Well it goes without saying, the press conferences athletes participate in provide nice sound bites for hours, days and even years to follow.   One recent example of this is the press conference by Tiger Woods held before the Honda Classic in south Florida.  (Take a look at this clip of Tiger Woods posted on ESPN and let … Read more Read More

After responding for a third time this week on Facebook regarding the Pinterest Copyright Controversy, it was decided an official Above Promotions Company blog post must be created.   You’ve read other hot topics on this blog, why not this one?   To Pin or Not to Pin, that is the question.  (At least that is … Read more Read More

An old Levi’s jean advertisement from 2010 has managed to circulate the internet again.  Rehashing the criticism previously experienced. However, the more recent ad does appear to be closer to addressing the concern of representing various curves.  It’s just not as obvious as to those who may not understand female body types. What do you think?  … Read more Read More

   As a sports fan one can see athletes doing things that well, just wouldn’t look right at the dinner table in your local church hall.  Yet there is one habit many do on a regular basis many of us wouldn’t think twice about.  For instance spitting while on the field.  Unfortunately, for professional golfer, Keegan … Read more Read More

It’s Tip Tuesday!  We’re trying something new.  There are some other things we want to share with you so all of the tips for this week have been compiled into this blog post.  These are opportunities you won’t want to miss.  So check out these gig, co-branding requests or B2B opportunities. Of course we match these up with our … Read more Read More

Here we are the day before the funeral of the late great Whitney Houston.  Many shows are paying homage to her this week by breaking out her greatest hits.   There is one chart topping song that has stood out this week in many ways.  In particularly eight words in the chorus of the song, “How … Read more Read More

Students in my Writing for PR and Advertising class stopped by the Southeastern University Career Expo today. Here’s a bit of what they saw:  [View the story "Southeastern University Career Expo 2012" on Storify] Read More

Jeremy Lin (New York Knick Player) – MSG Network Graphic Politically and Factually Incorrect. (courtesy of thepostgame.com) Readers of our blog!  We must together do a better job of sharing the information posted here.  Clearly we failed to get yesterday’s blog, “Dark Humor No Longer In” into the hands of the team over at the MSG … Read more Read More

The Writing Assignments portion of Writing for PR and Advertising has some static components that all students will complete, as well as several that you can choose among. To earn credit for the assignments, they must be submitted in BlackBoard by their due dates. All students will complete the following: News Release #1 (25 pts.) [...] Read More

Over the past few months it has become more and more evident that the dark humor comments made years ago by celebrities and companies is no longer “in”. Looking back at Roland Martin’s comments on Twitter the night of the NFL Super Bowl a few weeks ago, the opinion of a group showed jokes of … Read more Read More