I really goofed! One of the most interesting recent threads of discussion has been inadvertently deleted!!
Wow, just one little blunder and a whole lot of interesting content disappears in a second and cannot be retrieved
Start planning now for pr/communication conferences in 2008
Below are comments from various PRC contributors (that were hidden away elsewhere on this blog) on European conferences taking place next year. Should you want to recommend another PR/ communication conference anywhere in the world, please write and let us know.
What is PR?
If you’ve ever heard the fable of the five blind men and the elephant you will appreciate the challenge of answering the simple question – what is PR - which I’ve selected for my first post at PR Conversations.
This ancient story relates how each man provides a different description of an elephant based on the personal experience [...]
Alan Chumley opines on “the current state of the art (science?) of measurement in Canada”
When it comes to an overview of the Canadian measurement scene, few can match the depth and breadth of knowledge of Alan Chumley. Instead of an interview, I offered Alan a guest post, where he could write (in his own words) about measurement in Canada.
What Can Today’s CEOs do for Tomorrow’s Leaders?
This post on the Institute for Public Relations website is from guest author Ken Makovsky.
Think about all the issues that face CEOs at major companies: everything from ethics, safety and diversity in the workplace to environmental sustainability and regulatory compliance … all on a global scale. Failure to successfully manage such issues can cost a [...]
Lobby in Portugal: When the PR industry doesn’t succeed in producing social change
Portugal has a 33 years old democracy achieved after a peaceful military revolution that ended a dictatorship that had lasted for several decades. Propaganda was one of the major strengths of our dictatorship (as with all the other similar regimes) and people-to-people grass roots communication was the major weapon of the revolutionary. But Public Relations [...]
Anne Gregory relaunches the debate on ambiguity as… a reason for public relations.
Posted by Toni Muzi Falconi on August 28, 2007 · 3 Comments
In a recent post I had raised the issue of the ambiguity of public relations concluding with the question: Are we ready to challenge ourselves over our own ambiguity?.
Here are Anne Gregory’s thoughts, lucid and controversial as ever
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