Summer of Public Relations

Being my first Public Relations (hands on) class since Writing for Mass Media and Mass Communications and Society, I wasn’t sure what to expect from Principles of Public Relations (pur3000). I have only taken Summer C courses at USF, so I wasn’t sure how 6 weeks of class was going to be, but to my surprise it was great!

I enjoyed most how “hands on” this class was, I had never been a part of wordpress.com or twitter and this was a great plunge into the social media world. Twitter is a new addiction to me and I blame Dr. Burns for that! I recently got into a twitter chat with a fashion guru in New York and may possibly have an opportunity for either an internship or a photo shoot with her and her company! Great things come from Twitter, I must say.

I enjoyed dipping into all forms of social media including: Twitter, WordPress and Linked In. I have been a part of Tumblr blogging, but it was never very professional. It mostly consisted of me reposting pictures of tattoos that I wanted to get or videographer clips from weddings that I thought were cool, but now that I have a WordPress, I see it being a more professional blog. My WordPress is something that I’d share with a future employer, for sure.

Overall, this class definitely was a great experience! Dr. Burns is a great instructor and I loved how young she was! She really got me interested in Twitter and it was fun seeing her get excited about it and pushing us to get out into the social media world!