Euroblog 2007 Conference open for registration.

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The Euroblog 2007 survey results will be discussed and debated on March 16 & 17 in the beautiful city of Ghent, Belgium.

"EuroBlog is a research project by EUPRERA, the European Public Relations Education and Research Association, a community of leading researchers from universities and institutions from more than 30 countries."

The 2006 edition was the first pan-European survey of this kind and proved to be a comprehensive overview of who is using blogs and for what purpose. This year's results will be presented during a 3 day conference, part of a larger symposium on social media hosted by the Artevelde School for Communications, Journalism & Digital Media.

Here are some of the speakers/topics:

• Neville Hobson, Managing Partner of crayon, podcasting guru (For Immediate Release) and blogger on nevillehobson.com. Neville will talk about: "the impact of virtual worlds on communicating in real life".
• The Social Web - Challenges for Communication Management, Ansgar Zerfass, University of Leipzig, Germany
• Social software, Consumer Insight and Marketing Strategies, Peter Mechant, Ghent University, Belgium
• Euroblog 2007: European Perspectives on Social Software in Communication, Management - Results and Implications by Swaran Sandhu, University of Lucerne, Switzerland
• The Convergence of Mainstream and Consumer Generated Media: Results of a Journalism Audit and Implications for Communication Management by Catherine Reynolds Shores & Jennifer McGinley, Echo Research, New York, USA
• The Business Value of Blogging, Marieka van Zuien & Mark van der Wolf, Lewis Benelux, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
• and many more....

Yours truly will be holding a Conversationblog workshop on RSS on March 15 (in Dutch) as part of the symposium.

On the 17th I'll participate in a round table discussion on the future of social media together with my esteemed colleagues Inger Jensen, President Euprera, Roskilde University in Denmark, Alain Heureux, President IAB Europe in Brussels , my good friend and blogger Guillaume Du Gardier, from Edelman PR and Jon White (chair), Communication Consultant in the UK. At the table I'll be representing IBM in my new function as European Lead for New Media.

You can find the full program here (pdf) and here on the wiki.

I am planning a pre-conference online talkshow with the lead speakers of the conference soon, so stay tuned...!

Technorati : artevelde, blogging, conference, edelman, euprera, euroblog, ghent, guillaume du gardier, neville hobson, philip young, podcasting, rss, social media, talkshoe

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[Serge Cornelus]

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