Thank you very much for downloading the second podcast. How am I doing? Very well thank you. Before continuing any further with this podcast a little bit of housekeeping.

Housekeeping

This podcast can now be found on the iTunes Store. Simply search for “Musings of a Public Relations Student” or click the text link I have provided on the written article for this podcast.

For those of you who are regular visitors to my blog you may have noticed that the shrink and expand options on all the blog articles have been disabled. Unfortunately this has resulted the home page of my blog to be stretched down your monitor by thousands of words. This bug will be fixed once Ajaxed WordPress, the plugin I use for the shrink and expand feature, has become compatible with the latest version of WordPress which I currently run.

On with the substance of this podcast.

Ambassador of business

In the last podcast I mentioned that I had been a Student Ambassador for one of my old colleges. The title “Student Ambassador” sounds far grander than the job role actually is. The basics of the job is to promote the university where you study at along with the course you are taking. Now, I am aware that Public Relations students and practitioners visit this blog. This podcast might be more interesting for those of you who actually work within the PR industry rather than a student. In fact, if you are a prospective student thinking about studying any subject at all, you should find this podcast useful as one student’s perspective with how university has been as a whole. Obviously, I can only give you one side of the story as I only study at the University of Gloucestershire and purely focus on Media, Journalism, Marketing and, of course, Public Relations.

Part of the job of being a Student Ambassador is to not only show prospective students around my university but to also visit different schools. I don’t view this as(…)

This article marks the beginning of a new series of podcasts giving you the option to listen rather than read from the glare of your monitor. Depending on the format of the podcasts the majority of recordings will also be avaliable in standard text form. Podcasts can either be streamed or downloaded from this website. Before not too long podcasts will also be avaliable through the iTunes store.

Before I begin I want to thank you for downloading and listening to this first podcast. Not too sure how the audio will sound as I have no official recording gear as such. Most microphones seem to give me some sort of artificial lisp. Unless, of course, I do have a lisp… Anyway, I hope everything sounds bearable. I have tried the art of podcasting in the past and unfortunately I never really felt it to catch on. This time though, I will make an effort. I know from my own experience that constantly reading all the time can become quite tedious and so I hope listening provides a breath of fresh air into my tiny corner of the interweb.

I’m not too sure about the frequency of podcasts which will bless this site currently or how this new form of media will aid in my PR related articles. I’m sure time will tell though. Before I discourse any further into this microphone I must first detail my sort of terms and conditions… I do not pretend to know everything. Starting this blog was a leap of faith as I am still a student and so I gradually learn more as I walk down the path towards achieving my degree. If learning works as planned then I should be able to listen and read these articles in a years’ time and feel embarrassed that I could hold such a pile of drivel as an opinion in the first place. Learning has the vice to which no man can ever say “I am sure”. So(…)

I have considered writing this blog post for the past couple of days but sanity stopped me. Unfortunately, I can no longer contain my excitement. Google Wave is going to be awesome! However, this article is merely a product of speculation. Currently Google Wave is only open to a small number of developers but it is expected to be released later this year.

Why on Earth is Google Wave relevant for this PR Blog? Quite simply, after Google had developed Google Maps they sat back and then got ambitious. Imagine the scene, many geeks (but geniuses) sat in a room. One of these geeks makes an observation, “Email is a bit old, isn’t it?” Perhaps a small silence and then an agreement “Lets sort this problem out” and so Google Wave was born. The possible future of internet communication.

Google Wave is an attempt to replace the email and quite rightly so. Email has been around since the early 1980s and the internet has changed so much since then. Incidentally this has caused communication technology to change as well. The introduction of the 21st Century saw an explosion in social networking. Users were easily able to communicate with each other, not just through text but through the mediums of image and video. We saw the rise of Myspace, Bebo and then Facebook came onto the scene.

Mulling over the playing field

Originally Facebook was developed purely for university students to contact each other. I remember the days when Facebook was widely unknown. I know because I was passionate for it to develop but nobody else seemed to know about the social networking sites’ existence! Only one of my older friends used it and then things changed. Younger people joined it from Secondary schools and original Facebook users made groups such as “Keep Facebook only for University Students”. There must be a few groups still out there if you search for them. Then older people began to join in greater numbers and to this day(…)