Comments on: Euroblog 2008

By: ElallEret

ElallEret — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:42:19 +0000

pleasingly answers i like it

By: Personality matters « ‘Cross The Breeze

Personality matters « ‘Cross The Breeze — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 21:22:06 +0000

[...] I pretty much agree with his point and it reminded me of something David Weinberger said during the Euroblog event in Brussels, about how transparency and authenticity are too often used in the wrong meaning, or even [...]

By: philatblackline

philatblackline — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 11:47:24 +0000

Hi Kris,

To me it seemed that the academics at the conference are asking the big questions like “what is the future of PR” or “what are we going to do with these social media”…. While the practitioners “wonder” about those same questions but just go ahead and do stuff…

Still, I’ll repeat the question I asked several times at the conference: Where are the cast studies !

I know they are out there and know some of them so I’ll be setting up a kind of European “PRSocialMediaBoom” videocast with business partners soon… In the meantime, don’t hesitate to send them along to me…

By: Expanding the scope of EuroBlog 2008 : NevilleHobson.com

Expanding the scope of EuroBlog 2008 : NevilleHobson.com — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:34:43 +0000

[...] impressions about the event. Ones I’ve seen so far as tracked by Technorati include posts by Kris Hoet, Martin Oetting, Thomas Pleil, and Richard [...]

By: Dieter

Dieter — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:27:54 +0000

Smashing metaphor!

By: Evert-Jan

Evert-Jan — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:24:02 +0000

hey Kris, when I found out about the event I was actually surprised to see the academic swarm already flying over this blog world and gathering in a Euroblog conference.
But your feeling confirms my option not to attend. Because I had expected exactly what you describe. We both need each other though. If practioners don’t kick some ass and create successes and mistakes, there is nothing left for academics to be studied. On the other side without big thoughts and explanations with models, people would be less inspired to invent new stuff and kick ass.
However time is running so fast these days that is seems as if academia are having difficulties keeping the pace, and that is where a bigger demand for cases comes in.

By: rick murray

rick murray — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:11:17 +0000

Hi Chris –

You nailed it.

FYI, Jere Sullivan, the Vice Chair of our EU business who’s based out of Brussels said pretty much the same thing (and without a whole lot of sugar-coating) in his summation of the conference on Saturday.

We all agree that theory is fine, but from a practical perspective (in terms of what kids need to take away to leave school prepared to compete in this new communications world), it needs to be grounded in reality.

I think many of those who were at the conference get that, but there are clearly some who see this [social media / Web 2.0 / Society 2.0 thing] as a major threat to their tenured way of thinking.

Cheers mate. I’ll let you know how the Pierre Marcolini is received.

Rick