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Just as we are using YouTube to embed video, we can now embed audio podcasts at PRblogs.org.

Go to Utterz.com and sign up for an account.

Then, record your podcast using your cellphone (or other phone) and embed it into your post, like this.  Well, the embed didn’t work.

So, here is the link to the Utterz podcast.

I’ll work on getting the embed to work.

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.

In the coming weeks, students will be contacting variou PR practitioners, educators and students around the world.

 In a sort of ‘pitch’ effort, they will contact those people that might be interested in the site and community.  All of the selected contacts are ‘not’ blogging at the moment, as far as we can tell.

 This will be an interesting exercise.  Students used a wiki to create press releases which they will also release next week.  For many, it was their first experience with a wiki and online collaboration effort.

Finally, in other site news - we have experienced a few spam blog creators.  Guess we aren’t much different from Blogspot (Google) in that regard.  However, unlike Google/Blogspot - I will delete those blogs that spammers create.

To them I say, start your own communities and create your own spam blogs. :)  You are not welcome here. 

Global PR Blog Week is but one week away.

Anthony Parcero has created a very nice theme for the site and that will be loaded soon. The new blog is taking shape. Josh Hallett has transferred last year’s event blog to the new servers. Constantin Basturea is now populating the new blog with all of the event’s information. Go watch the site grow.

PRblogs.org is sponsoring the event by providing hosting services. So, look for our little banner in the upper-right hand corner of the site.

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 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.

Please write about it and tag your posts with “prblogweek” - or, if you want to create a category in your blog and name it “prblogweek” - that will do the trick, too.

Let us all start spreading the word.

Also, the blog from last year’s event is located here.

(Cross-posted at infOpinions?.)