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Comment on Slow Going by christophena

christophena — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:29:58 +0000

I totally agree that what we’ve been learning in your course is new and exciting. I am now armed with social media tools that I never knew existed. Online PR has been the highlight of this semester. Thanks for your teaching and great insights.

Comment on Slow Going by Melanie

Melanie — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:51:47 +0000

I’m just reading this post for the first time. Great post and great comments! I agree with all of your points. You are ready for the industry. You just need that danged piece of paper! It’s summer and you shouldn’t be in school. First semester is always better than the last – and I know you had some great instructors. But I will challenge you on one point: virtually everything in my course was new for most of you, no? “been there, done that” doesn’t really apply to the use of RSS, statcounter, delicious bookmarks, micro-monitoring and micro-content and, even, blogging. This is why I give the diagnostic at the start of my courses – to find out, specifically, what you already know (or don’t) and make adjustments to my course. When I found out that 95% of you said all of this was new, I lightened the original workload. I felt that engaging these tools, ideas and approaches would be work enough – but that once you got the hang of it all, it would be smooth sailing. I really, really hope that you will find this course was useful once you’re out in that corporate/PR world where they are asking “what is all the fuss about social media?” … you can definitively tell them what’s right AND wrong about it all. I hope, anyway! I’m so deeply impressed with you all. It’s been such a pleasure to teach and learn with this group

Comment on Some best practices for PR 2.0 by christophena

christophena — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:42:02 +0000

Hi Nivell,

Thanks for your comments. I’m fairly new to social media, so I appreciate any input or advice you have to offer.

Christina

Comment on Some best practices for PR 2.0 by Nivell Rayda

Nivell Rayda — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:44:53 +0000

These are very interesting tips, trends and tools that you share.

#1. Yes there should be a guideline of what to blog or not to blog. Which information is suited only for what audience

#2. Yes and not only in your blog or site but also outside. Participate in group discussion or social networking communities would help

#3. Agree

#4. For personal perhaps, for corporate more author, more variation, more point of view means more credibility. But still for corporate is all business

#5. Yes, and don’t give too much marketing spin.

#6,7,8. Already using it

#9. No harm in networking

#10. I’m a reader as well

Well put. Thanks for sharing the info

Comment on Problem with a product or service? Get satisfied! by christophena

christophena — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:19:55 +0000

Hi Lane,

Thanks for your comment. I expect your theory about opening the floodgates is correct.

Comment on Problem with a product or service? Get satisfied! by lane

lane — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:14:00 +0000

Hi, Christophena. Thanks for the kind writeup. We’re working hard at it!

We also find it odd that Facebook won’t participate; we’ve even had conversations in their offices with them about it, and we know they monitor the site, but I think they’re afraid to open the floodgates. My cofounder and our CEO Thor Muller talks a little bit about it in this interview he did with fast company a month or two ago.

Thanks again for the thoughtful writeup.

Comment on Problem with a product or service? Get satisfied! by Jason Whitmen

Jason Whitmen — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:00:57 +0000

Nice site. There�s some good information on here. I�ll be checking back regularly.

Comment on Fear of embarrassment or the “bystander problem?” by abbymartin

abbymartin — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:23:48 +0000

I saw that View as well and couldn’t believe how many people walked around or walked away from the man on the ground. I think that the “punk’d” factor plays a part. And I’d like to believe that you are right, that everyone believed someone else would help so they didn’t have to help. But I may have a darker view of mankind than you do. Today, at least on that side of the border, situations like these are fraught with the possibility of litigation. Help and you might end up getting sued or getting dragged into a lawsuit. Sadly, that may have played a role too. Hopefully I’m just a pessimist and I am wrong.

Comment on Slow Going by noviellim

noviellim — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:45:30 +0000

Christina, I completely agree with this term being slightly less exciting as last term. However, I fear that once it’s all said and done, we’ll be itching to get back to class. I remember after graduating in undergrad that the safe haven of being in school was no longer there. I was out in the real world, working for real people and inflicting real change. And while yes, the money WAS nice, I almost wished I was back in school doing fake assignments for fake companies.

So I suggest that we enjoy our final weeks in the program, as draining as they may be. Because I can almost guarantee that when we all move on, we will have a moment of longing to be back (even if it only lasts for a second .. a millisecond).

And of course, we’ll all miss each other dearly too! Well .. some of us will.

Comment on Slow Going by awordlessordinary

awordlessordinary — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:43:50 +0000

Hey Christina,

This was such a refreshing outlook on our current condition. I think the proof we are being successful in our program is that we have actually evolved past the point where a lot of the things in our courses have stopped being new.

This puts us in the ‘been there, done that’ category.

We’re looking for a new challenge and the only real direction left is the real world. I’m sure when we have our high paying public relations jobs with our jet set ways we will look back and laugh … or cry.

Cheers,

Brett