Can you speak?

Any good public relations professional should be a good public speaker. If they lack the necessary skills, they need to acquire the skills ASAP. Here are some characteristics of a good speaker: Eye contact with the audience,animated,humorous, deliberate gestures, articulate,vocal variety. A few of my favorite public speakers are President Obama, Oprah, former President Clinton, Les Brown, and J.C. Haywood. Who are some of your favorite speakers?

PR is Writing

Every public relations practitioner should know that writing well is a must to be successful in the field. That's why I emphasize to my students that they must make every effort to improve their writing skills. I give them lots of assignments to help them with this. For example, this summer my public relations writing class have been assigned to set up and write weekly in their blogs about topics of their choice. Writing for social media is not new for them because they use twitter, facebook and other such tools. But I think they would agree that it takes discipline to write without typos, grammar/punctuation errors and other mistakes.

No pain No gain

PR-etc: No pain No gain: I finally cut my rose bushes on Friday. It was rough considering I didn't prune them last fall so they were overgrown. I also planted flowers in my flower pot. Now I'm sore but I'm looking forward to pretty flowers really soon.

Fwd: My flowers

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Begin forwarded message:

From: "Rochelle Daniel" <rdaniel@bowiestate.edu>
Date: June 11, 2012 0:47:18 EDT
To: "Rochelle Daniel" <rdaniel@bowiestate.edu>
Subject: My flowers

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A walk around the track

Today I walked around the track at the community college down the street. It's the second time in the past couple of weeks. I plan to do it more often. It was so enjoyable. I had more energy after I returned home; it's amazing how exercise can do that.

This blog is about...

This blog will give me time to talk about public relations as it evolves and my other interests which include exercising, my creative and precious students, my family, current events, living a christian life and more. I invite you to join me.