Engineering Search: The story of the algorithm that changed the world
New radio documentary from Ira Basen airs on December 5th This coming Sunday (December 5th), a new, one-hour documentary is set to air on CBC Radio One’s The Sunday Edition.…
Online Public Relations: The adoption process and innovation challenge, a Greek example
By Philip J Kitchen, Dean, Faculty of Business, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada In the past two decades PR practitioners have become more involved with electronic activities that have…
In just one book – Global Public Relations: spanning borders, spanning cultures
Global Public Relations: spanning borders, spanning cultures Review by Toni Muzi Falconi I’ve now been teaching Global Relations and Intercultural Communication at New York University’s Master’s in Public Relations for…
A one-on-one chat with Solo PR’s Kellye Crane
Kellye Crane, a 20-year public relations and communication veteran, has been operating independently as Crane Communications, LLC since 1995. She is a member of the Public Relations Society of America.…
The big question: What is PR?
In May 2008, Catherine Arrow produced a useful edited publication: What is PR? which brought together a range of posts from PR Conversation touching on the “big question” that seems…
Free book download: Institutionalising Public Relations and Corporate Communication
Securing a place for PR at the top table is an ongoing discussion topic – and the concept of institutionalising public relations and corporate communication was a key theme on…
Reaching stakeholders, publics & audiences in a journalism 2.0 world where Free Costs Too Much
Although primarily focused on changes to newspaper readership and engagement models, an underlying quest is answers to the challenges impacting public relations practitioners regarding audiences who are only prepared to…
Isolated on the Web
This week, five francophone public radio journalists (one Belgian, one Canadian, one Swiss and two French) are evaluating new media. Isolated in a cabin in a rural region of France,…
2010: Battle begins for "real-time" relationships
Read the paper? Nah - that's old news. Watched the broadcast? No need, we were there when it happened. Tracked Twitter trends to spot what's unfolding? Didn't bother, we saw…
Debut of two-part CBC Radio show–News 2.0: The Future of News in an Age of Social Media (updated)
I'm briefly interrupting the wonderful debate on CPRS's new definition of public relations to let you know that a new, two-part CBC Radio show, produced by Ira Basen (of Spin…