P&G: 1 dollar in mktg pr leads to 2.8 dollars in sales versus 1.1 in advertising and 85 cents in promotions! 27% of the capitalization value of United Technologies may be attributed to external communication. How’s that for evidence???

What a grand Summit! One hundred highly privileged senior representatives of major corporations, public relations agencies, universities and research companies met in Portsmouth (New Hampshire) this week for the Institute for Public Relations’ Summit on Measurement, which IPR’s Ceo Frank Ovaitt proudly described as ‘the annual meeting of the best and brightest minds in public [...]

Telephone eavesdropping as a new ‘listening’ tool for pr: the recent cases of Hewlett Packard, Telecom Italia and George Bush

I imagine that of the many tools we currently adopt to ‘listen’ to stakeholders (focus groups, participatory observation, network analysis, quali/quantitative research, opinion polls, meetings….) the one which, in many countries, appears more widely used today, is telephone eavesdropping.

Europe’s new publics are not national but European. However White Paper ignores this as it approaches a highly relevant conference in Madrid on European public opinion

I already mentioned in one of my first posts that the European Commission has opened a wide public consultation process amongst its citizens on a White Paper for Communication, which is intended as the first step to the implementation of Plan D, a detailed five year public relations plan.

Anne Gregory and Jon White’s indirect contribution to IPR’s Measurement Summit next week in Pourtsmouth, Usa..

Next Thursday and Friday (September 28-29) in Portsmouth (New Hampshire,USA) the Institute for Public Relations will be holding its annual Measurement Summit. The program sounds highly engaging and this is very good news for us, as we are all very much aware of the importance of this issue for the future of our profession…..

Nicola Mattina reveals a ‘pr-as-varnish’ trick by Disney. The ‘devil’ is in the ‘tech-detail’ which ensures invisibility from search engines..

Toni’s recent post on CSR brought to my mind the campaign of Sacom (http://www.sacom.org.uk) against Disney.  Sacom stands for ‘students against corporate mishbehaviour’ and claims that, like many other american corporations, Disney exploits chinese workers…..

Teaching Global Relations is truly experiencing the infancy of a new discipline..

I am now in New York teaching a 42 hour Global Relations and Intercultural Communication course at New York University’s Master of Science in Public Relations and Corporate Communication

This here blog is moving along….

Visitors should be made aware that this blog is now at least for some time (nothing is ever permament…) on the home page of www.odwyerpr.com , the 7/24 e-newsletter which many believe to be the most visited pr news site in the world…

Harold Burson speaks out….times are-a-changing…

The September issue of Italian monthly media and journalism monthly Prima Comunicazione , which has just hit the newstands, has a four page interview I did with Harold Burson in view of his forthcoming visit to Italy scheduled for October 12 and 13. Some may recall that I had already posted the interview with harold burson on [...]

Varnish: this is what Sir Martin Sorrell thinks of Public Relations. Great news..really great news..

At WPP, we have never seen responsible corporate behaviour as a coat of public relations varnish…
From Sir Martin Sorrell’s opening letter of the 2005 WPP Corporate Social Responsibility Report
So, the CEO of world’s largest communication conglomerate, which incorporates ‘la crème de la crème’ of public relations consultancies around the world, describes his opinion of our [...]

This blog is boring? Here’s a good one: on coconut, public relations, diversity and political correctness!

A few friends send me messages inviting me to be more provocative. This blog is too serious…some write. Others say I should be more daring…They are definitley correct and I will do my best..here is a nice one….for you to comment…

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