To say that I’ve neglected this blog over the last few months is bit like saying… [insert banal yet amusing witicism here].
I could very easily site the long hours at work, or that fact that I’m doing some more political stuff in my spare time as reasons for this but the truth is that I got bored. Well… perhaps boredom is wrong, the French have this word “ennui,” it means more than boredom, it’s boredom and apathy and lethargy and the general sucking of any kind of will right out of whichever poor b*stard gets it. The PR blogosphere just got so far removed from anything that affected my life that it started to feel like one of those interminable dinner parties with friends of a friend, the kind where if you had a gun you’d shoot yourself in the foot just to get invalided out.
Anyway, the blog got pointless so I stopped blogging until I could think of a point. And now I’ve thought of one.
It struck me that I’m now three (and a bit) years into what might be becoming at least a semi-decent career and, having made most of the mistakes possible during those three years, I could blog about how not to make them. So that’s what I’m going to do.
From now on, every post on this blog will be about one of two topics 1:how to get a good job in PR, 2:how to be a good junior PR person. I’m wiping my blogroll clean and splitting it into two lists – firstly, people aspirant PRs should be reading and secondly, a list of student / young PR people who I’d recommend to potential employers.
Obviously blogging and social media will remain a major theme so to kick off, I’m looking for single best student run blog I can find – Philip Young and Richard Bailey any thoughts?
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I wondered where you had gone. I really like your idea and doff my hat to you for helping others to get into our great industry. I will continue to check back to look for potential candidates for Berkeley PR
I’m glad that you said that about being bored, because I felt the exact same way about my blog and posting. I actually recently deleted it and have started over with a new one. My question is: is it necessary (a career must) for a social media practitioner to have a blog? I’d like to know what you think as I just wrote my first blog on this. http://phyleciawakeman.wordpress.com/
A blog with a point…. very interesting. I like how you think. Keep up the good work!