Resources for PR student bloggers

• Guidelines for PR student blogs: By Richard Bailey (lots of good ideas/links)
  
• Advice to start out careers in Public Relations - Bloggers with the Advantage: By Rajiv Harjai
• Should PR Students Blog? Hell Yeah: By Paull Young
  
• A View into the State of PR Education: By Richard Edelman (Why should you blog? Because Richard Edelman says so!)
  
• PR students: you are what you blog: By Stuart Bruce
  
• Promoting PR student blogs: By Karen Russell (Now that you've read about why you should blog and how to blog well, you should think about how to promote your blog)
  

Links to your peers' blogs

To locate the list of PR student blogs from other universities (both in and outside the U.S.), check out the Teaching Social Media page of the New PR Wiki, or click on the links on this post from Dr. Russell at the University of Georgia.

You can also leave comments for your peers enrolled in the PR survey course since they are blogging this semester. Their blog posts can be found here.

Remember that you are supposed to leave 2 comments a week.

Guest speaker: Jackie Huba, co-author of Citizen Marketers

I'm delighted to announce that Jackie Huba, co-author of your textbook Citizen Marketers will come talk to us on Tuesday about social media and how it is changing the marketplace.

In addition to having published Citizen Marketers, Jackie also co-authored Creating Customer Evangelists with Ben McConnell and regularly blogs at the Church of the Customer Blog.

When she's not busy writing books, Jackie travels the country speaking at conferences and consults with companies such as Microsoft, Ulta, Discovery Education, Yahoo and Verio. Jackie has extensive marketing experience having led the business-to-business marketing efforts of IBM's software division for 12 years. She is a past board member of the Word of Mouth Marketing Association and a graduate of Penn State University.

Her work in researching passionate customer loyalty has been profiled by the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Fortune, Businessweek, NPR, U.S. News & World Report, the Financial Times, Fast Company and several thousand blogs. You can access her full biography on the customer evangelist site.