For this weeks topic of the week we were asked to provide 10 tips for writing an effective news release. I found a few really good tips from some websites but I also came up with a few of my own from previous experiences writing news releases. The two websites I took information from are called [...]
Archive for July, 2010
TOW #8
Posted in Uncategorized on July 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
PR connections- Teens losing interest in facebook?
Posted in Uncategorized on July 9, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Currently just about every high school and college student has some kind of social networking site and in particular they are using facebook. An online gaming site just recently surveyed 600 teens ages 13 to 17 in late April and found that teens spend two hours per day online on average, 80% of which is [...]
Isreal Soldiers get down
Posted in Uncategorized on July 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I found this video and I thought it was really funny and might make a few of you guys laugh as well. Who knows maybe the war in the middle east isn’t as bad as we all may think. Isreal soldiers take a break and dance to” TIK TOK.”
PR connections- The worlds most interesting intern
Posted in Uncategorized on July 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
While searching through articles on PR daily’s news feed I came across “The worlds most interesting intern,” which is a spoof off of the main guy in the Dos Equis commercials. The YouTube video is of a young intern named Greg Justice who works at Cisco, the Silicon Valley networking giant. The video was picked up [...]
PR Connections- What will the King do next?
Posted in Uncategorized on July 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
As many of you know, sports fans or not, in the past week NBA super star Lebron James has been all over the media. I just recently read an article written by the Chicago Tribune and tonight, July 8, 2010 James will make his decision of either going to f Chicago, New York, New Jersey [...]
Reading Notes Ch 15
Posted in Uncategorized on July 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Chapter 15 Radio, Television, and the Web from: Public Relations Strategies and Tactics 9th ed. by: Dennis L. Wilcox and Glen T. Cameron In this chapter the authors discuss how radio, television, and the web and incorporated within public relations. Broadcasting and its various forms, which now include Webcasting, are important because they reach the vast [...]
Reading Notes Ch 14
Posted in Uncategorized on July 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Chapter 14 News Releases, Media Alerts, and Pitch Letters from Public Relations Strategies and Tactics 9th ed. by: Dennis L. Wilcox and Glen T. Cameron The main topics of this chapter are news releases, media alerts, and pitch letters. News Release Also called a press release, continues to be one of the most commonly used public [...]
TOW #7
Posted in Uncategorized on July 6, 2010 | 1 Comment »
For this week’s topic of the week we were asked to listen to a few PR/marketing podcasts and interviews. Since a few weeks ago we were asked to watch an interview on Martin Waxman I decided to listen to his podcast called Inside PR. Inside PR is a weekly podcast with three people on the [...]
Reading notes 12
Posted in Uncategorized on July 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Chapter 12 Public Relations and the Law from Public Relations Strategies and Tactics 9th ed. by: Dennis L. Wilcox and Glen T. Cameron In this chapter the authors discuss the law issues dealing with public relations. An example the book gives dealing with public relations material and the work of practitioners is when an 81-year old [...]
Reading notes ch 11
Posted in Uncategorized on July 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Ch 11 Reaching a Multicultural and Diverse Audience from Public Relations Strategies and Tactics 9th ed. by: Dennis L. Wilcox and Glen T. Cameron In this chapter the authors discuss the diverse and multicultural nature of public relations. In relations to PR diversity is the most significant aspect of the mass audience in the United States. [...]
