Wes’ Blog

A couple weeks ago I was filling out an application for an internship at a theme park. How this didn’t strike me then I don’t know, but it is striking me now. Two of the questions were about visible tattoos and hair length. Appearance is very important to this park and other organizaionts […]

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In my PR Case Studies class we looked at a case to try to keep a hospital building standing, even though it was not being used.  They hired a huge PR firm and spent a lot of money only to see the hospital be razed.  But Randolph County, Indiana did things a little differently.

The courthouse […]

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I am one of the happiest people on earth right now. The first weekend of the NCAA men’s tournament is over, and it was FANTASTIC. I got to watch every game that I wanted to because of two reasons: My girlfriend watched it with me and CBS for allowing March Madness on […]

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You will never believe this.  But I am now an associate contributor on a new PR website.  The website is called Forward.  Forward was started by a good friend of mine, Erin Caldwell, to help up-and-coming PR people.
There are several parts of the Forward site that are a tremendous help to PR people.  Recently there […]

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I had a previous post begging police and authorities to catch those responsible for starting the church fires here in Alabama.  I am excited to write that those responsible for the fires have been caught.  But I would have never guessed those responsible would have come from Birmingham Southern and UAB. Wow!!  But Birmingham Southern […]

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March Madness is here whooo hooo!! I didn’t do much blog and news reading this week because of all of the basketball. But something happened in the world of basketball that is worthy of some PR consideration.
After most important games there is usually a press conference. Syracuse head coach Jim Boeheim flipped […]

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As advertised I am just a beginning blogger and don’t know a lot. But recently I learned something that other beginning bloggers may find useful.
I had been blogging for almost two months before I knew what RSS or XHTML was. I had heard the terms, but I had no idea what they meant until I […]

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Tom Monaghan, the founder of Domino’s, is taking a huge risk in building his own personal city. His city, Ave Maria, is going to be a Catholic haven in Florida. There will be no condoms, no birth control pills and no pornography. How will that be enforced? I don’t much think it can be. […]

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