Archive for May, 2006

Web hosting problems - solved

May 22, 2006 @ 6:38 am · Filed under NewPR Wiki, PR Blog Week, PSA

My web host has completed a server transfer during the weekend. As a result, the entries for the Global PR Blog Week are not showing on the blog, and the NewPR Wiki can’t be edited.

I’m working on getting the two websites back to full functionality. Thank you for your patience.

And thanks to Neville for alerting me to the sites’ problems.

Update:

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NewPR developments

May 20, 2006 @ 8:17 am · Filed under New PR, PR, Research

  • PRWeb is “working on new social bookmarking, content recommendation and expert profile ranking using principles of Web 2.0,” and on “APIs that will allow others to interact with our content in revolutionary ways.” [source: Lee Odden's interview with PRWeb's CEO, David McInnis]
  • The Society for New Communications Research (SNCR) will launch the first issues of the Journal of New Communications Research at a research symposium scheduled for this coming Fall. They’re looking for support.
  • Dan Karleen is working with the SNCR on “a blogging study that’s looking at how well corporate blogging policies are working“. He’s also the host of Conversation Strategies in Higher Education, a Skypecast on how colleges and universities can “capitalize on new communication and networking tools to foster meaningful dialogue with constituents.”
  • Mike Manuel has a teaser :) about an upcoming site - OpensourcePR.org.
  • Edelman will launch a new type of press release in June. It looks like they’re reading Todd Deffren.

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Why Strumpette is not in the PR Blogs List

May 18, 2006 @ 10:47 am · Filed under PR blogging

On Monday (May 15) I received an e-mail signed by Amanda Chapel, asking me why the April update for the PR Blogs List has no mention of Strumpette.

Here’s why:

  • The list includes weblogs about PR and communication. That’s not what Strumpette is about, in my opinion. Strumpette is a troll’s blog.
  • The listed blogs are written by people, not by fictional characters.
  • There are legitimate reasons for writing an anonymous blog. But anonymity should be balanced by responsibility. That’s not the case with Strumpette.

If you disagree with this decission, or with my arguments, please leave a comment (or e-mail me). But first, please make sure that you read all the blog postings and comments related to this topic.

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New PR & Comm Blogs - April 2006

May 13, 2006 @ 11:28 am · Filed under Academia, PR, PR blogging

Long time, no see :)

Anyway — here’s the April update for the PR Blogs List; plus: a rant about the lack of PR academic blogs, a farewell to one of the first PR corporate blogs, and a “help wanted” announcement.

Back to the update: the list has currently 464 feeds. If you’re not familiar with it, you can find more info at the bottom of this entry.

There are not so many new (to me) blogs this month - but please don’t read too much into this (”PR blogosphere growth is slowing down, the end of PR blogging is nigh“, etc.).

I’m really happy to add to the list two academic blogs written by professors from the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia: so this is mass communication?, authored by Dr. Kaye Trammell, and Teaching PR, authored by Dr. Karen Miller Russell.

I’m a long time subscriber to Kaye’s blog, and I really don’t know why it took me so long to realize that it’s not in the list (duh!). Apologies! Dr. Trammell (bio) got her PhD from University of Florida with a dissertation on celebrity weblogs, and she’s the author of a long list of academic articles on weblogs (search for “Trammell” on this page); the most recent was published in the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication.

Dr. Karen Miller Russell is the winner of the Institute for Public Relations’ Pathfinder Award and the author of –among others– “The Voice of Business: Hill and Knowlton and Postwar Public Relations.” She’s also the author of a must-read study for PR practitioners — “US Public Relations History: Knowledge and Limitations” (it’s not available online, unfortunately, so I’m just pointing you to its dead-tree version).

Why am I so excited about these two blogs? Because I hope their example will encourage other PR academics to join the online conversation. Two years ago I wrote about the need to start a dialogue with the academic world, that’s a largely untapped resource of knowledge, expertise, research skills and capabilities. Fast forward to May 2006: although a weblog is created every single second, the number of PR academic bloggers is (still) incredibly low:

But, hey, this is something that deserves a separate discussion.

Enjoy!

 

Academic blogs

Student blogs

Podcasts

The other new blogs and feeds

URL changes:

Farewell

Hans Kullin wrote that PR-agency JKL has “decided to shut down their corporate blog. JKL launched what probably was both the first Swedish PR blog and corporate blog back in February 2004.” Back in April 2004 I interviewed Billy McCormac, who was the author of JKL Blog’s English section… Fugit irreparabile tempus.

To do (that’s for me, but I’d appreciate any help!):

  • discuss with Robert about adding the blogs hosted on PRblogs.org to the list
  • get help for editing the list of PR blogs authored by women (OPML) — what do you say, Kami? :)
  • add Communintelligence.com’s blogs to the list (if the RSS feeds are public)
  • get recommendations for PR & Comm blogs from Latin America, Europe, Asia, etc.
  • review the list and eliminate the blogs that haven’t been updated in the last year or so (2 or 3 cases, most probably)
  • suggestions? — please leave a comment, or e-mail me.
 

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