A new social network for PR students, faculty and practitioners has been launched!!! Robert French a social media-promoting PR professor at Auburn University, launched a social network for PR students and faculty called PR Open Mic. In his blog, Robert French says: "The site is built upon the Ning.com platform, so it has a sort of Facebook-like appeal. The difference? No ads. No apps sending you numerous emails. Just PR people. Hey, I like Facebook for connections, but to do what we wanted to do … a mashup of content in one place … we had to have our own platform, in my opinion."So far, the network has been operating for 20 days and the biggest number of members = students. But, the fact that "big names" have signed up there as well (and this is just the start), makes this project very attractive, useful for all PR related to fall into step!
Phil Gomes, the Edelman Digital stalwart, has started a group called "Ask Phil." Rather than just answering questions, he produces videos! There have emerged different other groups - for European issues, for students for whom English is not their first language, for jobs and internships, student bloggers etc. Students can ask questions they are interested in. Surely, as a student I was also interested in opinions of specialists to such questions like "What do PR writers REALLY have to know about AP Style?" and "Maximizing PR when there really is no budget." The events section is getting loaded up with conference and podcamp info, job offers, notes, gadgets, widgets and nobody seems shy about uploading photos and videos! :)
People, who's articles and blogposts I have read, presentations on Euroblog I have heard and theories I have studied - have joined from the PR social space—Elizabeth Albrycht, Jeremy Pepper, Constantin Basturea, Kami Huse, Paull Young, Eric Eggertson, Richard Bailey...Dr. James E. Grunig, easily the single most prolific public relations researcher and publisher in the world (!!!) and David Meerman Scott, the author of "The New Rules of Marketing & PR," (I have been hunting for his book lately in Estonia) and, of course, the list goes on. I’m looking forward to interaction between these voices and those in the academic world!!!
To my opinion, such social network, if successful, is an awesome opportunity for developing PR community to have "a real taste and touch" of PR through online interaction rather than just looking at PR from far as we are used to looking at Mona Lisa in the Musée du Louvre.
3 comments:
Hey, Laura! OK, you're hired. :o) Paull Young was correct, a great post. I appreciate you writing about PROpenMic and I'm very happy you're pleased with the network, so far.
I truly love that you, from Tallinn University in Estonia, are now interacting with practitioners, students & faculty from around the world ... especially since it is in a social network primarily devoted to you, a student! I hope the network proves valuable for you down the road, too.
Thank you very much for your kind post.
Me too. You may be impressed by some big names, but every intelligent person knows they're still learning.
In truth, we're all students.
Paull Young was correct, a great post. I appreciate you writing about PROpenMic and I'm very happy you're pleased with the network,thanks for sharing here..
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