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Challenge: Write a Press Release; for TNCR reaching the 1,000,000 posts milestone
Topic Started: Apr 26 2011, 06:01 AM (215 Views)
Axtremus
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Go for it! :popcorn:
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KlavierBauer
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I've written press releases - but who here has contacts to distribute them to? :)
(Press releases are strictly formatted writing, very boring and bland - you might be looking for a headline instead?)
Edited by KlavierBauer, Apr 26 2011, 06:18 AM.
"I realize you want him to touch you all over and give you babies, but his handling of the PR side really did screw the pooch." - Ivory Thumper
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Copper
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Free press release distribution: http://www.prlog.org/
The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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KlavierBauer
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Well you know what happens to press releases from press release distro services right?
"I realize you want him to touch you all over and give you babies, but his handling of the PR side really did screw the pooch." - Ivory Thumper
"He said sleepily: "Don't worry mom, my dick is like hot logs in the morning." - Apple

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Copper
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Big time return on investment?
The Confederate soldier was peculiar in that he was ever ready to fight, but never ready to submit to the routine duty and discipline of the camp or the march. The soldiers were determined to be soldiers after their own notions, and do their duty, for the love of it, as they thought best. Carlton McCarthy
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Luke's Dad
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Is that true of all press organizations or just your local NPR? And is that true of all Press Release Service Companies, or just select ones?
The problem with having an open mind is that people keep trying to put things in it.
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KlavierBauer
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LsD: I don't know what you mean by my local NPR? We don't have any NPR offices in Colorado.

Press releases typically follow a specific format, they're not like writing an article where you try to make something exciting. They're typically fairly factual, and their purpose is to give news organizations the facts about whatever you're doing, so that they can cover it, or announce it, if they choose to.
It usually has a title at the top, all in upper case, a brief opening paragraph explaining why this is interesting/exciting, and then some background on whatever it is.

I wondered if Ax meant that we could write a headline for the event, rather than a press release, as it seemed more inventive - unless someone was serious about writing a press release for this and getting it out there, but that would be pretty silly.

As for formatting - there is a specific style to press releases, like this:

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Edited by KlavierBauer, Apr 26 2011, 08:01 AM.
"I realize you want him to touch you all over and give you babies, but his handling of the PR side really did screw the pooch." - Ivory Thumper
"He said sleepily: "Don't worry mom, my dick is like hot logs in the morning." - Apple

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Axtremus
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(Press releases are strictly formatted writing, very boring and bland - you might be looking for a headline instead?)
I do mean Press Release.

Just a headline would be too easy.

Besides, if it's all nice and pleasant, where's the challenge? :D
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