Hiyee, IndiaPR blog has earned a place in the Successful-blog.com’s Hall of Fame for Successful and Outstanding Blogs (SOBs). What are these? “These are blog(gers) that take the conversation to their readers, contribute great ideas, challenge us, make us better, and make our businesses stronger.”

ME Liz Strauss of Successful-blog.com wrote, “When the SOB program started, I was looking for a way to encourage the sense of community that Successful-Blog stood for. The conversations were fun, fast, and sometimes irreverent. Discussions on the blog often brought up good ideas, and I wanted to make sure those ideas continued and become more out in the blogosphere-everyone making everyone a little bit better. It’s the only way that we can make ourselves strong here in what they call ‘The Magic Middle’. We talk to each other.”

The acknowledgement is warming and thanks to Liz. I wanted IndiaPR blog to be an open forum for discussion among the PR fraternity in India and elsewhere, not a place to give sermons from my little bit of PR experience. What I say might not always be the truth, and what people comment might also not always be valid, we all are as vulnerable as anybody else. But in the process of our discussions, we are creating a rapport, sharing something, doing someting, taking some point forward. That’s how we all grow.

I sometimes wonder should I only be the one to write here. Should I invite more writers to contribute their thoughts on this blog? What should my next post be? What if somebody fired away on what I wrote? Some readers wrote in their congratulations and some said I was a total nonsense - I sometimes find myself lost about these and can’t figure what to decide or reply.

Yet there is one thing - the open source philosophy - share what you know, invite people to contribute theirs, make your idea free for all. That is what I suppose Liz liked as well.

Oh! check out some more nice words about / links to IndiaPR blog from the global blogging community recently:

1. Spreadin’ the Love: 10 Blogs You’re Probably Not Reading, But Should, Into PR
2. Links worth loading, Chris Pirillo
3. Links for 2006-08-7, Corporate Engagement

(Big thanks to all of them)

And by the way, should you have a question on the SOB’s validaty? Please go directly to Liz. Like she said, “this award comes with a full ‘Liz said so’ guarantee. It is endorsed by Kings of the Hemispheres, Martin and Michael, and backed by my brothers, Angelo and Pasquale.”
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