Daily Dog: Social Media Do’s & Don’ts

Good evening everyone!  This is Ashley your VP bringing a very practical and insightful article sent to me by DePaul PRSSA member Kellyn W. from PR news site, Bulldog Reporter’s “Daily Dog”.

The article provides a great insight on the value of social media as a tool but addresses the need to maintain actual human relationships.  Read the article here, and thanks again to Kellyn W. for the article!

Best,

- Ashley P. (VP)

Edelman Rep Visits DePaul PRSSA

Edelman HR Rep., Heather Crowley, speaks at DePaul's PRSSA chapter meeting (Photo: A. Porter 04/23/09)

For those of you who weren’t able to make Thursday’s meeting, we had a guest speaker come talk to the group about resumes, cover letters and interviewing.  Heather Crowley, an HR Representitive and Recruiter from Edelman, provided us with many great tips.

When discussing resumes, Heather emphasized the importance of neatness and conciseness.  In many cases, your resume will be reviewed for about 10 to 20 seconds…so make it solid.  Include information about your education first, followed by any experience and lastly, and tranferable skills.  Provide accurate information, but leave room for “conversation starters.”  In other words, don’t give too much info. in a resume, just highlight the important things.  Lastly, unless you have 10+ years of experience, your resume should not exceed one page. 

Concerning follow-ups, Heather said that there is a fine line between appropriately following-up and over doing it.  DON’T call recruiters everyday or bombard them with e-mails.  DO find tasteful ways to stay in touch, and have a reason to contact them (i.e. –> If you noticed that their company recently won an award or took on a new account, use this as a conversation starter).  While you definitely need to keep in touch with the recruiter, or whomever else you’re contacting, do so in a respectful way.

Lastly, Heather talked about the importance of social media.  She recommended that if you don’t already have a Twitter account, you should start one!  Also, read blogs and if you’re feeling up to it, start one of your own!  Having the ability to utilize social media makes you much more marketable.

Overall, we couldn’t have been happier with Thursday’s meeting!  Thank you to all of you who attended, and please feel free to leave any questions or comments!

- Liz L. (PR Dir.)

DePaul Student Life Pushes Social Network

For those of you DePaul students familiar with the sheer volume of student organizations our university boasts, it’s become increasingly difficult to keep up with them all.  To remedy this, DePaul Student Life decided to create what is easily considered an online community dedicated completely to every established student organization in the university.

DePaul’s new “social network” known as Demon Direct offers the entire DePaul community to browse and view every registered organization by name.  Any possible organization – religious, political, social, etc – is included and searchable.  Organizations can post flyers on a virtual bulletin board for all students to view and students can pull up news and participate in discussions on any organization’s page. 

Although not a “traditional” social network allowing users to customize every aspect of their experience on the site, it provides an incredibly rich and detailed resource for organizational information that has been previously unheard of.  Also, whether or not DePaul had initially intended, the use of Demon Direct is likely to reduce paper flyers on campus, making the immediate availability of detailed information far more sustainable.

Social networking and media are trends have become an integral part of life not only socially but professional as well.  The fact that DePaul decided to take the step forward and implement it into student life is an ingenious and very socially aware move on the university’s part.  This process of streamlining how organizational information is distributed can only benefit DePaul, its student organizations, and the student body it serves.

- Ashley P. (VP)

* Click here to view DePaul’s PRSSA chapter profile on Demon Direct!

DePaul PRSSA’s New Blog!

Hello everyone and welcome to the new blog for DePaul University’s PRSSA chapter!  My name is Ashley and I’m currently the Vice President for DePaul’s chapter and I’ll be the primary moderator of this blog.

Although this page is fairly empty at the moment, I - and other members of our chapter – will post regularly on events we are involved with as well as other campagins and events of interest within our region.  For more information, please email us at:

blog.depaulprssa@gmail.com

Best,

- Ashley P. (VP)