Monday, February 20, 2012

PR Class Blog Entry #1

I have been taking classes on Public Relations for several years now at Robert Morris University so I would think that I have a decent idea about the practice of public relations. Depending on the circumstances, I believe that a PR is the practice of building and maintaining a good relationship with an organizations publics. To do this, practitioners like myself need to be able to communicate and connect with the target audiences by releasing press releases, maintaining social media pages, and so on.
I think that the information that we covered in class will help with the builders project because it will help me to complete my interviews in a professional manner. Professor Mark Houser gave the class some great insights on how to conduct an interview and write a feature story, so it will hopefully help with this task.
I think that my team has been communicating very well through e-mails. We have also been meeting after classes to discuss what we are going to have to do. But we seem to keep losing team members, so last I have seen, we are down to 4 team members including myself. I think this will make the task of interviewing 27 people even more difficult.
I feel that I am still growing as a PR practitioner even though this is my last semester as a student. Some of the classes I have taken in the past at RMU have not tought me much so I was hoping this class would be helpful. I am not entirely sure about it now tho because it feels more like a journalism class.

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