Blogging for Conference

It seems hard to believe that we're a mere two weeks away from the PRSA 2008 International Conference here in my own backyard, Detroit. It promises to be an exciting few days packed with informative sessions and workshops. I hope many of my fellow PRSA New Professionals are going to be able to join us this year, and I hope to finally meet some of  you in person.

For those of you who are going to be at Conference, I want to offer up an opportunity for you to blog here about your Conference experiences. For anyone who has been to a PRSA Conference, you know there are more sessions than one person can possibly attend, but if we can get some people to blog about it here, we can get a taste of more of them. So if you're interested in blogging during the Conference go ahead and let us know via the comments here, or by shooting me an e-mail.

Finally, don't forget that we're going to be hosting a PRSA New Professionals Affinity Group dinner during the Conference. We're privileged to be joined by John Edelman, who, as you may have guessed from his name, is from the global public relations agency, Edelman. More details about the dinner can be found here.

PRSA 2008 International Conference in Detroit

by Adam Denison, PRSA New Pros, Director-at-Large

At the risk of being accused of self-promotion here, I wanted to alert everyone to a post I wrote yesterday for PRSA's new blog, ComPRhension. My post is all about the great city of Detroit and things we have to offer for this year's International Conference.

But this post is not merely an effort to get everyone over to read my post, but rather a chance for me to find out more about your feelings about PRSA International Conferences. How many of you have attended either a PRSA or PRSSA International/National Conference? Are you going this year? If you have attended, when and where? What was most beneficial about attending? If you've never attended, what stops you from doing so?

My first conference was the PRSSA 2006 National Conference in Salt Lake City where I served on the planning committee. It was a wonderful opportunity for me to meet other PR students from around the country as well as get advice from many PR professionals. In fact, I actually got my current job at GM because of my attendance at the Conference! They were there recruiting interns and I was able to secure an interview with them. I wouldn't have had this chance had I not been at Conference.

I also attended portions of last year's PRSA Conference in Philadelphia. This time around I was a "professional" PR practitioner so I had frequent opportunities to network with many people from diverse backgrounds.

I'm a huge advocate for attending PRSA International Conferences, but I wanted to get your take. What do you think?