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What happens with PubSub’s PR Community List:

On June 6, 2006, Michael Arrington from TechCrunch wrote about “massive layoffs” at PubSub, indicating an “imminent” shutdown. It’s unclear to me what’s the company’s current situation; there were no official announcements, so we’ll have to wait and hope for the best.

Unfortunately, Steven M. Cohen, my partner in working on the PR Community List, is no longer with PubSub. As everybody from the PR blogging community knows, Steven has been instrumental in starting and maintaining the PR Community List, and in responding in real time to our questions. Steven – thank you for all your hard work, and I wish you best in all your endeavors!

Until we find out what happens with PubSub, the PR Community List is not going to be updated with new blogs. The PR Blogs List –on which the Community List is based– will continue to be updated, as usual; more about the list in the info below.

General info:

• The list has currently 503 feeds
• About the list — description & FAQ
• Browse the list: in Grazr or in Bloglines
• Import the list (OPML)
• The list of PR blogs authored by women is available in OPML, and you can browse it in Grazr
• Find new PR blogs (RSS) without waiting for the monthly update

PR Blogs List update for May 2006

Podcasts:

• Better Desirable Roasted Communications Café – a podcast by Allan Jenkins and Lee Hopkins
• New Comm Road – Bryan Person’s podcast about new media and online communications
• Edelman Public Relations APAC – Stakeholder Asia podcast
• Managing the Gray — C.C. Chapman’s podcast on new media, consumer generated content and no control PR
• Webmaster Radio: Cover Story

Corporate blogs:

• Glass House — Frank X. Shaw, President, Waggener Edstrom Worldwide
• Edelman Italia blog
• Affaires Publiques — Edelman Paris, France
• Despatch Blog – Edelman Public Affairs, London and Edinburgh, UK
• PR Catalyst – Hoh Kim, Managing Director, Edelman Korea
• Multicultural – a blog by Edelman’s Multicultural Practice
• Rethinking Corporate Social Responsibility – Fleishman-Hillard
• Beyond Blogging 2006 – The Future of Communications, written by Chris Heuer, Fleishman-Hillard
• Joel Baglole on the media – Hill & Knowlton Canada
• Client Service – Leo Bottary, Hill & Knowlton
• Networks – Ted Graham, Hill & Knowlton
• Engage In PR – Kyle Flaherty, Horn Group
• The High Concept – Abigail Johnson, President, Roeder-Johnson Corporation
• Evaluating the media – Michael Blowers, Media Evaluation Research, UK
• CorpCommBuzz – Journal – Ed Metz, Robert Berning Productions
• Transparency Works — Chris Thomson and Howard Fencl (Edward Howard & Co.)

US blogs:

• for immediate release – the blog for PRSA’s Counselors Academy executive committee (hat tip: Randi Mason)
• Hispanic Marketing & Public Relations weblog and podcast
• Talk It Up! — Heidi Miller – “Trade show and public-speaking secrets from a professional trade show presenter”
• E-Communications & Community — Maurene Caplan Grey explores the impact of e-communications, collaboration and new media in shaping business communities
• HighVizPR — Abbe Buck, consultant
• Bryper.com – Bryan Person on new media and online communications
• Into PR – Owen Lystrup, US
• Paul Gillin’s blog – Social Media and the Open Enterprise

Non-US blogs:

• PR Voice – Tony Bradley, President of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR), UK
• Bamblog – Dr Jan Schmidt, Research Centre for New Communication Media, University of Bamberg, Germany (hat tip: Philip Young)
• PR123+ — Professor Ross Monaghan, Australia (hat tip: Robert French)
• PR Talkback – Luke Schepen, Australia
• Blackwatch – Tony Blackie, CEO, Blackie McDonald – Australia
• navigate communications — David Bradfield, Senior VP, iStudio, Canada
• Blogging PR – ncom public relations, Denmark
• PR-Kloster – conosco, Germany
• Themenblog – Mark Pohlmann, SinnerSchrader, Germany
• Storyblogger – blog for PR agency Storymaker, Germany
• Public Relations India | Open Source PR, Hobbit Hob, India
• Public relations India: Corporate communications – JS Sai, AdFactor, India
• Fredrik Wackå’s blog, Sweden

URL and feed changes:

• Dr. Leslie Gaines-Ross, Weber Shandwick’s Chief Reputation Strategist (formerly of Burson-Marsteller), has moved her blog from reputation*watch to reputationXchange
• Debbie Weil’s Corporate Blogging Podcast has moved to a new URL (hat tip: Kami Huyse)

No longer in the list:

• The blog of German agency le Vrang & Westner (no longer available at http://www.blogigo.de/levrang_westner).