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 [...]
Archive for February, 2008
Is PR for me?
Posted in PR students and practitioners, tagged is PR right for me, PR on February 27, 2008 | 7 Comments »
eBay, don’t bite the hands that feed you.
Posted in PR, communication, tagged eBay, feebay, greedbay, power of the people on February 26, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Advice for (PR) students
Posted in PR students and practitioners, tagged Chris Clarke, internship, networking, online presence, PR students and practitioners, public relations, student PR blog, working for free on February 25, 2008 | 4 Comments »
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 [...]
haiku: on friendship
Posted in haiku, tagged friendship, haiku, supper on February 24, 2008 | 2 Comments »
3am suppers –
real and ethereal
truth, beauty and love
Stop the world, I wanna get on!
Posted in Personal, tagged accounting, career choice, career education, Leo Bloom, scholarship, The Producers, university, what's your special talent on February 24, 2008 | 7 Comments »
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, [...]
haiku: on finding myself
Posted in haiku, tagged haiku, self-doubt on February 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Be selfish, spoilt and biased
Posted in ideas, tagged businesses as gods, customer as king, cynical, you and me on February 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
haiku: frazzled
Posted in haiku, tagged bees, frazzled, haiku, thought-honey on February 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
caffeine-fueled thoughts fly
buzzing in my head like bees
making thought-honey


