I have been negligent this past week, so here are some highlights among posts I found in PR blog world.
PR Education, blog Birthday,
Meyers-Briggs, Future of PR…
A PR Guru’s Musings – Stuart Bruce
Stuart Bruce has a very funny post – if only for one quote:
One of my channels in FeedDemon is called “So-called A-list Bloggers”. It is dedicated to what I term the blogging mafia.
How refreshing to see someone state – publicly – their feelings on this topic. I have felt it for a long time, and written about it. But, the phrase “blogging mafia” to describe the self-proclaimed gurus and “PR blog” koolaid addicts? Well, that is too funny. And, to sweeten the punch, Stuart links to several ‘true’ PR / Communication blogs in order to educate the masses of linker-oners that seem to be similarly koolaid drunk.
NevOn by Neville Hobson
PR Opinions by Tom Murphy
A Shel of my former self by Shel Holtz
POP! PR Jots by Jeremy Pepper
PR Studies by Richard Bailey
Mediations by Philip Young
Hyku Blog by Josh Hallett
Public relations from an Irish perspective by Piaras Kelly
Marketing Technology by Niall Cook
Nice job, Stuart. Thanks for the public wake up call.
Allan Jenkins: Desirable Roasted Coffee
Allan Jenkins’s blog is now two years old. Congratulations to Allan. He is now participating in Marcomblog.com with our students. Prior to this, his blog was the focus of several exercises devoted to blogging ethics and/or best practices. Many thanks to Allan for his kindness and support, too. Also, for sheer fun – please read Allan’s post entitled “Man Kills Buck With Bare Hands in Bedroom for an interesting chuckle. For southerners, especially, deer stories have a special meaning. I almost hit two the other night on the way back from my sister’s house. It is late Fall and deer are everywhere.
Phil’s Blogservations: www.philgomes.com
Phil Gomes recognized our program of PR student blogging activities and PRblogs.org and elsewhere. Thank you, Phil. I had the pleasure of speaking with him on the phone last week and it was quite enjoyable.
I also enjoyed Phil’s Meyers-Briggs shoutout: Love To The World’s INTJs.
After years of work in Student Affairs at two universities, I am very aware of Meyers-Briggs – and, have taken the test several times myself. For the record, I most often test out as an INFJ, but my scores are often borderline (about 50/50) on each. Other times, I – like Phil – test as an INTJ.
I don’t know how you feel about personality assessment tests, but I’ve seen students and their results. Too often, they are quite revealing. I find it interesting to learn, after that phone conversation, that Phil and I test relatively the same. Hmm? I wonder how other PR practitioners test on Meyers-Briggs? It would be an interesting study.
The Future of PR :: HigherEd BlogCon
The Future of PR provides news of the pending 2006 HigherEd BlogCon online conference modeled after Global PR Blog Week.
The organizers are Dan Forbush of PR Newswire’s ProfNet and the IAOC blog, Thomson Peterson‘s Dan Karleen and Richard Salatiello of CASE.
Other good news, one of our favorite people – the founder of The NewPRWiki, Constantin Basturea, is consulting for the group. Congrats to Constantin.
I will be participating in the event, too.
Oh, it gets funnier.
To make a long story short, I was suckered by a recruiter in the late ’90s into an interview with a PR firm I really had no interest in joining. The first thing they handed me was the Myers-Briggs. Not the wimpy hundred-question, abridged version either. This one was pretty substantial.
Believing that the M-B test should never be used as a screening tool, I handed it back and said, “INTJ… I was tested recently.” HR insisted that I take this test. I still refused, but I politely offered a DNA sample in case they were worried I had a condition that might tax the benefits plan.
Most PR folks I run into are “I”‘s. As you know, the introvert/extrovert indicator has nothing to do with whether you stay at home or go out a lot. It has to do with how you “charge your batteries.”
I enjoyed talking with you as well. Let’s do it again soon.
A PR firm screens applicants with the Meyers-Briggs? The full Meyers-Briggs? That is strange. Wonder if the HR director was a former college counselor.
I would have offered them a ‘stool’ sample.
Appropriate for that kind of situation, perhaps.
Students were always surprised when they learned that I was an introvert, rather than extrovert. Then we start to explore what Dominant Introverted Intuition means. Of course, I should stop using the term “test” as that always implies to the students that there are ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ answers. There aren’t. This is just a tool that provides an indication of how your personality works – looks at and deals with the world/life.
I would agree that most PR people likely are “I”‘s. That was common among student activity personnel, too.
Look forward to talking with you, too. Take care.