My Introduction

This blog is intended to express my views, questions, concerns, and hopes for the future in PR. To give you readers (if I ever get any) some background on myself, I received a degree in music performance last summer and decided to go a different route and get a masters in public relations. Therefore, I had no schooling or experience in PR before I got into school. The May before I started my masters I got an internship with a music media relations company. That really helped me get a start in PR. Once I got into school I was LOST. haha. I had no idea what people were talking about in my PR theory class. However, because of some good teaching and some good friends who helped me out I caught up. Enough of that...this blog is actually a requirement for my PR Campaigns course. Therefore, I'll talk mainly about my groups client issues. We had our first meeting on Friday. We have been given the assignment to try and increase the amount of string players and chorus members in the Athens Symphony Orchestra. This doesn't seem like it is going to be too easy. The main thing we are going to have to do is get perspective members from outside of Athens. I think most people who would want to play for the ASO would be worried about the time commitment, but after talking to the directors we found that it isn't really too bad of a commitment. We have another meeting tomorrow that will hopefully answer more questions and get a plan started.

In other news, I am very interested in sports PR. I have been going to Georgia sporting events for the better part of my life and I always wanted to be apart of all of that. However, after doing some work with the women's basketball team I have found that I will have to sacrifice my ability to be a fan in order to have that job. I'm not sure I would want to do that. I'm a really really really big fan of Georgia sports and I don't want to have to give that up. Therefore, I'm looking more towards doing corporate PR. Honestly, I'll do whatever I can...haha. Oh well, until next time...