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 [...]
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 [...]
(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.
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 [...]
1982 Tylenol case a misleading myth: O’Dwyer takes on Fortune, J& J and the public relations establishment!!
Posted by Toni Muzi Falconi on May 23, 2007 · 8 Comments
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 [...]
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