Chris Clarke is a public relations consultant based in Toronto, Canada. He works at NATIONAL Public Relations, Canada’s largest public relations firm. As Coordinator, New Media, he is responsible for identifying opportunities for existing clients to join the conversation, and to help educate staff on best practices online.
He has been writing to his blog, Student PR, since April 2006, when as a student looking to differentiate himself from other public relations students, he joined the PR blogosphere and got noticed by Thornley Fallis Communications. His career in public relations began at Thornley Fallis in May 2006, where he spent a year and a half blogging the good and the bad of being an entry-level practitioner working at a mid-sized public relations firm in Toronto.
An avid basketball fan, he wrote the now-defunct blog End of the Bench on the Most Valuable Network for over 2 years, and has since been writing for Hoops Addict.
He holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts from the University of Western Ontario, and a certificate in Corporate Communications and Public Relations from Fanshawe College.
Chris Clarke's blog is Student PR Blog.
Women, on the other hand, have Mother’s Day, which is a holiday that showcases the opposite kind of woman depicted in Sex and the City. The Sex and the City franchise is a touch point for more women than any other television show or film in at least a decade. The only thing that comes close might be the universal adoration for Johnny Depp.
The students in the Post-Graduate Public Relations Program at Loyalist College in Belleville, Ontario recently raised over $11,000 for a number of charities. Not unlike the students at Algonquin College, the Loyalist students gain experience in event planning, fund raising, promotion and publicity as part of their curriculum. This year, beneficiaries of the students’ efforts […]
Here’s a great story from Katie Boland, a student at Algonquin College who’s been a PR blogger for some time now. The Algonquin PR program raises money for a local charity every year to gain experience in event planning, fundraising, promotion and publicity. This year they’re banding together for a cause called Ryan’s Well (read […]
Why do I have a job? The answer is simple: I understand social media within a PR firm who have less of an understanding of it than I do. Yes, I know a lot of other things, but without my one special skill, I’d be equal to everyone else on the job market and I […]
The entire point of a blog like mine is to help people…and, admittedly, to occasionally rail against something like Brand Power, but that doesn’t happen very often. I think I’ve been able to keep this blog going because there is a huge audience. Young PR people and students in other communications-related disciplines out there […]
