PR meets the WWW / Constantin Basturea’s weblog

I blogged live some of the UGA Connect 2008 sessions via CoverItLive. Please scroll down for coverage of the sessions.

More coverage of the conference:

• The conference’s blog (including video interviews with the speakers): ugaconnect.wordpress.com
• Twitter coverage @ http://twemes.com/connect
• Photos, courtesy of Josh Hallett

Session 1: Engagement

Session 2: PR on Facebook - The Public’s Perspective

Session 3 - Relationship Building

Session 4 - Keynote: Bert Dumars, Newell Rubbermaid

Session 5 - Social media and intellectual property, Doug Isenberg, The Gigalaw Firm

Follow Dr. Vorvoreanu’s live blogging of this session here: http://ci.cs.clemson.edu/mihaela/?p=108

Session 6 - Measurement: Jim Fetig & Kathi Wallace (GIT), Mia Lustria (FSU)

Mike Driehorst (via Twitter):

We all need acceptance and attention. Why else blog?

Here’s the latest update of the PR and Communications Blogs List. As always, corrections and recommendations are welcome.

General information:

• The list has currently 674 feeds (previous update: October 22, 2006)
• About the list — description & FAQ
• Browse the list in Grazr (I’d recommend using this page as a reference, although the public Bloglines list will continue to be available)
• Import the list’s OPML file
• Search all the websites included in the list via Google Co-op: http://301url.com/prblogsearch
• Browse the blogs’ headlines or subscribe via RSS
• Find new PR blogs (RSS) without waiting for updates.

Group blogs

• SoSaidThe.Organization - How Government Organizations Communicate and Integrate Social Media (a group blog for government communicators started by Colin McKay)

Argentina

• AlterBlog - Sergio Hernández, MS&L Muchnik, Alurralde, Jasper y Asoc.
• Ideas de Comunicación - Fernanda Grimaldi
• Pura Persuasion - Daniel García
• PUNTO 6 - Comunicación Integral
• Todo Significa - Alejandro Formanchuk
• Rey Lennon Observer — Dr. Federico Rey Lennon
• ¿PODEMOS HABLAR? — Ignacio Duelo

Australia

• PR junction podcast — Jon Hoel
• Porter Novelli Adelaide
• Publicity Queen
• LouiseConvyMedia - Louise Convy, Convy Media Relations
• Creative Territory - Tracy Jones, Creative Territory

Belgium
Communication Sense & Nonsense - Liesbeth Laureys

Brazil
Comunicação Organizacional — Fábio Albuquerque

Canada

• Measurement PRoponent / PRomulgator - Alan Chumley, VP Business Development, Cormex Research
• Uninstalled — Michael O’Connor Clarke
• Common Sense PR - Business communications for the real world — Eric Eggertson, b5 Media
• Canadian Council Of Public Relations Firms blog
• A Class Act — Gary Schlee, Centennial College, Toronto
• CommuCat - Cathy Kurzbock
• 42 Points on a Double Word Score — Joe Boughner
• The Talking Shop — John Sobol, 76design, Thornley Fallis
• Capital PR - a Thornley Fallis group blog
• Blog Line — GCI Group Canada
• PoRtFOLIO - student group blog @ the Centennial College, Toronto
• Jill Pyle — PR student, Mount Saint Vincent University, Halifax
• High Road Communications
• PR Nation - Paul Zanettos

Chile
revolucioncomunicacion.com - Dino Villegas

China
Imagethief — Public relations, technology and interesting times in China

Colombia
¿Comunicación? - Victor Solano

France
Change Minds — MS&L France

Hungary
PR Guruk (group blog)

Germany

• PR-Fundsachen Student podcast, Hochschule Darmstadt
• CorpBlawg - Cornelius Puschmann, PhD student, University of Duesseldorf

India

• Indian and Global PR - Rajiv Harjai
• Rajesh @ Blogworks - Rajesh Lalwani

Ireland

• PR Matters — Natalie Buhl
• Edelman Dublin

Italy
odello.blog - Carlo Odello

Mexic
Tópicos de Comunicación Organizacional - profesor Octavio Islas, Monterrey

Romania

• PR FORUM (event blog)
• Tereza Valcan, Corporate Affairs Manager, COSMOTE

Singapore
The PR 2.0 Universe.com — Melvin Yuan

Spain

• bidireccional.net - Professor Paul Capriotti, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona
• COMUNICACION INTERNA - Maria Gil-Casares Gasset, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
• investigar en comunicación and ComuniSfera - Dr. Daniel Marti, University of Vigo, Spain
• ESTRATEGAR - Rafael Alberto Perez, Profesor de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid
• COMUNICACIÓN + — Aránzazu Fernandez & Celia M. Fernandez
• Blog Responsable - F. Xavier Agulló
• Comunicación Institucional - Casimiro López González, Spain
• protocolo y comunicacion - Maria Luz Álvarez Rodríguez
• Información empresarial — Aránzazu Fernandez
• Francesc Hernández García, Spain
• Comunicarnos — Profesor Fernando Olabe, University Cardenal Herrera, Valencia
• Comunicación Corporativa — professor Juan Pedro Molina Cañabate, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid
• Blogs Corporativos — Claudio Bravo
• Blog-o-corp - Cristina Aced

South Africa
Deon Binneman’s blogs — Managing Reputation and INSULATION

Sweden
Text 100 Stockholm

Trinidad and Tobago
IABC - Trinidad and Tobago Chapter

United Kingdom

• DummySpit — Dr Tom Watson, Bournemouth University’s Media School
• Stirling PR — Derek Hodge, lecturer in public relations at the University of Stirling
• The Melcrum Blog
• iabcUK — International Association of Business Communicators, UK London Chapter
• Edelman Grads UK blog
• James Barbour — Hill & Knowlton
• CIPR’s Profile Extra RSS feeds
• Green Gathering — Ian Green
• Bad Language - Matthew Stibbe
• In my eyes… — Emma Buckingham
• Greenbanana views of public relations and more - Heather Yaxley
• PR - Believe the spin? — Samantha Wilcox, Sunderland University
• PR Student// discuss — Paddy Doyle, Leeds Metropolitan University
• Pattern Recognition — Jon Leach, Head of Planning, Bell Pottinger Group

United States

• More With Les — Les Potter, Towson University College of Education
• The Measurement Standard Blog - for comments & questions about articles in the international newsletter of public relations measurement and research published by KDPaine & Partners
• Second Life Business Communicators Wiki
• Council of Public Relations podcast — RSS feed
• techneuroti - Joel Postman (now EVP at Eastwick)
• Accidentally on Purpose - Mike Prosceno, VP, Marketplace Communications (Blogger Relations), SAP
• Ruder Finn Public Relations Ethics Blog — Emmanuel Tchividjian
• Byrne Baby Byrne - Colin Byrne, CEO, Weber Shandwick,
• Over the River — Greg Peverill-Conti, VP, Weber Shandwick
• Clean PR - David Swain, the clean technology group of Text 100
• davedonohue.com — Dave Donohue, director of media strategy, OutCast Communications
• PRos in Training - Professor Kelli Matthews, University of Oregon
• Word Wise - Dan Santow, Edelman
• Social Media Release - Best Practices & hRelease News
• Force For Good — Jon Harmon, Director of Communications Strategy, Ford
• Ether Breather — Jiyan Wei,Vocus
• Web Ink Now — David Meerman Scott
• 10,000 Marshmallows - ViaMetric
• Echo Base - Blanc + Otus’ employee blog
• in search of - Stuart Froman, Eastwick Communications
• CustomScoop’s PR Blog Jots
• Media Orchard Live @ BlogTalkRadio
• Tech PR War Stories — podcast by Paul Gillin and David Strom
• CommsOffensive325 — Michael Klein, US (internal communication)
• PR Connection - Alpha PRoductions, PRSSA University of Florida
• FADS: The Fight Against Destructive Spin — Arment Dietrich Public Relations
• Experience PR - Heather Bing, Kent University
• D S Simon Vlog Views — D S Simon Productions, US
• Blog@bilities - anthonyBarnum
• Valley PR Blog (group blog)
• The Leading Edge — Sally Falkow for the Bulldog Reporter’s Daily ‘Dog
• AgencyNext’s blog
• Attention PR — Curtis Hougland, Creative Director
• Naked PR — Jennifer Mattern, J.H. Mattern Communications
• plaintalk - Cohesion’s blog
• AllBusines.com’s Professional PR blog by Nettie Hartsock
• PR Leap Blog
• The YouBlog — John Windsor
• Young Washington D.C. PR Pros — John Stauffer
• Heather McConnell, Hill & Knowlton
• Conversations Matter — Matter Communications
• Shop Talk — Jenn Schooley
• Linda’s Blog — Musings, Advice and Fun from The Walton Group Inc.
• PR And An Espresso — Jamaal Bell, Ball State U
• Fusion PR Forum - Fusion PR
• Brandi N. Williams, APR
• The Public Relations Papers - DJ Blatter, Manhattan, Kansas
• - Silicon Valley
• The Capital Buzz: Survival Tools for DC Communicators (group blog)
• The PRSSA Blog
• KU PRSSA
• PRSA Boston Blog
• The Comm Spot — Central Washington PRSSA chapter wiki

Change of URL/RSS

• so this is mass communication? — welcome back to blogging, Kaye! :)
• PRWeek has a new list of RSS feeds for news and blogs
• Society for New Communications Research - new RSS feed
• Ogilvy PR’s 360° Digital Influence - new RSS feed
• ProfNet Post
• Voce Communications: Voce Nation
• Site-9 Weblog by Bjoern Ognibeni is now Alles Gut?
• Mike Driehorst — new RSS feed
• Italo Vignoli: new URLs for the English blog and the Italian blog
• Desde el lado oscuro - Jorge Lopez, LEWIS Communications, Spain (change of URL, RSS)
• David Libby
• Airfoil Public Relations blog
• JMW’s blog (Sweden)
• All things PR
• Peter Bütikofer & Company (Switzerland)
• The D-Ring: Where the military and new media collide — Steven Field
• Josh Morton - Corporate PR Blog

Available online (PDF) for a limited time (thank you, Kaye!):

L.V. Porter, K.D. Sweetser Trammell, D. Chung and E. Kim, Blog power: Examining the effects of practitioner blog use on power in public relations, Public Relations Review 33 (2007), pp. 92-95.

Abstract

While blogs are not yet a standard public relations tool, practitioners use blogs to enhance their power within their organizations. Using an online survey of public relations practitioners, this pilot test examined the relationship between power and blog use. Three factored categorizations of blog use among practitioners emerged: routine information and research, interactive blog communication, and issues identification. Results showed differences based on power, between blog users and non-users, owner-practitioners and non-owners, among others.

Keywords: Power; Blogs; Weblogs; Public relations practitioners; Web; Internet

Phil Gomes:

I guess life is just that odd downtime between feeding frenzies in the blogosphere.

• My first del.icio.us bookmark: The future of Weblogging /The Register (posted on April 19, 2004)
• My 5000th bookmark: a comment made by Matt Cutts on how Google will treat paid links, in the context of the pay-per-post blogging brouhaha.

My, how times have changed.

Phil Gomes (in a comment on Mike Driehorst’s blog):

Here’s to a Web 2.0 world where people remember that the “Send” button, though older and less-cool, is sometimes more appropriate than “Publish.”

(*) Doc Searls: I’ve said before that blogging is a way of sending emails that go “cc:world”.