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

[Updated 11.26.07 to add Voce Nation's change of URL]

General information:

• The list has currently 743 feeds (previous update: April 8, 2007)
• About the list — description & FAQ
• Browse the list in Grazr (please use this page as a reference; the public Bloglines list will continue to be available)
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• Find new PR blogs (RSS) without waiting for updates - via del.icio.us (RSS) or twitter.

New feeds:

• There are 70 new feeds listed below; you can import an OPML file with all the new feeds, or browse the feeds.
• Manuel Montaner, Argentina: http://manuelmontaner.com.ar
• The PR Lab weblog - Greg Smith, Australia: http://theprlab.wordpress.com
• A Learner’s Way - Professor Christine Smith, Centennial College, Canada: http://corpcomm.prblogs.org
• Bernard Gauthier -PR, Persuasion and Politics, Canada: http://www.bernardgauthier.ca
• Blog Line - GCI Canada: http://blogs.bnet.com/pr/
• Fleet Street PR - Dave Fleet, Canada: http://fleetstreetpr.com
• Eminence Grise - Michelle Sullivan Communications, Canada: http://eminencegrisemontreal.blogspot.com
• Loyalist PR - Professor Kerry Ramsay, Loyalist College, Canada: http://loyalistpr.blogspot.com
• ChatteringClass - Edelman’s UK CEO, Robert Phillips: http://www.chatteringclass.co.uk
• my(PR)palette - Martin Waxman, Canada: http://martinspalette.blogspot.com
• Public Relations Rogue - Bernie Charland, Canada: http://publicrelationsrogue.wordpress.com
• The|Intangibles - Neil Boyd, H&K Canada: http://intangibles.typepad.com/theintangibles/
• Turning News Into Knowledge - MediaMiser Ltd, Canada: http://www.turningnewsintoknowledge.com
• The blog of the postgraduate Corporate Communications and Public Relations at Centennial College in Toronto, Canada: http://centpr.wordpress.com
• Let’s Keep Things Simple - Jim Dowling, Ogilvy, Hong Kong: http://jimdowling.typepad.com/simple/
• PR India Post — CJ Singh, India: http://prsichd.blogspot.com/index.html
• Ten Minutes Older — Piaras Kelly’s podcast, Ireland: http://pkellypr.libsyn.com/
• RF Israel Blog - Ruder Finn Israel: http://www.ruderfinn.co.il/who-we-are/rf-israel-blog.html
• Michelle Boag Blog, New Zealand: http://www.michelleboag.co.nz/michelle-boag-blog/
• Public Relations in Transilvania - D’Avantage Consult, Romania: http://davantage.wordpress.com
• The eOK .network - Benjamin Koe, H&K Singapore: http://eok.net/
• Comunicacion Corporativa - Joaquin Mouriz, Spain: http://mouriz.wordpress.com
• SimDalom - Chema Martinez-Priego , Spain: http://www.simdalom.com/blog/
• PR 2.0 - Kristofer Björkman, Sweden: http://pr20.wordpress.com/
• IABC Switzerland Blog: http://iabcswitzerland.wordpress.com/
• DWPub Sporadic - Daryl Willcox, UK: http://www.dwpubsporadic.com
• Financial Media and Communications - Professor Mark Phillimore, Bournemouth University, UK: http://financialmediaandcomms.blogspot.com
• HackFlack - Chris Marritt, UK: http://www.hackflack.co.uk
• Media Evaluation - Mediatrack Research, UK: http://www.mediatrack.com/blog/index.html
• Talking Internal Communication… - Lee Smith, CIPR, UK: http://talkingic.typepad.com/foureightys_lee_smith_tal/
• The Friendly Ghost - Brendan Cooper, UK: http://thefriendlyghost.wordpress.com
• Politics, PR & Marketing - Professor Darren G. Lilleker, Bournemouth University, UK: http://darrenlilleker.blogspot.com
• 2007 PRSA International Conference blog: http://www.prsaconf07.info
• Ampersand - Hill & Knowlton: http://blogs.hillandknowlton.com/blogs/ampersand/default.aspx
• ArticuBLOG - Articulate Communications, NY: http://articulatepr.blogs.com
• Beyond the Press Release: http://prexpress.blogspot.com
• Christi Eubanks, Converseon - my PRception: http://christi2006.prblogs.org
• Disruptive Conversations - Dan York: http://www.disruptiveconversations.com
• For Budding Public Relations Professionals - Adam Denison: http://buddingpublicrelations.blogspot.com
• Greg Brooks: http://greg-brooks.com
• Grounded In Reality - GCI Group: http://blogs.gcigroup.com/groundedinreality/
• House of Naked: The Home of Naked Communications NYC: http://www.houseofnaked.com/
• Measuring Communications - Matt Greenberger: http://standonabox.blogspot.com
• my 2 cents - David Reich, Reich Communications, Inc.: http://reichcomm.typepad.com/my_weblog/
• MyRaganTV.com: Broadcast Your Company, Your Work, Yourself: http://www.myragantv.com
• O’Dwyer’s PR Blog: http://www.odwyerpr.com/blog/
• PR Conversations - Global opinions on public relations and its impact on society, from local perspectives (academic group blog authored by PR academics and practitioners): http://www.prconversations.com/
• PR 101 - Steve Turner, Solomon/Turner, St. Louis: http://solomonturner.blogspot.com
• PR and Comms Network - Alex Pearmain and Alain Desmier, UK: http://prandcommsnetwork.wordpress.com
• PR Measurist - Michael Young, SVP, Access Communications: http://accesspr.typepad.com/pr_measurist/
• PR Meets Marketing — Cece Salomon-Lee, ON24: http://prmeetsmarketing.wordpress.com
• PR, New Media, GTD - Lines from Lee — Lee Aase, Mayo Clinic’s manager for National Media Relations and New Media: http://leeaase.wordpress.com
• PR-Bridge - Professor Bob Batchelor, University of South Florida: http://pr-bridge.com
• PRactically Speaking Online - RGM Communications: http://allaboutpr.blogspot.com
• PRNewser by MediaBistro: http://prnewser.wordpress.com
• PRSSA @ University of Georgia: http://ugaprssa.blogspot.com
• Public Relations Princess - Claire Celsi: http://clairesbestlife.typepad.com/public_relations_princess/
• Real World Communications & PR - John Mallen: http://johnmallencommunications.typepad.com/real_world_communications/
• Reputation Excellence - Peter Morrissey, President and CEO of Morrissey & Company: http://www.morrisseyco.com/blog/
• Reputation Gurus - GCI Group: http://blogs.gcigroup.com/reputationgurus/
• Sarah De Bruyn, Canada: http://realworldcommunications.blogspot.com
• Social Media - Dr. Kaye Sweetser’s Social Media class @ University of Georgia: http://socialmediauga.blogspot.com
• SocialTNT - Christopher Taylor Lynn, SHIFT Communications: http://socialtnt.com
• Stop the Presses - Levick Strategic Communications: http://www.levick.com/blog/
• Technobabble 2.0 - Jonny Bentwood, Edelman UK: http://technobabble2dot0.wordpress.com
• The Affari Edge Blog: http://www.affariblog.com
• The Buzz Bin — Livingston Communications: http://www.livingstonbuzz.com/blog/
• thegoodthebadthespin.com - Bob Conrad: http://thegoodthebadthespin.com
• Vegas PR News - Public Relations Society of America - Las Vegas Valley Chapter: http://prsalasvegas.com/blog/
• Your PR Guy - Rodger Johnson: http://rodjohns.typepad.com/yourprguy/

Change of URL/feed:

• Tom Keefe, CommakaziSpeek: the new URL is http://www.commakazispeek.com/blog/
• Kyle Flaherty, Engage in PR: the new URL is http://www.engageinpr.com
• Angelo Fernando, Hoi Polloi: the new URL is http://hoipolloi.wordpress.com/
• Todd Andrlik, The Power To Connect: the new URL is http://www.toddand.com
• Voce Nation (Voce Communications’ weblog): the new URL is http://www.vocenation.com/

We’re interrupting the radio silence to announce that the Bad Pitch Blog has won PRSA’s 2006 Bronze Anvil Award of Commendation for the blog section. Hip hip hurray! Congrats to Kevin Dugan! Keep the pitches coming, guys — he’s in for a Silver Anvil next year :)

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

If you want to search across all the PR blogs, wikis, and news feeds included in the PR & Communications Blogs List, you can use a custom search powered by Google Co-op:

http://301url.com/prblogsearch

Also, if you want to display a search box for it on your blog, please drop me an e-mail (cbasturea at gmail.com) and I’ll send you the code you’ll have to include in your template.

Sorry it took me so long to update the list of PR and Communications blogs. You’ll find below the list of blogs I found in the last 4 month, as well as the blogs that have changed their addresses (or feeds). Also, I deleted from the list a number of weblogs that haven’t been updated in the last year, as well as other blogs that are less focussed on PR and communications.

General information:

• The list has currently 555 feeds
• About the list — description & FAQ
• Browse the list (the public Bloglines list will continue to be available, but I will recommend using this page as a reference)
• Import the list’s OPML file
• Find new PR blogs (RSS) without waiting for the monthly update.

Australia

• Snurblog - Dr. Axel Bruns: http://snurb.info/index.php?q=blog/1
• PR Disasters - Gerry McCusker, consultant & author: http://www.prdisasters.com

Belgium

• The Missing Link — IABC Belgium podcast feed
• Pieter over … — Pieter De Wit: http://pieter.blogsource.com/

Brazil

• Blog do livro Blog Corporativo - Fábio Cipriani: http://www.blogcorporativo.net/
• Blog Corporativo Wiki - Fábio Cipriani: http://wiki.blogcorporativo.net/

Canada

• PR Girlz - Thornley Fallis Communications: http://www.prgirlz.com/
• Blogging Me Blogging You - Ed Lee, Fleishman-Hillard: http://bloggingmebloggingyou.wordpress.com/
• prclass - Corporate Communication and Public Relations, Fanshawe College, London, Ontario: http://prclass.wordpress.com
• Bill Tieleman - consultant, British Columbia: http://billtieleman.blogspot.com
• social media group - Maggie K. Fox & her colleagues consultant: http://www.socialmediagroup.ca/
• Rusciolelli Blog : Voice from the PR Maven - Maverick Public Relations Inc.: http://julietteblog.blogspot.com/
• Less than 3 (podcast) - John Wiseman and Jill Pyle : http://lessthan3.ca/blog/
• For What It’s Worth (podcast) - Eric Bergman, consultant: http://presentwithease.blogspot.com
• The New PR - Ryan Anderson: http://www.ryananderson.ca/
• DarrenBarefoot.com | PR and Marketing: http://www.darrenbarefoot.com/archives/category/pr-and-marketing/
• Duane Brown’s Blog | Communication: http://www.duanebrown.ca/?cat=30

Germany

• Bamblog — Dr Jan Schmidt, Research Centre for New Communication Media, University of Bamberg: http://www.bamberg-gewinnt.de/wordpress/archives/category/english/
• Das Textdepot - Dr. Thomas Pleil: http://thomaspleil.wordpress.com/
• media coffee - Germany, group blog: http://www.mediacoffee.de/
• PR 2.0 - Edelman Germany, group blog: http://przweinull.de

India
Secrets Of Press Releases - Arun Agrawal: http://www.secretsofpressreleases.com/

Ireland
Ronnie Simpson: http://simpsonftpr.blogs365.org/hp_wordpress

Italy
Toni’s blog - Toni Muzi Falconi, Global PR Alliance: http://www.tonisblog.com/

Netherlands
TechNed - group blog, Hill & Knowlton Netherlands: http://blogs.hillandknowlton.com/blogs/techned/

New Zealand
NPSC Blog - Network of Public Sector Communicators: http://www.psnetwork.org.nz/blog/

Poland
PR 2.0 - Maciej Lason, Edelman: http://pr20.blox.pl/

Romania

• Dragos Tuta: http://www.dragostuta.ro/
• Ramona Patrascanu: http://www.ramonapatrascanu.ro/
• Florentin Scarlat: http://www.responsabilitatesociala.ro/florentinscarlat/
• Cosmina Francu: http://www.responsabilitatesociala.ro/cosminafrancu/
• Blogul de Relatii Publice - Andrei Chirica: http://relatiipublice.ap69.net/
• Premium PR: http://www.premiumpr.ro/blog/

Singapore
The Panel (podcast) — MediaConnect Asia: http://thepanel.com.sg/

Spain
La central de datos - David Moran, Edelman: http://lacentraldedatos.wordpress.com

Sweden
Emerging Communications - Therese Oernberg Berglund, PhD student: http://blog.humlab.umu.se/therese/

Switzerland
Geneva Communicators - group blog: http://genevacom.wordpress.com/

Trinidad and Tobago
Caribbean Public Relations - Karel Mc Intosh: http://caribbeanpr.blogspot.com

United Kingdom

• The Public Relations Bibliography Wiki - David Philips: http://prbibliography.pbwiki.com/
• PR BOOKS - Recommended sources for public relations - Richard Bailey: http://prbooks.pbwiki.com
• mediations wiki - Philip Young: http://mediations.pbwiki.com/
• Screaming Headlines - Pete Wilby, lecturer in Journalism, PR and media and cultural theory, UCE Birmingham: http://screamingheadlines.blogspot.com/
• activevents - a CIPR blog: http://cipr.typepad.com/activevents/
• PR 2.0 — James Warren, director of web relations, Weber Shandwick: http://jameswarren.wordpress.com/
• SixtySecondView (videoblog) — David Brain, President & CEO, Edelman Europe: http://www.sixtysecondview.com/
• LEWIS 360°: http://www.lewis360.com/
• Wadds’ tech pr blog - Stephen Waddington, CEO, Rainier PR: http://www.rainierpr.co.uk/blog/
• Tim Fallon - Hill & Knowlton, Head of Practice, Corporate Affairs: http://blogs.hillandknowlton.com/blogs/timfallon/
• Publisher’s Blog - Marc Wright’s travels in the world of internal communication | Simply.communicate.com: http://simply-blogging.typepad.com/publishers_blog/
• PRwordSmith - Stuart Smith, CEO, Edelman London: http://www.prwordsmith.com/
• The PR place - Richard Millington: http://theprplace.blogspot.com/
• Simon Wakeman, consultant: http://www.simonwakeman.com/blog
• All things PR - Sam Oakley: http://theukprforum.wordpress.com/

United States

• Institute for Public Relations — Conversations: http://www.instituteforpr.org/index.php/ipr/digest/
• Calm, Patient and Good-Humored - written by Johnson & Johnson current & former VPs of communication and PR: http://calmpatientandgoodhumored.wordpress.com/
• Measuring Up - Ed Moed, Peppercom: http://measuringupblog.typepad.com/measuring_up/
• ToughSledding - Bill Sledzik, associate professor in the School of Journalism & Mass Communication at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio: http://toughsledding.wordpress.com/
• I Think - Dr. Sorin Adam Matei, Purdue University: http://www.matei.org/ithink/
• GRPR - Tim Penning, APR, assistant professor of communications, Grand Valley State University: http://www.gr-pr.blogspot.com/
• IABC Media Relations Commons: http://commons.iabc.com/media/
• IABC Cafe2Go - The official podcast of the International Association of Business Communicators: http://blogs.iabc.com/cafe2go/
• cac.ophony.org - Conversations in Communication Across the Curriculum, Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute, Baruch College, CUNY: http://cac.ophony.org/
• mrsimpson — Matthew Ryan Simpson, Auburn University: http://mrsimpson.prblogs.org/
• PRSA Puget Sound Chapter: http://prsapugetsoundchapter.blogspot.com
• PRSA Las Vegas blogging seminar: http://lvprblog.com/
• The Public Relations Network of Sioux Falls: http://prnsf.blogspot.com/
• CONNECT - NJ/IABC Student Chapter: http://njiabc.typepad.com/weblog/
• PR Week Podcasts: Weekly Review, PRWeek Q&As, PRWeek Columns, Special events podcasts, Marketing Management Survey: http://www.prweek.com/us/podcasts/
• PR Week: The Cycle, The Editors’ Blog, In Brief
• 360 Digital Influence - Ogilvy PR: http://blog.ogilvypr.com/
• FH Out Front Blog - Fleishman Hillard (group blog): http://www.outfrontblog.com/
• Next Fifty Years - GolinHarris | GolinHarris’s Perspective on the Future of Communications: http://www.nextfiftyyears.com/
• Business Comunicators in Second Life - Linda Zimmer, MarCom:Interactive: http://freshtakes.typepad.com/sl_communicators/
• Quick Question - Padilla Speer Beardsley Podcast: http://www.psbpr.com/qx2.html
• The Lead - Padilla Speer Beardsley: http://www.psbblog.com/
• BlinnPR Report - Steven Blinn, President, BlinnPR: http://blinnpr.com/blog/
• PR Divas - Blabbermouth PR, Texas: http://blabbermouth.typepad.com/prdivas/
• Capture the Conversation Blog - Room 214: http://www.capturetheconversation.com/marketing-communications-business-blog/
• Todd Andrlik’s Todd And - The Power to Connect: http://toddand.wordpress.com/
• Dutch Perspective - Marc van Bree, Chicago Symphony Orchestra: http://mcmvanbree.com/dutchperspective/
• PRmeasure - Howard Oliver, What If What Next, consultant: http://prmeasure.blogware.com/blog/
• Riverside Public Relations - Rich Klein: http://riversidepr.typepad.com/riverside_public_relation/
• Nonprofit Communications - Kivi Leroux Miller: http://www.writing911.com/blog/
• Ms. Elliott’s Foundations of Public Relations Class (Erica Elliot, Auburn U): http://www.auburn.edu/~ellioel/wordpress/
• HealthCareVox - Fard Johnmar
• Potomac Flacks - Adam Kovacevich, Assistant Vice President , Dittus Communications, Washington, D.C.: http://www.potomacflacks.com/pf/
• Communicate Your Success - Jonathan Richardson, consultant: http://blog.communicateyoursuccess.com/
• An ongoing Press Release - Joe Beaulaurier, PRWeb: http://beaulaurier.net/blog/
• Communicatio - Mike Mason, Director of Communications, The Farm Credit Council Washington, DC: http://communicatio.blogspot.com/
• Crisisblogger - Gerald Baron: http://crisisblogger.wordpress.com
• Crisis Manager - Jonathan Bernstein: http://crisismanager.wordpress.com
• Public Outrage Management - Rusty Cawley: http://outrage.typepad.com/home/
• John Stodder - From the Desert to the Sea… | Public Relations: http://johnstodderinexile.wordpress.com/tag/public-relations/
• Generic Public Relations - Peter Brown: http://generic-pr.blogspot.com
• ConverStations: Business Blogs as Conversation Stations - Mike Sansone, consultant: http://www.converstations.com/
• Publitas.Net - Dave Platter: http://www.publitas.net/
• Karen’s Public Relations Blog — Karen Freberg: http://karenfreberg.com/blog/
• Daniel Keeney, APR, DPK Public Relations, Dallas: http://www.keeneypr.com/en/articles/articles_view.asp
• CommaKazi Speek — Tom Keefe: http://commakazispeekez.blogspot.com/

Changes of URLs and feeds:

• PR Opinions - Tom Murphy’s PR Opinions is now Murphy’s Law - new URL: http://tpemurphy.com/blog/
• Todd Defren’s PR Squared — new URL: http://www.pr-squared.com/
• Keith O’Brien’s Ubiquitous Marketing — new URL: http://kdpaine.blogs.com/kdpaines_pr_m/
• Giovanni Rodriguez — new URL: http://hubbub.typepad.com/blog/
• Guillaume du Gardier’s PR Thoughts - Guillaume du Gardier - new URL: http://www.prthoughts.net/
• David Jones’s PR Works — new URL: http://www.prworks.ca
• Tim Dyson’s A view on PR from Silicon Valley — new URL: http://siliconvalleypr.blogspot.com
• Dragos Dehelean — new URL: http://www.dragosdehelean.ro/
• Catherine Heltzerman’s Odd Bits — new URL: http://www.helzerman.com/joom/
• Ryan Lack’s Lack of Motivation — new URL: http://flacker.typepad.com/flacker/
• Blogging4Business — new URL: http://www.blogging4business.info/B4B/blog/
• Uncorporate Communications — new URL: http://uncorporatecommunications.wordpress.com/
• Ellee Seymour — new URL: http://elleeseymour.com/
• Blogging PR — new URL: http://bloggingpr.wordpress.com
• Mike Sacks — new URL
• Brian Solis — new URL: http://www.briansolis.com
• Colin McKay’s Canuckflak — new feed
• Bernet Blog — new feed
• Richard Edelman — new feed
• Paul Gillin - new feed

No longer available:

• http://cperry248.squarespace.com/journal/ - password protected (Chris Perry)
• http://irishwake.typepad.com/irish_wake/ (Jennifer Wakefield)
• http://therhetoricofme.blogs.com/the_rhetoric_of_me/
• http://rainierpr.blogs.com/rainier_pr_blog/
• http://www.danleach.com/blog/
• other 4 blogs that were hacked were deleted from the list.

No longer maintained/ not updated in the last year:

• http://bloggingplanet.com/eng/
• http://www.prplanet.net/blog/index.php/
• http://prplanet.typepad.com/pod/
• http://weblogsolutions.co.nz/blog/
• http://thememo.typepad.com/blog/
• http://ajrspinzone.blogspot.com/
• http://www.blawgzines.com/plawdcastfeed.xml
• http://radiantmarketing.typepad.com/
• http://www.metaforix.info
• http://relate.typepad.com/relate
• http://reportersgold.typepad.com/reporters_gold/
• http://stories-publicrelations.blogspot.com/
• http://www.greg-brooks.com/
• http://feeds.allbusiness.com/blog/4167/
• http://inperspective2020.blogspot.com/
• http://www.consulttheguru.com/marketing/blog/marketing_blog.html<
• http://chrislewis.typepad.com/my_weblog/ (Chris Lewis will continue to blog at Lewis 360)
• http://seems2shel.typepad.com/itseemstome/ (Shel Israel continues to blog over at Naked Conversations)

No longer in the list:

• http://blog.larixconsulting.com/blog
• http://easybakeweblogs.com
• http://texturadesign.com
• http://businesslogs.com
• http://thecommunityengine.com/home/
• http://www.echoditto.com/weblog
• http://www.acrossthesound.net
• http://commecon.blog-city.com/
• http://fermentation.typepad.com/fermentation/
• http://www.ipressroom.com/pr/corporate/info/Internet-PR-News-Blog.asp
• http://www.shoob.com/fr/blog/

Starting a blog to “share and discuss research-based knowledge” in PR is a great way to open a new chapter in the activity of IPR, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.

I really hope this is going to be an important step toward bridging the gap between PR practitioners and academia. Join the Conversations!

Kami Huyse links to a couple of blogs associated with IABC and PRSA, and asks the readers to let her know about any other new blogs hosted by PR/Communications professional associations.

There are more professional associations that are blogging or, at least, are using RSS feeds for their news and announcements. Here’s a complete list of those included in the PR Blogs List (if you can’t see it in your RSS reader, please visit the entry):

You can import the OPML file, or use Grazr to add it to your blogroll.