Human connections… This reminds me so much of my father who has been working far for almost 11 years now. It may be weird to begin this by saying that I’m missing him so much. But with this quite established communication I have with him on Facebook, I will survive. To make things parallel, let’s put it this way, I am like the organization, what keeps me alive is the connection that I have built with my different publics. Truly, no man is an island.
I have heard for so many times how lucky young people are to live in a world where in everything is given to them all at once. I have the power to change the world. Every human being has this innate talent to communicate and make that connection last. And having existed in this present generation, with innovative communication tools that are extremely evolving human as well as human behavior, the vested power on us is rather doubled. This is the responsibility that is hard to say without action.
Flipping through the 5-page speakers’ profile, I thought to myself, “Would I even be able to accomplish at least one of these positions (some of which I cannot actually comprehend) someday?” “How long would it take me to be an effective PR practitioner and more the CEO of an influential organization?” “What does it take to become who they are right now?” “How would I be able to become one when I don’t even know where I stand?” “Are great people really born and not made?” All these questions started flooding my head like crazy. But let’s skip that part, I went home converted, anyway.
Well one thing that I fully understand is that Public Relations is based on facts. I agree with Ms. De Quiros when she said that PR is sometimes underrated, I’ve been there once. What I believe now is that the main job of a PR practitioner is to tell the truth as what it really is. What right do we have to tell lies when people have made the risk