“Transparency is harder than it looks”
How would you feel if your personal file on a reporter went public? And what could happen if this reporter was doing a piece on one of your organisation’s Transparency…
PR needs more iconic role models like Charles Tisdall
Public relations pioneer was renowned trailblazer for his contributions in setting national standards for PR ethics and practice, creative solutions to complex challenges, and helping herald high tech in communications,…
New tools don’t make New PR
I probably don’t come to this in the best frame of mind, having just listened to several hours of rant about how social media is ‘The New PR’. I am…
Catherine Arrow comments on more than one recent post and talks to us about our optical illusions and cultural tribes in public relations…
Dear Toni,This comment really bounces across several of your recent posts as there are certain threads of thought which criss-cross and intersect. I don’t know if you have come across…
Again on one-company-one-voice: is it feasable? is it desirable? And how does one cope with social media?
A friend sends me the following: Your recent post on the idea of the one-company, one-voice concept becoming more obsolete as a result of diversity and social media is very…
And now to Vilnius, to discuss Lithuania at the crossroad of ethical and “black” public relations..
While preparing for last winter’s ‘Global Relations and Intercultural Communication’ course for the students of NYU’s Master of Science in Public Relations and Corporate Communication, one of the most surprising…
Is the idea of immaterial (intangibile?) infrastructure only an oxymoron? Or could it also be part of the foundation materials for PR 2.0?
You might remember that only a short time ago it was generally accepted that the Dutch or British ways to integration via a multicultural approach (i.e. stimulating different identities to…
When two in an organization share the same opinion, one is too many? Is the one-company-one voice paradigm obsolete because of diversity and social media??
May we still claim that public relations is effective when an organization is able to perform the traditional and consolidated one company-one voice paradigm? Or has the growing convergence between…
Confusion, confusion….in my mind. Here is some food for thought. Let’s discuss.
These last two weeks have gone by with no posts on this-here blog. The real truth is that I have been ‘engulfed and devoured’ by the social media issue in…
Pangloss and Cassandra from Istanbul. What’s ahead? What impact onPublic Relations Associations?
Thanks to Margaretha Sjoberg’s leadership, current Chair of Cerp (the Confederation of European public relations associations, today a substantial and active part of the Global Alliance); and to the warm…