Archive for November 5, 2009
NYC-Area Reminder: Tweetup Tomorrow
Just a reminder for the NYC-area folks — Tweetup tomorrow at 6:30 p.m. with PR Pro and Tweeter Rachel A. Kay, who happens to be in town visiting from San Diego. Around half the PRBC will be in attendance and loads of others! It promises to be a great evening. Full details including location (Midtown) and to RSVP here (please do RSVP so can warn inform the venue and you get the E-mail updates).
- 3 February 2012 : Considering Making the Switch from Agency to In-House?
- 2 February 2012 : Apple’s Positive Earnings Report Creates Bad PR
- 1 February 2012 : Visiting the Valley Girls: A Lesson in Branding
- 31 January 2012 : Google’s Privacy Issue Isn’t Really an Issue
- 30 January 2012 : Tricks of the Trade: Elevator Etiquette
Dear Flack: Battling the PR Funk
As I mentioned before, I have received a lot of job-related questions lately: Should I get a new job? I hate PR, what else can I do? I’m miserable at work, what are my options? And the list goes on.
It appears that a group of you are very unhappy. Well, before you start sending out massive amounts of resumes or slip the middle finger to a career in PR, it might be comforting to know that you might just be suffering from the PR funk.
Needless to say a typical day in the public relations biz can be an emotional rollercoaster, and we have all had “those” days. You know the ones where you look at the window and contemplate jumping out of said window? As fellow #PRBC-er TJ so eloquently puts it “some days really really suck like a sucktastic suckfest with a PhD in suck from Suck U.” Read the rest of this entry »
Coffee Talk with the Winners of #PRStudChat Challenge
Earlier this week I chatted with Assistant Professor Brooke Fisher Liu and Lecturer Susan Whyte Simon from the University of Maryland, the winners of the #PRStudChat Challenge. UMD won the challenge by having the most students contribute to the chat. The university had over 30 students participate in the challenge (You can find a list the students here*.) I had the opportunity to chat with two of them: Jeana Zamanski, a junior communications major, and Rowena Briones, a graduate student in the department of communications. Read the rest of this entry »
