WOLves

Important Words from the #1 Dave

"The job of a blogger is to stay steady even when they say you're stupid, unqualified, inexperienced, irrelevant, biased or self-obsessed. Maybe even report on them saying it. Let the reader draw his or her own conclusion as to why they do this..." Read the rest here

The First Rejected Change This! Manifesto

You may have heard about Seth Godin's experiment in social change.

I decided to give it a shot, but my submission was rejected for whatever reasons; (guess you never really now about these things ;>) and so it appears at my other blog in its entirety. it's a pretty good piece on domestic violence issues.

For downloadable versions in Word and plain text formats, please go here.

What To Blog About

by Billy Jones

So what do you want to blog about? It’s the most important decision a person can make when deciding to start a new web-log, but for many writers it’s the one decision they never make. And so, after a few weeks or a few months their new web-log ends up being abandoned.

...and awaaay we go!

I'm going to take a week or so away from this particular stop on the information highway and devote my attention to some other things that need doing. I may be changing ISPs, and in that case I'll have a LOT of places to change my e-mail.

It looks like my search for a gig as a professional blogger may be a transparent one, in cooperation with the About.com forum, BTW. So look over there for updates on how things transpire. This could be interesting!

Meanwhile, if you haven't done so before, take a look at Dr. Hill's Partners over there on the upper left. The project has already begun, but there are still some openings, if you want to join in and discuss ways to promote your blog. Details at Tobacco Road Fogey.

Of course, there is the Schuett Family of Fine Blogs, down there on the lower left. Three books -- and now Blog-City has given me a way to do this, I expect to have them all completely posted in an easy-to-digest fashion during my hiatus from WOLves.

My buds Wayne Hurlbert and Jeremy Wright will be keeping business as usual.

I also will have a guest post from Billy the blogging Poet -- the actual, bona fide, #1 poet blogger extant. He'll be stretching a bit and trying something new here!

Change This!

While I'm not entirely convinced of the openness of this project, given Seth's negative opinion of the blogging community as a whole, and the left-leaning nature of these kinds of projects thus far; here it is so you can draw your own conclusions.

ChangeThis is on a mission:
Spread important ideas and change minds
Over the next few months, we'll publish powerful, rational arguments from leaders in politics and business. These arguments may upset you. They may make you curse. Ultimately, we're confident that they will convince you.

They do invite authors to contribute, which is encouraging. We'll see what happens!

Blog Validity - also - Pharmablogs

Steve Rubel's got some pretty good stuff to offer today. One, which those of us into alternative health and those kinds of things will find amusing, is a piece he refers to about the pharmaceutical companies adopting blogs, with some associated cautions.

There's also an article from the Holmes report, a non-blog newser which he kindly reprints in its entirety. It’s Time to Take Blogs Seriously—and Maybe to Develop One of Your Own

Global PR Blog Week Feed of the Day

Thanks Feedster!

The State of the PR Profession

Friday, July 16 - The State of the PR Profession

Richard Bailey (PR Studies)
Constantin Basturea (PR meets the WWW)
Chris Bechtel (Internet PR News Blog) - Dynamic Communications and the case for speeding adoption of technology in PR
Don Crowther (101PublicRelations.com) - Tomorrow's PR today - where PR is going and how to make sure that you get there first
Matias Fernandez (Comunidad Relaciones Públicas Argentina) - Public Relations: our role of facilitating the learning process inside the organizations - Relaciones Públicas: nuestro rol de facilitar procesos de aprendizaje en las organizaciones. (English - Spanish)
Robb Hecht (PR Machine) - Interviewing Seth Godin, former Yahoo! VP of Marketing, author of five best selling books on marketing including Permission Marketing, Purple Cow, and Free Prize Inside
Montag (World of Spin) - PR needs a crisis communication plan
B.L. Ochman (What's Next Blog) - The PR Lessons of Bit*hing About Blogging
Jeremy Pepper (POP! Public Relations's Blog) - The emergence of the boutique public relations shop against the international conglomerate
Tom Murphy (PR Opinions)

Do We love the New Feedster? Yes We Do!!

I ragged on Scott Johnson about his spelling, and this is what he sent me in return:

PRBlog Week According to Feedster

The new Corporate Overview

Don't forget to see the really big show here!!!!

Review to come, believe me!

Crisis Management

Thursday, July 15 - Crisis Management

John Cass (PR Communications) - Book Review: Gerald Baron's "Now is too late"
Don Crowther (101PublicRelations.com) - Seven must-have elements in every Crisis Communications Plan
Kevin Dugan (Strategic PR) - Martha Stewart: Criminal, Victim or Hero? Including an interview with Eric Denzenhall, author of "Nail 'Em!: Confronting High-Profile Attacks on Celebrities & Businesses"
Jim Horton (Online PR)
Colin McKay (Canuckflack)
B.L. Ochman (What's Next Blog) - Interview, "Journalism and Blogging," with Steve Outing, Senior editor, The Poynter Institute, Columnist, Editor & Publisher, Editor, E-Media Tidbits B.L. Ochman (What's Next Blog) - Examples of smart blog use in PR and marketing campaigns and sites that cry out for blogs
Steve Rubel (Micro Persuasion) interviewing Dan Gillmor of the San Jose Mercury News and author of the forthcoming book We the Media