Wes’ Blog

This is a blog I started for a PR class. It has evolved into my personal blog about PR and other important things in my life.

Entries from April 2006

More Men in PR

April 24th, 2006 · No Comments

I was shocked to read the headline “PR Needs More Men-Proctor-Rogers” It was a headline at O’dwyerspr.com. (Thanks Jack for letting us use your site to our advantage.)
Proctor-Rogers is the PRSA president and she wants more men in the industry. Everyone in the PR industry knows that there are more women than men. But usually […]

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Roger Waters is Coming to America

April 24th, 2006 · 1 Comment

I am currently working on a MOCK press kit for my PR writing class.  My organization organizes a music festival in Tennessee.  My big selling point for my music festival is that Pink Floyd will be performing. Pink Floyd kept touring until about 1995, but without Roger Waters.  Waters left the band in 1985 and […]

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Crazy Headlines

April 17th, 2006 · No Comments

I am not exactly sure how this fits into PR, but it was an interesting headline. The headline was “Calif. Students Forced to Use Buckets as Toiltets.”
Apparently, the principal at Worthington Elementary School can’t read very well. She was going to put the school on lock down to keep students from going to protests. So […]

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Bausch and Lomb

April 17th, 2006 · 2 Comments

I wear glasses/contacts ALL the time because if I don’t wear them I can’t see ANYTHING.  My sister works at an eye doctor and gives me the extra contact solution.  So I haven’t bought contact solution in about 2 years, which is fantastic.
But she sent me an e-mail the other day telling me to go […]

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Can Some Aspects of Blogging Hurt?

April 10th, 2006 · No Comments

Erin Caldwell wrote a post at Forward about blogging about job and internship interviews. I think she is right on the money. I personally want to use my blog to help me get a job not hinder me.
I feel that if I write specifics about companies and interviews it could hinder my chances at […]

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The Cowardly Liar

April 10th, 2006 · No Comments

Everyone by now knows about the rotten blog known as “Stru_ _ette.” I would like to say that I absolutely abhor this blog. I believe this blog must have come from the sewer because it is crap! The blog not only degraded women. But in my opinion, made men look like […]

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