My top 10 things I learned this year

Top 10 things I learned in Intro to PR

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Grandpa and Craig Ferguson

About a month ago my dad called me and told me that him and my granddad were going to be in the states starting with LA and ending in Atlanta. Then my friend sent me these videos, pops didn’t mention what they would be doing in LA. This is my granddad on the late show with Craig Ferguson.

How to Handle a PR Disaster

This is the way to respond to a PR disaster if you own a restaurant chain.

Caddy’s Video

Check out this music video for the song Caddy’s off of the SMKA The 808 Experiment… I also have a cameo in this video so check it out and support some good music coming out of Atlanta

Falcons sign Sarah Jessica Parker!!!

Excuse this personal rant but why in the world did the Falcons sign Sarah Jessica Parker (John Parker Wilson). I mean he has the arm strength of a 4th grade girl scout, no disrespect to any 4th grade girl scouts. I do not mean to slight any of your throwing abilities by comparing you to Sarah Jessica Parker, I’m sorry. Seriously though the last good thing that came out of the University of Alabama was Joe Namath and that was 50 years ago!!! Oh yea and Go DAWGS!!!!!

Where is Asher Roth’s Publicist??

Now for the second time in two weeks rapper Asher Roth has allowed his mouth to get him in a little bit of trouble. First last week while he was in Rutgers, on his twitter page he wrote a tweet using the phrase “nappy headed hoes”. Obviously a poor joke made on his part in reference to the Don Imus’ controversy over a year ago. Now this was a bad joke but let’s be clear the guy isn’t racist. What really hurt him though was that after the apology  he quickly posted after, he deleted both posts, the apology and the joke. The damage had already been done and by deleting both he appeared to be trying to hide from it.

A week passed by and now Mr. Roth is in the news again for some controversial comments. This time in an interview he used the term “black rappers”. Now I completely agree with everything that he is saying but he should have just left it at rappers no need to add the black in there. I’ll let you decide for yourselves though. Here is the link to the entire interview.

Chapter 14

In chapter 14 of our book Public Relations: Strategies and Tactics (9th Edition) news releases were dicussed:

A news release is a way to get information to numerous news outlets.

See Barbara Nixon slideshow for news release writing guidelines.

My 2 most important tips I learned about writing a news release:

1. Grab the readers attention within the first couple of sentences.
2. News release is not paid advertising