Op vrijdag 16 en zaterdagvoormiddag 17 maart biedt de Leerstoel Jos Willems onderdak aan de EuroBlog 2007 Conferentie. EuroBlog maakt integraal deel uit van de Leerstoel Jos Willems die op deze manier ook meteen een internationaal karakter krijgt. De EuroBlog 2007 Conferentie wordt volledig in het Engels georganiseerd, en maakt deel uit van de activiteiten die Euprera, de European PR Education and Research Assocation, jaarlijks op poten zet. Wil je info én prijzen voor zowel de donderdag, de vrijdag als de zaterdag? Bekijk dan zeker ook de pagina's in het Nederlands.


UPDATE 6 March:
Due to professional obligations on behalf of the keynote speaker, there has been a change to the Friday programme, with Neville Hobson opening the conference instead of closing the first day.The most recent version of the symposium has been attached as a pdf document below.


A year ago, EuroBlog 2006 showed that interactive social media technologies – weblogs, podcasts, wikis, real simple syndication, folksomonies, social tagging, personal networks and other species of social software and services - were beginning to impact on communications in many different ways. The 2007 symposium will present insights from EuroBlog 2007, the second pan-European quantitative survey on the usage of social media by communication professionals, draw new theoretical insights and respond to industry feedback by identifying and presenting examples of best practice.


Participants from across Europe
Participants at EuroBlog 2007 are expected, as last year, to consist of researchers from all over Europe (including many involved in the Euprera network of academics from more than 30 countries) as well as communications executives from major companies, institutions, agencies and service providers specialised in the field of online campaigns, interactive media, digital communication and issues monitoring.







More than 20 fascinating presentations
Keynote speaker at the EuroBlog 2007 Conference on Friday is Neville Hobson:




The closing debate, on Saturday, will be introduced and moderated by Jon White:

Jon White

(Consultant, associate of the Henley Management College, visiting professor at the University of Lugano, honorary professor at the University of Birmingham’s School of Business and visiting professor at the University of Central Lancashire)

The full programme, including all speakers, detailed time schedules, hotel information, details about the social programme and so on can be found in the pdf document that is attached at the bottom of this page.*

* You need Acrobat Reader to open this page. If you don't have this software on your computer, you can download it here for free.

Registration fee
The Chair Jos Willems, including the EuroBlog 2007 Conference, offers speakers of high, international standard. Nevertheless, registration fees have been kept to a minimum. An overview:

	Euprera members	Academics Sponsor members/staff	Professionals
1 day (16 or 17 March)	60.00 euro	95.00 euro	150.00 euro
2 days (16 and 17 March)	80.00 euro	160.00 euro	275.00 euro

Fees are inclusive of VAT and cover:
- on Friday 16 March: symposium documents, coffee breaks, lunch and guided city walk;
- on Saturday 17 March: symposium documents, coffee break and lunch.

Evening dinners are not included.

Note: fees also covering Thursday 15 March are not mentioned here, since 15 March offers a programme in Dutch only. If you want to be present on 15 March as well, go to the home page of this site for more information.

More information
The EuroBlog 2007 Conference also has its own website, as well as a blog where you can help discuss the impact of social media on PR, marketing communications and journalism today.