Leading Bloggers and Social Media Experts to Address Government Relations and PAC Professionals at the 2009 Vocus Users Conference

Online Advocacy Leaders to Discuss Tips and Strategies to Incorporate Social Media in Your Strategy to Build Successful Campaigns

Lanham, MD (PRWEB) May 29, 2009 -- Vocus, Inc., (NASDAQ: VOCS) a leading provider of on-demand software for public relations management, today announced that its 2009 Users Conference will feature a panel of leading bloggers and social media experts (http://www.vocus.com/uc2009/sessions.asp) discussing "How Government Relations and PAC Professionals Can Engage with Social Media" at 9:00 am on June 5, 2009.

Panelists include:

• Colin Delany, founder and chief editor of Epolitics.com, which received the Golden Dot Award as "Best Blog - National Politics" at the 2007 Politics Online Conference

• Alan Rosenblatt, associate director for Online Advocacy at the Center for American Progress Action Fund and blogger at the Huffington Post, TechPresident.com, K Street Café and DrDigiPol.com

• Allyson Kapin, founding partner of Rad Campaign, author of Fast Company's weekly blog column, Radical Tech and Blogger-In-Chief for Care2's Frogloop

• Jon Henke, web strategy consultant for Arts+Labs and a blogger at TheNextRight.com

The blogger and online advocacy experts will discuss how to use social media (http://www.vocus.com/content/social-media.asp) to generate attention and build issue support. The panelists will offer tips and strategies to get on the radar of the most influential political blogs and engage in the new media landscape.

The eighth annual Vocus Users' Conference will take place June 4-5, 2009 at The Mandarin Oriental in downtown Washington, D.C. Vocus customers will gather to explore how their organizations are using Vocus to increase the effectiveness of their public relations, government relations and PAC campaigns. For more information and a complete schedule, please visit www.vocus.com/uc2009.

About Vocus, Inc.

Vocus, Inc. (NASDAQ: VOCS) is a leading provider of on-demand software for public relations management. Our web-based software suite helps organizations of all sizes to fundamentally change the way they communicate with both the media and the public, optimizing their public relations and increasing their ability to measure its impact. Our on-demand software addresses the critical functions of public relations including media relations, news distribution and news monitoring. We deliver our solutions over the Internet using a secure, scalable application and system architecture, which allows our customers to eliminate expensive up-front hardware and software costs and to quickly deploy and adopt our on-demand software. Vocus is used by more than 3,500 organizations worldwide and is available in seven languages. Vocus is based in Lanham, MD with offices in North America, Europe, and Asia. For more information please visit www.vocus.com or call 800.345.5572.

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