[Updated from a post written in Fall 2009]
As part of our PRCA 3711/4711 Public Relations Practicum course at Georgia Southern University, students create and present portfolios of their work.
Kelli Matthews, an assistant professor of public relations at the University of Oregon, created a packet of information for her students to help them prepare their portfolios. [...]

Let’s face it . . .  whether you’re a PR student, practitioner or faculty member, we’re all busy. So how can you get (and stay) up to speed with the ever-changing world of public relations? Here’s a quick guide to how I stay current in public relations.
One: Listen to PR podcasts.
Some of my favorite podcasts [...]

Are you a public relations student (or recent grad) just getting started using Twitter? It’s usually best to test the waters a bit before you dive in. Try following some (or all) of these people or organizations in my Twitter Starter Pack for PR Students. They all have something in common: they tweet useful or [...]

This semester, I am teaching PR Research (PRCA 4330 at Georgia Southern University) for the first time. Here’s a short video from Phil Gomes from Edelman Digital on the importance of research in public relations. (NOTE: You must be a member of PROpenMic to view this video clip. Registration is easy and free.)

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For my PRCA 4330 Public Relations Research class:
Review an academic article on public relations that appears in a peer-reviewed journal. Your review is due by midnight on Tuesday, September 1. Recommended journals include (but aren’t limited to):

Journal of Public Relations Research (via EBSCOhost in GALILEO)
Public Relations Journal
Public Relations Quarterly (via EBSCOhost in GALILEO)
Public Relations Review [...]

An Open Note to All of Prof. Nixon’s Students at Georgia Southern University:

We’re almost off and running in our Fall Semester classes at GSU. This semester, I’m teaching six (yes, six) courses. The syllabi will be have been e-mailed to all my enrolled students, and I’ll also post links to them (on Scribd) here.

Public Relations Publications [...]

Public Relations During Times Of Crisis
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What should a new public relations practitioner know about relationships between in-house PR people and PR agency people? Here’s a question I asked of Phil Gomes from Edelman Digital for the Ask Phil group in PR OpenMic. I’d welcome thoughts from others as well!

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The Georgia Southern University PRSSA invited me to give a presentation on social media this evening.  And here’s a link to the websites, blogs, etc., that I’m discussing: 
http://delicious.com/barbaranixon/GSU_PRSSA_links
Social Media For Up and Coming PR Practitioners

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From Blog to Research Article (and novels are good for you) | Off the Shelf
“How can I use those in my papers? They’re not scholarly sources.” That’s a great question. Blog posts aren’t peer-reviewed journal articles. Many of them are hardly more than a paragraph or two. They aren’t going to be suitable for a [...]