The Young PR World Tour Comes to an End
Written on March 20, 2007 – 10:09 am | by Paull Young
Young PR World Tour :: By the Numbers
- PR Bloggers met: 51
- Distance travelled: 31,620 miles/50,887 kilometres
- Days on the road: 108
- Countries visited: 8
- Globes circumnavigated: 1
- Social media events/conferences attended: 8
- Podcasts recorded: 6
- Blog posts written: 36
- Photographs posted to Flickr: 284 (whoah!)
Strange places slept: Countless (overnight buses and trains, triple bunk beds in crowded backpacker dorms, a Norwegian punk rocker’s floor) - Times of life had: 1
Young PR World Tour :: As Seen by Others
- Lee Hopkins gave some advice on Aussie etiquette to prepare the Yanks and Poms for my arrival
- Eric Eggerston uses me as a case study for networking in PR
- A video of my guest lecture at Centennial College Tornonto, which impressed Robert French and sparked CCC student Lindsay Casey into action.
- Donna Papacosta shares a great pic from snowy Oakville
- Ed Lee comes up with the best post headline of the tour: Paull Young Steals
- Luke Armour creates a magazine cover to celebrate the first time he, Erin Caldwell and I got together
- Michael O’Connor Clarke posts about us helping Constantin Basturea celebrate his birthday
- Luke Armour shares a great story on how small the world has become - story of my life mate!
- Richard Bailey put together a Young PR Profile after hosting me for a few days in Leeds
- Neville Hobson posted about our lunch in London
As I press publish on this post I also bring to a close the most exciting chapter of my life. I’m at Heathrow Airport, about to board the 20 hour flight back to Sydney. Stay tuned for Young PR news when I’m back… once again delivered with an Aussie accent ;-).
17 Responses to “The Young PR World Tour Comes to an End”
By Eric Eggertson on Mar 20, 2007 | Reply
You’ve been able to do physically what a bunch of us do digitally. Thanks for being the blog ambassodor for those of us who can’t take the time for a trip like that!
By Jackie on Mar 20, 2007 | Reply
Paull- It’s been great reading along, felt like I was there with you — well sort of. Safe flight home. Hopefully see you again in NYC for some more Aussie beers
By Steve Field on Mar 20, 2007 | Reply
Paull,
Congrats on finishing your great journey. The one thing you forgot to mention — the number of Chipotle burritos you had eaten!
Hope to see you back in DC soon.
Steve
By Luke on Mar 20, 2007 | Reply
Paull,
There’s not much else to say. I agree with Eric, you’ve become the physical manifestation of social media.
It was a pleasure to have met you face2face and I’m looking forward to doing it again.
Oh, we had some silly times, eh? Congrats, Paull, on a trip well traveled. Many people are jealous - the younger version of me is one of them.
By Karel Mc Intosh on Mar 20, 2007 | Reply
Luke, you hit it on the head. Paull, I actually wrote a post the other day - using you as an example - about how social media should be appreciated not just for the connections it creates online, but also for the potential it creates for transferring these relationships from the web to the real world.I haven’t published it as yet, but I don’t think it’s an unknown fact among us bloggers.
By Michael O'Connor Clarke on Mar 21, 2007 | Reply
Congratulations, Paull - it was a privilege to hang out with you on two of the legs of your grand tour. What next for our globe-trotting young blog legend, I wonder…?
By Erin Caldwell on Mar 21, 2007 | Reply
Great wrap-up, Paull! Adding up the numbers really expresses how vast and awesome your trip really was.
You are truly a legend now.
And I second Michael’s question … what’s next? …
By Paull Young on Mar 21, 2007 | Reply
To everyone who has posted above,
I’ve just arrived back home from the looooong trip via Hong Kong, and while I’m exhausted - this put a real smile on my face.
Stay tuned for a further response, and some news on what’s next, when I can think straight tomorrow morning!
By David. on Mar 22, 2007 | Reply
Hello Paul,
I am a new reader of your blog……Well I came across to your blog while I was searching on google. Nice pictures of your world tour …. hope you had nice time…
David.
By Paull Young on Mar 22, 2007 | Reply
David - good to see you’re reading mate! Hope to see you regularly joining the conversation :).
By Alex on Mar 23, 2007 | Reply
Paull…
Have found your blog very interesting and helpful for my assignment on social media.
Glad to have you home, see you soon.
Alex
By Steven Lewis on Mar 23, 2007 | Reply
Welcome home, Paull. It’s been great reading about your travels. Time for you to get stuck into bringing Australia up to the moment, though. As you’ve seen, the rest of us haven’t been able to do it in your absence
By Paull Young on Mar 23, 2007 | Reply
Alex - I’m glad some of this rambling is useful.
Steven - It looks like it’s going to be a huge year for the Aussie Social Media scene. We need to catch up for a beer mate!