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Missouri’s new coach not going over so well | Buzz and Traction
https://allanjlewis.wordpress.com/2011/04/05/missouris-new-coach-not-going-over-so-well
Missouri’s new coach not going over so well. In the wake of college basketball’s national championship game, the University of Missouri has been busy trying to find its next Head Coach after Mike Anderson left for Arkansas. So, he went for what he thought would be the next best thing, hiring Frank Haith, the coach of Miami. Haith has a losing record in the ACC, but has had a few positives in his career. The people at Missouri however were not so pleased with the hiring of Haith. It’s time for Misso...
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Generating a readership through social media | Buzz and Traction
https://allanjlewis.wordpress.com/2011/01/23/generating-a-readership-through-social-media
Generating a readership through social media. I will admit, it has been a while since this particular blog has been used, and it is primarily a class project to me. It started in PR 213 a year ago at SIUE, and now it is experiencing a resurgence because of PR 313. Since this blog has been down, I have started my own little project, called eCougarzone.com. Currently, I am the sports editor at SIUE’s student newspaper, the Alestle. When building a blog, normally, you want to submit it to as many search eng...
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Making the transition from Journalism to PR | Buzz and Traction
https://allanjlewis.wordpress.com/2011/03/20/making-the-transition-from-journalism-to-pr
Making the transition from Journalism to PR. I joke about PR being the “dark side” because I got involved with writing for public consumption on the other end, the journalist’s side. I have written at the Alestle for four years, and my degree will be in Mass Communications, but I find myself inching closer to the dark side, and I have plenty of reasons for this. Plus, I am not opposed to starting out with a higher salary than I would have with years and years of experience working at a newspaper. All-and...
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The St. Louis Blues need to boost PR initiative | Buzz and Traction
https://allanjlewis.wordpress.com/2011/04/10/the-st-louis-blues-need-to-boost-pr-initiative
The St. Louis Blues need to boost PR initiative. The St. Louis Blues need to find a new approach next season. Don’t get me wrong, the Blues have some of the best fan-friendly public relations in the entire NHL, but they are going to be running into some problems next season if the team does not get any better. The Blues missed the playoffs for the second consecutive year, and the team’s season ended anticlimactically last night. That worked out well. The team pride approach only works so far, and the Blu...
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Southwest Airline “Official Airline of Hispanic PR” | Buzz and Traction
https://allanjlewis.wordpress.com/2010/03/30/southwest-airline-official-airline-of-hispanic-pr
Southwest Airline “Official Airline of Hispanic PR”. How about some ironic PR news? Oh, how I love irony. Southwest Airlines, the company that lost my bags in Texas and angers me every time they air a commercial about “how much they love bags, and how bags “fly” (or get abandoned somewhere in the country) free” recently sent out this press release. Telling everyone how they are now the “official airline of the National Hispanic PR conference.”. With this particular story, I find it hard to believe an air...
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Tiger Woods. | Buzz and Traction
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You probably already ignored reading this blog post because you are sick of hearing about the world’s number one golfer. Here is what we know:. Tiger Woods cheated on his wife a million times. Tiger Woods apologized on national television for cheating on said wife. Tiger Woods is a bad person. Tiger Woods has not golfed in a long time and probably won’t for awhile, because sex therapy takes up a lot of free time which could be spent golfing. Tiger Woods has a video game named after him. Though the apolog...
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More Tiger Woods… | Buzz and Traction
https://allanjlewis.wordpress.com/2010/03/21/more-tiger-woods
More Tiger Woods…. I am sick about Tiger Woods, but when it comes to public relations, its a fun little thing to talk about. It is all over Sportscenter and it is probably the guy’s best chance at clearing his name. Tiger is coming back to compete in the Masters. Now it is time for Tiger Woods to be Tiger Woods and do what Tiger Woods does. The PR situation has been handled the best way it could have, and now it is finally coming to an end. There are bigger issues in the world than concerning ourselv...
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Reasons AmTrak sucks. | Buzz and Traction
https://allanjlewis.wordpress.com/2011/02/21/reasons-amtrak-sucks
Saturday I encountered the train ride from hell. I left Chicago with six co-workers after attending the Illinois College Press Association Conference. We were greated at Union Station with a flashing “delay” on the departure train when we arrived 30 minutes before we were scheduled to take the 307 to Alton. No big deal, they will keep us updated on the situation and eventually we will be on our way. Or so we thought. Later, we were stopped again, this time because a car decided to park on the tracks in C...
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Function Drinks | Buzz and Traction
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So, apparently this drink not only gets rid of your pulsating headache and various morning-after alcohol consumption symptoms, it cleans your lungs of cigarette smoke? These are the types of things I think about, weird. More Tiger Woods… →. 2 Responses to “Function Drinks”. March 2, 2010 at 11:11 pm. March 27, 2010 at 7:14 pm. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). Notify me of new comments via email. Level ...
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