Live at the Inauguration with 3000 “Friends” per Minute
I had a new experience yesterday that helped me understand the “social” in social media a little better. I use Facebook to maintain with far-distant friends and to get back…
How cognitive dissonance is impacting this growing universal habit of blaming the media for the worsening of the crisis.
Some 77% of american public opinion (if such an animal ever existed) is reported to consider media reports largely responsible for the worsening of the global economic crisis. What is…
Starving for Context and Translation: Lessons from the 2008 Food Crisis
The first half of 2008 was a blur for me. When the global food crisis hit, the fertilizer industry went from obscurity to centre stage in the blink of an…
New Thinking to Drive the Science of Public Relations
With the announcement of the Institute for Public Relations Research Fellows to guide this organization’s overall research program, Bulldog’s Daily Dog gave me the opportunity to write an op-ed.
The Business of Business is… Responsible Business: where public relations becomes relevant, in the form of stakeholder relationship management
1. The perspective of this new-year note on ‘the business of business is responsible business’ is that the current economic crisis is only one of the consequences of a historic…
2009 – a year for PR career planning
What does the year ahead hold for PR practitioners? Is the emerging global recession an opportunity or threat to our industry? Here are my predictions for 2009, a year when,…
Will our ‘golden goose’ inadvertently become a blessing for the public relations profession?
A recent Security Exchange Commission investigation on an insider trading scam, innocently involving a Brunswick New York manager, spurs calls for the regulation of the public relations profession. Nina Devlin,…
Growing professionalism in Portugal, still to be accomplished the shift for the social media / relationship management paradigm
I asked a couple of friends to share their thoughts about the year 2008 for Portuguese PR. The sector is growing firmly despite of the economic context. Important steps towards…
Evolving PR – ready to learn a new dance?
On the doorstep to Christmas, I thought I would mention my favourite game this year. ‘Spore’ lets you evolve from a tiny cell into a creature that you nurture over…
Dear Santa, a four-pronged wish list for public relators in 2009 from a non believer. Be sure to check out the fourth, as it relates directly to YOU, visitor/reader/commenter of this blog!
1. Please discourage my colleagues from offering, arguing, pushing individual as well as organizational visibility as a ‘strategic’ and desirable objective. Peeing in the pot is more strategic and less…