The Care and Feeding of a Public Affairs Intern

By Keith Schmidt
An intern in your organization can create benefits for everyone, or it can be a point where expectations and reality collide.  In the best of situations, it’s an opportunity for the intern to learn “real world” experience and apply what he or she learned in the classroom under a supportive supervisor.  In the [...]

Student scholarships available for annual convention

The Public Relations Foundation of Texas is accepting essays from students for Joe Riordan Registration Scholarships to the Best of the Southwest Communicators Conference. Students who write the winning essays will receive up to $150 (cost of a full student registration for the conference).
Interested students should e-mail an essay (maximum of 250 words) on “Why [...]

Useful PR Sites

Check out these sites for up to the minute PR news and advice:
www.mediapitch.ning.com and www.propenmic.org.
The last site, PR Open Mic, is a great resource for students and professors. The site has 2,450 members and growing.
Then there’s this post at VR3, a blog by Nick Vehr, that points out a new PR campaign by the Independent Community [...]