25 Reasons to Be a Thankful PR Practioner

In honor of the Thanksgiving holiday, here are my top 25 things a public relations practitioner can be thankful for:

(in no particular order)
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- Vocus, BurrellesLuce and Cision (and others)

- PR Newswire, BusinessWire, PRWeb, etc.

- ProfNet

- HARO

- Video Monitoring Services

- Free conversation monitoring tools, like Netvibes, and the enterprise level Radian6 (and those like it)

- Cotweet

- Tweetdeck

- WebNotes (a start-up worth your curiousity)

- Clipping services (take your pick)

- Chris Brogan, Brian Solis and far too many to mention, for leading a new conversation about PR

- The emergence of social media as a strategic communications platform

- Local. Print. Media.

- New newspapers

- Media of all stripes and dominions

- Bloggers

- Flip cameras

- Digital audio recorders

- SEO and Web traffic analytic tools

- Adobe Creative Suite 3 (and CS4), which allow us to communicate graphically and artfully

- The iLife suite of products available on Macs, which make anyone an amateur post pro

- Smart phones

- PRSA

- Journalists, new and traditional

- Trusting and loyal clients

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What did I miss? Light it up in the comments section.