Humbled

Posted Sunday, April 30, 2006 at 3:47pm in Blogging  | 

If you are currently studying one of the many UK PR courses accredited by the CIPR I must warn you that there’s a high chance I might be popping through your letter box in the coming weeks. What do I mean? Well, the next edition of Behind the Spin magazine is featuring yours truly’s mug on the front cover.

I’m really sorry about that, and I do apologise, but hey, you can always draw a funny moustache on me, or rip it off and use it as a dart board, and still read the great content inside.

< sarcasm >“So why are you on the front cover?” I hear you all ask in anticipation and excitement < /sarcasm >. Well this edition is about…you guessed it, PR and technology, and senior PR and journalism lecturer at the University of Sunderland, Philip Young, has written an excellent piece on the new skills students may need and how they can use them to their advantage - using myself as an example.

I’m humbled. Really, I am. Especially when I read who is quoted in the feature: Tom Murphy, Stuart Bruce, CIPR president, Tony Bradley (who I work part-time for), Neville Hobson and global HR director at LEWIS, Carol-Ann White.

Sorry, if this is a self-complimenting post, but it’s **my** blog and I graduate soon so I’ve got to do all the shameless self-promoting as possible. (Am I a stogger Jon? )

But I’m looking at it from the bigger picture. Think about it. This publication goes out to the majority (if not, all) PR students in the UK. Many of these will be trying to raise their profile just like the great work Alex and Chloe are doing at the moment. We’re bound to see an influx of new PR student blogs…well, I hope so, and I’d be willing to help out in any way I can. Even just pointing people to a few helpful websites like prblogs.org and Forward could help.

Anyway, you can read the piece online on Philip’s blog and also read Richard Bailey’s great contribution, titled PR graduate 2.0.

Have a nice May Day.

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