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Tracking RSS subscribers is a way to see how many people are tracking your blog. It’s a great motivation to see RSS subscriber growth and be able to celebrate milestones. But do RSS subscriber figures always go up anyway?

Be able to listen, and actively show you’re listening, is a really valuable skill in business. It can help you develop relationships more effectively with colleagues, managers, clients and suppliers.

Last week’s PR Week magazine (UK) features an article about Jimmy Wales, head honcho at Wikipedia, threatening to ban PR agencies and paid PR professionals from editing Wikipedia if they continue to edit entries about clients.

Over the weekend the UK had its first substantial outbreak of the H5N1 strain of bird flu. This is the first time that an outbreak of such a disease has hit a branded farmer – Bernard Matthews. What does this mean for the Bernard Matthews brand?

Late last year I blogged about how my RSS reading list had reached 100 feeds and was becoming impractical to keep up with. Now I think I’ve found a solution.

Brand Republic reports that the Royal Navy has relaunched its recruitment website with some new features.

With the deadline for responses fast approaching there’s a trickle of PR bloggers responding to the social media consultation from the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR).

Yesterday’s post on comparing statistics packages for bloggers has been picked up by podcasters Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz in their For Immediate Release podcast.

Gary Reid from Fedafi has some interesting thoughts on a model for measuring engagement in blogging, plus a Wordpress plug-in that is going to help deliver the metrics that make up the model.