Help A PR Pro out Day: #HAPPO This Friday

The economy sucks.  That’s not a news flash.  It’s reality.

We all know many people in the media and marketing communities that have been “on the beach” without a job.  There are some that I know who have have not had a full-time job for more than a year.

Two folks that I’ve come to know on Twitter are doing something about it.  This Friday Valerie Simon of BurrellesLuce and Arik Hanson, a cool communications dude from Minnesota are launching the first ever “Help a PR Pro Out” Day (HAPPO for short) on Twitter and Facebook.

From 11:00am to 3:00pm on Friday, jobseekers can post creative blog posts for employers and Tweet them on Twitter using the #HAPPO hashtag.  Employers can share available jobs with regional HAPPO champions (click here).  And those in the industry can share all information on Facebook and Twitter as a way to expand the reach and make some job matches.

If anyone within reach of this blog would like me to post a profile or a job on Friday or pass some info along, please send it along as a comment with a link to your information.

Let’s help some PR folks out here.  Thanks.

Jon Newman

In 2002 Jon cofounded The Hodges Partnership and has helped to grow it into one of the country’s largest public relations firms (based on O’Dwyer’s annual rankings). Jon has taught communications as an adjunct professor at VCU, speaks regularly at conferences and meetings and blogs and tweets about public relations and marketing issues.

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