Social Media: The impact it has in Public Relations According to Hootsuite, “2.8 billion people were using social media by the end of 2016, up 21 percent from 2015.” Over the past decade, social media has managed to take our world by storm and only continues to grow, especially in the field of public relations. Platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter have become some of the most prevalent tools to use for businesses. Social media has grown into a tool that plays a huge role in public relations by assisting the business planning process. If utilized properly, social media can be very gratifying due to it not only aiding with creating conversation, establishing relationships, but also increasing brand reputation and awareness to …show more content…
This influence is seen as driving new social and cultural transformations.”(Valentinin).Therefore, social media allows anyone, and everyone, to engage in discussion, thus creating more potential for dialogue via public to organization and vise versa. The final way in which social media boosts conversation is through shared content among social media users. This is explored in Perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, perceived mutual relationship, perceived interactivity as determinants of social media use among PR practitioners when stated that, social media is described as online applications, platforms and media which aim to facilitate interactions, collaborations and the sharing of content,” (El-Kasim). As a result, communication between the public and companies influences public engagement which leads to the sharing of user content, which can benefit any brand.
In the same way, social media assists with relationship building which is an additional key component of the business planning process. Developing and maintaining relationships of trust with one’s audience is at the heart of the professional and academic activities of public relations. Based on the findings in Social media for Public relations: Lessons from 4 effective cases, it can be argued that “social
One of the key roles of social media from a marketing perspective is the development of a client based platform. It is becoming an increasingly important part of any business’s marketing. Businesses can utilize existing online platforms to build networks of current and potential clients. By being active online allows businesses to connect with their customers in innovative ways to become a trusted source of information and convey the passion they have for their industry.
Moving forward, social media has been a major convenience and reward to virtually everyone. On an individual basis, social media allows friends and family both near and far to communicate with one another. Also, businesses are flourishing through the use of social media. Advertising has never been easier. Horn (2013) states, “Our profession, unlike any time before, is demanding we become social media (…) experts” (1). Horn (2013) also states, “More than half of reporters (55 percent) use Twitter and Facebook to source stories” (1). Social media has greatly benefited business life and personal life.
Social media has become an essential channel for corporations to build a two-way relationship with their customers. However, having a social media account cannot solve everything. To make the best use of social media in keeping a positive relationship with their customers, corporations ought to seek and maintain influence among their followers in social media, and participate in communications with them.
Through the development of technology, the role of the media has been very important in public relation practice. In a past, media is not a very common, the public relation always use one-way communication. But nowadays, two-way communication is becoming more popular between public relation and public now., it can be defining as relies on honesty and open two-way communication and interaction, rather than one-way persuasion (Turney, 1998). Digital medias can be defining as a new tool to communicate between target audience and public relation. Social media can be define as engaging people to communication and interaction, and like a communication platform to share their feeling or information. This essay is going to discuss about how new digital and social media affected public relation practice related to two-way communication. Then discussing how social and digital media can be used for the image and reputational purpose, and how to become effectively and poorly. The last one will discuss new media how to affects corporate communication, public relation and crisis communication. The new media is become have some crisis to the organization, but the benefits are more than that to help the organization and public relation building the good relationship to the public.
Social media is not new. Facebook has been around since 2004, YouTube since 2005, and Twitter in 2006. What is new is how social media sites like Facebook, YouTube and Twitter are affecting the way businesses market their products and services. Never before in our history have consumers been able to communicate so effortlessly with each other and with the businesses they frequent. Never before have businesses been able to interact and react to customer feedback so quickly and efficiently. However, just because businesses have the ability to use social media for their marketing and advertising efforts, does not necessarily mean they should. This paper intends to
The most recent definition of public relations, according to the Public Relations Society of America (2012), states that “Public Relations is a strategic communication process that builds mutually beneficial relationships between organizations and their publics.” Through the rapid advancement of modern media and technology, there have never been more outlets and opportunities available for accomplishing the goals of public relations. Believing the development of social media has not created serious changes in the way public relations practitioners go about their duties would be foolish and a fast track to falling behind in this rapid world of communication. The main goals of public relations are “to
This case study provides the reader with a view on how extremely important social media and to an extent fame is, in the 21st century, with regards to having a successful business. Kylie Jenner’s company Kylie Cosmetics uses the
We cannot deny how big of an impact social media has on our lives now, not only on people but businesses too. It has opened a whole new door to the business world and given them a big opportunity to interact and attract a larger amount of customers. It’s given us a new and faster way of communication by exchanging pictures, stories, news, blogs, online discussions, etc. In exchange businesses have benefited by a long shot just by the click of a button. With the help of the Internet a company no longer is dependent on a particular customer base to survive because now it can reach out to a worldwide audience within seconds. It’s imaginable the countless business attributes of all social media to this day and still is growing. Social media
Social media in business continually rises to be an in important tool in everyday business and this means that communication is greatly evolving. In this development period, social media has had a prodfound impact on businesses especially in marketing. As a result, many are using social media as a communication tool regardless of the negative impacts experienced in some aspcts of social media.
Social media is capable of connecting a brand with its consumers and discover how they are being perceived, it also has the power to change perceptions and identify the key people within the business network. The unique feature of social media is that it can provide corporations and businesses solutions developed through operating with consumers and stakeholders. Basically, social media serves as a visible connection to one’s corporation and its stakeholders, consumers, suppliers, etc, who each have a defined role within the system to filter and regulate information. As mentioned earlier, the influence of social media is spreading in a proliferative pace that has resulted to an essential transformation in society, technology and business customs.
Today, many businesses are experiencing the effects of social media. Government, businesses, and communities interact through social media and use it to access their investors and potential customers. According to Donovan (2016), “Most types of businesses today make use of different tactics and techniques to make a significant exposure of their website to its target customers.” The goal is to use social media to maximize their potential in order to be one of the strongest participants in the business world.
People are more connected than ever before using Social Media. Yet, many companies insist on dealing with Social Media as an extra activity and not as integrating a vital component into the Marketing Plan. In today’s challenging business environment, many companies even fail to recognize that although a business plan talks about where to go, and a marketing plan about how to get there, is a Social Media plan what effectively guides how to connect with your customers, know them, energize them and ultimately, understand your competition.
In general worlds, public relations is a management function, which manage the spread of information between organization and its publics, it is process of information exchange, also maintain the relationship between audience, social media, companies…etc. Generally, the public relation practitioners use forms such as printed text, images, speaking words or even combined functions for communication. “Social media are a technically enhanced-think Internet and mobile-based-way of discussing ideas with people in communities. Social media use words, pictures, audio, and video to foster interaction”. (Maddock and Viton, 2009)To working with social media, practitioners must build and maintain relationships of mutual respect and trust with
Thesis Statement: All social media channels are ideal for business and professional use. One can connect with other professionals globally on LinkedIn (category 1), present one 's brand on Twitter (category 2), and interact with existing and prospective clients on Facebook (category 3).
This article examines the important role of social media to public relations practitioners. The researcher wants to investigate the innovation of social media through the case study of Obama presidential campaign and public health issue. Moreover social media can bring destruction to the organization, if the user misuses the social media. Social media has brought a new challenge to the society. The researcher use intensive interview and focus group toward public relations practitioners to explore how important the social media did to them and the negative outcome of social media. The researcher use quantitative method – survey to examine the appetency of the social media among different size of community.