Gordon Brown (and the Financial Times) is at it! What should we do?
I feel like blogging this lovely Sunday morning from my terrace over the charming bay of Italy’s Porto Ercole and am musing over the issue I wish to address
Author: PR Conversations
Research report on sustainability reporting in Canada
Earlier this week Benita Steyn asked me if I knew of any research relating to “enterprise strategy in Canada,” for use in her current research. Although information on that specific area seems light on the ground at this stage, I did recall the detailed research report conducted two years ago by our national body, the Certified General Accountants Association of Canada. From its June 7, 2005, media release: “There is a widely recognized global movement...
The Fork in the Road to PR Research
Management wants data. How can anybody think otherwise in a business world ruled by six sigma, key performance indicators, balanced scorecards, dashboards and ROI. Yet studies continue to show that many public relations practitioners still do not use research
Weekly callout of PR campaigns, “Touchdowns and Fumbles”
Readers of PR Conversations (particularly those involved in media relations or media coaching) might find the weekly e-newsletter, Touchdowns and Fumbles, produced by Veritas Communications to be just the ticket for a Friday half-time break. Its game is to provide a brief analysis of select news stories from a PR perspective. As indicated in last week’s issue (July 6th), “…we only comment on the communications play, not on the substance of the issue.”
Thoughts from Geneva and from Bled: “Business will change the world because it can and it must”
There I was in Bled taking part in a wonderful conference on “Environmental Citizenship Through Communication: Trends, Challenges and Solutions” when I received an extraordinary e-mail from John Plauszek (Ambassador at Large for the Global Alliance) who was taking part in the “2007 United Nations Global Compact Leaders Summit: Facing Realities; Getting Down to business”, described by organizers as “history’s largest and most significant event on the toic of leadership and corporate citizenship”.
From Bled: insights on the institutionalization of the pr function and its connection to the interrelationship between strategic management, corporate governance and sustainability
In a recent comment to a post in which I linked you to the most recent Larissa and Jim Grunig presentation, Estella de Beer from the University Pretoria wrote:
Deadline Nears for PR Research & Measurement Award
Entries to the Jack Felton Golden Ruler Award must be received online at www.instituteforpr.org by by July 31, 2007.
Updating mini-history of public relations
Don Bates is an Honorary Trustee of the Institute for Public Relations and the author of an abbreviated public relations history on the Institute Web site
Public diplomacy, soft power and sociological globalism: where they integrate with public relations.
While in Lisbon last week I met Gregory Payne, with whom I had the privilege to share the panel at the conference.
Linking business strategy and excellent communication. The Grunigs are at it again..
Once more, on the new global public relations framework issue I have the pleasure of linking you to a presentation leipzig-linking-business-strategy-and-excellent-communication.ppt Jim and Larissa Grunig presented in Leipzig (Germany) last week on the theme: linking business strategy and excellent communication