The Financial Times this morning has a story that underscores the need to listen, engage and embrace bloggers as a force to be reckoned with.

Will you join with me and other PR bloggers in a grassroots blogging campaign to help raise the perception of the public relations industry …

Bank of America’s net income rose 41% in the 4th quarter, due to growth in fees and the purchase of FleetBoston Financial.

Almost every professional industry has an association that sets best-practice standards and represents the best interests of their profession.

America Online Latin America’s net loss applicable to common stockholders for the quarter ended September 30, 2004, narrowed 17% from $28.6 million to $23.6 million and cash used in operating activities declined 67% from $9.5 million to $3.1 million from the same period a year ago.

EOG Resources (EOG) is scheduled to present on Wednesday, September 22, 2004 at 7:30 a.m. Pacific time at the Banc of America Securities Investment Conference in San Francisco.

Just happens to be public relations activity that alters individual perceptions leading directly to changed behaviors.

America Online announced today, the acquisition of Mailblocks, a personal web-based email service for consumers.

A new survey from the MSN and Harris Interactive reveals that these days, Internet users in the United States are quite likely to turn to a search engine in their search for themselves.

“Today is a red-letter day for big-time spammers, and the letters they should remember from this day forward are ‘CAN-SPAM,’” said AOL Executive Vice President and General Counsel Randall Boe.

America’s highly skilled workers continue to take a big hit in the jobless recovery. These workers are suffering scant wage growth and unusually high unemployment. With the overall U.S. unemployment rate at 6% in April, most are ready, willing and able to get back to work.