The second annual PR blogging summit, Global PR Blog Week 2.0, will be held September 19-23, 2005.

The forum will bring more than 50 influential PR practitioners and bloggers in an online environment to discuss how public relations and business communications are changed by new communications technologies including, weblogs, podcasting, RSS, and wikis.

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 more than 70 case studies, articles and interviews covering the latest breakthroughs in online technology including:

  * Challenges of corporate blogging
  * Blog relations
  * Education for the New PR
  * Types of corporate blogs
  * Tools, trends, and practices (including blog monitoring, podcasting,
    wikis, and online media rooms)
  * Customer generated marketing
  * Transparency & ethics
  * Mainstream media and citizen journalism

For a complete list of participants and conference schedule visit: http://www.globalprblogweek.com/.

The event is free and open to everybody -- for asking questions, making comments and participating in the discussion through the event's weblog.

The planning of Global PR Blog Week was done mostly on the internet, by using a public Yahoo! Groups discussions list, and the New PR Wiki, a collaboration space for professionals interested in the practice of public relations, hosted at http://www.thenewpr.com/.

About Global PR Blog Week

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 is scheduled for September 19 - 23, 2005. For more information about the Global PR Blog Week 2.0, please visit http://www.globalprblogweek.com/.

For media inquiries, please contact John Cass at 781.899.4050 ext. 210, or via email at john@backbonemedia.com or contact Jeremy Pepper at 480.467.4457, or via email at jeremy@poppr.com.

SOURCE: Global PR Blog Week