Recently I have been a trying out a new classroom activity using Skype to do phone conferences with PR professionals and my students. We have done this in Style and Design as well as Survey Research this semester.
Monday and Tuesday of this week, the Style and Design classes chatted with Susan Getgood, Kami Huyse and Andrea Weckerle about public relations issues for about 45 minutes each night.
After the presentations, I had a thought. Why not ask these kind people to join us at Marcomblog. After all, what could they say. No? It isn’t like I haven’t heard that before after making a pitch. This time, however, the good news is that they all agreed to blog with us. The lesson? Don’t be afraid to pitch.
Of course, I want them to blog with us about public relations topics and trends, above all. Another reason is to give Tara Smith some company, too. I’ve written about this before, but one more time - the majority of my students are women. I believe they need women voices in Marcomblog, too. Tara has been great. And now she has three friends to help us balance up the gender total.
As always, I thank all of our contributors. They are all important to us and the student experiences here have been very valuable over the past two years. Yes, we’ve been blogging at Marcomblog for about two years. Hard to believe, isn’t it? Your contributions have changed the lives of these students - for the better. And that’s a fact.
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