Twitter.

Owing to its instantaneous speed and tremendous reach, Twitter has a huge power to affect your reputation in a split second with devastating effect.

Therefore, in order to ensure good reputation management and effective public relations, organizations cannot afford to ignore Twitter

PUBLIC RELATIONS – PR 1.0 and PR 2.0

Traditional “first generation” unidirectional Public Relations (PR 1.0) is hopelessly outmoded to cope up with Web 2.0 Technologies like Twitter.

In order to meet the challenges of Web 2.0, what we now need is “second generation” bidirectional interactive Public Relations or PR 2.0.

In the same way as Web 2.0 has “democratised” the Information Management, PR 2.0 will “democratise” Public Relations.

Traditional “unidirectional” methods of PR 1.0 like the impersonal Press Release and the formal Media Briefing will have to be supplemented by online PR Techniques like Twitter Media Release (TMR).

TMR is a “press release” posted on Twitter, tweeted in such a succinct and appealing way that it will enhance the likelihood of the content being “re-tweeted” extensively thereby facilitating widespread dissemination in a speedy effective manner.

In “unidirectional” PR 1.0 your job ends when the Press Release is issued or the Press Briefing is concluded.

In PR 2.0 your job begins the moment you “tweet” your TMR (Twitter Media Release).

You have to be alert and constantly monitor the progress of your TMR (by observing retweets and messages) and ensure effective interaction by quick response to comments, feedback and related news.

Speed of “publication” is most essential when it comes to news and Twitter is fastest and most synergistic way of disseminating news.

Today’s world of information technology driven “digital PR” has created an inescapable need for PR 2.0 in order to deal with Web 2.0 Social Media Platforms comprising various internet based online social networking tools like Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, LinkedIn, Google, Wikis etc.

Of all these Social Media Platforms, as far as News Dissemination and Management is concerned, Twitter is the most potent and effective.

Most Organizations, including the Main Stream Media, have taken cognisance of the importance of PR 2.0 and you can see their increasing presence on Twitter and other Social Media Platforms like Blogs, Facebook and LinkedIn.

PR 1.0 was one-dimensional Public Relations.

The role of the traditional PR 1.0 was to disseminate information to various people in order to achieve publicity.

PR 2.0 is interactive Public Relations.

PR 2.0 recognizes the power of the people.

The focus of PR 2.0 is to engage with the users and stakeholders, to interact and connect with people, in order to achieve Synergistic Public Relations.

VIKRAM KARVE
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BOOK REVIEW - Mafia Queens Of Mumbai : Stories Of Women From The Ganglands

Mafia Queens Of Mumbai : Stories Of Women From The Ganglands

BOOK REVIEW

By

VIKRAM KARVE

The Book

Title: Mafia Queens Of Mumbai : Stories Of Women From The Ganglands

Author: S. Hussain Zaidi with Jane Borges

Publisher: TRANQUEBAR

Year: 2011

ISBN: 9789380283777

Pages: 290

Price: Rs. 250

This book proves the adage that sometimes “truth is stranger than fiction”. The authors have chronicled the life stories of women who made it big in the male bastion of the crime world of Mumbai. The well researched stories make fascinating reading, especially for those familiar with the history of Mumbai. Those days “blue-collar” crime with guns and violence held the sway – now it the “white-collar” criminals and scams which hog the headlines.

In the foreword, Vishal Bharadwaj says that crime is juicier than spirituality and that is probably why this book is so readable and interesting. The authors have written in such a captivating manner that you are spellbound from start to finish as you can see the stories unfolding before your eyes. The print is easy on the eye and the book is embellished with photographs that lend an air of authenticity to the writing.

You will enjoy reading this book. I will not tell you anything that may reduce the suspense, so I will let you discover the protagonists and their stories yourself. But let me tell you one thing – once you start reading the narration is so gripping that it will engross you totally and you will find the book unputdownable.

The stories in this book bear testimony to the saying that the female species is deadlier than the male. It is intriguing to read how vicissitudes of fate change the destinies of simple women and pitchfork them into the labyrinthine world of crime.

Get a copy of this book. You will enjoy reading it. If you are a Mumbaikar, you can even visit the places mentioned and get a authentic feel of the stories for yourself, though the stories are set in a milieu that has changed quite a bit – it  was a different Mumbai those days than it is now. This is unique book since it narrates an fascinating part of the seamier side of the history of Mumbai that has probably not been chronicled before. That is why this book is an important addition for the shelves of libraries

Book Review by Vikram Karve

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