Articles Archive for September 2008
Blog Talk, Methodology, PR, Public Relations, Public Relations Higher Education, Research, Teaching PR »
Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Clemson University PR professor, offers up an excellent review of the Cone “utter bullocks” claim that “93 percent of Americans believe a company should have a presence in social media” in their survey.
The survey seems to be another example of doing a “survey to market your company’s services” effort. An effort, by the way, that we see all too often.
Frederic Lardinois wrote about the survey in ReadWriteWeb, Study: 93 Percent of Americans Want Companies to Have Presence on Social Media Sites.
Lardinois does a less than deep evaluation …
Blog Talk, Emerging Social Networks, PR, PR Measurement, Public Relations, Public Relations Higher Education, Social Media, Social Networks, Teaching PR »
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Our social network for public relations students, PROpenMic.org will celebrate six months online on October 1st.
Allow me to begin by thanking all of the members. So many people have helped with advice and guidance along the way. I appreciate all of your help. I also appreciate the involvement of our volunteer administrators (in no particular order): Phil Gomes, Edelman; Kelli Matthews, University of Oregon; Tiffany Derville Gallicano, University of Oregon; Mihaela Vorvoreanu, Clemson …
Blog Talk, Emerging Digital Media, PR, Public Relations, Public Relations Higher Education, Teaching PR, Twitter »
Last week we discussed Twitter a bit more in class.
As we talked about it, I went online and asked those on Twitter at that time to chime in with their reasons why they used Twitter.
Hey, I’m in class … the students need to know … why do you use Twitter? is it a useful tool? convince them, please! ) 04:44 PM September 23, 2008
I was amazed at the number of people that so kindly responded. Thank you all very much!
Here are their tweets. You can …
Blog Talk, Features, Journalism, Public Relations Higher Education, Technology »
New technology and its use in journalism and public relations has long been an interest of mine. The reality is, not all technology can be used in every situation.
The recent editorial by John Temple, Editor and publisher of the Rocky Mountain News, is a perfect example of taking experiments with emerging digital media one step too far.
Rocky Mountain News reporter Berny Morson was sent on assignment to cover the funeral of Marten Kudlis, age 3. Kudlis was killed last week at an ice cream shop when a traffic …
