WHAT'S NEW:

The Response Ability for Public Relations pilot study final report is available now on the "Evaluation" page of the website www.responseability.org. The study aimed to determine the acceptability of the Response Ability for Public Relations resource to educators and students, the impact of the resource on students’ knowledge and attitudes to suicide prevention and mental illness, the potential improvements to the resource, and how the resources were best articulated within a public relations course.

An excellent intro to Twitter for beginners: http://www.learningpool.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/twitterguide.pdf

Dr Karen Russell's colums has some great links this week: Check out Dr Karen Russell's Best of the Week offerings http://www.teachingpr.org/

The call for papers for 2010 Bledcom has been extended to close on 31 December 2009 http://www.bledcom.com/home/call_for_papers


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


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.)