this is reallly a quantum leap! a sustainability meter just introduced by Italy’s ENEL to facilitate individual stakeholder relationships
I am sure you are going to love this one…if you have a little bit of patience: it is well worth it!
Month: May 2007
Planning for Global Meltdown (or how to keep the Cyber Pirates at bay)
As well as being a complete information junkie, I am also, I must confess, a compulsive planner of crisis management strategies, even when they are not mine to plan. So when I read of the cyber pirates’ attack on Estonia and continued my on-going fascination with World Without Oil, all sorts of possibilities and scenarios sprang to mind.
Ira Basen addresses challenges facing both public relations and media representatives
Ira Basen of CBC Radio’s “Spin Cycles” series fame recently addressed attendees at CPRS Toronto's annual general meeting. Ira has kindly granted permission for his speaking notes to be reproduced on PR Conversations.
Is astroturfing truly counter productive? I wonder…..
If we agree that credibility and familiarity of both source and content are prerequisites for any communication to be effective, we must always remember to be very careful when we tend to enhance and exalt social media as we often do when we write, make presentations or lecture.
When image control becomes damage control: are you prepared for difficult questions from journalists? (Webcast opportunity for readers of PRC)
This morning CNW Group sponsored one of its semi-regular “Breakfast with the Media” events, this time featuring investigative reporter, Robert Cribb (see full description below). I registered to attend in person, but as a morning meeting got scheduled too close to the event, I opted to listen to the webcast instead. As is often the case with webcasts, CNW Group announced at the session that it will be archived and available for several months (generally...
1982 Tylenol case a misleading myth: O’Dwyer takes on Fortune, J& J and the public relations establishment!!
My good and esteemed friend, Jack O’Dwyer, has overturned yet another rug from the dainty sitting room in which our professional community enjoys talking to herself in the mirror in the most onanistic of behaviours (not that, as bloggers, we act differently…) and the air does not smell so good…. Just in case, according to Wikipedia, Onan is a person described in the book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible. The word onanism, an older...
(Re)claiming a defined role for public relations…but first determining what it isn’t
I’ve recently returned from a “flying” visit to the jewel-like, antebellum city of Savannah, Georgia, the location of the 2007 LERN Leaders’ strategic planning retreat. The mandate of this international, non-profit association is to provide training and consulting to providers of lifelong learning programs.
Two great stories from the Cape Town Festival
By far the most interesting presentation of the Fourth World Public Relations Festival arrived when Ms. Mindi P. Kasiga, Senior Communication Officer from the Office of the President of Tanzania, brilliantly took us through a fascinating five year process of total rehaul of that Government’s communication in its transition from an information to a dialogue based model of public relations practice.
Global Alliance has new leadership. Where will it go?
The best piece news I have to report from Cape Town is that Colin Farrington from the CIPR is the new Chair of the see recent interviewGlobalAlliance, while my young co-blogger Joao Duarte from Lisbon (link to authors of this blog to see references and read his posts) is now the first part time employee of that organization.
From the 4th WPRF: Listening is essential for sustainable relationship building
Sustainable Communication doesn’t work without listening. This is surely one of the outtakes of the 4th World Public Relations Festival held in Cape Town, South Africa.