WHAT'S NEW:

Here's the list of Australia's Top 100 PR Tweeps (people who Twitter) - http://www.tweepr.com.au/

So many people want a good, quick guide to APA referencing style - here it is:

You can read the latest research papers from the Australia New Zealand Communication Association Conference here http://proceedings.anzca09.org/. They include papers from Uni of Newcastle researchers, Melanie James, Phillip McIntyre and Janet Fulton.

Google Tools for journalists may be of interest to public relations students: http://sites.google.com/site/aujournalists/Home

Another approaching closing date for an international conference: Bledcom http://www.bledcom.si/uploads/Bledcom-call-for-papers-2010.pdf

Public relations professionals, educators, and graduate students are invited to submit competitive abstracts for paper presentations at the 13th International Public Relations Research Conference to be held March 10-14, 2010 at the University of Miami. This year’s theme focuses on “Ethical issues for public relations practice in a multicultural world.” Deadline for submission is October 31.

International Communication Association Conference - deadline for papers November 6, 2009 http://www.icahdq.org/conferences/2010/2010CFP.pdf

Free sample issues of PR News available - UoN students can access this online through the library journal system http://www.prnewsonline.com/Assets/File/sample_issue.pdf?dl

Check out Dr Karen Russell's Best of the Week offerings http://www.teachingpr.org/

If you're one of the students out on professional placement you may want to consider Twitter to keep up to date with what's happening with other students - just use #uonpp


GUIDE TO THE SITE:
- Check "Discussions" for latest news and views
- Follow the links on left menu bar to see find info or to check out latest opportunities
- Visit "members" to join this wiki - you can elect to receive a weekly summary of activity on this site

This site is designed to be an evolving resource site for public relations students and recent graduates, especially those associated with the University of Newcastle, Australia.

Rather than trying to post updates to an array of email lists and Blackboard sites, I'll add news, views, resources, job links etc right here. Students and interested people can also add contributions or post opportunities they've heard about.

Please feel free to join up and then you can add pages, links and threads - we can build an interesting and helpful site. Anyone, even anonymously, can add threads to discussions but you will need to become a member if you want to fully participate on the wiki.

Hope you like this new initiative. Let me know what you think.

Melanie Brigid James, Lecturer in Communication, University of Newcastle - melanie.james@newcastle.edu.au

(Please note that all content is the opinion and commentary of Melanie Brigid James and is not in any official capacity associated with the the University of Newcastle, Australia.)