Relay for Life Pitch

Congrats to everyone today! We had our Relay for Life Pitch for the kickoff in November. It is finally over! This semester our class paired off in teams and pitched our ideas for the kickoff. The Relay for Life committee picked my group's pitch! This years slogan will be, Celebrate a Memory, and every group's ideas will be used. We have gotten a lot of food donated and hopefully we will get the decorations donated too. We have gift certificates from Piggly Wiggly and Deanos pizza as well we some others. Thanks to everyone who is helping and who was involved in today's pitch! This event will be a lot of work, but I think our class will do awesome!

Facebook, still a growing social media?

According to Advertising Age, even though a lot of web 2.0 start ups aren't very profitable, Facebook is continuing to make money. They just crossed the 300 million dollar mark and they are still growing.
Facebook is such a huge social media. Parents, teachers, organizations, and companies are all now joining the Facebook madness. It is not something you can escape anymore. Companies are continuing to advertise on Facebook and people are continually joining, that Facebook is not going anywhere anytime soon.
Though, as the numbers for revenue and users grow, so does the need for a bigger company. Right now, Mr. Zuckerberg says that Facebook has only 1,000 employees, one employee for every 1 million users. If this continual growth keeps up, the company is going to have to do some serious re-modeling.

Public Relations Qualities

When it comes to being a PR professional I think it's important to have a wide array of skills. Between the new attributes and old attributes, it's important to have many of the skills listed on davefleet.com.

Some of the skills I feel as though I have are of course writing, which is the most important skill of all. Every PR professional needs to know how to write. I also have good communication skills. I know how to talk to people, how to pitch ideas, how to speak in front of an audience, and how to persuade people. I'm a real straight-forward person. I don't mind working in groups and I'm always a "team" player. I'm also a very proactive person. I don't wait around for someone else to do the job. I like to have things in order and I like to have them done perfectly. My work ethic is another thing I pride myself on. I understand PR professionals don't usually have a 9-5 job. My PR classes now pretty much take over my life.


When it comes to "new" PR attributes I think I hold some pretty big ones. I know how to blog (obviously), I have just created a twitter account, or microblogging (thanks to Dr. Miller :)), and I am very involved with social networking, I have a facebook account.


Though, I still need some improvement in some of the areas on the list on davefleet.com. I am not the best proofreader ever and I could also use help with understanding media relations. I know we went over media relations briefly in Writing for PR, but I don't think I fully understand the whole idea. I also am not aware of RSS, SEO, and coding. I have taken a few computer classes, but these technical computer terms still get me.


For class, I would like to brush up on some of my weaknesses and build my computer and Internet skills. I feel as though technology will play a huge role in PR in the future.