The Essential Knowledge Project
There is a tremendous amount of research conducted over the years on all aspects of creating and sustaining public opinion, attitudes and relationships. All too many practitioners don’t have a…
Putting the Public Back in Public Relations
“Social Media and the Future of PR” is the theme of Euroblog2008, currently underway in Brussels (presented by EUPRERA, Edelman, IHECS and Département de communication, Université catholique du Louvain). I…
Weighing in on the value of connectivity and communications
Billed as one of the “highlights” of the University of Toronto’s inaugural Festival of the Arts was the lecture by “renowned Canadian filmmaker, Atom Egoyan, delivering his second public presentation…
The CIPR (UK) moves forward with the Government towards a new licensing approach
As honoray fellow of the CIPR (the UK professional association), I received this cipr news highly interesting piece of news the other day, which implies that -in agreement with the…
Euroblog 2008 in Bruxelles 13-14-15 March- Euprera and Edelman together for one hell of a program
I know I am biased and I know I have already posted on Euroblog 2008, but -come on!- take a look at the euroblog final program of what is possibly…
Shut Doors and Improve PR
Humans are bad at eliminating options, and it costs us dearly in job performance, relationships and effectiveness, says an article in today’s International Herald Tribune that reviews a book by…
Entertaining the “R” word. Will you embrace, spin or hide from that elephant in the room?
“Entertaining the ‘R’ word” is rather poetic, isn’t it? Would it surprise you to know that it was economist Derek Holt (assistant chief economist, RBC Economics Research) who came up…
US Office of Labour Statistics releases new definitions of public relations practice and new data on numbers of professionals and their average annual income.
The US Bureau of Labour Statistics has just released new and very interesting data on public relations practice in the US economy here and here. The most startling element of…
The germans launch an amazing web site for public relations knowledge. Take a good look!
May I attract your careful attention to a new site just developed by the German Public Relations Association in cooperation with the University of Leipzig? This is the link. Take…
A USA Federal Court to decide if Public Relations is Racketeering! Smithfield against UFCW: for the NYT it is free speech, for us it is PR.
I will attempt to summarise, and supply links to the original documents wherever feasible, of what is possibly the most interesting case of a US Federal Court debating an organization’s…