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 [...]
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Category Archives: Business blogging
Waiting for Cymphony/Porter-Novelli’s survey results
Back in March 2006, Cymfony was announcing the launch of a survey -done in partnership with Porter-Novelli and Russell Research- on corporate blogging best practices. Now it looks like the preliminary results are in, although the survey continues to be online (hm). With the risk of becoming a bore with my obsession on survey reporting [...]
Joining Converseon
Update, April 6, 2006: My heartfelt thanks to everyone who wrote to congratulate me – by e-mail, via comments, or on their blogs – on my new job. I am humbled by your support and confidence and (while I don’t think for a second that I deserve the embarrassingly nice things you said about me) [...]
Questions raised by Edel-Mart’s blogging program
One thing was made painfully clear by the discussions sparked by Michael Barbaro’s article in the New York Times (Wal-Mart Enlists Bloggers in P.R. Campaign, March 7, 2006): that we’re nowhere near having a good understanding of how personal publishing — in this case, blogging — is impacting the practice of public relations, and that [...]
The New Comm Forum: What we’ve missed
I can’t believe I missed the second edition of the New Communications Forum. I was looking at the pictures posted by Neville and Josh and all I could think was “I should have been there“. Anyway… here’s a list of links to notes and podcasts from the conference: Orientation: Conference tracks and sessions | List [...]
Hass MS&L and FastLane win big at PR Week Awards
C’mon, nobody blogged about this? :) Hass MS&L and General Motors are the winners of PR Week Awards 2006 for the PR Innovation of the Year and Best Use of the Internet, for the GM FastLane blog. Congratulations! Now, how about publishing the application entries for all the (blog-related) finalists in these categories? They will [...]
Article on the effects of organizational blogs on relational outcomes
As far as I know, this is the first article on the use of weblogs in online public relations published by a peer-reviewed scholarly journal: Organizational Blogs and the Human Voice: Relational Strategies and Relational Outcomes. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 11(2) (Technorati cosmos | RSS feed) (del.icio.us cosmos | RSS) Tom Kelleher and Barbara M. [...]