Beyond Ground Zero: shifting the public relations discourse
Beyond Ground Zero: shifting the public relations discourse to an American Muslim identity and global alliance of moderates
Toni Muzi Falconi’s conversation with Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf on the value of public relations
Recently I was granted the privilege of an extensive conversation with Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf in New York, following up on our first direct [...]
Transparent Swede filmmaker Fredrik-David vs. aggressive Dole-Goliath PR
An exclusive interview with Swedish documentary filmmaker, Fredrik Gertten, about his 2009 BANANAS! film and his currently screening (at film festivals around the world) Big Boys Gone Bananas!* documentary.
In particular, we talk about Dole’s aggressive corporate public relations and media campaign, which worked to prevent WG Film’s BANANAS! documentary from screening in the USA on [...]
Occupy Next (CBC Radio documentary)
New CBC Radio documentary: Occupy Next
We’re interrupting our regularly scheduled PR Conversations programming to tell you the exciting news that that Ira Basen has another documentary, airing on Sunday, April 1st (no joke) on The Sunday Edition.
I asked Ira to tell me what this one was about:
“Occupy Next looks first at the rather extraordinary [...]
Italian women in PR: challenges and opportunities
Op-Ed by Enrica Orecchia
Italian women in PR: challenges and opportunities
The gender-balance question in our PR discipline continues to be a topic of interest, as evidenced by a recent poll and discussion in LinkedIn’s Public Relations Professionals Group, “Why are there more women than men in PR?” That debate inspired me to write my own blog [...]
PRoust Questionnaire: Léa Werthman
The PRoust Questionnaire provides a quick insight into a public relations practitioner’s interests and point of view, as well as his or her professional beliefs and values.
If you are not familiar with the original 19th-century Proust Questionnaire, please see details at the end of this post.
PRoust Questionnaire answers from [...]
Pink Ribbons, Inc. — Rage against the marketing machine’s “shiny, pink success story”
A “conversational” documentary film review by Judy Gombita and Madeline Lunney
Question 13 of our PRoust Questionnaire:
“Has a novel, film, play or other work of fiction ever influenced you as a PR practitioner?”
Answer: Pink Ribbons, Inc.
In early January, we were invited to a private screening of the National Film Board’s feature documentary, Pink Ribbons, Inc. (which [...]
Social media engagement: The PR2.0 shift for politics
Guest post by Tyler Orchard
Social media engagement: The PR2.0 shift for politics
Whether you work in the private or public sector, social media and PR2.0 have evolved into something more than just another set of communications vehicles. Perhaps several years ago taking the plunge into Twitter or Facebook would be a choice one could make based [...]
Public diplomacy: a higher calling for public relations
Public diplomacy: a higher calling for public relations
Guest post by John Paluszek, APR, Fellow PRSA
It is not hyperbolic to say it:
Public relations professionals now have an epic opportunity to serve the global society and thereby win new appreciation of our profession.
In fact, some are already well into that mission.
Let’s quickly examine the case for this [...]
PRoust Questionnaire: Estelle de Beer
The PRoust Questionnaire provides a quick insight into a public relations practitioner’s interests and point of view, as well as his or her professional beliefs and values.
If you are not familiar with the original 19th-century Proust Questionnaire, please see details at the end of this post.
PRoust Questionnaire answers from [...]
One world, many voices in PR
Toni Muzi Falconi shares his impressions of the first Global Congress for Muslim PR Practitioners
In Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, from December 5 to 7, 20011, 197 Muslim colleagues from 33 countries, plus two non-Muslim Canadians (Jean Valin and Dan Tisch) and one non-Muslim Italian—the author of this guest post—gathered together for the inaugural Global Congress for [...]