Global PR Blog Week 2.0 goes live

Global PR Blog Week 2.0 is live and features a veritable who's who of public relations bloggers. The event runs from September 19 to September 23, 2005. That's all this week in case your calendar is hiding on you.

Each particpant has entered at least one article relating in some way to the public relations profession, online communications including wikis and podcasting, and blogging in general.

The event is described officially this way:

The Global PR Blog Week 2.0 is an online event that will engage public relations, marketing and business professionals from around the globe in a discussion about how new communications technologies are changing public relations and business communication.

The event will be held online, on this weblog, from September 19 to September 23, 2005.

During this year's five-day forum, participants from Argentina, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Romania, Spain, United Kingdom and the United States will publish 70 case studies, articles and podcast interviews on new communications technologies.

The event is free and open to everybody — for asking questions, making comments and participating in the discussion through the event's weblog.

The event's program

The list of authors

The planning of Global PR Blog Week was done mostly on the internet, by using a public Yahoo! Groups discussions list, and the NewPR Wiki, a collaboration space for professionals interested in the practice of public relations.

The first edition of Global PR Blog Week 1.0 was held in July 2004. During one week, 35 practioners published more than 60 articles and interviews on the impact of personal publishing on Public Relations. The archives of the event are available online.

For media inquiries, please contact:

Jeremy Pepper - 480.467.4457, jeremy@poppr.com
John Cass - 781.899.4050/ ext. 210, john@backbonemedia.com.

Press releases on PR Newswire:

September 12, 2005: PR Professionals and Blogging Experts Team to Participate in the Second Annual Global PR Blog Week

September 20, 2005: PR Professionals and Blogging Experts Host Second Annual Global PR Blog Week

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All of the participating public relations bloggers invite your comments on their entries. The articles presented are well written and thought provoking and easily well worth your time to read them all. Or at least most of them.

Be sure to drop by Global PR Blog Week 2.0 and read some of the very best in public relations blogging.

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