I had the pleasure of hearing Dani Burns speak last week at the Charlotte PRSA Young Professionals luncheon. She shared her valuable insights on building your personal brand and advice on managing your online presence. Dani raised a great point when she spoke about using Google reader to aggregate blog content, using the tool to gather information in one place where it can be read at your convenience. This led me back to something I’ve also been thinking about: the power of learning from the ideas and challenges that my peers are sharing via their blogs, content that I have come to think of as my continuing education.
Whether you prefer Google or another RSS aggregator, e-mail subscriptions or bookmarked links, make the investment in identifying and gathering the insights of some current great minds – a form of higher education that doesn’t require thousands of dollars or a break from full-time employment.
There are far too many fantastic resources to possibly list them all here, but I wanted to share a few of my favorites that are helping me learn to be a better communicator. Each of these blogs has a different approach to a range of topics impacting our daily work in communications. Their authors represent many different vantage points but can all agree on at least one thing: working in communications has never been more exciting, and we all have an opportunity to learn and grow together.
I am always looking for new resources so please share your favorite sites in the comments or on Twitter! @amandala or @largemouthpr
B.L. Ochman’s What’s Next Blog
K.D. Paine’s PR Measurement blog
Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang
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