Obama losing control of his narrative? Then why is Berlusconi successfully holding his?
It seems that, during his first year in office, President Obama is progressively losing control of his narrative. It also seems that Italy’s Berlusconi is, instead, holding on to his narrative with success.
Talibans implementing an apparently effective public relations campaign in Afghanistan, reports the New York Times.
This morning’s edition of the New York Times carries on it’s front page an enligthening article by Alissa Rubin on the Taliban’s public relations campaign in Afhganistan, casting a well informed and brilliantly reported portrait of how the Taliban’s are increasing in their effort to gain the support of the people.
Tackling social migration tensions with the architectural and the generic principles and specific applications concepts of public relations
You might have read these last few days of the serious social crisis developed in the southern Italian city of Rosarno in the region of Calabria, where an exasperated local community took to the streets and violently attacked the growing community of African migrants, leaving many wounded.
Public Relations, Capitalism and Democracy – Public Relations and Development: two provoKations from my excellent students
I have just concluded my course on global relations and intercultural communication at NYU in New York.
The intense interaction with 10 highly committed graduate students -two Russian, three American, one Brazilian, one Colombian, one British, one Singaporean- allowed me the opportunity to review some of my less resilient stereotypes and learn much more from them [...]
From Oceania and the Mediterranean: our body of knowledge continues to grow
Innovation in public relations thinking and practice continues to come from all over the world.
Interestingly, in most cases the contributions are not from a single local source but from either regional or global perspectives.
Here are two very recent cases
Transforming a Fly into an Elephant: our Russian Colleagues have an Official Hymn! While CIPR in the UK grants Chartered Status to 25 professionals
….And it’s true, my friend, we can even do miracles,
create a legend; turn a fairy-tale into reality,
transform a fly into an elephant, a donkey – into a camel,
and throw the negative into the dust of a street…
+10%! those increasingly muddy waters between evaluation/measurement and return on investment
A few days ago, I accompanied a few colleagues to an important pitch for a global public relations program on behalf of a prominent market leader on which we had been feverishly working for the three preceding weeks..
We went through the whole proposal and, at the very end, the Ceo asked:
‘ok, this is all very [...]
Jon Iwata at the Yale Club last night. Are corporate ideology and cultural integralism back in town?
Last night, at New York’s Yale Club, I participated in the Institute for Public Relations’ Annual Distinguished Lecture and Awards event.
The lecture was by Jon Iwata, IBM’s Senior Vice President, who heads the marketing, communication and citizenship organization departments of that company.
A full house, jammed with many of America’s most senior and reputed public relators.
On [...]
A stakeholder relationships approach to global climate change
Business as UnUsual as the reset for organizational thinking and Changing Mindsets by focussing on the consequences and not the concept of climate change for the public debate. These are my major takeaways from last Friday’s closed door sherpa meeting of global experts, leaders and thinkers of sustainability convened in Rome by Enel.
Basically this amounts [...]
A year end invitation to discuss the global public relations attack against Google
Posted by Toni Muzi Falconi on December 28, 2009 · 22 Comments
I have no personal gripe with Google
If anything, as an intense yet only partial user of its many and increasing services, I am a satisfied consumer of Google.
This however does not necessarily imply that I am an ally.
You have surely realized over these recent weeks and months that Google is under an intense public relations [...]
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