Articles Archive for November 2008
Blog Talk, PR, Public Relations, Public Relations Higher Education, Social Media, Teaching PR »
Brad J. Ward (Squared Peg and on Twitter) asked a question on Twitter about two weeks ago.
“bradjward: HEY!!!! If you had 133 characters to tell a class of PR college students something, what would it be? Tag it #jr342. Thanks!! And retweet.”
The responses started rolling in. Five pages. Over 60 responses.
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The Tweets actually were quite good.
Update: In fact, they were so good – here is the presentation he worked up for the presentation.
JR324 Presentation
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: pr college)
Kevin Dugan, …
Blog Talk »
McNeil Consumer Healthcare created an advertisement for MOTRIN®, a product of Johnson & Johnson (J&J). See the video below. It did not go over well with Mommy Bloggers. Not at all.
Thousands of Twitter tweets and hundreds of blog posts eventually added up to either crash the MOTRIN® servers or force McNeil / J&J to take the site dark. I’m guessing the server crashed. It is still not up as of this writing, hours later. The server went down almost 20 hours after the firestorm …
Features, Public Relations Higher Education, Teaching PR, Technology, Top Level »
Campaigns students worked very hard this summer. They created a social network and pitched it to the faculty of the Department of Communication & Journalism, Auburn University.
Alana Wells, Sherry Namburi, Miles Duncan, Brett Pohlman, Lindsay McCormick and Whitney West were all members of the PR Campaigns class, Summer 2008. This site is their creation. Search for their resumes at PRProspects.com and hire them. ;o)
The mission? Bring together students and alumni in an online community.
It launched last week. In less than a week, members have looked at 2,673 pages …
Personal »
Today is a great day.
I grew up in the era of segregation. Tonight brings tears to my eyes.
My sister tells me that Mother went to Selma for the second march, the one that ended in prayer – not violence. I grew up seeing and hearing about these things. Ugly things.
Segregation was an ugly period.
To be sure, there were some kind, caring and even fun times. I remember being taken to the black high school’s football games by my baby sitter, Georgia. She was a wonderful woman and those …
