From the Bloglines PR bloglist developed by Constantin Basturea (I believe). I’ve tallied the number of PR blogs from the UK and the US to compare (in numbers) how we differ.
PR practitioners blogging:
UK = 19 US = 64
Blog consultants:
UK = 3 US = 25
Corporate PR blogs:
UK = 4 US = 33
PR education blogs:
UK = 5 US = 6
Clearly a big difference in terms of numbers, showing how the majority of the UK hasn’t quite recognised blogging as a communication tool just yet. What is promising though are the UK PR education blogs, only one behind the US. I hope in the near future, that blogging & podcasting become part of a PR degree, and in my opinion, I can see it happening.
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Piaras Kelly
You think that’s bad, let’s look at the irish figures:
PR consultants blogging: 2
Blog consultants: 0
Corporate PR blogs: 0
PR education blogs: 0
It probably won’t change until blogging takes off in the US and UK. What you do we follow
That said though, at least it is kind of on our exam. There’s an E-PR question on one of the papers every year now that Tom Murphy of PR Opinions effectively gives direction for.
PR Blogger
Perhaps you could use this to your advantage Piaras? As a young PR pro, you could lead the way (with Tom of course) in terms of the use of RSS and blogging in the Irish PR circles?
P.S. I’m guessing you are young from your post on Blake’s blog saying you’ve been in the profession for six months.
Blake
Piaras, Stephen poses a great point – lead the way!
Frances
Yes, more USA PR professionals blog when looking at the numbers alone. However, if you were to look at the percentages, I think that you would find, over all, there is a higher UK blog ratio in the PR, marketing and advertisment industies.