Comment #6

Oil Spill

6/3/10

I agree with you 100% with this blog. People need to start being prepared for disasters these days, especially how our world is today. Like for example, what happened on 9/11. BP needs to step up and start doing something fast, because like you said, many lives were and are being taken and not only human lives but animals as well. Deals need to be out of the picture by now and people need to start looking after other people rather than themselves.

Comment #5

http://kwilliamspr.wordpress.com/2010/06/01/dashes-to-commas-information-from-grammar-girl/#comment-6

6/3/10

Kevin, I am the same way when it comes to dashes and parenthesis. My teachers in middle and highschool would always stress to use these things “as little as possible.” Personally, I love dashes and parenthesis. It adds style and humor to what you are trying to write about and I think it also makes it more interesting. I love what you wrote about writing as a painting and a paintbrush-SO TRUE! I never knew writing could be fun and interesting until I got into the PR major. Hopefully it will stay this way! haha

Comment #4

Blog Comments

6/3/10

Maggie, I agree with what you said about blog comments being one of the most important components of blogging. It definitely makes blogging more exciting and can be funny to read what others write back to you ..for example comments from your mother.. haha! It does make is more beneficial if others respond to what you have to say and it makes blogging much more fun to think that people actually want to read what you have to say. Hopefully, we can learn from blogging for this class and make it a fun, regular thing that we enjoy to do!

PR Connections #4

I read something very interesting this week and something that is a big deal with PR majors and this course we are taking this semester. The AP Stylebook has added 42 new guidelines for social media. http://mashable.com/2010/06/02/ap-social-media-guidelines/. A very big thing that they changed was the word Web site to website. They also changed things such as words being hyphenated, separated, and grammar and style. The new 2010 book was released about a day or two ago and has new rules that many journalists and PR majors should follow.