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PRIA. Media. YouTube_moments. The beauty of the six-word memoir / The Christian Science Monitor. Some find them ridiculous but I call them beautiful.

The beauty of the six-word memoir / The Christian Science Monitor

They are six-word memoirs. Six-word memoirs? Yes – pithy little verbal packages that convey more than you might imagine. Skip to next paragraph Recent posts Subscribe Today to the Monitor Click Here for your FREE 30 DAYS ofThe Christian Science MonitorWeekly Digital Edition It all started with Ernest Hemingway who proved to a friend that he could write a "novel" in six words: "For sale: baby shoes, never worn. " These include little gems like: "Grading AP essays, I crave Tolstoy" and "Couldn't cope, so I wrote songs" (Aimee Mann). Try one.

My own? Ogilvy PR Worldwide. News. Mumbrella live blog: Monday, April 14 This is Mumbrella’s live blog, your rolling diary of everything happening in media and marketing.

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Refresh the page for latest updates. Top stories: 6:19pm - Some big breaking news from the creative world as Luke Waldren has parted company with Grey Australia after two years as CEO. Melbourne ECD Michael Knox and Sydney MD Paul Worboys will take over running the national operation. 5:20pm – Box office figures have come in and The Lego Movie has built a solid audience (sorry) taking more than $5m for the second successive weekend, as Captain America: The Winter Soldier slipped down the box office chart. 4:25pm - Bad news for fans of My Kitchen Rules, it’s not on at all this week. the show returns Easter Monday. 2.45pm - Today’s AFR Rear Window column has an interesting item about the bean counters from News Corp’s head office in New York “crawling all over” the Fox Sports new Artarmon HQ.

What is Public Relations. PR Trends: What’s in and What is Out. Top Secrets of Effective Public Relations. Multiplexation » Blog Archive » Tweaking the campaigns course. Once again this semester, I’m teaching two concurrent sections of Public Relations Campaigns.

Multiplexation » Blog Archive » Tweaking the campaigns course

I’m in the process of changing the course a bit, though, trying to better adapt it to the changing PR landscape. Since this class is the capstone for seniors majoring in public relations, I want to do everything I can to prepare them for a professional career. In my view, part of doing that means shifting the emphasis away from media-based campaigns. I continue to be surprised at how many students come into the class thinking that press releases, media kits, and a Blackberry full of journalists’ contact info represent the core of their future career. This capstone course is my last chance to shake them free of this idea.

I’m still fine-tuning the syllabus (and probably will be right up until Tuesday morning before the first class), but I think the course description now says everything I want it to. The world of public relations is changing. Teaching PR. For a class on Digital Reputation Management, working on LinkedIn is a must.

Teaching PR

But this semester, instead of a small social media class with 15-25, I'm teaching a large lecture class with 136 students, and it's not feasible to spend as much time on each student's profile as I used to do. So, I developed a checklist assignment -- a series of boxes the grader can check to determine the student's score. It's not ideal, but it ensures each student has a decent profile to share with potential employers. Here's the assignment: Assignment: Create or update your LinkedIn profile to maximize its effectiveness for your career. 12 steps to a successful PR campaign. EducationPR. Public Relations Management Software. PR 2.0 Defined. PR 2.0 uses a combination of social media tools that are available to communications professionals to reach and better communicate with influencers and consumer audiences directly.

PR 2.0 Defined

Social media is a direct-to-consumer approach that allows audiences to drive the communication in their communities. PR professionals are beginning to incorporate PR 2.0 into their strategy and planning as an effective way to communicate directly to Web 2.0 audiences, to raise awareness and increase overall brand exposure. Brian Solis started promoting the PR 2.0 concept in the 90s and it was specific to how PR, multimedia, and the web would intersect and create new breed of PR/Web marketers. He’s been talking PR 2.0 for almost 10 years. As a matter of fact, PR 2.0 actually started long before the birth of the Social Media Release (SMR). Tom Foremski, a former Financial Times writer, wrote an article in the Silicon Valley Watcher titled, “Die!