Archive for February, 2007

New :: Sitewide Feeds for Latest Posts and Latest Comments on All PRblogs.org Blogs

Thursday, February 22nd, 2007

New, and about time, I have the feeds for the overall PRblogs.org community.

The following feeds will provide the latest 20 posts and 20 comments generated throughout PRblogs.org. I may expand that to 30 or 40. Let me know what you think.

Here are the feeds:

Posts: Latest 20 PRblogs.org Community Posts

Comments: Latest 20 PRblogs.org Community Comments

The Comments feed will reveal much of the spam traffic we’ve been getting.  It will take time, but I’m going through and engaging Spam Karma on all sites.  Have to do that until I can find a way to have it automatically engage on all new blogs.  We’ll get it all cleaned up.

If you are using Firefox, for example, you may just click on the links and see the post links and a brief excerpt.

Enjoy!

Mission Statement for PRblogs.org

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

PRblogs.org is dedicated to providing free blogs to all public relations and marcom (marketing communications) students, educators and practitioners that wish to explore blogging.

We welcome all public relations/marketing students, educators and practitioners to PRblogs.org.

Lately, we have experienced a large surge in what would best be described as blogs with the aim of promoting a business venture online, that are not PR firms or practices. I want to reiterate that these blogs without a PR / marcom specific focus are not the purpose and focus of PRblogs.org.

There are plenty of free blogging sites that seem to allow these sorts of blogs. We are not one of them. Please note, I differentiate between these blogs - legitimate efforts to promote a business, any business or product/service - and the following version of SPLOGs. However, we don’t want either in PRblogs.org. Just because your blog may have been deactivated, that does not mean I’m accusing you of creating SPLOGs. But, your blog did not meet the mission statement for our community. So, it was deactivated.

We do want people that are writing about their PR/marcom firms, PR/marcom practices or students and educators writing about the discipline of public relations and marketing communications. That is the very specific focus of PRblogs.org.

Further, anything posted at PRblogs.org that is clearly a SPLOG, or spam blog, will be deactivated.

This should not be an adversarial experience for any of us. Lately, I’ve received some pretty vulgar and threatening emails from individuals that have posted such blogs as I’ve described above. So, I’m restating our mission and purpose in the hope that people visiting our community will read the stated purposes and abide by our community standards.

If you are a public relations/marcom student, educator and/or practitioner, please sign up using the form in the sidebar. We are happy to provide a free blog for your endeavors. All PRblogs are ad free. There are no fees. Our site offers easy to use software. It is hosted. There is no need to download anything.

Thank you and welcome to PRblogs.org.