Get Connected: Texas PR Leadership Day and Gala

Mark you calendars for March 5 in Austin, Texas for the Texas PR Leadership Day and Gala.  This gathering of state-wide communicators will focus on “Get Connected:  Personally, Professionally and with your Planet.”  You’ll be seeing more about this day during the next few months.
What is this day you may be asking?  It’s the 2.0 [...]

University Makes Twitter a Required Class for Journalism Students

From Barb Dybwad at Mashable.com, we learn that Australia’s Griffith University is requiring journalism students to learn how to tweet. Good thing, too. At the Houston PRSA media day recently, TPRA/PRSA  member Terri Larson twittered what one panelist told the crowd – Twitter is the new police scanner.

Reaching Shareholders Online

TPRA member and Abilene Christian University instructor David A. Hogan, APR,  sets down his thoughts on the reluctance of investor relations departments to use social media tools to reach their shareholders.
Hogan presented his paper recently at the 2009 Annual Conference of the International Association of Online Communications.  Read his paper here.

Media Relations 2.0

Are you an East Texas professional communicator? Mark October 29 on your calendar. TPRA is coming to you with “Media Relations 2.0″.  To register, call Yana Ogletree at 936-639-7163 or YOgletree@memorialhealth.org.

So, Did Letterman Do the Best He Could to Preserve His Image?

As most know by now, last Thursday, October 1, 2009, David Letterman admitted on Late Night with David Letterman that he had had sex with women on his staff. This was associated with a threat he had received to be blackmailed.
Regan.com, that provides, “News, ideas & conversations for communicators worldwide,” this morning posted an interesting [...]