We communicate, but do we really communicate?

I'm sure there are some very respectable people out there that are paid plenty to advise others on how the future generations will communicate. Well I am one number that will not be following fashion trends in communication like all the other sheep out there.

I'm sick and tired of people using these forms of "communication" on university computers. Professional agencies have made these sites unattainable, I spoke to a friend at Freud Communications and his office has banned these sites. Why cant we do the same at university?

I have lived a very social life thus far and I seem to be getting further enraged by the day. Why must we bog up time and energy talking to people who we may not really care about. If you use facebook or any other "social" networking site, I challenge you today to answer this question - have you used these forms of media away from your personal PC and/or have you used these media to talk to someone who you do not rank as a loved one or a good friend?

If you have your hacking me off and wasting other people's time, space and energy. Sorry.

Souper Men!

My first news release aimed at regional coverage has made print
(Yorkshire Evening Post). I feel like a freelance practitioner, very cool.

P.S any male freelance PR practitioners out there please contact me, I'm writing a feature on a related topic and would love the opportunity to ask you some questions.

New Ideas Please........

TV channels are feeding us with nothing but old crap. Re-runs of Top Gear, Who's Line is it anyway?, Family Fortunes, and Wheel of Fortune to name just a few are clogging up telly. New channels such as "Dave", "Dave+1", "Challenge" etc are just plowing out old tripe, and we are watching it. There is simply not anything else being made that is good enough anymore, so we turn to old classics.

Music? Well lets look at the charts. Spice Girls and TakeThat number one and number two. Boyzone are getting back together, Westlife have just released "Home" their third cover in a row and All Saints are also coming back soon.

We are in a drought of new and exciting entertainment. Can anyone change this? Not even Simon Cowell's best efforts this year look like raising a single eyebrow.

Beginners Luck?

My first ever news release for my first client has attracted some great coverage. Katie Baldwin at Yorkshire Post has agreed to run the story and everyone at Soupa seems very excited. The new company approached me in aid of some exposure for their company, and hopefully The Yorkshire Post will do just the job.

Soupa deliver a range of products and are worth checking out if you are in need of a new healthily outlook on life. Look out for related coverage to follow shortly this week.

Fight Night - Agency or In House

Last nights CIPR Fight Night saw "In House" vs "Agency" battle it out. The reason behind this I though was quiet clever, behind all the friendly antics was a sort of pitch. The lecture hall was two thirds full of potential employee's. As students we are too inexperienced to go straight into freelancing, and so it’s in house or agency when we finish.

Although we didn't have that promised vote at the end of the discussion I thought agency seemed to win over the majority. The students I spoke to after all said they preferred the idea of a busy office packed with plenty of staff, safety in numbers. In house seemed to me to be represented by a slightly older crowd, apologies!

Already thinking of direction for after my degree I see myself in agency, with six months previous experience in Freud's the draw to agency is strong. I will find in house work eventually to broaden my experience and insight; however I can see myself ultimately working freelance.

Feature Fantastic

I finally got talking to the editor of The Met, the lovely Kat Baldwin. I went through three potential ideas for stories hoping that at least one would get the go ahead for production. After I finished telling her my thoughts, I closed my eyes and prayed.

"There all excellent! Can you do all three?" She replied.

Looks like I'm going to be a busy little bee for the next few days. If any one needs help being pointed in her direction just let me know.

Disclaimer

This is my blog, the views expressed by me are 100% my own and do not reflect views from colleagues, my university, or other blogs/web pages linked through my blog.

I strive for accuracy, but any mistakes will be altered as soon they are brought to my attention. Any comments/complaints please e-mail me.

Network to Getwork!

OK one more student blogger added…. Who wants to be next?

I think we can become quite a formidable pack online. Hopefully we can start a little movement where others can admire our willingness to promote ourselves. We don't have to write about our course worries all the time, sure we can discuss things and help each other out, but there is only a certain number of people complaining about models and theories that I can take.

Let’s get stuck in and see where we go. Before we can go anywhere, we need numbers!

Tattoo removal !

Just quickly.

Ive been branded for what seemed to be for eternity with a terrible Google rating.

Turns out thanks to the recent interest, my blog has jumped to number 1.

"Paddy Doyle PR" search it and see. Fuss for nothing I'm sure.

Facebook brainwash

After pacing up and down the library Ive finally succeeded in jumping on a PC, not like I should be complaining, its great to see so many people working so hard.

But wait, at second glance I can see that more than half are logged into facebook. There are numerous laptops to be seen, I can see four screens from where I am and yes there all on facebook.

Ive just spotted my friend sitting with a laptop with some colleague's planning a presentation, and yes once again they are working alongside the social networking masterpiece.

Is this going to plague our lives forever?......... Should we not ban facebook on uni PCs?

Rant over.

Just need to tag those photo's of last night and then I'm off home.

Is there anyone out there?

Due to the recent observations that student PR blogs are on the demise, I thought I'd invite people to come and voice on here to help raise awareness to any blogger currently in the dark.

Got my letter !

So I go my first ever letter published this morning and I felt surprisingly giddy. I felt like id won a tenner on the lottery, however they did print a spelling mistake which slightly put a downer on it. Never the less I'm one step closer to end of the dreaded ten items for my portfolio, and im chuffed.

Public Relations Hoodies.....?

Who's proud to be on their course at their university?

I'm going to look into the opportunity of getting some funds for my course BA (Hons) Public Relations, to get some branded hoodies so that we can show off where we are and what we do.

Who's with me........anyone?

New age of the internet - my first burn!

As I write this I am experiencing my first new age disaster! Blogging is great because its easy and fun, facebook and myspace are a little less demanding, yet it still gives you the feeling you've created something from scratch in the world of the Internet.

I wont say who because its not clever but someone has ruined my day.

They supply a web template and then you go ahead and edit it as you deem fit. Well its not that easy.......

Maybe its my naive outlook on life, but if something sounds easy then it normally is. £30 down the drain. Brilliant!