Week five tasks for ALR206You don’t have to do all these, but you have to reach at least 100 points from at least three categories.

Listen

20 Points (for each podcast – so long as it’s over 15 minutes long)

Listen to an FIR podcastHighly recommended: The Young PR Pros podcast

Listen to an ABC Media Report podcast Highly recommended: New media adventures in Oz and Redesigning Wired.com

Watch

75 PointsLynda.com YouTube Projects for Business and Marketing

20 Points (for each video watched)

Watch a TED Talk Recommended: The Price of Shame and The nerd’s guide to learning everything online

Watch James Grunig talk about PR influence on management on YouTube.

5 Points (for each video watched)

IABC videos Writing for the 21st-century reader and Visual Grammar

Download

10 Points (for each task)

Go to the App Store/Google Marketplace and browse the top new apps – consider how some could be used in PR. Download and try two that you think could have relevance to PR practitioners.

Download and learn how to use Tweetdeck (for Twitter – ideally do this on your laptop). Add a couple of columns with search terms (remember we looked at monitoring in week 2?).

Do

75 Points (for each task)

Produce a “how to” video and upload it to YouTube. Embed it in a blog post.

Write a letter to the editor on a social media related topic, and have it published.

60 Points (for each task)

Have coffee with a PR practitioner and chat about how they are using social media personally and professionally.

Start your own ePortfolio (if you don’t have one already).

50 Points (for each task)

Call in to a radio program talkback program and talk about/comment on some aspect of social media.

Create your own infographic (using one of the free services online).

Create and upload a 60 second long (no more no less – that’s part of the challenge) audio recording of your thoughts on PR and social media (try SoundCloud, MixCloud or AudioBoom). Make it creative. Embed it in your blog.

30 Points

Create a PR/Social Media related survey on www.surveymonkey.com and get at least 10 responses. Report on your findings.

20 Points (for each task)

Review a café or restaurant on Yelp, Zomato (formerly UrbanSpoon) (or the review site of your choice).

Read and comment on 5 blog posts on the ALR206 Network site

Create a Twitter account and add 20 PR practitioners (only if you don’t have an account).

Embed your Instagram or Vine Feed into a blog post.

Upload a Vine/Instagram video (with some relevance to PR or Deakin) using #alr206

Take a photo with @deakin and #alr206 in it in some interesting location.

Participate in the #prstudchat on 25 August, 8.30 pm US ET (use http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html to find out the time/date in your location). Yes I know it’s next week, but you can edit your blog post!

If you have Twitter - Install Bufferapp on your laptop’s web browser and schedule five tweets.

10 Points (one point for each Tweet after the first one)

Tweet an interesting article about PR and Social Media using #alr206