How to write for Blogging Students. Pick a topic that affects other students.
Photograph: F1 Online/Rex Features Since we launched it in January, Blogging Students has been a rip-roaring success, attracting record numbers of readers and making a huge impact on the social media, especially Facebook. These are the top three blogs so far: • Why have drug users become so reckless? On 93,000 page views • Why you shouldn't do postgrad, with 85,000 • And What will you do if you get a 2:2? Those who've written blogs for the series have benefited in several ways: they've got their own contributor page on the Guardian, which is a boost to their CV. Though a few have turned up perfectly formed, most have been through a discussion process that has taught them about pitching and writing and, in several cases, how to take a photograph that doesn't look like you snapped yourself on a phone in the loo. So how could you get involved? You'll notice that these blogs are not like people's personal blogs.
Oh, and one last thing. What are you wearing? This week’s Phoenix Business Journal poll asks: “Has workplace attire become too casual?”
The term “casual” certainly means different things to different people, particularly from a geographic standpoint. In the southwestern United States, workplace attire tends to be much, much more casual than anywhere else in the world. At “business casual” meetings and events at our Public Relations Global Network meetings, I am always – by far – the most casually – and comfortably dressed. A few years ago, a Phoenix mayor even went so far as to declare during a news conference that neck-ties should not be worn during the summer months. Our “100-Degree Rule” also eliminates suit coats altogether when the mercury rises that high. With summer temperatures well above 100 degrees here, HMA Public Relations goes even further. Even during the winter months in the Desert Southwest, we have casual Fridays, which allow for jeans – as long as they’re presentable. Is the neck-tie on the endangered list? 30 Books Everyone Should Read Before Their 30th Birthday.
The Web is grand.
With its fame for hosting informative, easy-to-skim textual snippets and collaborative written works, people are spending more and more time reading online. Nevertheless, the Web cannot replace the authoritative transmissions from certain classic books that have delivered (or will deliver) profound ideas around the globe for generations. The 30 books listed here are of unparalleled prose, packed with wisdom capable of igniting a new understanding of the world. Everyone should read these books before their 30th birthday. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse – A powerful story about the importance of life experiences as they relate to approaching an understanding of reality and attaining enlightenment.1984 by George Orwell – 1984 still holds chief significance nearly 60 years after it was written in 1949. Related True Measure of Understanding: Ignorance Generates Negativity In the absence of understanding human reaction is generally negative.
August 27, 2007 In "Aspirations"