Blog relations: Kevin Dugan, Neville Hobson, Colin McKay
Building An Audience For A Blog: Anita Campbell, Alice Marshall, Mark Rose
CEO blogs: Robb Hecht, Jeneane Sessum, Dave Taylor, Debbie Weil
Citizen's Media: John Cass, Kevin Dugan, Bernard Goldbach, Alice Marshall, Mark Rose
Communities -- Business blogging communities: Niall Cook, Michael O'Connor Clarke, Mark Rose
Consulting - Business blogging consulting: Niall Cook, Peter Himler, Shel Holtz, Alice Marshall, Colin McKay, Mark Rose
Crisis Communications: Shel Holtz
Customer Generated Marketing: Elizabeth Albrycht, John Cass, Kevin Dugan, Robb Hecht, Neville Hobson, Mark Rose
Education - New PR education: Bernard Goldbach, Josh Hallett, Robb Hecht, Constantin Basturea
External blogs: Elizabeth Albrycht, Robert French, Alice Marshall, Ryan May
Fake blogs: Michael O'Connor Clarke
Global - Business blogging around the world: Neville Hobson, Michael O'Connor Clarke
Government - blogging in government & public service - Alice Marshall, Colin McKay
Internal weblogs: Britt Parrott, Robert French, Shel Holtz, Ryan May
Legal issues: Neville Hobson
Mainstream media and participatory journalism: Kevin Dugan, Michael O'Connor Clarke, Peter Himler, Jeneane Sessum
Podcasting: John Cass, Robert French, Bernard Goldbach, Shel Holtz, Mark Rose
Product blogs: Dave Taylor
PR Blogger Community: Robert French
Transparency & Ethics - John Cass, Shel Holtz, Robert French, Mark Rose, Dave Taylor, Philip Young
Tools & Trends: Anita Campbell, Jeneane Sessum, Dave Taylor
RSS: Mark Rose
Wikis: Mark Rose, Bernard Goldbach, Constantin Basturea
Role
establish guidelines and evaluation criteria, as well as an evaluation scale that will allow them to assign a score to each article submitted (what happen when an editor has to evaluate his/her own article? - s/he doesn't cast vote for the article)
communicate the guidelines to writers
establish if they want to work as a committee (i.e. if they want to discuss the entries, not only to grade them)
communicate the results of the selection process on September 12.
be available during the week when the event is happening for consulting with administrators, if needed; awkward situations are bound to happen :) - and decisions need to be made (example: a writer has introduced some blatant self-promotion; what do we do about the article? - ask the writer to remove the offending paragraph? what if s/he refuses? etc.)
