PR Blogs

There are lots of websites out there that provide blogs with recent PR news. However, some of them are getting worse.

For example, the PR releases now running on Bloglines PR circuit … VP appointed here, SVP there, blah blah here and there. It used to be a very great source for ideas. But now the blogs are mostly about blah is being proud to lead blah and become the leader of the industry.

Google blog search for "public relations" yield for even better results and informational blogs than Bloglines do. For example, one of the results is today Arizona Venture Capital is sponsoring a conference that highlights use of social media by Arizona companies, featuring social media gurus Robert Scoble and Chris Heuer.

Sources: PR Blog News

The Machine is Us/ing Us

In the above YouTube video, Michael Wesch creatively makes thought provoking comments about communication, writing and the Web. I agree with Kenneth W. Davis, our words are of the utmost importance in today's public relations context.

Public Relations a Social Science?

Mike Driehorst has some ideas about incorporating social science into public relations blogging. With the recent EU directive ordering a halt to businesses posting false reviews of their products in blogs, Driehorst encourages public relations practitioners to allow bloggers access to products for their own blog reviews. Common sense? I think so.

New York Times Print Edition Dead?

“Internet is a wonderful place to be and we’re leading there,” Arthur Sulzberger Jr., publisher of the Times, told Israeli newspaper Haaretz. The Times now has more readers online, 1.5 million a day, than the print newspaper, without the huge capital expense of expanding its printing operation.

Sulzberger is betting that the online version of the Times, The New York Times reader, developed with Microsoft, will be a big hit. Sulzberger said “we live in the Internet world.”

The newspaper’s profits have been declining for four years. Sulzberger is contemplating charging for the Times reader, now offered free in beta.

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PR Blog News