Nicole’s PRspective

 
 I found a cool new toy. Right now I am loving Twitter, if you are not twittering yet give it a try. You can follow me @nicroames – I finally got the hang of it and it’s great.

Last night I happened upon the hashtag #journchat – it is a twitter conversation among PR people, journalists, bloggers and the students of each. It was completly amazing.

Here is a really bad screen shot showing how popular the #journchat was, at peak over 200 people!

If you follow #journchat next week I recommend using Tweet Deck
(I use) or Tweet Grid.

See everyone next Monday, 7-10 pm Central time on Twitter!!

Here is another really bad screen shot of my Tweet Deck, I need
to work on this big time.

From twitter-blog

I have been away for awhile, I lost the link to the log-in page. I know. In my defense I have been slammed at school the past few weeks. And it will only get crazier.

Good news for me, I was published in our college newspaper, The Cameron Collegian. First time for me. I am a News Writing student so we don’t always get our stories in. We also have to do a convergent assignment for this class, so look for an article on Greek Life to be posted here soon.

I was cruzing the web, avoiding studying for a test, and I came across this: http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=132322

According to this article, soon we may be able to order from Pizza Hut through our Facebook page.

I can adapt and read all my news on the computer. I was OK with following the PRSSA conference through twitter on my phone. But, I think this might officially be too much of a good thing.

I found the web site Issuu today. They take any pdf doc and make it into a web doc and give you an embed code for it to post in blogs, facebook, etc.
What a great idea.

Here is a local case study I did a few years ago.

Get your own – Open publication

I just discovered the greatest website

www.commoncraft.com
They have a ton of “videos in plain english” that explain social media concepts that some of us (ME) are having problems grasping.

This is the video on wikis in plain english

This video has helped me and I only found it about 5 mins ago. I was really struggling with using a wiki for one of my classes this semester.
They also have great videos about social media, RSS feeds and Twitter!

Check it out!

My family went on vacation to Memphis right before school started back up, we visited
Graceland and everybody loved it. Something I discovered about a year ago, Windows Movie Maker is perfect for sharing pictures with family and friends. And I get to play with Movie Maker instead of homework. I’m calling it practice in social media, my husband is calling it stop playing and do your homework!

I never thought I would learn something about social media from an anthropolgy professor, but Dr. Wesch’s video has changed the way I look at PR and media in general.

This video really makes you look at what has been happening with social media in recent years. I took several years off between high school and college and so much is different now.  The fact that I can watch this video and other lectures of his shows the giant strides the internet has made. This video is the reason I started this blog, I figured it was time I learned how.

So welcome to my learning expierience, it should be fun…..