Insights from the 2009 AAF Student Conference

The 2009 AAF Student Conference was held on October 15-16th and I attended!  So let me share some knowledge I learned during my two days there.
Business etiquette: It seems like this should be knowledge that everyone knows, unfortunately, even outside of college, this is not the case.  So here are some tips that the speaker [...]

Hello there!

Hello all! I’m Hanna Goetz and I will be updating you with current industry news this year. The attempt will be to update at least three times a week. A Friday feature will be an “Ad of the week.”
I suppose I should tell me a little bit about myself, I’m [...]

We’re Youtubing it these days.

Thank to fellow Ad+PR assistant Katie Lassiter, our SJB now has CONTENT! We’re working on that. She created these great videos four our Youtube channel (you can find us on Youtube at WKUSJB). I’ll be posting any videos that come out way. Here are the first three. They’re great Katie!

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I’ll tell you about Twitter.

Everyone who knows me knows I am on Twitter. I tweet. I twote, I twooted. I’ve been asked MANY times by my peers “How does it work?”
Others just seem to consider it stupid, saying “its just a bunch of Facebook status updates.” In a way it is, so let me first say that Twitter [...]

How to Weather a Twittersorm

Two major companies in the last week have faced PR nightmares.
Let’s talk about Amazon.com, first. They instated a policy to ban adult materials from their site. Good old fashioned censorship. However, I guess the word “gay” is offensive because it slowly began removing books about homosexuality, books written by gay people. Even Ellen Degeneres’ book [...]

Social Media in Plain English

Great lil’ video about how social media is a shaping force in our industries.

How to Blog

Advice from some of the worlds best pundits.
By Farhad Manjoo
The Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging, a new manifesto put together by editors and writers of the most-linked-to blog on the Web, is more than a little self-righteous. Bloggers, here, are the civic superheroes of our age, standing against the tyrannies of the Bush administration [...]

A Beginners Blog Publishing Guide

This is a GIGANTIC article with everything you need to know to blog.
I mean it is HUGE.
If you don’t know how to blog after readig it, we’ll have a problem.
Happy reading!

We’re on Twitter!

Hey guys and gals, I wanted to let you all know that WKU FUSION is on Twitter!
Add us for Ad+PR calendar updates, PRSSA and AdFed meeting updates, and all things WKU FUSION.
We TWITTERCAST live Monday, Wed from 9 AM-10AM and in the afternoons on M,Tues,W from 2:30-4:30
Feel free to ask questions about our program. [...]

Are you LinkedIn?

Linked in is one of the growing social media communities for working professionals. The emphasis of L.I is to expand your network and allow colleagues past and present to connect and “recommend” others. For someone trying to find a job, it could be invaluable.
My father lost his job last November. He worked as VP of [...]