This morning, I received the most delightful email from new PR blogger Philippe Cherel announcing his blog, PR.ojet Z, and thanking a number of PR bloggers (myself included, merci Philippe) for inspiring him in his blog endeavor.
He also mentions the same list in his inaugural public post today. Lucky for us though, he has been blogging away for about three months and has a nice collection of posts for us to dig into!
Inspired by a student in my recent blog workshop who asked if most blogs were in English, I had recently decided that it was time to expand my blog horizons beyond English language blogs. Since the only other language I speak (relatively) fluently is French, PR.ojet Z fits nicely into my daily reading and hopefully will help me brush up on my business vocabulary. Last time I lived in France for any length of time was the early 80s, well before the "PC revolution." And I was a student, so my day-to-day vocabulary is (was) decent but I really don’t have a great grasp on professional and tech terms.
The other French language blog I am reading regularly is "De Quoi Je Me M.E.L." the blog of Michel Edouard Leclerc, the head of French supermarket/hypermarket group E. Leclerc. The name of his blog is great — both his initials and a play on words. The verb "meler" in the form above roughly translates to: "What I meddle with." In English, we’d probably say, what I stick my nose into. And Leclerc definitely pulls no punches in his opinions. For candor, his US counterpart is probably Mark Cuban, although they talk about very different things. Leclerc also doesn’t strike me (at least so far) as a ranter, which Cuban can be from time to time.
UPDATE 4/2: I am getting slammed with porno trackbacks to this post, so both trackbacks and comments have been closed. Sorry. Send me an email if you have a comment or a link and I will add it manually.
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See, I had no idea you spoke French, Susan. I’m impressed! 🙂