I spoke at a panel last night at CU-Boulder called “New Opportunities in New Media.” Its purpose was to highlight opportunities in social media for journalism students. My co-panelist was Tim Skillern, news director at Associated Content, and the panel was moderated by Sandra Fish (one of my former professors) and Beth Gaeddert (another J-school [...]
— Guest post by Elizabeth Jumel Last week, I attended the IPREX Global Leadership Conference in Atlanta, Ga. Hosted by Rountree Group Communications Management, our IPREX partner in Atlanta, 30 public relations professionals from around the world gathered at the CNN Center. London, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Dusseldorf and Dublin were represented along with American PR [...]
— Guest post by Gwin Johnston, CEO The Denver public relations community was stunned at Schenkein’s announcement that it will close its doors at the end of the month. Has the economy really been so bad that a 35-year-old public relations firm, and a fine one at that, just couldn’t make it? We have seen [...]
— Guest post by Gina Seamans, 2009 PRSA Colorado Chapter President I attended the free Vectra Bank Economic Forecast event this morning. I was pleasantly surprised that Vectra offered a hot breakfast, unlimited juice and coffee. I was expecting a “recession”-adjusted meal of bagels and water. Vectra hosts the best economic forecast event in Denver [...]
I finally checked out Lake Superior State University’s annual list of banished words and was surprised to see some familiar friends on there. The official title is the “List of Words to Be Banished from the Queen’s English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness.” Sounds pretty serious. The list includes: green carbon footprint maverick first [...]
Facebook continues to grow wildly, evidenced by a post from the official Facebook blog. According to this entry, Facebook now has more than 150 million active users. That means people who are logging in and using the service, not just an aggregate of all accounts (including dead ones). It was only in August 2008 that [...]