Cash prize for the first student to read this post (subject to T&C's below)

By Nathan Smith

I’m a guest speaker to the public relations MA class at Manchester Metropolitan University this Thursday 19^th Feb – the subject is online PR.

I was always taught that the first rule of public speaking is to ‘know your audience.  This presents me with a real problem in terms of what to prepare for the students; the truth is I just don’t know at what level MA students in PR are familiar with all things digital?

Will they have online profiles – one assumes?  Do they follow blogs, better still do they write their own blogs?  Are they twittering while in the students union ordering snakebites?

I’ve decided to set a little challenge for them prior to speaking this Thursday.  For the more online savvy students, hopefully there already listening to what’s happening out there – they know I’m speaking and I’m hoping some of them may have checked out this blog. 

I will give £50 to the first student from the PR MA that I’m addressing this Thursday who responds to this blog – they can claim the cash face to face on Thursday.

I’m going to link this article to my twitter account (@nathanjsmith) and ask for a couple of retweets to get the word out there.

I’ll update you on Friday!

Comments

[alessandra tinio]

Hi there I think I'm the first student in this lecture to reply! Is the 50 pounds still redeemable?

[Dan]

Great idea Nathan, but wasted on Manchester... You should bring your innovative teaching methods to Newcastle Uni!

[Adam Lewis]

I think different Universities have different modules as part of the course so ,for instance, Richard Bailey implemented social media as part of the Leeds Met course which means you get a fair few Leeds Met students blogging (some longer than others).

Not seen any Manchester Met students blogging yet so you might be keeping your money!