First Person PR

I know, I know — I’ve been horrible about blogging. I’ve been going through the yearly planning, yearly wrap up and yearly over justification process. It’s been painful, educational and enlightening all at the same time, and I have several posts floating around in my head from it. But I need to gain a little perspective before ranting and raving.

In the meantime, I’ve been cleaning out my Bloglines clippings folder, and found a handful of posts worth sharing. I realize a few are several months old at this point, but I reread each one and they’re still great references and all-around-good-reads. So check them out.

• From Pandia Search Engine News: The definitive top 5 online RSS reader – a must read for those of you who aren’t using an RSS reader to stay up on news and blogs (and looking at my traffic stats, that’s a lot of you).
• From Mashable: When a Blogroll Isn’t a Blogroll — a particularly compelling idea (I think) for agency folks.
• From Liberate Media: Social Media Tools List – From Analytics to Digg — a huge resource for all your social media questions.
• From Jeremy Pepper: PR will lose Social Media to Advertising Because of Sex — great commentary on who should/will “own” social media.
• From Chip Griffin: Throwing Out the Social Media Rulebook — points out that not every “rule” in the emerging social media world should be followed, and why.
  
• From Jeremiah Owyang: List of Resources for the Analyst Industry — a list of several analyst-related social media resources.
• Also from Jeremiah Owyang: A Complete List of the Many forms of Web Marketing in 2008 — a great breakdown of the many forms of web marketing and the social media technologies related to each.
• From Now Is Gone: Finding Savvy Social Media Consultants — helpful suggestions for anyone looking to hire social media experts.
• From Brian Solis: The Definitive Guide to Social Media Releases — regardless of you think about the social media release, this post includes an interesting picture of what each press release wire offers.
• From Kathy Kerchner: Bad Press Releases Feature Boring, Ridiculous Quotes — PR folks are notorious for overwriting press releases, but this provides great examples of what a release could be.
• From Brendan Cooper: PR Friendly Index — a fabulous list of 100 PR focused blogs. Pick a new one each week to explore!