A virtual space to play in…
Posted by Catherine Arrow on July 28, 2008 · Leave a Comment
I got a bit over-excited with all the talk of spaces and what we do with them, so I have created a virtual world for PR Conversations if you want to grab your avatar and come on over to play.
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Anne Gregory: we must re-frame our thinking and practice where it is naïve, weak, self-deluded or in it for the money
Posted by Toni Muzi Falconi on July 25, 2008 · 2 Comments
I was fascinated to read Toni Muzi Falconi’s reflection on the London World Public Relations Festival on the 28th June 2008 and the subsequent comments.
Oh what lather we get ourselves into, on both sides!
Critical comment on one side and hurt pride and righteous indignation from the other.
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Is online reputation management as simple as optimising Google juice and minimising digital dirt?
Posted by Heather Yaxley on July 21, 2008 · 2 Comments
If you’ve any interest in online public relations, you’ve probably heard of the terms “Google juice” and “digital dirt“. But have you taken a deliberate approach, like PRConversations reader, Brandon Carlos to maximise the positive and minimise the negative with your online footprint? If not, why not? Isn’t your own reputation, as a PR professional, the [...]
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Events and spaces for twentyfirst century relationships and conversations….
Posted by Toni Muzi Falconi on July 13, 2008 · 13 Comments
From a front page article on the New York Times of Sunday July 13, Nicolai Ouroussif interestingly describes how new architecture in China reflects the vigour and intellectual ferment
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Filling a PR void of “established media outlets” in Canada
Posted by Judy Gombita on July 9, 2008 · 13 Comments
At least that’s what members of the Canadian Public Relations Society (CPRS) were told on July 8, 2008, in an e-mail blast (presumably) provided by US-based publisher director, Julia Hood, which announced the new PRWeek Canada newsletter. Although I certainly welcome the addition of Canadian-specific information (“news and features, trend stories, profiles, and Q & [...]
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An apology to PRSA and its leadership. I was mistaken on the dates…
Posted by Toni Muzi Falconi on July 3, 2008 · Leave a Comment
I owe a public apology to the PRSA and its leadership. I do not believe this should only go as a comment on the specifically relevant post but as a separate post.
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it’s time to take a look at geo-fear:this new plague-in-town impacting on public relations
Posted by Toni Muzi Falconi on July 28, 2008 · 1 Comment
In Torino, early July, at the World Architects Conference -in the context of a workshop organised by Ferpi, Assorel (the Italian agency association) and the Global Alliance on how public relators and architects might better work together to reduce the more negative effects on society of the nimby (not in my back yard) and banana [...]
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