WHAT'S NEW - from Melanie James:

I have posted my views regarding the communication challenges relating to the positioning of the Emissions Trading Scheme in Australia at http://publicrelationsmatters.wetpaint.com/page/Melanie+James+Occasional+Blog. Positioning in public relations is a an under-explored topic and it fascinates me. I've recently had a paper accepted by the Journal of Public Relations Research on the subject of positioning - stay tuned for publication details.

I was recently one of the guest panelists on #PRstudchat on the topic of social media in PR education. PR Student Chat is a lively group - To learn more about #PRStudChat and those who are participating, please visit the #PRStudChat LinkedIn Group; all public relations students and practitioners are welcome to join and participate!

You can access the discussions from PR Student Chat on social media here: http://bit.ly/4YxiJW

Please feel free to contribute to this wiki. Welcome especially to CMNS1290 Introduction to Public Relations students at the University of Newcastle Singapore campus at PSB Academy. I hope you find this site useful - please send me your feedback on the site.

• An excellent intro to Twitter for beginners: http://www.learningpool.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/twitterguide.pdf
• Check out Dr Karen Russell's Best of the Week offerings http://www.teachingpr.org/
• Call for Papers for the 2010 Australia New Zealand Communication Association annual conference closes 25 February 2010 http://www.canberra.edu.au/anzca2010/call-for-papers/public-relations
• Here's the list of Australia's Top 100 PR Tweeps (people who Twitter) - http://www.tweepr.com.au/
• 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

GUIDE TO THE SITE:

- 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.)






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