Austin Beckons
There’s been a lot of chatter recently over conferences that have a voting component to their submissions. That’s because the “panel picker” part of the 2012 South by SouthWest Interactive conference is currently in progress, ending on Friday, Sept. 2.
I remember the first year I paid attention to SxSW. I wasn’t anywhere close to attending, but it was new to me, and I was in awe of people who were submitting proposals. They were all sooo kewl!
In fact, it looked like a very cool event. The kind of event all the cool people, the social media rockstars, the tech geniuses were going to.
And because part of the SxSW selection process is getting public votes in for the various submissions, many of the blogs I read, many of the high-powered social media people would be tweeting and Facebooking madly about their panel, asking you to vote for them.
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Guest post by Andi Narvaez
During last week’s #pr20chat, Justin Goldsborough asked how PR professionals can best identify and cater to the needs of their target audience.
My response was something only a current public relations graduate student, fresh out of taking her comprehensive written and oral examinations, and appropriately trained in methods by her “We mean business when we say research” university would respond:
The response led to a comment by Justin, who shared that the practice of conducting surveys is not one that PR professionals employ as frequently as they should. Continue reading »
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Huddle, huddle, roil and muddle
I remember the first Twitter chat I attended. It was #journchat, one of the first, if not the first, Twitter chats created.
Image: Maria Johnson via Flickr, CC 2.0
It drove me nuts.
The stream moved so quickly, it was really hard to keep up with what was going on. And if there’s one thing I pride myself on, it’s being able to keep up with several things at once or, as the jargonites would put it, “multi-task.”
And if I’m being honest, some of the tweets people shared seemed so puerile, I said to myself, “Do they really work in public relations?”
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