PR professors on Twitter
Twitter's latest innovation is the list, which (like Tweetdeck and other applications) allows users to organize people into groups. For my first, I created a list of people who teach public relations.If you're on Twitter, you can follow the list, which allows you to read the most recent tweets from anyone on the list; or you can just click on the "following" tab to find smart and interesting people to follow.If you know of someone who's not on the list and should be, just reply to @karenrussell and I'll add them. As of today, I've identified 64 people, but I'm sure there are

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What JPRR reviewers really want
Several weeks ago I offered to do a post on what reviewers at the Journal of Public Relations Research are looking for in a manuscript, after I had a lot of questions about that at the annual AEJMC meeting. Shortly after that, I was invited to contribute an "Editor's Focus" column on the publisher's Web site. With their permission, I'm cross-posting most of the column for October 2009 here. ******* What exactly do reviewers want? In one way, this is an easy question to answer, because the Journal provide

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Book review: "Public Relations and the Social Web," by Rob Brown
At last month's Connect conference, I posed the question, "Is social media transformative to public relations practice?" We had a pretty good debate on the topic. On the contrary, Rob Brown's book starts with the assumption that "We are in the midst of a communications upheaval more significant than the introduction of the printing press." The democratization of the Internet, he argues, means that "organizations have lost control of the agenda." I'm not so sure I agree with either point --