Flagler College PRSSA

6 Apr 2010

Board of Directors Responsibilities

President:

To state the objectives and goals, put into action the stated objectives and goals, organize and conduct meetings, schedule guest speakers, assist in the expediting of business, put motions to vote and place votes when needed, oversee the execution of all events, attend at least one PRSA function in one school year.

Vice President:

To act as president when needed, assist the president in achieving PRSSA objectives and goals, approve publicity and promotions and any other duties that may arise.

Secretary:

To take meeting minutes and distribute them (via email) to all members, keep current member information (# of members and contact info for all), proof out-going information, maintain the bulletin board in Com. Bldg, maintain log of attendance of all meetings and any other duties that may arise.

Treasurer:

To obtain and keep accurate records of expenses, maintain record of any gifts to or from PRSSA, collect and send dues, create budgets for events, ensure that all events stay within budget and any other duties that may arise

Historian:

To document and record PRSSA activities by means of photographs and media coverage reports, update social media outlets used by PRSSA (FB photo albums and events, etc)

Chapter Liaison:

To obtain a relationship with the local PRSA chapter, to inform PRSSA members of upcoming PRSA events and luncheons, to keep PRSA informed of PRSSA chapter events

25 Mar 2010

Thank You for Participating in Comm. Week 2010!

We just wanted to take some time and thank everyone who has been a part of Communications Week here at Flagler! We are so happy that everything went so well and hope everyone benefited from this experience.  With such great professionals on campus, how could you not? 

As we heard from our speakers: networking is key! We encourage everyone to Facebook friend our speakers, follow them on Twitter, and take advantage of those business cards!  It makes a great impression to e-mail these professionals and thank them for coming to talk to us.  We are so lucky to have such accomplished speakers and we need to make sure that they know how much we appreciate their participation in Comm. Week.  Also, many of the speakers encourage students to ask questions so ask away.  If anyone knows the answers to these questions, it will be our knowledgeable speakers. 

Be sure to check out all of our pictures of Kevin Sites’ Comm. Week presentation on our Facebook! We were so lucky to have him as our keynote this year!

We hope you enjoyed the opportunity to “Connect to Success”.  We really appreciate all of the time, effort, and dedication that contributed to an extremely successful week.  Let us know if you have any questions and thanks again!

16 Mar 2010

Helpful Tips for Communication Week

As Communication Week 2010 is quickly approaching, I want to take this opportunity to remind everyone of a few things:

Please remember, as PRSSA members, you are not only representing yourselves, but you are also representing the school and our organization. I hope that this goes without saying but I’ll say it either way. Please remember to dress appropriately during times when you will have direct contact with speakers. This includes panel participation, escorting speakers to and from campus and the airport, and during the luncheon or receptions. Here are some Do’s and Don’ts to help you out:

DON’T:

NO Flip Flops

NO low-cut tops

NO ripped or torn jeans

NO overly stained pieces of clothing (i.e. the shirt you painted your room in)

NO sponsor printed shirts or T-shirts or tank tops

Nothing TOO tight

DO:

Dress professionally Boys – wear a tie if you’d like! Or a BOW TIE! Khakis or dress pants, button-ups or polos and dress shoes

Gals – knee length dresses or skirts, dress pants, button-ups or blouses, dress shoes

Stay neat and clean, even when running around campus, keep your composure!

Along with your dress please remember your general composure and attitude also reflects the organization and the school. Please keep calm if anything goes wrong or is a bit out of balance, we can fix it.

Be polite! Thank all speakers that you meet, if you get their contact information, USE IT! It’s polite to email or send a thank you after meeting someone and getting a business card. If they give you their card, they want you to use it. (It could get your further than you know)

 MOST IMPORTANTLY!!!!!!!!

 Have fun!! This is a GREAT experience for all of us! (Plus you get free food during the week)

-Desi Pappas

10 Mar 2010

Comm. Week Schedule!

Here is the schedule for the Flagler College Communication Week! We will also have speakers coming to different classes for students to get the most out of the Comm. Week experience.  If you have any questions at all feel free to send an e-mail to DPappas@flagler.eduor contact us on our Facebook page!  Thanks so much and we look forward to seeing you during Comm. Week!

MONDAY, MARCH 22

11:00 AM-Featured Speakers Alfredo Corchado & Angela Kocherga-Gamache Theater

2:00 PM-Keynote Speaker Kevin Sites-Gamache Theater

TUESDAY, MARCH 23

11:00 AM-Featured Speaker Robbie Gordon-Gamache Theater

12:30 PM-Social Media Marketing Panel-Gamache Theater

5:00 PM-Screening of Dustin Miller’s film-Kenan Room 300

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24

11:00 AM-Featured Speaker Allen Olivo-Gamache Theater

THURSDAY, MARCH 25

11:00 AM- Featured Speaker Connie Schultz-Gamache Theater

12:30 PM- Finding Jobs in A Recession: Alternate Career Paths Panel

7 Mar 2010

Comm Week 2010 Update!

There are only two weeks left until Communications Week! We are getting extremely excited to have such accomplished speakers joining us!

The two panels for Comm. Week will be Social Media Marketing and Finding Jobs in a Recession: Alternative Career Paths. Allen Olivo, Maria Coppola, Jan Korb, Melissa Simpson, Tim Kinney will all be part of our Social Media Marketing panel and Andrew Miller, Jamie Alvarez, Joe Wolf, Steve Palazzo, Chelsey Coslett will be part of the Finding Jobs in a Recession: Alternative Career Paths panel.

Have any questions for the panels or panel members relating to these topics? Send them our way: Dpappas@flagler.edu or reply to this post.

We will be posting the schedule on our FCPRSSA Facebook and on this blog within a few days so that you can mark their calendars for the panels and speeches you want to attend!  We encourage you to come up with some questions to ask our guests so that you can get the most out of Comm. Week!  Stay tuned for another update soon!

3 Mar 2010

Dustin Miller: 35 Seconds

Many students apply to Flagler College in St. Augustine, FL for the reason that it is close to the ocean where you will find them riding the waves.  In the background of all of this you may find Dustin Miller, a Flagler College graduate, capturing the surf culture on film.  Dustin has a positive attitude and always tries to look at things in a different light than everyone else.  At his screening at Flagler College he explained, “Everything that’s been done I try not to do.” 

Originally from Richmond, Virginia, Dustin is 27 years old and lives in St. Augustine with his wife and two daughters.  Dustin’s passion for film began when his friend showed him a few things on iMovie, shortly after he started making skate and surf videos of his own he ended up changing his major from business to broadcasting.  A short film he made for his senior portfolio at Flagler College won Best Florida Documentary at the 2004 Melbourne International Filmmakers Festival.  Through his films, Dustin focuses on telling people’s stories not just shooting footage. 

Dustin even has his own production company, Flesh Profits Nothing.  According to their website Flesh Profits Nothings’ goal is “to beautify people’s stories, whether documentary, surfing or commercial projects.”  Dustin also tells stories with To Write Love on Her Arms, a nonprofit dedicated to helping people with depression, addiction, and suicide issues. 

Dustin is living out his dream while inspiring others through his visual storytelling.  With every film Dustin makes, another story is shared with the world and more lives are affected.  He is not only an impressive filmmaker but a great person who really wants to better the world and contribute to the lives of his audience.  It is clear that Dustin was meant to document people’s stories on film.

On Wednesday, March 24, Dustin Miller will be screening his new film 35 Seconds- Short Stories from Haiti.  The screening will take place at 5:00 PM in Kenan room 300.  http://fleshprofitsnothing.com/index.php?/35-seconds/ This will be an unforgettable experience!

24 Feb 2010

Connect to Success With Kevin Sites

    

                                  CONNECT TO SUCCESS WITH KEVIN SITES

St. Augustine, FL – Flagler College will be hosting its fifth annual Communication Week beginning Monday, March 22 through Thursday, March 25, 2010.  This year, the Flagler College Communication Department is thrilled to have Kevin Sites, award-winning journalist and author, as the keynote speaker. 

As Yahoo!’s first news correspondent, Sites covered global war and disaster from 2005 to 2006.  In 2006 Sites won the 2006 Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism.  In addition, Forbes Magazine listed him as one of 2007’s Web Celeb 25, “the biggest, brightest and most influential people on the web today.”  Just two years ago Sites was inducted into Northwestern University’s Medill Hall of Achievement. 

Recently, Sites has been named a 2010 Nieman Foundation Journalism Fellow and is residing at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA. He is currently working on his second book, The Things We Cannot Say: What the World’s Warriors Can’t Tell You About What They’ve Seen, Done or Failed to Do in War, which will be released this year. 

“The background and experiences of veteran war correspondent Kevin Sites are nothing short of extraordinary,” said Rosemary Tutt, Assistant Professor of Communication and faculty coordinator for Communication Week 2010.  “Students in all areas of study are anxiously awaiting his arrival. We anticipate his presentation to be truly memorable.”

Prominent feature speakers attending Flagler College Communication Week include Alfredo Corchado, Allen Olivo, Connie Schultz, and Robbie Gordon.  With different areas of expertise, including public relations, journalism, and broadcast, the speakers will have a lot to share with the students at Flagler College.

“Communication Week provides each student with an opportunity to talk face-to-face with nationally prominent professionals relevant to their area of study. Students get a current snapshot for the workplace as it exists directly from the people holding positions that every student aspires to. If I had to sum up Communication Week in one word it would be opportunity,” said Communication Department chair, Tracy Halcomb, Ph.D.

As sponsors for Comm. Week, Flagler’s Communication Department and the Flagler College Chapter of the Public Relations Student Society of America are looking forward to a great turnout and a wonderful opportunity to connect to success with these experienced professionals. 

                        

Written by: Jackie Gubbins

E-mail: JGubbins@flagler.edu

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23 Feb 2010

Speakers for Communication Week 2010!!

Keynote:

Kevin Sites: Veteran war correspondent for ABC, NBC, CNN & Yahoo; documentary film maker, author, and Harvard Fellow

Featured Speakers:

Robbie Gordon – producer for ABC News Prime Time and 20/20

Connie Schultz – Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, feature writer & columnist: Cleveland Plain Dealer

Allen Olivo - Former Sr. V.P., Global Brand Marketing, Yahoo! Inc.

Alfredo Corchado – international journalist (focus on Mexican drug cartels)

Panelists and Featured Speakers:

Andrew Miller – author and founder of Columbus Social Media Cafe

Angela Kocherga – journalist and author

Anna Jung – owner Media Blossom ; Chicago

Manoucheka Celeste – grad school presentation: “From Consumer to Scholar: Graduate Opportunities in Media and Cultural Studies”; research presentation: (Re)presenting Black Women in Popular Culture”;       Seattle, WA

Dave Rosenberg – owner:  Rosenberg Adv. – Cleveland

Melissa Simpson – Communication Coordinator: Firehouse Subs – Jax

Joe Wolf – Account executive,  Dalton Agency - Jax

Amanda Mousa – Account executive, Dalton Agency - Jax

Maria Coppola & Jan Korb – Broadbased Communication – Jax

Possible speakers

Richard Lormand, Entertainment PR – World Cinema Publicity

Jeannie Blaylock

Raymond Haberski, Jr.  – Associate Professor, Marian University – Indianapolis (cinema & media)

9 Dec 2009

A few shots from STAND 2009

17 Nov 2009

STAND!

Don’t forget, STAND is TOMORROW!!! We all need to be at the meeting tonight, we have a lot to do and discuss.

Thank you again to everyone for all of your hard work so far!!

Des