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Education and Public Relations

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Establish yourself as an expert in your field Many educational institutions can count on professionals who can speak about their area of expertise. However, covering local events doesn’t mean your news can’t be tied to what’s happening at the national or international level.

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The Power of Local Knowledge: Why Product Development Should Start with Listening to Your Community

Stern + Associates

At the SAFElab , where Patton is the founding director, social workers and local residents join Patton and his team to add context to social media messages, which helps programmers build algorithms that interpret messages correctly.

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Education and Public Relations

Presspage

Establish yourself as an expert in your field Many educational institutions can count on professionals who can speak about their area of expertise. However, covering local events doesn’t mean your news can’t be tied to what’s happening at the national or international level.

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The #PRStudChat Community Discusses PR Education and Learning on October 13th

Deirdre Breakenridge

ET, the #PRStudChat community will gather to discuss PR education and learning in the classroom. PR professionals, educators and students will engage in a community discussion to share their perspectives on PR learning today. How has your PR education prepared you for your career? See” you on the 13th! More about Ai Zhang.

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Recap Part I: #PRStudChat Discusses PR Education & Learning

Deirdre Breakenridge

After all, I am an educator, right? Compared to many other seasoned educators, I still have a lot to learn and reflect upon. Since graduate school, a question that has been in my mind is whether or not undergraduate PR education is teaching students the necessary skill- and knowledge-set to succeed in today’s job market.

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Part II: PR Education & Learning – A Recap of the October #PRStudChat Twitter Discussion

Deirdre Breakenridge

What are your recommendations for improving PR education? . There were a lot of different answers and great suggestions, but one theme strongly stood out: the need to make PR education more applicable to the industry, which I wholeheartedly agree. I think that as educators, we can also think of ourselves as PR professionals.

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Reflexivity Memo on PR practice from craft skills to education. A case of ‘plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose’.

PR Conversations

Do you have a view of why so many PR practitioners focus on craft skills and are reluctant to educate themselves despite many decades of body of knowledge creation? Are practitioners themselves to blame for this, or does the blame lie more with the research and education establishments? Opportunity or opportunism?