For the longest time, it seems, we’ve been doing projects for clients in our Style & Design class, as well as Campaigns, PR Writing and Survey Research.
I had a thought. Yes, I know … that’s often a dangerous thing.
Why not take our ongoing blogging and podcasting activities and fold them into a real, honest-to-goodness, social network?
So, here ya’ go … LoveliestVillage.org will now become … TheLoveliestVillage.org.
From now on, part of our ongoing projects will be — grow the network. It isn’t enough to just practice the art of …

Always seeking new ideas to incorporate online reality into class practice, the first two links below look very promising, to me.
Seero and Ning, alone or combined, could offer a very simple – yet broad and complex – implementation for a class campaign project. Add Utterz, Flickr, YouTube and more into the mix … you’ve got one powerful social network.
A Ning micro network may be built for any local organization. With domain mapping and the ability to turn ads off (for a cost, about $25 per month …

The Edelman Digital Bootcamp was an enjoyable experience.
Many thanks to all of the very kind people at UGA for hosting my students and many others from various colleges and universities around the southeast. UGA’s Kaye Sweetser (so this is mass communication?) and Karen Russell (Teaching PR) had their students in top form putting on this conference. Also, thanks to Phil Gomes, Erin Caldwell and the many Edelman PR pros that came all the way down to help us all.
I took seven Auburn students and I’m thinking they had …