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Posted by Toni Muzi Falconi on October 22, 2006 · Leave a Comment
October 21 from Canada’s Weekend Post
Weekend Post HQ received one of those Thingamaboobs in the mail this week. And no, that’s not a typo..
Posted by Toni Muzi Falconi on October 22, 2006 · 12 Comments
Next Friday, October 27, in Rome (Italy) the Global Alliance is holding a ‘special event session’ at the World Congress on Communication for Development (see earlier posts) whose official title is: The role of public relations in the new development paradigm. In preparation for this event -and in view of the final recommendations of the three day debate with [...]
Posted by Toni Muzi Falconi on October 18, 2006 · 5 Comments
Many interesting and exciting things are happening in the global pr community…… Amongst these…
Posted by Toni Muzi Falconi on October 17, 2006 · 1 Comment
An interesting effort by the Canadian Public Relations Association has just begun. In an early post of this blog I wrote of another action undertaken by the Italian PR Association (FERPI) to ensure that increasing public spending on public relations be carefully monitored. In yet another we commented the media take up and the CIPR’s [...]
Posted by Toni Muzi Falconi on October 15, 2006 · Leave a Comment
The presidents of the Marketing Association of Thailand, the Thailand Marketing Research Society, the Advertising Association of Thailand, the Thai Direct Selling Association and the Public Relations Society of Thailand agreed on the issue on October 11 despite the current lack of details of the government’s economic management policies.
Posted by Toni Muzi Falconi on October 15, 2006 · 2 Comments
As community consultation and stakeholder engagement practices continue to grow… I believe negotiating, conflict and dispute resolution skills are going to be as important… if not more important… than media relations and crisis communications skills.
Posted by Toni Muzi Falconi on October 15, 2006 · Leave a Comment
At the ICCO Global Conference in Delhi of a few days ago, Lou Capozzi, chairman of the Publicis PR Group, and Paul Taffe, chairman of Hill&Knowlton, challenged pr firms to step up to the opportunities created by what Lou called “The New Conversation Age.” The panelists documented the changes and outlined the skills needed in [...]
Posted by Toni Muzi Falconi on October 9, 2006 · 1 Comment
Two previous posts in this blog were dedicated, directly on indirectly, to the issue of regulation and /or licensing of public relations professionals. Following three recent important events (Richard Edelman’s call for licensing and his subsequent withdrawal from the Council of Pr Firms; PRSA’s decision, after twenty years of silence and resistance to public discussion, [...]
Posted by Toni Muzi Falconi on October 5, 2006 · 4 Comments
In his keynote speech today 1005burson_speech_text.htm at New Delhi’s ICCO annual conference (Icco is the international association of national associations of public relations consultancies), Harold Burson surprised everyone by taking a strong stance on an issue which until only a few weeks ago was considered blasphemy in the US public relations community.
Posted by Toni Muzi Falconi on October 3, 2006 · 2 Comments
Is it enough for us to simply ‘accept’ that practitioners do not get involved in formative and evaluative research (a sort of ‘research-phobia’) because of lack of time and its prohibitive costs? For researches and academics, these are only outright excuses as low and even no-cost evaluation methods are widely available. Instead they cite practitioner [...]
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