A year end invitation to discuss the global public relations attack against Google
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…
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,…
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…
#PRC2010 Trends impacting Public Relations world
This is the time of year when many of us are reflecting about the future, trying to figure out how our profession, our companies, our clients, our societies will be…
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,…
Pink Gloves, Hashtags and Lost Opportunities
A few weeks ago on the Hobson and Holtz Report (For Immediate Release 493), Shel Holtz mentioned that participants at this year’s Blog World Expo had been requested to use…
+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…
Til Death Do Us Part? Models of Engagement
Last week I had the pleasure of discovering the Champagne Bar at St Pancras station in London in the company of Michael Klein, an excellent internal comms professional currently based…
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…
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…