New PR & Comm Blogs for May 2006, and a word about PubSub’s PR Community List

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 …

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Why Strumpette is not in the PR Blogs List

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 …

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New PR & Comm Blogs – April 2006

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 …

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Thinking out loud: Is the PR blogosphere fragmenting?

Kamy Huise writes on the Marcom Blog and on her blog about an interesting hypothesis: that as the number of PR weblogs grows, the “PR blog community” will become fragmented in small groups: With the growth of the community well beyond the natural 150-person limit that tends to organically form, I hypothethize that the community …

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FPRA Blog Week starts today

The Florida Public Relations Association starts its online conference today. Although titled “FPRA Blog Week“, the conference is not about blogging: We want to showcase how a blog can be used as an innovative approach to mainstream practices. For this reason, we will publish only one article about blogs. The other articles will be about …

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