Flagler College PRSSA

8 Feb 2011
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Communication Week 2011

Hello everyone! We have started the planning process for Communication week and are making lots of progress! We have divided into a speakers, events and publicity committee so that we can be as efficient as possible. Now we are sure that everyone is wondering who this year’s speakers will be! We thought it would be important to keep you updated on this so here are the speakers:

Keynote speaker: Craig Kronenberger

Featured speakers:

Josh Koster
Shane Tallant
Robbie Gordon
Jerry Smith
Tracey Eaton

We will also have several professionals for our panels and classroom visits! More to come as we continue planning the event! We will see you on March 7-10 for Com Week 2011!

25 Mar 2010
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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!

24 Feb 2010
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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.