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Archive for February, 2008

I’ve been considering PR as a career choice lately, and through Chris Clarke’s blog have found tons of useful resources. I got this from New York University PR Forum, which was first taken from Sam Oakley’s blog, All Things PR (and some that aren’t).
Q. How do I know PR is for me?
A. You [...]

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I’m a bit slow on the uptake, but I’ve only just got wind of the recently ended eBay seller’s strike.
Personally, I think that the emphasis on the strike having had minimal impact is rather irrelevant. eBay seems to have lost the plot somewhere. WebProNews writes:
We think they may see the protesting sellers as a less-profitable [...]

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I found a really good blog, Student PR Blog, written by Chris Clarke, aimed at communication and PR students and graduates. Chris started blogging while still in school, and his story is really rather inspirational because he got his first job through his blog. I don’t know about you, but that made me sit [...]

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haiku: on friendship

3am suppers –
real and ethereal
truth, beauty and love

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In yesterday’s Weekend Today, the leading article, Universities in scholarship war, highlighted the increasing trend of local universities offering bond-free scholarships to their students. What interested me in particular, was this quote by a 20-year-old student who had secured such a scholarship:
“I got disillusioned by the idea of a bonded scholarship, [...]

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haiku: on finding myself

moment of self-doubt
what if all I had to give

wasn’t good enough

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Here’s a rather cynical thought:
What’s the message businesses are sending to their customers?
Be biased
Discrimination is good if we’re the beneficiaries. We want you to love us so much that you think everything else is bad. And if your love for us makes you reactionary, well, all the better!
Be selfish
Just think about what you want and [...]

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haiku: frazzled

caffeine-fueled thoughts fly
buzzing in my head like bees
making thought-honey

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So today during Social Media class we watched an awesome video from TED, which reminded me that I had yet to explore the videos on the website. If you’re even remotely excited at the prospect of hearing extremely smart people talking about great ideas in every field imaginable, then I strongly encourage you to [...]

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Came upon the concept of Ideaicide while reading John Moore’s blog, Brand Autopsy. Ideaicide, a term coined by Alan Parr and Karen Ansbaugh, means the killing of ideas by person(s) in a corporate setting. In other words, ideas are shot down on the basis that they are too radical, too new or too different from [...]

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