Comments on: Inside PR #97 – Tuesday, February 5, 2008

By: Terry

Terry — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:17:32 +0000

Thanks Josh. I’m in your camp on this one (i.e. I agree with you.).

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:13:48 +0000

Re: the use of i.e.

Often when I’m writing and I notice I want to use “i.e.” or “in other words,” it is those “other words” that should be used in the first place.

For example, take the sentence “I like getting up in the morning and going to the gym (i.e. getting my daily dose of exercise).”

A better sentence would be something like “I like getting my daily dose of exercise in the morning.”

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By: James McNally

James McNally — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:35:32 +0000

I was an early Twitter adopter (about a year ago now), and what I find most annoying now is that I often feel like I’m eavesdropping on one side of about a thousand conversations. While the @reply feature is sort of neat, I think most people are overusing it. I also notice that among the people I follow, the PR people are the worst at just posting everything on their minds, their blogs, their podcasts, etc. It’s becoming too much noise from a few people, making it harder to find the more occasional updates from others I want to hear from.

I’d have liked you to explore a bit more the notion of teaching social media. You can teach students to use the tools, but you can’t really teach the level of passion or curiosity required for someone to work extensively in this new space. Is it easier/more valuable to teach PR people about social media or to teach social media early adopters (like me) about PR? Ina more general sense, where will the next generation of PR practitioners come from?