Looks like PR Week has had a bit of a website upgrade. The design has been tweaked a little, there are RSS feed icons all over the place and there’s now the ability to add a comment at the bottom of any article on the website. Just checking PR Week US that too has had a design revamp which has been acknowledged on the site:
“PRWeek.com has relaunched, taking advantage of new developments in online journalism and adding to its mission of covering the marketing communications industry in real time. The new site will feature a number of new Web-exclusive recurring features and more customization of homepages, content, and RSS feeds.”
Must admit, the US version looks better aesthetically in my opinion and judging by the comment above, it looks like it will be more functional too. Although, unlike PR Week UK, you can’t comment on the articles.
I wonder if UK-based PR people comment on any of the articles? Imagine if an agency receives a bit of a bashing from PR Week, do you think the MD of the agency will come on and add his or her opposing view? Maybe. Maybe not. I do think people will comment though. Let’s be honest, we’ve all read something in the magazine that we didn’t agree with at one point. We may some discussion going on in the Letters section.
Fair play to PR Week UK. Good stuff.
Stephen is a communications consultant based out of the UK. You can connect with him on Twitter or check out his LinkedIn profile. | Email Stephen
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Simon Collister
The ‘Add comment’ feature has been around fopr a littel while… and I actually used it to respond to the PR Week piece about EIS. Only problem is, once comments are submitted they seem to disappear behind a click-through section. Still, as you say… ‘fair play’!
Stephen
Really? I’ve just noticed it.
I think bloggers by nature will add comments but non-blogging PR people (i.e. non geeks) might take some time.
So can you not see your comment on the site? If so, it’s a rather pointless function.
Daljit B
I think the updates are welcome and I too only noticed the comments function this week. Great though the new site is, I suspect very few of PR Weeks’s 17,000?+ subscribers visit the site regularly. I don’t think that CIPR members who get a free copy each week are even sent login details – you have to phone up and request them and how many will be bothered to do that?
I think if PR Week want to create a lively site they need to remove the login restrictions for a period and proactively send subscribers their passwords etc.
Richard Bisset
I think the site is much improved but some of the animated adverts on the right-hand side are very annoying.
Im subscribed to the daily news bulletins (via email) which are really handy.