PR Diva Blog continues to honor African-American female communicators during Black History Month by celebrating the accomplishments of Oprah Winfrey. Television host, actress, producer, and philanthropist, Oprah Winfrey has shown women to appreciate life, be determined in following your dreams, and that success takes hard work and most importantly–guts.
Feeling overwhelmed? Stressed out? Almost ready to snap? As women in the communications field, we can expect to work hard and long hours. What exactly is this 40 hour work week some people speak of? It isn’t unusual to work a standard work week AND overtime AND come home and work even more. Our work [...]
PR Diva was looking for new and fresh faces for our PR Women to Follow on Twitter in 2011. We received so many great recommendations and we are happy to share eleven Women in Public Relations to Follow in 2011.
Happy New Year! The confetti has settled, you may have already broken one (or three) of your New Year’s resolutions, and you started the first Monday of the new year with a cheery disposition to (1) take over the world and (2) take on your resolutions for a new you. Wait, what was so wrong [...]
When I was five years old I was quite the character. I wrote stories about traveling to far off places and having amazing adventures. I was curious and wanted to know what was INSIDE the Atari and what made it work much to the chagrin of my mother. I enjoyed going to the Bingo Hall [...]
The TEDWomen will celebrate women and girls around the world by convening a global event in Washington, D.C. and connecting with self-organized TEDx for TEDWomen events from around the world. I am so excited to be part of this global event, one of seventy local self-organized events that will spark discussion and connection. I am [...]
Last month, the world was abuzz with the death of legendary publicist Judy Smith. Inspired by Judy Smith’s legendary career, Grey’s Anatomy creator Shonda Rimes is reportedly developing a new television drama focuses on PR crisis management. I know I am very excited about this new project. I am not a Grey’s Anatomy viewer (gasp!) or Private [...]
What advice would you give to a new public relations professional? What do you wish you knew when you first started out?
As an aspiring PR professional, I was lucky enough to be the given the opportunity to see the industry from the other side: the media. During a six month long internship, which I held during the first half of 2010, I was working for an online magazine and, among other things, managing their blog. In [...]
These simple words of advice resonate with me today. There are too many times that we let others–you may call them “haters” or the naysayers, the doubters, the Debbie Downers–steal our joy. I find joy in everything I do from my work to my personal life to other people’s lives and work. From a simple [...]
