#PRAdvanced was a hit!

Over the weekend, our PRSSA chapter hosted its PRAdvanced: Brand Yourself Conference. The event was a huge success, it was our largest Regional Activity ever with over 175 participants. Guest speakers from JetBlue, Dunkin’ Donuts, Brazen Careerist, Come Recommended, the Boston Red Sox, and more spoke on personal and corporate branding. There was also a career fair and an HR panel.

As you can see, we were very excited last week in the days leading up to what some called “the best regional activity ever:”

My favorite part of the conference was the HR panel. Our president Rachel Sprung monitored the panel and taking question from the audience via Tweetdeck. Talk about new media enhancing in-person experiences!

My phone died this week. May it rest in peace. I seriously think all of the tweeting via text finally did it in.  But there were some great conversations happening on the hashtag. I couldn’t just sit and watch.

I’ve noticed a lot of blog posts recapping the event were thrown up this week. Here are some of the ones I found:

• “PR Advanced: Brand Yourself” by Rachel Sprung – She does a nice job of summing up the event and some of the highlights.
• Laura Flanagan took the plunge into personal branding with her first blog post “Step 1: Attend BU PRSSA Brand Yourself PR Advanced Regional Conference.”
• Ginny Soskey is ready to binge on personal branding too with her post “Branding Yourself: PR Advanced Conference Wrap-Up.”
• “Branding Yourself – PRAdvanced Conference” by Emily Forrest – Emilie focuses on lessons from a breakout session by Karen Raskopf of Dunkin’ Brands.
• Emilie O’Toole gives a few major lessons for personal branding. “Branded: Takeaways from PR Advanced 2010″
• I really like the skills assessment in Ellie Botelho’s post “Branding Myself.” I’ve got to get working on a skill assessment of my own.

Thanks to all who attended. The responses have been overwhelmingly positive, and our hashtag #PRAdvanced was a trending topic in Boston!