PR Students and Pros Meet Online
Anyone who thinks the world needs yet another social networking site must have rocks in their head.
Cue the music. I guess Robert French, a public relations instructor at Auburn University has rocks in his head, because he’s set up a new meeting place for his students, other students, instructors, and public relations professionals.
It’s PR Open Mike, and there are 150 members so far. No MyRagan.com, but that’s not the intent.
It’s not that I need yet another social network to belong to, with another UserID and password. But it’s good to seen something organized around students.
I’ll be signing up and checking out what Robert and the students are up to.
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2 opinions for PR Students and Pros Meet Online
Robert French
Apr 6, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Hey Eric,
Well, people have certainly said worse of me … re: the rocks in my head.
MyRagan & others are all good, but nowhere have I seen a focus on PR Higher Education - faculty & students. In fact, few PR news or network sites even have “education” as a category for their news/activities. So, that’s the genesis for propenmic.org.
Kind of strange that we don’t have a place that focuses on improving interaction & sharing within this specific higher ed community. I’ve dreamed of something like this for a long time.
Thanks for considering signing up, Eric. We’ll gladly keep a slot open for you. Oh, and here’s an idea … use the same login / password you use at another site. We won’t look at the info, even if we could. ;o)
Thanks.
Robert
By the way, we own the URL for PROpenMike.org/.com, too. But, students voted for the PROpenMic.org moniker.
Phil Gomes
Apr 8, 2008 at 10:12 pm
Well… To tell you the truth, I’m finding that I’m getting a lot of value out of two highly focused social networks these days (Spill.Com and PROpenMic). Not a conscious thing. Just kind of happened that way.
MyRagan.Com has bruises from the 10-foot poles I’ve been touching it with.
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