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Currently in the world today, everywhere your eyes glance there seems to be a negative news story unraveling, or of what’s yet to come. With millions of people affected globally by the Coronavirus pandemic, it’s sometimes hard to see a positive light. There is, though, a growing impact on the environment, a direct result of … Continue reading When Humans Are Away, the Animals will Play
School is online, university students are being sent home, everyone is working via zoom, and your new roommates named mom and dad are starting to drive you crazy. This is our new reality during the COVID-19 pandemic. And this new reality has a name: social distancing. The CDC, or the Centers for Disease Control and … Continue reading Social distancing: What it is & What it isn’t
Lollipop moments are those small (yet significant) interactions in your daily activity that changed your life or changed something about you or your perception in a big way. My lollipop moment was my first-day attending classes at Temple University. At the end of my Communicating Leadership class, Tracey Weiss, the professor, stopped everyone from packing … Continue reading Making Your Values Clear
At its core, effective public relations requires a few essential skills: clear and concise writing, the ability to understand the needs and desires of stakeholders, and the capability to work in a fast-paced environment with a multitude of personalities. While these elements of the profession will never disappear, there are new strategic communicators must adapt … Continue reading How to Harness the Power of SEO to Optimize Your PR Efforts
Every year our Temple PRSSA chapter hosts a PR conference for networking and professional development. After going to the Temple PRSSA Regional Conference last spring and the International PRSSA Conference in October, I feel that I’ve gained some knowledge of what to do at these conferences. In the spirit of the Temple University PRSSA Mid-Atlantic … Continue reading 5 Tips For Attending Your First PR Conference
Going into a networking event can be terrifying. Here are some simple tips to up your game in your future career-building endeavors. 1. Dress for success. This seems like common sense, but you’d be surprised how many people don’t take advantage of this easy step. Wear clothes that make you feel confident but … Continue reading 5 Tips to Help You Tackle Your Next Networking Event
"Our house is on fire," and I am petrified. Sustainability is something that has recently become really important to me due to the impending threat of the climate crisis we are facing. According to NASA, global temperature has risen 1.9 degrees Fahrenheit since the 1880s. This increase is causing natural disasters, extreme weather conditions, and … Continue reading 5 Ways to Live More Sustainably as a College Student
Going into college is a huge step in your life, and trying to gain confidence in yourself and the future that you are working for can be extremely hard! You can feel your passion falter and start to fade during those long nights, and sometimes you start to wonder if you really are on the … Continue reading Learning to Love and Trust Yourself While Facing Your Future
If you ever get the chance to ask five public relations majors how they define the program they're in, I can almost guarantee you'll receive five completely different answers. In an industry so broad that it touches nearly every other business on the planet, it can be overwhelming trying to figure out which path of … Continue reading 3 Quotes for PR Beginners
So, we all remember the painful emotions we experienced during our first year of college, right? I thought so. Just as many other first-year students, I was mortified of being away from home, especially when I was leaving my tight-knit family in Maryland for a shared apartment with an unfamiliar roommate in a foreign city. … Continue reading From Nothing to Many Somethings