Peter Kim asks his readers the three questions he’ll be asking panelists at our Next Conference. Some great answers have already been posted.

After nearly two years of nonstop campaigning, the public will decide on Tuesday whether to elect John McCain or Barack Obama. PRWeek will be running a number of predictions from public affairs and PR professionals as to who will win, why, and how their communications strategy has helped propel the new president to victory. The piece will run Monday at 3pm EST. Submissions must be in by 12pm EST on Monday. Here is a similar piece was ran in 2004. Send to letters@prweek.com

Paul Roetzer challenges the selections on our Power List to get on Twitter. Who will be first?

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Tim Dyson:

Given the media is fully engaged either by the financial market meltdown or the US election (in this country at least), it could be argued that anyone planning to launch a new product or make any other significant news announcement right now, should look at waiting until things get a little calmer.

Blogging software (Blogger, WordPress) v. Podcasts? News aggregators (Google News, Digg) v. 14. Instant messaging? You decide. Click here.

We have launched a reader’s survey. The results will be published in our 10th anniversary issue on November 17th. If you subscribe to our publication, or just read our newsletters, online stories, or blogs, you are welcome to offer your opinions. To take the survey, click here.

As part of its 10th anniversary celebration, PRWeek is holding a competition to find the consumer-focused technological enhancement of the past 10 years that has most impacted the PR profession.

Hello, it’s time for PRWeek’s second competition of the year. This time, we’re moving gingerly away from people and their blogs to try to find the best consumer-focused technological enhancement in the past ten years (NOTE: not considered for the competition are marketing-focused tools, like newswires, measurement services, etc.). We’re going to open the selection process for the competition a bit. A steering committee of John Bell of Ogilvy, Steve Rubel of Edelman, and Tonya Garcia of PRWeek selected 14 of the 16 items.

We need you, the audience, to a) fact-check these to make sure that it’s fair to say these technologies became popular from 1998-2008 (they could officially launch before 1998 - it’s more about when consumers began to adopt them) and b) suggest the final two technologies to round out the tournament. You can send suggestions to prweekat10@prweek.com or leave them in the comments. After the jump, the 14 technologies. Read more »

We harp on this a lot here at PRWeek, but it’s for good reason. These last few weeks have made the value of a MBA or, at least, a sound business mind extremely relevant for all PR professionals. More so now than ever, clients will be looking for that expertise the rest of this year.