150-year-old newspaper blogs its own demise
Posted by Kristen E. Sukalac on February 27, 2009 · 3 Comments
The Rocky Mountain News (Denver CO, USA) will appear for the last time today, just short of its 150th birthday. And the staff has been chronicling the closure in real time through social media.
One of the paper’s official blogs discusses it. Staff members have been posting their feelings, pictures, etc. on Facebook.
There is something extremely [...]
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Report from Lugano (IABC) and Frascati (Cittadinanzattiva): the underwear and the genericity of public relations…
Posted by Toni Muzi Falconi on February 17, 2009 · 6 Comments
Rem Koolhaas, the reputed Dutch architect and professor at Harvard has recently launched a new ‘buzz word’: that of generic architecture.
Just as generic pharma simply deliver the functionality of the base-molecule, generic architecture rediscovers its basic function and common sense, overwhelmed in recent years by the many extravaganzas and by the pressures of competition.
Two [...]
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Who are you to criticise? What is the point of PR in social media?
Posted by Heather Yaxley on February 15, 2009 · 11 Comments
Who has the right to criticise in public relations? This seems a pertinent question in the light of the development of PR in social media where many lessons can be learned, and success or failure is often the subject of comment and debate, normally in the immediate public forum of social media itself.
Is it only [...]
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Luxottica, world leader in premium and luxury prescription frames and sunglasses, stuns all with daring stakeholder relationship program
Posted by Toni Muzi Falconi on February 8, 2009 · 3 Comments
Quanno ce vò, ce vò (pronounced: cannocievò, cievò).
So goes an old roman expression indicating that when something is so, it is so… no matter what, no buts or ifs…
In a particular period in which my Country (Italy) and its private, public and social elites are undergoing a sustained (and increasingly intolerable) intellectual deterioration with dire [...]
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This post is personal; a relative goal to travel from Me to We (updated)
Posted by Judy Gombita on February 4, 2009 · 15 Comments
“A goal is a dream with a deadline”
Update (March 4, 2009): Thanks to community support from a number of areas, Sarah’s Dream received enough votes (more than 100) to qualify. This means her project has a financial base on Give Meaning. I’m sure my niece will take as much delight in the note accompanying [...]
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Integrating Public Relations and Public Diplomacy: a workshop in Rome for 25 diplomats by FERPI, the Italian professional association
Posted by Toni Muzi Falconi on February 24, 2009 · 13 Comments
In agreement with the Diplomatic Institute of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, FERPI -the Italian Federation of Public Relations- is holding in the English language, on March 3,4,5,and 6 in Rome a four session workshop on Public Diplomacy for 25 mid career Italian diplomats according to this program.
Tutors of the course will be Toni [...]
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