About.com

About.com’s public relations page conflates public relations with advertising but does include some PR-specific links & articles.

All About Public Relations

Steven R. Van Hook’s All About Public Relations pages cover Jobs in PR, Career Guides, Internships, Toolkit: How to PR, Desk References, Media Relations, Crisis Management, Basics of PR , Agencies, International PR, Marketing, Ethics, Professional Orgs, Publications, Wired PR. 

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Best Practice Tool Kit

The Victorian Government’s Communications Best Practice Tool Kit has been produced by the Strategic Communications Branch, Department of Premier and Cabinet, Victoria, Australia as part of the Best Practice in Communications Project.  It is an excellent comprehensive resource for communication planning, with a wide range of templates and guidelines on all aspects of the plan from the brief to objective-setting to evaluation.

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BulletPoints.co.nz

The Bullet PR blog on public relations in New Zealand, including reputation management, online PR and search engine marketing.

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Communitelligence.com

This is a commercial US-based communications knowledge-sharing portal built by Communitelligence Inc. When last we checked it was free as part of the start-up phase but please advise us if there is now a membership fee.  Its stated goal is to "help improve organizational and human communication by giving Communications, PR and Marketing professionals instant access to expert-led knowledge communities, learning events, resources, associations, schools and businesses."  It uses self-publishing technologies "to allow topic experts and members to build comprehensive, ever-evolving wisdom-sharing communities on key communication topics, from internal communications to intranets to visual literacy and writing". In other words, materials are not peer reviewed or academic but there are some excellent practical and 'how-to' items on site. 

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Corner Bar PR

Corner Bar PR, owned by Rich Barger. Resources, articles on current issues, forum for comment. Promotes itself as “the sassy source for PR pros”.

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Dr Diane Witmer

Dr Diane Witmer is Elected Vice Chair, Department of Communications, California State University, Fullerton, CA. Site includes articles and information on public relations, public relations writing, organizational communication, and computer-mediated communication.

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Impacs

IMPACS, the Institute for Media, Policy and Civil Society, is a Canadian charitable organisation committed to the protection and expansion of democracy and to strengthening civil society.  It has an e-newsletter, lots of resources on developing media capacity for not-for-profits, and even worksheets from media skills training manuals. In particular see the sample communication plan.

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Jack O'Dwyer Publications

Jack O'Dwyer Publications, subscriber only newsletter and website resources.

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Jupitermedia Corporation’s Internet PR Guide

Jupitermedia Corporation’s Internet PR Guide includes “PR Insights: Feature length articles, advice and opinions for PR professionals” and “PR Tips: Writing, pitching, media, client relations, campaigns; and everything else you do.

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JWM PR Publications

Jackson Wells Morris is a Sydney-based PR consultancy. Chairman Keith Jackson writes a regular diary on Australian industry issues, plus posts extracts from global industry discussion in the company's two free newsletters.

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PR Commentary

PR Commentary (Robert A. Kelly)

PR Influences 

'PR Influences' is a free information resource from Network Communications (Australia) Pty Ltd to show how PR can be used by organisations. It features articles, trends, insights, comments and tips relating to all disciplines with communication - corporate, consumer industrial, B2B and associations. 

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Public Affairs World

Ellwood and Atfield, a UK Public Affairs and Public Relations recruitment company, has set up Public Affairs World, which collates links, articles, newsstories and publications dealing with lobbying and public affairs. 

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Public Relations Museum

Public Relations Museum. Info on key PR figures Edward L. Bernays, Chester Burger, Carl R. Byoir, Moss Kendrix, & Arthur W. Page, and a PR bibliography.

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Strategic Public Relations

PRSA member Craig Miyamoto's resource centre, Strategic Public Relations, includes more than 30 articles by Miyamoto on topics from communication audits to media relations to ethics to roles and more. Not referenced academic articles but Miyamoto writes well and has some interesting insights.

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The Reputation Institute

Bibliography of research articles on reputation management by members of the Reputation Institute including Charles Fombrun, Executive Director of the Reputation Institute and Professor of Management at the Stern School of Business of New York University. Links to full text articles.

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Top Story

Top Story. Articles on various topics by Canadian practitioner Al Czarnecki.

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PRstudy

PRstudy - University of Stirling, Scotland. Site includes discussions, PR links, spider sites, and world news.

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Representations of PR

An online listing of movies, TV, radio and books that focus on public relations and publicity or represent it in some way. Compiled by Tom Watson.

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Stuart Goldstein

Articles and presentations by practitioner-consultant Stuart Goldstein

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W.K. Kellogg

This incredibly comprehensive communication and marketing kit has been compiled by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to help non-profit organisations use communication to achieve their social change goals. It is detailed, referenced, and an extremely valuable resource to find online at no charge.  Includes media training guidelines, planning templates, articles from experts, and more.

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