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[14 May 2010 | Comments Off | 141 views]
Digital Portfolios & Resumes :: Spring 2010 Auburn PR Students (Now with more Mobile!)

First time ever … mobile editions to our PR student digital portfolios and resumes.
Here they are. All good people. Hire them!
This is the first time I’ve required the students do a mobile version. Only a few chose to go the full route. Everyone had to at least use the simple Google tool to create a version. Some have chosen (or will chose) to take down that Google version, as it is a wee bit quirky. I have chosen to list those that I …

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[28 Mar 2010 | One Comment | 159 views]
PR’s Don Quixote :: Tilting at PRSA Windmills

Meet the Don Quixote of PR.  Jack O’Dwyer.
O’Dwyer has been tilting at the PRSA windmill since 1994.  He mounts Rozinate for regular jousts with the PR association.
Recently, Jack O’Dwyer was visited by what O’Dwyer might call demons. He’s called them a lot of other things.
His visitors were from the PRSA.  Meet “chair Gary McCormick and president Bill Murray.”
They went round and round, as usual, and likely all fell down.  Does it bring to mind images of the Black Death?
Well, the visit actually seemed to bring great joy to Jack, as …

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[22 Mar 2010 | Comments Off | 149 views]
Two Cool Stories from Auburn Students

I’m doing an impromptu Auburn University day over on PROpenMic because these are two pretty unique stories. Both stories broke yesterday while we were in class, of all places. So, this was a pretty cool experience for the students. My students are working on these projects, in various ways, and I wanted to share them with you.
Taylor Swift Challenges Two Auburn Students
Taylor Swift Tells Auburn Students :: Good Deeds Are Rewarded with Hugs
In a continuing story, Taylor Swift finds the site AHugfromTaylorSwift.com launched by two Auburn students. She challenges the …

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[6 Mar 2010 | Comments Off | 63 views]
Alabamium … Have You Heard of It?  Fred Allison Was Way Ahead of His Time

This is my little homage to those that think way ahead of the curve. Those people that see what others cannot see are great motivators. They are not afraid to fail. The key is to try.  Failure can actually be a good thing. You learn from it.

Fred Allison at Alabama Polytechnic Institute (now Auburn University).

Who was Fred Allison? A man way ahead of his time and peers.
“Dr. Fred C. Allison (1882-1974) was a pioneering physicist whose controversial methods of scientific observation identified two chemicals of the …