Happy 10th Anniversary PRWeek

Hey Brian, I'm the Director of Customer Insights with Peppercom. Our co-founder, Ed Moed, is in the blogger competition as well with PR Week, and he wrote a post today making the same argument that you did, about how we might be able to highlight or build more community around some of the thought leaders in our industry and address some pivotal issues we're all facing. In his post today, Ed opted to find some way to start that conversation by looking at the timely issues surrounding China's actions in preparing for the Olympics as a great example of the increasing importance of ethical behavior in a more transparent digital world.

We're hoping this is a way to move the conversation further toward the collaborative model you're talking about and making it into more than just the fun contest it started as with PR Week. We don't have it all prescribed as to exactly how that process would happen, but we think it would be great for us to think about it as an industry and for the bloggers in this competition who are interested to perhaps help lead the charge.

Let us know what you think...

(And, to Dan's point, I think the best part about this competition is all the blogs that it's put on our radar, as a way to help define some of the leading voices in the PR blogosphere.)

Good luck Brian, and I agree, I hate the vote pandering thing.

Thanks Brian, my feed list just doubled in size.

Best of luck with the competition!