Auburn University has launched a social network focused upon potential new students, their parents, Auburn alumni and friends of Auburn. Visit family.auburn.edu.
The site, hosted on the Ning platform, has been up for three weeks. You’ll note that the site is residing on the university’s domain. We have only found a few other college/university social networks. Auburn’s is the only one we can find that is totally open to the public.

Spring 2009 brings us this great group of students.Check out their digital portfolios & resumes. Hire them!Good people, all the way around.
Kelly Adams
Ansley Black
Jill Bledsoe
Emily Canan
Kelly Cargill
Alison Christenberry
Kelly Coffed
Carey Beth Elder
Ragan Gibson
Emily Horne
Caroline Inman
Karen Jones
Lianne Lopez-Ceparo
Evie Maddox
Mikey Mahone
Kimberly Meyers
Mallory Middleton
Emily Petree
Whitney Prothro
Maria Prysock
Elizabeth Reynolds
Merry Whidby
Jacob Wilder
Jordan Woo

Our PR social network has been in action for one year, as of April 1st.  I thought you might like to know how we’re doing.  I’d also appreciate your feedback on the network.  We can’t get better without hearing from your members (and those that haven’t joined, yet, too).
Here’s an update on PROpenMic‘s traffic over the first year. Only April ’08 through February ’09 (11 months) are available.
I’ve used publicly available information from Compete.com and Alexa.com.  They are services used by media buyers to determine rates for ad buys, …

I’ve been following this story from the beginning. I saw this coming. I hoped it would not happen, but given the timing of certain events, and my knowledge and/or perceptions of Auburn culture, I’m not surprised it has happened. I wish this had not happened. But, here it is. This is, for all practical purposes, the perfect storm – in a PR sense. All the elements of the environment were just right for all that follows to have happened. Why the leadership didn’t …