Can we agree to keep The New PR conference calendar updated?

I posted a couple days ago about the lack of a comprehensive calendar of conferences, seminars, and workshops addressing new/social media, despite the fact that there are so many of these that it’s impossible to keep up. Constantin Basturea noted that there’s an “Upcoming Conferences” page in the Resources section of The New PR wiki. I honestly wasn’t aware of it—there was no link to it on the wiki’s navigation menu. I just added one, and added Blog World Expo to the list. (I have heard from at least a dozen people who are going and wondered if I’d be there, but I only just recently heard about it.)

I’d like to propose that we use this page as the calendar of social media events. But it will take everybody contributing everything you hear about for this to be as comprehensive as it needs to be. We should all point to it from our own blogs in order to draw adequate attention to it, as well.

What do you think?

1. A great resource, but does anyone else have trouble with the New PR Wiki’s RSS feeds not working in Google Reader?

   I’m at the point where I don’t read much of anything if it doesn’t come in via RSS.

   Posted by Mike Keliher  on  10/26  at  12:06 PM

2. I just subscribed to the NewPR wiki RSS feed with no problem, Mike. I use FeedDemon and it reads the feed just fine.

   Posted by Shel Holtz  on  10/26  at  01:02 PM

3. I don’t have that Google Reader problem mentioned above. And I think the idea of turning this into a calendar would be great.

   Shel, I work for Petrobras. We used to get blocked almost every website and now thing are pretty more free here though. Websense was really tough and now it is much more friendly. They’ve even unblocked Facebook and LinkedIn and I also can update my adverblog from here!
   I think your conversations with our managers was somehow clarifying for them. Hope you pass by more often.

   Best regards,

   Matheus

   Posted by Matheus  on  10/26  at  04:33 PM