Kelli Matthews, of PRos in Training, and teaching PR at the University of Oregon, has tagged me for the 8 Random Bits meme.
Kelli was tagged by Nedra Weinreich. Nice to meet you Nedra. My iPod is in the truck, so I’ll foresake the song titles, although I like that idea, too. And, OK … I know this is link bait … but, what the heck. I’ll keep it in the family, so to speak. Here we go …

Note: All student digital resumes and portfolios are featured at PRProspects.com.
This summer’s digital resumes and portfolios are complete. The project wound up being a bit different than usual, due to the short five week mini-mester term. But, the projects have some new aspects which, I believe, make them more appealing.
I appreciate the work of these fourteen students. Hire them and/or select them for internships.
Each project contains two major sections. First, there is the resume, an HTML version of the usual Word document. Second, you’ll find …

This summer, all my classes are mini-mesters. Think about it. A class that usually takes 15 weeks, all packed into five weeks … pretty much in class all day.
Well, despite the flurry of activity all packed into five weeks, we will still be blogging. In fact, we will be video blogging. Yeppers! More on that later.
This is the complete list. Students began blogging today, so please check in and comment. They will appreciate your support.

Amanda
Drew
Sara
Rachel
Leslie
Katherine
Becky
Blair
Sarah
Brett
Emily
Sherry
Justin
Keri

Jeremy Pepper has an interesting post about social media and healthcare over at Pop PR Jots.
Jeremy joined in a panel with Amy Tenderich, from Diabetes Mine.
From his post, these three paragraphs – in particular – struck a cord.
When explaining social media, I use a Town Hall analogy. From a conversation with a friend, she wrote it out like this: Imagine a small New England town with a highly civically-active community. On a regular basis this tightly-knit community hosts Town Hall meetings to discuss current events, areas of concern, etc. Now …