Ethics

Shel Holtz’s defense of Crisis Communication

August 9, 2012

Rachel Maddow gave a report on crisis communication on her show. Her report painted the industry in a one-sidedely negative way, and it galvanized Shel Holtz to write a defense of the practice on his blog. I wanted to share a link to this articulate counter-point because it does a good job of facing the [...]

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Public Affairs and Philosophy

June 19, 2012

Public Affairs is a public relations practice that can benefit from philosophically trained minds. Properly executed public affairs has the ability to help form consensus in the general population between competing interests and on issues that are often regarded as unsolvable or complicated. This is where a grasp of social and political philosophy can be [...]

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Advertising & Public Relations Capstone

January 22, 2012

I’m excited to being working on my Senior Advertising & Public Relations Capstone project. I get to research something of interest to me and then bring it to life. I’ve spoken with my Capstone director and he has approved my topic of Gamification. He agrees with me that it is a hot topic that isn’t [...]

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