Pressitt the free social media news release creation and publishing site,  is currently offering all registered Charities free newsroom and matching templates, as part of its recently created newsroom service - read the full news release here.

To register you interest and claim you newsroom and matching release template please email us on [email protected]

Michelle Gilbert, head of corporate communications at Eurosport, comments: “Pressitt is an excellent service offering companies and organisations fast and effective social media solutions for their digital PR needs. We at Eurosport have been particularly impressed with Pressitt’s enthusiasm, high level of customer service and help in establishing our newsroom and leveraging our social media news releases. We are looking forward to a fruitful working relationship on these and other projects in 2011.”

Pressitt is an advertising free platform which is highly moderated, meaning your news will only sit alongside recognised brands and organisations.

Current newsroom examples include the DFID and Eurosport.

— Andy Merchant @andymerch

Anchor House the hostel and life skills centre for homeless adults has recently undergone a website update including a Social Media Newsroom and bespoke news template provided by Pressitt, the Social Media News Release and publication platform.

The Anchor House Newsroom can be found at http://anchor-house.pressitt.com/ and will now act as a hub for all the Anchor Houses press release and news. The Pressitt newsroom will help Anchor House to engage with bloggers/journalists and other interested parties with its deconstructed approach to sharing news across the blogosphere. All Pressitt news is indexed by major search engines and Google News.

Anna Richardson, marketing consultant for Anchor House comments “Anchor House is a forward thinking organisation that believes it is vital to embrace new communication tools. Tools such as Pressitt help us to widen our audience reach and engage our community with relevant and useful content. We are extremely pleased with the newsroom and the work carried out by Pressitt”.

Pressitt is currently the only free Social Media News Release Service in the UK and is being utilised by a wide variety of organisations from UK start-ups to Fortune 500 companies.

— Andy Merchant @andymerch

Pressitt went into public beta on the 20th of April 2009. The response to Pressitt over the last three months has been fantastic - well we think so anyway!

Here is an overview of statistics so far:

10,105 visits to Pressitt

6,509 unique visitors to Pressitt

31,462 pageviews, 18,281 of which were unique views

3.24 average pageviews per visit

Top three SMNRs to date:

1. Building Britain’s Digital Future: Government Unveils Action Plan for the Digital Economy - 1,525 unique views

2. Electric cars on UK streets as part of £25m trial - 571 unique views

3. New poverty plan will help millions of the world’s poorest people - 317 unique views.

These views are as of today, but will continue to rise as all Pressitt releases are hosted for life and searchable on Google and other major search engines forever.

My personal favourite:

Who do you want to make famous a Second Daim Around?

Social Media Newsroom

We have also created our first Social Media Newsroom and bespoke template for not-for-profit PR agency Bright One - view the release here

Press coverage

We have been featured in PR week magazine, on Brand Republic and many other well know blogs, and of course tweeted about many times.

As always your feedback and support is welcome to move the SMNR concept forward.

Many thanks for all the support so far, and we will be releasing new features and functionality soon!

We look forward to viewing you SMNRs on Pressitt.

— Andy Merchant @andymerch

The Pressitt team had a mad development day yesterday. We were working on suggested feedback and making our first social media newsroom live.

Latest additions

New blog commenting system. Viewers can comment via Twitter accounts. It also tracks comments on each release over the net.

Bright One newsroom and template made live.  Additional social media profile icons added and Flickr widget. View the Bright One Social Media News Room.

Download button added to all uploaded images on the release.

Pagination on the home page. Now readers can cycle through all the Pressitt SMNR’s from the home page.

News categories added to home page - NFP, GOVERNMENT, SCIENCE. If you would like to see other categories please get in touch.

Additional boiler plate wording added, to encourage users to add boiler plates.

Added previous release to preview screen.

New social media profile icons added to the Pressitt footer.

Helpful quotes added to creation pages.

More updates soon.

— Andy Merchant @andymerch