SAS, the leader in business analytics software and services, in conjunction with KDPaine & Partners, LLC, a leading public relations and social media measurement firm, have won an Honorable Mention in the Research and Measurement Category of the annual PR News Platinum Award competition. PR News, a major trade publication among communicators, announced the winners at the award ceremony in New York City yesterday. The Platinum Awards is a highly competitive program that honors the best PR campaigns of the year.
Designed by KDPaine & Partners, SAS’s program of integrated social media and traditional media measurement combined in a single research effort the evaluation of messaging, exposure, favorability, positioning, and thought leadership. The research gathered news from hundreds of traditional and social media outlets to determine the extent to which the media was helping communicate SAS’s core messages and values – and the extent to which the presence of those messages contributed to increased web traffic and donations.
“SAS’s program takes measurement to an entirely new level, providing integrated metrics that can be directly tied back to business goals,” said Katie Delahaye Paine, CEO and Founder of KDPaine & Partners, LLC. “It provides both a broad overview of success, but with sufficient detail so that individual team leaders can make decisions based on the data.”
The awards were judged by a blue-chip panel of PR executives from corporations, agencies, nonprofits and associations, leading educators, and industry consultants. The full list of finalists is available at www.prnewsonline.com.
This is the second time that SAS has been honored for its work in measurement. In 2010 it won the prestigious 2010 Excellence in New Communications Award from the Society for New Communications Research. This is the third time that KDPaine & Partners has been honored by the PR News Platinum judges. In 2009, the firm and the USO won an Honorable Mention for their work tying traditional and social media results to message integrity and online donations. In 2007, the firm won top honors in the Research & Measurement category based on its work for the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.
About SAS
SAS is the leader in business analytics software and services, and the largest independent vendor in the business intelligence market. Through innovative solutions delivered within an integrated framework, SAS helps customers at more than 45,000 sites improve performance and deliver value by making better decisions faster. Since 1976 SAS has been giving customers around the world THE POWER TO KNOW®.
About KDPaine & Partners, LLC.
KDPaine & Partners, LLC, is a New Hampshire-based consultancy that provides plans, products, and services that help PR, public affairs, and marketing professionals measure their success and make better, more informed decisions for their organizations. It is the publisher of the industry's first measurement blog (http://kdpaine.blogs.com) and the world's only international newsletter entirely devoted metrics and evaluation, The Measurement Standard. For more information about KDPaine & Partners, go to http://www.kdpaine.com.
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