Had a great time in New York City meeting with alumni of Syracuse University’s Newhouse Executive Master’s in Communications Management. I graduated from the program two years ago and hadn’t been back to their NYC facility, Lubin House, since. It was great to network and enjoy a fantastic line up of public relations speakers including Richard Edelman and Dierdre Breakenridge.

Deirdre Breakenridge speaking on "Putting the public back in public relations."

When I started the master’s program in 2005, I chose my field of research to be Web 2.0 communication (that research spawned this blog). My capstone research focused on best practices in Web 2.0 public relations. Back then, I remember having to convince the professors and academic director that this was a worthy topic of academic research. Thankfully, they were open to the idea (that’s the great thing about the program, you can tailor it to your interests). Amazing that two years later, Lubin house is filled with talk of digital media and enthusiastic tweeting. I just love it!

I highly recommend the Syracuse University master’s in Communications Management program to anyone looking to take their public relations practice to the next level. You’ll meet incredible people and make lifelong friends.

Reunited with Irene Maslowski and Pam Nulman from the '05 class.