Blogs and podcasts
There are hundreds—thousands—of PR and communication-focused blogs, and several podcasts, many of which are worth your time. If you need a few resources to provide you with consistently useful information, these are the best of the best. I’ll be adding to the list regularly, so check back from time to time.
Blogs
- Neville Hobson’s blog
- PR Squared, from Todd Defren
- Communication Overtones, from Kami Watson Huyse
- Spin Sucks, from Armon Dietrich
- DaveFleet.com, from Thornley-Fallis’ Dave Fleet, the guy behind the Social Media Training wiki
- Pro PR from Joe Thornley, CEO of Canada’s Thornley Fallis
- PR Works, from David Jones, head of Hill & Knowlton Canada’s digital practice
- Web Strategy by Jeremiah, from Forrester analyst Jeremiah Owyang; not a PR blog, but invaluable nonetheless
Podcasts
- For Immediate Release, twice-weekly update from Shel Holtz, ABC, and Neville Hobson, ABC
- Inside PR goes deep on public relations; Joe Thornley, Martin Waxman and Gini Dietrich cover a broad range of PR issues
- Six Pixels of Separation, online marketing revelations from Montreal’s Mitch Joel
- On the Record Online, interviews with media experts from Eric Schwartzman
- Trafcom News, tactics from Donna Papacosta of Trafalgar Communications
- Marketing Over Coffee with John Wall and Christopher S. Penn
- Cafe2Go, IABC’s podcast
- Marketing Edge, from Albert Maruggi
- Media Bullseye Roundtable, from CustomScoop
- Online PR Podcast, from Pete Codella and Mark Polson