Analyzing Classmates Blogs

This time around when looking for classmates blogs to comment on I chose to look at Lindsey Hock and Samantha Roman blogs. Lindsey's blog focuses on NBC News Studios while Samantha's blog focuses on the fashion industry. 

Lindsey's blog starts off with discussing what she is going to write her blog about. She starts off by describing how she spent her summer working at NBC News studios and what she did while working there. She ends the post by taking about how it relates to what we are learning in PR class. Her second post was about ethics relating to “NBC Dateline" particularly the show "To Catch a Predator". She talks a bot about what the series is and then goes into whether to show is ethical or not and states her feelings on ethics. For her third post she focused on PR research specifically relating to the 2008 and 2010 Olympics and how NBC is up to date with technology since it took in a count new technology when figuring out how many people watched the Olympics.  Her fourth post was her looking at classmate's blogs and her thoughts about them. Her fifth post was about unobtrusive research and how content analysis is a important part of NBC News Publicly Department.

While reading Lindsey's post about looking at classmate's blogs I stumbled upon Samantha's blog. In her first post she discusses what her blog's focus will be which is the fashion industry and how she will compare the good and bad PR in the industry.  In her second post she talks about ethics in fashion and gives the example about unfair treatment of workers in Bangladesh and how most of the fashion industry uses these workers who are paid below the minimum wage yet claim to be humanitarians.  In her third post she writes about PR Research in the fashion industry she used the example of  Ann Taylor Loft how they posted pictures on their facebook about new their new silk cargo pants that featured a tall, skinny, blonde model  and people commented saying the pants only look good on a size 2. Ann Taylor's PR department responded by posting pictures of a three women from their office of different sizes to show that women of any size would look flattering in the pants.

In her fourth post she discussed other classmate's blogs that she read and gave her opinion about them. Her fifth post was about unobtrusive research in the fashion industry and gave the example about shoplifting how a study was done that watched a store over time and they found that most of the time the shoplifters got away with it because the store staff weren't watching. Also that if fellow shopper saw it happening they almost never said anything to stop the theft.

I feel that both these classmate's blogs were very good and very informative. Lindsey's blog was very interesting with her pictures and I felt she tied the theme of the post well to NBC each week. Samantha's blog was very interesting to me since I love fashion and the fashion industry and was at first going to also do my blog about the fashion industry but decided to write mine about a PR company instead.