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After my own brief 5 a.m. boot camp at the Summa Wellness Center in Hudson Friday morning (consisting of a mile run, Core Crunch class and a bit on the elliptical– I know, not much of a bootcamp for most, but certainly for me), I headed to Kent State University for the 7:30 check-in to the You [...]

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Where, oh where, has the blogosphere gone? With a final semester of college focused on the latest and greatest in social media do and do-nots nearly a year away, I seem to have lost some of my blogging fire. I’m not staying up-to-date on my feeds… not the ones focused on PR or marketing or the ones about [...]

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In the cliched words of one of my favorite rockers, “School’s out for summer! School’s out forever!” From the obvious blog neglect, it should be clear that I have been lost. After 17 years of school I wasn’t really sure what to do with myself once classes were done and I had a few weeks off before [...]

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It’s amazing to me how many majors don’t require internships or any out-of-class experiences in order for students to graduate. My roommate is a biology/pre-med major graduating in December, and she was mentioning to me that she wishes she’d been forced to gain some experience during college, either in a healthcare setting or a research lab, so [...]

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As part of one of my courses, Law of Advertising and PR, I was invited to attend a conference on ‘The Changing Face of Media Law’ at Kent State’s Stark Campus yesterday morning. While this counted as CLEs for practicing lawyers and provided great insight to the attendees in various news media fields, I learned [...]

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Social media lesson for the week: Don’t knock it till you try it. That’s what our PR Online Tactics class has learned this semester as we’ve delved into all kinds of new experiences— creating Web content, building Web sites, designing e-newsletters, blogging and now an upcoming project on podcasting. I know we’re going to graduate [...]

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Disclaimer: I’m feeling a little preachy.
I didn’t even know what public relations was when I came to Kent State. I certainly didn’t know it was a major or that I would become consumed with learning more about it. Luckily, I fell into it, and I haven’t looked back.
Since I was a late bloomer in the [...]

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