Getting ready for EuroBlog 2008...
I am off to Brussels on 12 March. I will be attending
EuroBlog 2008: Brussels March 13-15
The Euprera EuroBlog2008 Symposium, Social media and the future of PR: New ideas, new research, new business, takes place in Brussels on March 13-15.
I am working on my presentation entitled as "Introducing New Media to new Public Relations Students". I have been investing on cybercultural issues for a while but there will be a new angle here. How new media can be integrated into educational practices.
Like all my previous trips, I am anxious. I feel better the moment I arrive. But before that there are always details to deal with and these make me exhausted. Throughout this week, I had to get up early and in addition to lecturing in three courses, i have attended two very important workshops/brainstorming sessions for new projects and one regular meeting for an ongoing project, all of which lasted more than three hours. There were the administrational stuff, trip related issues, emotional ups and downs, usual evening card tournament sessions, readings and football related high tensioned moments.
after coming from the morning workshop, before i could have a nap, my parents showed up. i am always tense when I drive with dad, and after five months i had my another small accident. well, there is not even material cost involved this time but this was a blow to my driving pride (!).
anyway, before leaving the apartment for some socially necessary engagements, i leave you with some posts from a Public Relations focused blogger:
Power of PR debate
BBC Radio 4 is discussing the Nick Davies book Flat Earth News. I heard Mark Borkowski explaining the growing influence of PR - but will have to listen to the whole show later onOpen source teaching: comment policies
It's my theme of the week: that answers are out there, even if not in the lecturer's head. I've had two questions on blog comment policies that I'm not well equipped to answer, so I'll discuss them here.
Q.What is comment moderation?
How PR works (cont)
Newsworthy stories are by definition worthy of being reported in the media. The skill of the public relations practitioner is often in turning the humdrum and mundane into talking points.
Take the Travelodge hotel chain. Its 'research' suggesting the survival of north-south prejudices is reported in The Observer, The Times, Southern Daily Echo.
Print is dead?
Ahead of tonight's talk (Print is dead: long live new media) take a look at my news reader this morning. It's dominated by news feeds from traditional media sources (The Guardian newspaper and PR Week in my case). Only one solitary PR blogger interrupts the stream of news from professional reporters (the energetic Trevor Cook).
Comments
Hi Erkan
After a long time, I have got back to reading your blog - always very interesting. I had to comment on your up coming presentation and wish you the best of luck with it. By strange coincidence I am now working in a new post at Bradford College researching e-learning and how new technologies can be used in teaching. Imagine that!
Keep in touch and all the best
Kathrine
Posted by: Kathrine | March 10, 2008 03:00 PM