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Posted Wednesday, October 17, 2007 at 9:31am in Blogging, Media, Off topic, PR General  | 

Some ideas I have for a post often aren’t long enough for a blog post themselves so it’s probably best to provide you with links. So here they are:

WHERE ARE ALL THE STUDENT PR BLOGGERS?

Seems like there aren’t any these days. Unless, of course, they’re aren’t on my radar? Admittedly I’ve been deleting a lot of my feeds of late so not up to speed on everything. The only new student PR blog I’ve come across lately is by Leeds Met’s Paddy Doyle. What a great name btw. So, here’s the deal again: Point me in the direction of your student PR blog and I’ll gladly link to you and subscribe to it like I’ve just done with Paddy’s.

You get the impression everyone’s too busy blogging with £ signs (Ching ching!) in their eyes to care about the educational side of the medium these days. :-) Excluding the few of course.

YOU JUST WOULDN’T GET THIS IN UK POLITICS

No way. Can you imagine anyone taking the time, effort, resources and money to produce a video like this for Gordon Brown or David Cameron? Look at how many views it’s had too. Almost 4 million.

WOM UK ASSOCIATION LAUNCHES

My pal, Stuart Bruce, has been involved with the launch of WOM UK which is the UK’s answer to the Word Of Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA) in the US. Already there are a number of well-known and well-respected PR agency members including Edelman and Frank PR.

If you want to join you can do so by going here. Prices vary. I won’t be joining however. As I noted on Richard Bailey’s blog, the £350 required of me is a bit pricey. And I could be wrong, but the membership fee stucture seems to insinuate that the more money you’re willing to throw at it, the more ‘control’ you have.

Or am I being naive? I could be.

GUARDIAN TURNS ITS 212 YEARS OF NEWSPAPER CONTENT INTO A DIGITAL ARCHIVE

From journalism.co.uk: “Guardian News and Media (GNM) is turning its entire 212 years of newspaper content into an online digital archive. This first phase - available on guardian.co.uk/archive from November 3rd - will consist of content from The Guardian from 1821-1975 and The Observer from 1900-1975.

“Users will have access to exact replicas of the original newspapers, choosing between full page or individual article displays.

“The timespan of the archive will be expanded in early 2008 to cover the whole 212 years of the group’s publishing history, dating back to editions of The Observer from 1791.”

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Morgan

Wednesday, October 17, 2007 at 3:29pm

Hey… I’m not a student, but I am a young (non-graduate, I’m afraid) PR blogging about the business.

A lot of it is comedic, sardonic celebrity/arts/entertainment shmuck but as it develops (and as my career does!), it will be a lot more about the news, media and communications.

Anyway, watch this space: SHIT AND SPIN - http://shitandspin.wordpress.com

-Morgan

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Sally Whittle

Wednesday, October 17, 2007 at 6:14pm

Two that spring to mind are Richard Millington’s PR Place and Dave Lee’s J-Blog, although that covers hackery and PR.

Millington’s is particularly interesting as he’s come in for a lot of flak from certain elements in the tech PR blogging sector for some of his comments but keeps plugging away regardless.

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Sally Whittle

Wednesday, October 17, 2007 at 6:16pm

Sorry, I also noticed that the “PR Maven” intern has launched his own blog at http://scottymac.wordpress.com

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kaye sweetser

Wednesday, October 17, 2007 at 10:11pm

Come see my PR Social Media class students blog on the class blog at http://socialmediaUGA.blogspot.com … many of them are also doing blogs for their class SM project — links & descriptions posted on http://socialmediauga.blogspot.com/2007_09_16_archive.html (scroll & read thru posts, each student did a post on his/her blog).

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Richard Bailey

Thursday, October 18, 2007 at 2:24pm

Good call (on PR student bloggers). If you’re the leader, where are your followers?

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Stephen

Friday, October 19, 2007 at 8:07am

Thanks everyone. I’m going to write a follow up post so I should hopefully find some others in the meantime.

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Paddy

Monday, October 22, 2007 at 2:53pm

I have invited some friends on my course to start blogging. I have invited them to advertise themselves via my blog so keep checking this week for any up dates.

However I fear facebook is a little to time consuming for most. Its a real shame……….any must go I think someone from home has tagged in my some photo’s.

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Kristina

Tuesday, August 19, 2008 at 5:31pm

Hey, I’m a recent graduate of the School of Journalism and Communications at the University of Oregon (June ‘08.) I graduated with a degree in Public Relations and Communication Studies and for one of my PR Writing classes we were required to keep and update a PR-related blog. I created “Real World PR” as a site with tips, tools and techniques for other current, past or future PR professionals to utilize. I still update, not near as frequently regrettably, with advice and notes on obstacles I’m encountering in the real world of public relations and marketing.

If you feel so inclined, check it out!

Your site is great, by the way. I’m starting to link up with more PR blogs and I will definitely be adding yours to my list!

Thanks, Kristina

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