Monthly archive for April 2010

Media Talent Bank launch first networking evening
Set to be the first of many, Media Talent Bank are holding their first exhibition and networking evening next week for all creative enthusiasts to pop along to. A planner’s guide to starting a PR career
Finding graduate opportunities is challenging in a recession. But a strong applicant and a growth business make a winning combination, as Katy Jameson recounts. Pay for placements?
Payment for placements is a hot topic on both sides of the Atlantic. It appears unpaid internships might be illegal in the US, but they’re still seen as worthwhile in the UK when arranged for educational purposes. The CIPR’s revised Work Placement Charter addresses this grey area reports Richard Bailey. Leeds Graduates and Students ask people to Join the Schmoovement
Two recent graduates from Leeds University are launching a new yoghurt lassi drink called Schmoo. Not only are both the managing directors recent graduates, but the Public Relations team behind the consumer launch are five PR students from Leeds Metropolitan University. PR student launches campaign to help students with caring responsibilities
A new campaign to help improve the experience of students with caring responsibilities has been launched at Leeds Metropolitan University University creates social media savvy’s
In the forthcoming General Election all parties have dedicated teams managing their social media output. It is also near enough impossible to read a copy of PR Week without hearing the term social media. Indeed, as a university student studying Public Relations I am not unaware of the growing popularity and benefits of social media. And apparently, nor is Leeds Metropolitan University. PR students launch comedy competition for The Teenage Cancer Trust
A group of Leeds Metropolitan Univeristy PR students have launched a competition to find the funniest human in Leeds. The “iJokeULaugh” competition is encouraging people to submit a joke, anecdote, cartoon or short film that will make the sides split of upcoming comedians Eric Lampaert and Joel Domett, who will be judging the competition. The Carnegie Rowing Challenge turns out to be an oar-some event
Rugby League charity, ‘Try Assist’ formally known as RFL Benevolent Fund, hosted The Carnegie Rowing Challenge this week. The outstanding event involved individuals and teams rowing a marathon distance of 42,196 metres to raise money for the remarkable cause. Getting strategic with social media at the Don’t Panic Conference
During my week on placement at Speed Communications, Wadds kindly invited me along to the Don’t Panic Strategic Social Media Conference. The conference boasted an impressive line up of leading industry figures and the room was full of delegates from the world of PR. It presented me with the opportunity to hear how social media can be implemented in to campaign to solve real client problems. Here are a list of my highlights. Macnamara on media and the future of PR
Jim Macnamara’s new book provides an important media sociology perspective on PR and social media, finds Richard Bailey. But it’s written for scholars, not for the general reader. Only 22% of top PR pros are actively using Twitter
While researching a Twitter list of top PR practitioners, David Clare and Emily Cagle found that few were active participants in the medium of the moment. Why, they wonder, is this the case? Sorry Twitter, this election will be won on the doorstep
Though the election has only just started officially, candidates have been campaigning for months. Clare Siobhan Callery follows a Conservative candidate round a rural West Yorkshire constituency and discovers that elections are fought on the doorstep, not on the internet. Bright Ideas, Big City
Students at Birmingham City University are working on a project to revitalise the city’s creative network, as Sarah Stevenson describes. Castle Dungeon Offer £1000 prize as part of Grand Scream of Things
The Castle Dungeons at Warwick Castle turns one this month – and bosses are planning a birthday “bawl” in honour of its first anniversary. PR student makes TV debut!
Public Relations student and Behind the Spin news editor, Adam Burns, made his television debut this week, when he went head to head with Anne Robinson on the BBC’s The Weakest Link.