Social Media Press Release? We'll Settle For Some Links

PRNewser has been covering the ancient PR tool — the press release — for quite some time.

In the latest update to his famous “Die! Press release! Die! Die! Die!,” post, which he penned more than four years ago, SiliconValleyWatcher blogger Tom Foremski says we’ve gotten nowhere:

Forget the ‘social media release’ and the work we did on trying to create a microformats for news releases — at the end of the day all I want is some links in the copy!

Foremski is rightfully annoyed that in this day and age, he receives press releases, pitch letters and guest posts from PR pros with no links in them.

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