For my PRCA 3330 and COMM 4333 classes:
Want to show your publics the human side of your organization?
Write a personality profile.
For this assignment, write a personality profile about someone associated with your client’s organization. It could be about a leader in the organization, a member or maybe even a client. However, it must be [...]

For my PRCA 3330 and COMM 4333 classes:
As a public relations writer, one of the collateral pieces you are likely to be writing is a media advisory. A media advisory (or media alert) is designed to encourage a reporter to come and cover an event.
Chapter 6 in your Public Relations Writing & Media Techniques textbook [...]

We’re now about halfway through Spring 2010, and I see some students are still struggling with their blogs.
I promise that this blog assignment was not designed as 21st century version of a medieval torture device for you. Writing (and blogging) is a daily part of a PR practitioner’s life; I am helping you prepare for your [...]

Wondering if you are on the right track with what I am expecting from your blogs? Here’s a checklist for you based on what should be at your blog by the end of February. I will be evaluating your blogs again (for a grade) at some point in early March. It’s likely that I will [...]

In the two years that I’ve been using Twitter, I’ve tried my best to get my PR students using Twitter, too. Most of them dutifully complete their One Week of Twitter assignment, then fade away when it’s no longer a requirement.  One week definitely isn’t enough time to “get Twitter,” but the classes I teach [...]

The week of February 22, my PR Writing classes are learning about the components of a news release and writing their first news releases. I have recorded this short presentation for them to share “The Anatomy of a News Release :: A Baker’s Dozen.”
NOTE: I lost my voice earlier this week, and my voice is [...]

About a week ago, I sent out a request on Twitter for ideas for how to back up a WordPress.com blog. You see, all of my students at Georgia Southern University and Southeastern University (about 200 total) are blogging this semester as part of their course engagement and participation requirements. I had a sinking feeling [...]

COMM 4333 & PRCA 3330 Students Only
Our One Week of Twitter assignment begins on Monday, February 15, and will end at midnight on February 22. Your blog post about this experience count as your Topic of the Week for Week Seven.
First, Learn a Bit About Twitter

Listen to Laura Fitton discuss Twitter for Business.
Listen to my [...]

In this short presentation, I share the four ways I benefit from using Twitter. Connect with me on Twitter, where you will find me as @BarbaraNixon.

Other than the four ways I mention in this video, are there other ways you have benefitted by using Twitter?

To help you get used to AP Style before we have any “official” quizzes, please try your hand at determining which of the sentences in the PDF below have errors in them. It’s easiest if you print the PDF and work on it as a hardcopy.
Correct all the AP errors you find, then watch the [...]