Coming to you from St. Thomas
Posted on January 14th, 2009 – 10:31 AMBy Michael Rand
We are gathered at St. Thomas today with 172 high school students from the ThreeSixty program, a college/career fair. So far, the students have been learning a wide variety of things (including, hopefully, sports journalism and multi-media related things). Here is an example of some of the other things students have been learning about in other sessions:
Public relations: They’re the middleman and companies pay them to put their story into a futuristic kind of technology. So they’re not just spending a lot of money on ads. They’re going on Myspace and Facebook and stuff like that.
Art of design: Brand recognition and brand identity are the key points. Updating and keeping up with the time. Making things more modern.
Sports journalism: It’s not just about writing for the newspaper anymore; it’s about blogging and other multi-media things. And we’re promoting high school athletes.
And just for fun, we decided to do a post on RandBall and make everyone famous.
10 Responses to "Coming to you from St. Thomas"
Wow, the word “famous” hasn’t been diluted that much since Paris Hilton became “famous”
sports journalism and multi-media related things
“And this is how you get paid to update Twitter…”
“Now I’ll show you why categorizing your posts is too difficult…If you want to make it in blogging you will need to justify your inability to do things consistently (i.e. start on time, stay current, tag your posts, etc.)”
Kids, I can’t stress this enough: GO TO A WARM-WEATHER COLLEGE AND NEVER, EVER LEAVE.
Maybe you can do a cross post with Vikings Access, and show them the down side of sports blogging…
Rand, be sure to let the children’s laughter remind you how you used to be.
Kids, I can’t stress this enough; Don’t work for idiots like Chris Harte, and Nancy Barnes. You will fail!!
Kids, I can’t stress this enough; tacos are delicious
Kids, you’ve obviously been born into affluence. Don’t use mom and dad’s money to earn a fancy journalism degree from Northwestern, Missouri or Minnesota State-Mankato. Instead, master a recession-proof trade like plumbing, cosmetic surgery or blogging.
Kids, I can’t stress this enough; RandBall has been rumored to have eaten a whole kielbasa by himself
Professor: Kids, today we are joined by a sports writer from the Star Tribune.
Kid 1: Is that a newspaper?
Kid 2: I hope it’s not Sid Hartman
Kid 3: When’s Lunch?
Professor: It is Michael Rand.
Kid 1: Who’s Michael Rand
Kid 2: I wish it were Sid Hartman
Kid 3: When’s Lunch?
