Resuming my blogging on a more frequent schedule, I thought I’d share what I’ve been doing.
Over at PROpenMic we’ve been continuing our growth. I like the way we’ve been reaching more and more students from around the world. Today, PROpenMic has students from about 70 countries and over 400 colleges and universities.
Auburn Family is another project. It recently brought the students a silver medal from SIAA. Auburn University also rewarded the students with a front page (top right hand corner) link to their project. …
Public relations. Hey, it’s what I do. I love the discipline, yet fear we have so many self-proclaimed “PR gurus” that the discipline continues to be diluted and misunderstood by most people.
I love teaching. My students are amazing. We’ve traveled some interesting roads together. These are my thoughts about how we might want to consider teaching PR today, in this rapidly changing world.
Resuming my blogging on a more frequent schedule, I thought I’d share what I’ve been doing.
Over at PROpenMic we’ve been continuing our growth. I like the way we’ve been reaching more and more students from around the world. Today, PROpenMic has students from about 70 countries and over 400 colleges and universities.
Auburn Family is another project. It recently brought the students a silver medal from SIAA. Auburn University also rewarded the students with a front page (top right hand corner) link to their project. …
This is my little homage to those that think way ahead of the curve. Those people that see what others cannot see are great motivators. They are not afraid to fail. The key is to try. Failure can actually be a good thing. You learn from it.
Fred Allison at Alabama Polytechnic Institute (now Auburn University).
Who was Fred Allison? A man way ahead of his time and peers.
“Dr. Fred C. Allison (1882-1974) was a pioneering physicist whose controversial methods of scientific observation identified two chemicals of the …
According to the Auburn University Athletics website, Toomer’s Corner was first known to be rolled with toilet paper around 1962 or 1963. This was told to us by a gentleman named Mac Lipscomb, who was the pharmacist in charge of the drug store back then. Over the course of many years, Toomer’s Corner would only be rolled when there were away-game victories. However, that changed in the early 1990’s, as many home victories called for such a celebration. Source)
“If your mother says she loves you, check it out.” We like this slogan from the City News Bureau of Chicago. It illustrates strong commitment to the traditional tenets of journalistic excellence. Great journalism begins with a tireless search for the truth.
While our program holds fast to the most enduring principles of journalism, we remain on the cutting edge of technology and maintain state- of- the- art labs for writing, editing, design, photography, and online research. Our skills- based approach has the explicit mission of producing the state’s most …
Public relations is a unique major in that it encompasses many important aspects of the business world. Public relations practitioners are instrumental in counseling all types of organizations on how to make strategic decisions, communicate with their many publics, and build strategic relationships. Whether it be an organization providing employees, consumers, investors, and/or the media with crucial information, or a company facing immediate crisis, public relations serves as an active part of organizations’ strategic management. Students majoring in pubic relations at Auburn University enter the career field proficient in the …