PR Blog Entry (2-13-12)

Good day everyone, I will be answering this weeks PR blog questions, enjoy.

1. When I visit blogs I often visit blogs of pro athletes who I admire the most. The most often blog(s) I visit would those of my friends and also blogs from athletes such as Evgeni Malkin and Fedor Emelianenko. The reasons to why I like to visit my friends blog sites is to get a better understanding of their daily lives. I cant always keep in contact with them due to time, but when I visit there blogs I can see what there daily routines are and how life is treating them. When I visit blogs such as Malkin's and Emelianenko, they are to see when the next game is or next fight is to get a better understanding if they will be up to par for that event. Blogs fill different needs for different people and we all inhabit them to fill a specific need that we want satisfied.

2. I would have to say blogs are more reliable than mainstream news distributors because you are going right to the source for information you seek. News outlets can distort information sometimes which doesn't give the end user the information that is factional. Sometimes blogs or other social media networks (Facebook, twitter, etc) have made up profiles of celebrities or athletes that is not accurate. You have to be weary sometimes of the information you seek and know if a blog is true to that person, or fake. News outlets are the middleman who are in business to fuel the fire to keep its audiences interested.

3. I don't think I could hold back information from my audience when it comes to being paid from an organization or source. Creating buzz about a product is one thing, but when your doing it for a monetary value it becomes something different. To withhold information from your audience would be deceiving and unethical because some of your audience might feel cheated or mislead if word were to come out about you receiving monetary gains from a particular product being promoted.

4. An effective way to take still photos for a feature story is to capture your person or product in its natural element. When you have your person or product in an environment that is conducive to there comfort level, they feel at ease and natural to that moment. Also the person taking the photo must realize how to use a camera in certain situations to effectively capture those precious moments that he or she wants to take.