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There seems to be a social network site for just about everything out there, but now Social Rank (a MindValley venture) has launched a social networking site specifically for public relations called PRVoices.com. Can a company who has a dog named Ozzy as Director of PR really create a successful network for PR blogs? Many of our fellow colleagues in PR seem to think so and here's why...

Co-founders Vishen Lakhiani and Mike Reining began MindValley with only $500, that over the last 2 years, grew into a million-dollar company (all without loans or venture capital to boot). Lakhiani has a BS in Computer and Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan School of Engineering and has worked for Microsoft and LegalMatch. Reining worked at eBay where he served as Head of New Venture Strategy and was one of the leading players that drove eBay's expansion into the person-to-person classifieds and communications space; he was also the one whose idea about Skype lead to eBay's acquisition of it. Reining has a BBA from the University of Michigan and an MBA from Stanford. Combined, Lakhiani and Reining have the skills, the know-how and the creative brilliance to develop and nurture ground floor ideas and make them into something big.

Unlike Digg and other social bookmarking sites, PRVoices.com is not based on voting or popularity, but on great content. So whether your PR blog is relatively new or well established, you are on a level playing field with your content determining how you rank among the PR blogs within the network. PRVoices.com has PR blogs broken up into two categories: "Today's Top Blog Posts" and "Today's Recommended Blogs," allowing for maximum exposure for discovery of your blog. You can learn more about the algorithm of how each post is indexed by reviewing some great questions and answers on their press page.

I find PRVoices.com not only a great place to stand among some pretty great PR Bloggers, such as my friend Eric at Common Sense PR, but also another way to network with other PR specialists and expand my circle of industry professionals.

Get caught up on your PR reading today: PRVoices.com