The event, a virtual conference organized between July 12-15 2004 featured thirty seven bloggers writing about PR, Marketing and social media. Next week will be the fifth anniversary.
To the Alumni of the Global PR Blog Week, thanks for the memories, and the many continuing conversations.
To celebrate the anniversary I took some time to track down all of the Alumni's Twitter addresses (If one exists) and to give an update from the final post, listing all of the participants during the virtual conference.
1. @ealbrycht Elizabeth Albrycht, (CorporatePR) Update: Now a University lecturer in France.
2. Dave Austin (Intraware Blog) Update: SEM Manager, IGN Inc.Fox Interactive Media
3. Richard Bailey (PR Studies)4. @cbasturea Constantin Basturea (PR meets the WWW) Update: Director of New Media Strategies at Converseon.
5. @chrisbechtel Chris Bechtel (Internet PR News Blog) Update: At ipressroom.
6. @smallbiztrends Anita Campbell (Small Business Trends)
7. @johncass John Cass (PR Communications)
8. @TrevorCook Trevor Cook (Corporate Engagement)
9. @Don_Crowther Don Crowther (101PublicRelations.com)
10. @PRBlog Kevin Dugan (Strategic PR)
11. @SallyFalkow Sally Falkow (Web Strategies) Update: Now running the PRoactive report
12. Matias Fernandez Dutto (Comunidad Relaciones Pblicas Argentina) Update: Now at http://matiasdutto.com/
13. @heyangelo Angelo Fernando (Hoi Polloi) Update: Communications Manager @ Decision Theater, ASU
14. @DanForbush Dan Forbush (ProfNet, Media Insider) Update: Blog at PR Newswire is now http://profnetpost.prnewswire.com/, Dan has moved back to education PR and is Executive Director of Communications at Skidmore College.
15. Bernard Goldbach (Irish Eyes)
16. @robbhecht Robb Hecht (PR Machine)
17. Jim Horton (Online PR)
18. @waynehurlbert Wayne Hurlbert (Blog Business World)
19. Hans Kullin (Media Culpa)
20. @Canuckflack Colin McKay (Canuckflack)
21. @mmanuel Mike Manuel (Media Guerrilla)
22. @PrestoVivace Alice Marshall (TechnoFlak) -
23. @MNPR Ryan May (Minnesota Public Relations Blog)
24. Montag (World of Spin)
25. John Mudd (Inside Real Estate Journal)
26. @tpemurphy Tom Murphy (PR Opinions)
27. @whatsnext B.L. Ochman (What's Next Blog)
28. Anthony V Parcero, (eKetchum Digital Media Group) -
29. @jspepper Jeremy Pepper (POP! Public Relations's Blog)
30. Evelyn Rodriguez (Crossroads Dispatches)
31. Todd Sattersten (A Penny For... and 800-CEO-READ Blog)
32. Trudy Schuett (WOLves)
33. @rtanglao Roland Tanglao (Streamline) Update: Founder of Bryght
34. @octaviorojas Octavio Rojas
35. @steverubel Steve Rubel (Micro Persuasion) Update: Now at Edelman.
36. @jeremywright Jeremy Wright (Ensight) Update: CEO at b5 Media
37. @mediations Philip Young (Mediations)
Not to be out done, we held a follow up conference in 2005, the PR Blog Week 2.0 was September 19-23, 2005. Here are the Alumni from that event below. The anniversary for this virtual conference will be in September, here's the list of Alumni from the original participants at the second PR Blog week.
1. @ealbrycht Elizabeth Albrycht, Blogging Planet, US, France. Update: Now a University lecturer in France.
2. @cbasturea Constantin Basturea, US, Romania. Update: Director of New Media Strategies at Converseon.
3. @chrisbechtel Chris Bechtel, iPressroom, US. Update: Still at ipressroom.
4. Jesper Bindslev, E-mediators, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, http://www.e-mediate.squarespace.com/ Update: Now Global Project Manager at Novo Nordisk Global Marketing
5. @stuartbruce Stuart Bruce, Bruce Marshall Associates, UK, http://www.20six.co.uk/stuartbruce Update: Now founder and managing director of Wolfstar.
6. Jorge Camara, http://theprinquisitor.blogspot.com/ Don't know.
7. @smallbiztrends Anita Campbell, Small Business Trends, US, http://www.smallbusinesses.blogspot.com/
8. @johncass John Cass, Backbone Media, Inc., US, Update: Still writing PR Communications but no longer at Backbone.
9. Joel Cere, Hill & Knowlton, UK, http://beyondpr.blogspot.com/
10. @niallcook Niall Cook, Hill & Knowlton, UK, http://blogs.hillandknowlton.com/blogs/niallcook/ Update: Now author of Enterprise 2.0
11. Andrew C Corcoran, Lincoln Business School, UK, http://andycorc.blogspot.com/
12. @tdefren Todd Defren, SHIFT Communications, US, http://pr-squared.blogspot.com/ Update: Still running Shift.
13. @prblog Kevin Dugan, FRCH Design Worldwide, US, http://prblog.typepad.com/ Update: Runs Strategic Public Relations and the Bad Pitch Blog
14. @SallyFalkow Sally Falkow, Falkow, Inc., US, http://www.webstrategies.blogspot.com Update: Now running the PRoactive report
15. Matias Fernandez Dutto, Argentina, http://relacionespublicas.blogspirit.com/ Update: Now at http://matiasdutto.com/
16. @tifisch Tim Fischer, Germany, http://www.fischer-netze.de/
17. @DanForbush Dan Forbush, ProfNet, PR Newswire, http://mediainsider.prnewswire.com/ Update:Blog at PR Newswire is now http://profnetpost.prnewswire.com/, Dan has moved back to education PR and is Executive Director of Communications at Skidmore College.
18. @RDFrench Robert French, Auburn University, US, http://www.auburnmedia.com/wordpress/ Update: Robert's still at Auburn University teaching commuications. He became a founding Fellow with the Society for New Communications Research, and started PROpenMic.org a Ning social community for PR students, acedemics and professionals.
19. @Froda Jon Froda, E-mediators, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, http://www.e-mediate.squarespace.com/ Update: Co-founder / partner. Product development at Hoist.
20. @Hyku Josh Hallett, hyku, llc, US, http://hyku.com/blog/ Update: New Media Strategist at Voce Communications, and Fellow/Board Member of the Society of New Communications Research.
21. @jshardison Jeff Hardison, McClenahan Bruer Communications, US, http://www.mcbrublog.com/
22. Christopher Hannegan, Edelman, US, http://www.edelman.com/speak_up/empeng/ Update: 23. @robbhecht Robb Hecht, IMC Strategies.Principal at Booz & Company.
24. @PeterHimler Peter Himler, the Publicity Club of New York, http://theflack.blogspot.com. Update: Founder and Principal of Flatiron Communications LLC
25. @jangles Neville Hobson, UK, The Nederlands, http://www.nevon.net/ Update: Resides in the UK, runs FIR Podcast with Shel Holtz. Founding Senior Research Fellow and Advisory Board member of the Society for New Communications Research.
26. @shel Shel Holtz, HC+T, US, http://blog.holtz.com. Update: Shel runs the FIR Podcast with Neville Hobson, Founding Senior Research Fellow and Advisory Board member of the Society for New Communications Research.
27. @waynehurlbert Wayne Hurlbert, Blog Business World, US, http://www.blogbusinessworld.blogspot.com/
28. Timothy Johnson, Voce Communications, US, http://www.vocecomm.com/ Update: Principal at White Spinnaker Partners.
29. @trevr Trevor Jonas, Bite Communications, http://blog.bitepr.com/ Update: Director of Social Media at Access Communications
30. @mmanuel Mike Manuel, Voce Communications, US, http://mmanuel.typepad.com/media_guerrilla/ Update: New blog url http://www.mike-manuel.com/blog/
31. @PrestoVivace Alice Marshall, Presto Vivace, Inc., US, http://technoflak.blogspot.com/32. @MNPR Ryan May, BAE Systems, US, http://mnpr.blogspot.com/
33. @Canuckflack Colin McKay, Canada, http://www.canuckflack.com/
34. @tpemurphy Tom Murphy, Cape Clear Software, Ireland, http://www.natterjackpr.com/ Update: http://tpemurphy.com/blog/ Works in PR for Microsoft in Washington State, since March 2009.
35. @michaelocc Michael O'Connor Clarke, Canada, http://michaelocc.com Update: Vice President Thornley Fallis Communications.Vice President
36. @whatsnext BL Ochman, Whatsnextonline.com, US, http://www.whatsnextblog.com/
37. @prjobs Lindsay Olson, Paradigm Staffing Solutions, US, http://www.paradigmstaffing.com/pp.asp Update: blog http://lindsayolson.com/
38. Anthony V Parcero, http://www.anthurian.com
39. @jspepper Jeremy Pepper, POP! Public Relations, US, http://pop-pr.blogspot.com/
40. @tp_da Thomas Pleil, Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, Germany, http://mars.sdi.fh-darmstadt.de/wordpress/
41. @podboy Matthew Podboy, Voce Communications, US, http://podboy.typepad.com/techvoice/
42. @vailvoice Dee Rambeau, DVCO Technology, US, http://adventures-in-business-communications.blogsite.com/public Update: Founder of The Fuel Team
43. @giorodriguez Giovanni Rodriguez, Eastwick Communications, US, http://eastwikkers.typepad.com/eastwikkers_/ Update: Co-founder and managing partner at The Conversation Group
44. @octaviorojas Octavio Rojas, Weber Shandwick, Spain, http://octaviorojas.blogspot.com/
45. @markrose Mark Rose, Comm|Tech, Inc., US, http://www.commtech.us/prfuture.html Update:Influence Consulting Director of Internet PR Strategies 46. @ericschwartzman Eric Schwartzman, Schwartzman & Associates, US, http://spinfluencer.blogspot.com/ Update: Founder and president of iPressroom,
47. @jeneane Jeneane Sessum, The Content Factor, US, http://www.contentfactor.com, and http://allied.blogspot.com/
48. @SKYDIVER Peter Shankman, The Geek Factory, US, http://prdifferently.typepad.com/my_weblog/ Update: Founder and CEO of The Geek Factory, Inc and founder of HARO
49. @Davetaylor Dave Taylor, Intuitive Systems, US, http://www.intuitive.com/blog/
50. @michaelterpin Michael Terpin, Terpin, Communications Group, US, http://www.uncorporatecommunications.com/ Update: Founder of Terpin Communications, Inc.
51. @italovignoli Italo Vignoli, Quorum PR, Italy, http://www.italovignoli.com/
52. @mediations Philip Young, University of Sunderland, http://publicsphere.typepad.com/mediations/
53. @bobwyman Bob Wyman, PubSub, US, http://bobwyman.pubsub.com/Update: At Google.Following The Global PR Alumni
If you'd like to follow all of the PR Global Blogging week alumni who are on twitter, you can use Twitterator, a tool for following a group of people at once on twitter.
ealbrycht
cbasturea
chrisbechtel
stuartbruce
smallbiztrends
johncass
niallcook
tdefren
prblog
SallyFalkow
tifisch
DanForbush
RDFrench
Froda
Hyku
jshardison
robbhecht
PeterHimler
jangles
shel
waynehurlbert
trevr
mmanuel
PrestoVivace
MNPR
Canuckflack
tpemurphy
michaelocc
whatsnext
prjobs
jspepper
tp_da
podboy
vailvoice
giorodriguez
octaviorojas
markrose
ericschwartzman
jeneane
SKYDIVER
Davetaylor
michaelterpin
italovignoli
mediations
bobwyman
