Posted in Social Media on Sep 28th, 2007 4 Comments »
Greg Smith, an Australian practitioner and part-time educator, started blogging this week at The PR Lab and, in an early post questions the validity of online PR.
He cites three books on the subject written by David Meerman Scott, Lois Kelly and Tom Kelleher and notes they generally say online PR is about engagement. That, he [...]
Posted in Careers on Sep 23rd, 2007 6 Comments »
There has been quite a bit of talk (keyboarding?) in the sphere for the past week or two about how young PR folks can best decide when and how to contribute. One of the beauties of blogdom is that the result has been lots of good advice for PR students (see the end of this [...]
Posted in Social Media on Sep 13th, 2007 2 Comments »
Well, I appear to have passed a milestone this week. When I started blogging, it was interesting to see traffic to the site slowly grow. I watched my daily hits jiggle along through the low hundreds, then the mid-hundreds. Last spring I arbitrarily decided it would great if I reached 1,000 hits in a day, [...]
Posted in PR education on Sep 10th, 2007 5 Comments »
Communications guru Wilma Mathews (my moniker for her, she’s earned it) asks an intriguing question on the myRagan social network: “Is there a point at which I cease being a practitioner and become a teacher?”
Wilma is the director of constitutent relations at Arizona State University and has been conducting workshops on media relations and other [...]