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Speaking up at conferences (A CoMConnect experience)
(Photo courtesy of Erick Mitsak) As mentioned in my previous post, The Importance of Networking, conferences are a great way to grow your network. Yet in the midst of hundreds of attendees how do you...
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Your Online Privacy (Big Brother is Watching You)
(Image courtesy of FreeDigitalPhotos.net) Last weekend, I caught a spam bot hacking into one of my twitter followers’ account, and sent her a DM notice. Ironically, in the same hour, I accidentally...
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Preparing for a conference
The next 2 weeks are going to be very exciting for the Melbourne and Sydney based Public Relations and MarCom students as Victoria PR Student Forum 2012 is happening this coming Thursday and MAP expo™...
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How to Curate Online Content Without Stealing
Earlier this week, during my online research, I discovered someone had ripped an entire guest post of mine and stripped off all my links. For starters, How to Find A Job Using a WordPress Blog was a...
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How Copyright Infringement and bad Social Media Ethics can Hurt your Online...
As a follow-up to our previous post, How to Curate Content without Stealing, let’s take a look at why ethics needs to be taken seriously on social media by highlighting some consequences of copyright...
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Get you (and your blog) in the press!
Article: Working Your Networks As a Graduate Today marks the soft launch of online financial magazine, Quid, but it’s also the first press coverage of FirstCommsJob and my press debut as a...
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Q&A Series: When should you start your job hunt?
Have Qns regarding #SocialMedia or #job hunting within #media & #comms? Tweet us for an answer! #PR #Journalism #mktg (Please RT) — First Comms Job (@FirstCommsJob) November 19, 2012 Earlier this...
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Your Communications Internship
Your Communications Internship April’s Internship Media Pass Take Initiative So, it’s November and for journalism students such as myself, that means one thing – internships and work experience are...
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Why You Should Guest Post
Over the weekend, my guest post, Use Word-of-Mouth Promotion to Boost Blog Traffic, for First Comms Job was published on ProBlogger. In the age of new media, where media and communication students are...
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A New Kind of Portfolio
Hi, my name is April Chan Hi there! My name is April and I’m a third-year journo student in sunny Queensland! As a soon-to-be- graduate in the age of the internet, it didn’t take much for me to realise...
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