Gulp! When a student suddenly makes you think and re-think again..
The following quote is an excerpt of a paper from one of my students (not necessarily the best but certainly not the worst) in the Global Relations class I am…
After 100 years since Lee’s Declaration of Principles…where are we?
If there is one thing which unites all of us, who practice public relations (disregarding age, experience, country, specific practice)… it is that we were brought up eating, digesting and…
And if the preceding post was too heavvy…here are two lighter (although serious)notes for your smile…
October 21 from Canada’s Weekend Post Weekend Post HQ received one of those Thingamaboobs in the mail this week. And no, that’s not a typo..
Is it communication for development or is it public relations? Does it really matter what it is, as long as it is what it is? A fascinating, somewhat irritating, but truly rich chronicle of a passionate exchange on (what I would call..) stakeholder relationship practices.. Peter and Paul have a go..and..Ursula helps shed some light..
Next Friday, October 27, in Rome (Italy) the Global Alliance is holding a ‘special event session’ at the World Congress on Communication for Development (see earlier posts) whose official title…
If not now…..when??? A call to the Global Alliance, Icco, Euprera, Iabc and Ipra..
Many interesting and exciting things are happening in the global pr community…… Amongst these…
Canada to revise pr procurement? Professional associations are beginning to realize that pr is not only private sector…good news
An interesting effort by the Canadian Public Relations Association has just begun. In an early post of this blog I wrote of another action undertaken by the Italian PR Association…
Thai communication leaders confident the recent military coup will boost their activities!
The presidents of the Marketing Association of Thailand, the Thailand Marketing Research Society, the Advertising Association of Thailand, the Thai Direct Selling Association and the Public Relations Society of Thailand…
How public relations improves the quality of organizational decisions and accelerates their time of implementation
As community consultation and stakeholder engagement practices continue to grow… I believe negotiating, conflict and dispute resolution skills are going to be as important… if not more important… than media…
Lou Capozzi- PR people are too siloed, should take a broader view and need to get better at managing advertising!
At the ICCO Global Conference in Delhi of a few days ago, Lou Capozzi, chairman of the Publicis PR Group, and Paul Taffe, chairman of Hill&Knowlton, challenged pr firms to…
Again on licensing. The Puerto Ricans will have a go at it….
Two previous posts in this blog were dedicated, directly on indirectly, to the issue of regulation and /or licensing of public relations professionals. Following three recent important events (Richard Edelman’s…