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Cymfony, a company that mines blogs and the MSM for PR professionals, has hired Forrester's Jim Nail as its first chief marketing and strategy officer.

Congrats to Jim. There's a lot of attention paid to the free blog search sites, but don't overlook a dogfight heating up on the high-end as well between the vendors who provide paid services. This group includes Intelliseek, Buzzmetrics and Cymfony.

Steve Rubel is a PR strategist with nearly 16 years of public relations, marketing, journalism and communications experience. He currently serves as a Senior Vice President with Edelman, the largest independent global PR firm.He authors the Micro Persuasion weblog, which tracks how blogs and participatory journalism are changing the public relations practice.