• Church Communications Pro | Church Website Design | Church Marketing
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• Top WordPress Themes - Best Free Themes for WordPress
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• rubric assessment - Newsletter Assessment - RCampus
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• SxDS
  SxDS (South by Deep South) is an unconference. A meeting of like minds and like hearts.
  We’re writers, bloggers, marketers, communicators. We’re moms, dads, tech-heads, and geeks.
  And we don’t live in New York, San Fran, the Valley, Boston or Austin. St
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What passes for normal on Facebook might never happen in real life. Would you literally write on a friend’s wall? Do you really want to be friends with someone you didn’t like when you were in class together? Do you poke people with your index finger often? Idiots of Ants (idiot savants?) created this great little video clip. Gotta love the British humour.

Thanks go to Donna Pappacosta’s Twitter feed for pointing this clip out.

• PC(USA) General Assembly 218
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• Presbyterian Church (USA) - PC-Biz
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Ever lose your USB drive? I think we’ve all left it someplace at one time or another. It’s an awful feeling to think you’ve lost everything. Here are some tips that may help.

First, and most importantly, ONLY use your USB drive for transport. Never use it as the only place you’ve saved a file. Ever. (Got that?)

Second, e-mail critical files to yourself before you leave the library, lab, or wherever you’re using your USB drive. That way, if the drive gets misplaced, you’ll still have a copy of the really important stuff.

Third, attach your USB drive to your keys. It’s unlikely that you’d leave your keys behind.Fourth, write your name on the outside of your USB drive with a Sharpie. Or, if it’s a dark USB drive, write your name on a tiny piece of paper and tape it to the drive. 

And finally, if you decide that your USB drive is dirty and needs washing in the pocket of your jeans (like I did last week), it may still be usable. Take the cap off and hang or place it upside down to dry. Let it dry for a day or two before trying to use it again.

• Decently and in Order / Published News
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• Presbyterian Communicators Network…live blogging
  Presbyterian Communicators Network
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• ymiLIVE
  The Presbyterian Foundation Group is proud to sponsor the Youth Mission Initiative (ymiLIVE) in an effort to bring together generations of Presbyterians to connect and engage with others throughout the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). The ymiLIVE site was d
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• Real-time Twitter Search - Tweet Scan for Presbyterian Communicators Network Conference
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• What Tom Could Learn from Facebook | chrisbrogan.com
  Well, Tom, I think if you’re going to build an app that supports Facebook and MySpace, you might consider learning a lesson from them. Opt in. SOCIAL network. It’s about getting to know me before you fart in my face.
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On my campus, and probably on most campuses, it’s finals time.

If you’re a parent, it’s time to send off a final exam care package.

If you’re a faculty member, it means even more. Here are a few of my thoughts as the semester winds down.

Students are stressed because “they are so busy.”

HINT: Yes, I know you feel busy now. And this is great prep for you when you get into the working world. You’ve known all semester that you have these projects due at the same time. In the world of PR, you’ve got to be ready to juggle. And not just juggling scarves or bowling pins; those are too easy. Think juggling knives while walking on a tightrope over flames. (Isn’t that an awesome graphic? It came from mike r baker’s website. Check out his other stuff!)

Students are coming to me (usually by e-mail, but sometimes in person) asking about what their grades are so far.

HINT: I post everything in WebCT Vista, so this is info that you have immediate access to all throughout the semester. Please don’t wait until the end of the semester to check your progress.

Students (not all, but some) are upset about their grades and seem surprised it’s because they left out big parts of their projects/assignments.

HINT: And this one’s a big one. I give detailed assignment guidelines for all major - and most minor - assignments. I even provide a link to the rubrics (here’s one for the Newsletter for my PR Publications Class) for most assignments early in the semester. What more can I do to ensure that you know how you will what needs to be included and how you will be graded? (That’s a real question, not a rhetorical one.)

Students follow the advice and guidelines they’ve been given and do extremely well on their assignments. These are the kind of students that employers look forward to hiring.

HINT: It does happen every semester. At least a few people in each class “get it,” and make it all worthwhile for me. If you’re one of these people, THANK U! 

• PR Squared: Get Into Twitter or Get Outta Public Relations?
  am I seriously suggesting that a PR person MUST become an active Twitter user if they want to have a meaningful career? Even though Twitter is supposedly still a below-the-radar service?
  Well, yea, kinda. But for more – and more varied – reasons th
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• jetBlue Delivers a Systematic Customer Service Letdown » The Buzz Bin
  JetBlue uses Twitter .. . but still fails to satisfy this customer. So he blogs about it.
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• PR Connections » SNCR Closing keynote: The transformational power of blogging
  What do women find in blogs? They are experiencing the unique, transformational power of blogging.
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