{"id":1709,"date":"2015-02-25T09:00:54","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T14:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/?p=1709"},"modified":"2015-02-24T18:35:11","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T23:35:11","slug":"eliza-pr-advanced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/2015\/02\/25\/eliza-pr-advanced\/","title":{"rendered":"Eliza: PR Advanced"},"content":{"rendered":"

This weekend, a group of COM students confused countless Engineering students by appearing at Photonics on a random Saturday.\u00a0 This invasion was, however, not without good cause.\u00a0 This weekend, Boston University\u2019s chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America (BUPRSSA) hosted its 9<\/span>th<\/sup><\/span> Annual Regional Conference, bringing together PR students from a handful of colleges in the Northeast of the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n

For those of you who don\u2019t know, BUPRSSA is a pre-professional society for students interested in public relations.\u00a0 When I came to BU, I wasn\u2019t quite sure what I wanted to major in, so I joined BUPRSSA to learn more about the field of public relations.\u00a0 The chapter meets in COM each week, almost always with a PR <\/span>professional who speaks to the chapter about their involvement in the field.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Saturday\u2019s conference, PR Advanced: Breaking Barriers, brought speakers from a conglomerate of speakers from companies such as Facebook, Jack Morton Worldwide, John Hancock, and major PR firms Fleishman-Hillard and Schneider Associates.\u00a0 The program also included keynote speaker Graham Kahr from Digital Royalty.\u00a0 The conference was meant to emphasize the changing role of PR professionals in our modern world.<\/p>\n

A major point of emphasis during the conference was media.\u00a0 I was able to listen to a presentation by two representatives from Jack Morton Worldwide who discussed the power of viral content in modern public relations.\u00a0 I was then lucky enough to attend a panel that included three journalists, who were asked to discuss their relationship with PR professionals.\u00a0 As a journalism and PR student, this panel was especially interesting to me. The relationship between PR professionals and journalists can be complicated, and this panel allowed students to get a better idea of how they should interact with journalists in their careers.<\/p>\n

The program of the conference closed with a career fair.\u00a0 The fair had representatives representing some of the different areas of public relations.\u00a0 Students were able to network with potential employers and to inquire about internships.\u00a0 It was a great opportunity for everyone involved.<\/p>\n

When I came to BU, I wasn\u2019t 100% sure what I wanted to study.\u00a0 Joining PRSSA helped me to learn more about PR and to help me make a decision.\u00a0 Especially after this amazing conference, I am so excited to make public relations a part of my academic career at Boston University.\u00a0 And for anyone considering public relations, joining BUPRSSA would be one of the absolute best choices you could make.\u00a0 Even if you don\u2019t decide to join the BU chapter (which you can do at anytime!), look out when registration comes around for next year\u2019s conference.\u00a0 It was truly remarkable experience, and totally worth the process of planning it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This weekend, a group of COM students confused countless Engineering students by appearing at Photonics on a random Saturday.\u00a0 This invasion was, however, not without good cause.\u00a0 This weekend, Boston University\u2019s chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America (BUPRSSA) hosted its 9th Annual Regional Conference, bringing together PR students from a handful of … Continue reading Eliza: PR Advanced<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2018,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2018"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1710,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions\/1710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/comblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}