Today’s Globalness of Opinion: the view of Jean Pierre Beaudoin
As we have done once before, because we very much value the opinions of one of France’s most senior and thoughtful professionals, we offer you, from his agency’s newletter (I&E),…
Where next for professional associations?
Drifting round the social networking sites, I couldn’t help wondering where next for our professional associations. Not just in public relations, but across all sectors. What will professional associations have…
Live broadcast: World Bank presents on October 24 the how’s of communication for development. Or is it public relations?
Is it communication for development or public relations? Click here to rsvp wb1.doc
A moment of soberness before the Philadelphia kermesse?
What is possibly the world’s most populated public relations kermesse of the year is planned to be staged in Philadelphia (USA) from October 20 to 23.
What-were-they-thinking Moments
All of us have run across examples of communications that are so inept or so risky that we are tempted to quote Tony Blair in the movie The Queen, when…
What is ‘the public interest’?
A run on the Northern Rock bank in the UK this week got me thinking about ‘the public interest’ again, especially after Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England…
How Philip Morris uses public relations to change the regulatory environment of the tobacco industry… Ann Landman exposes an apparently effective plan
Recently, an articulate and highly informative article by Ann Landman appeared on pr watch. Although quite critical and explicitly biased, it details Philip Morris’s current public relations activities to modify…
Anne Gregory relaunches the debate on ambiguity as… a reason for public relations.
In a recent post I had raised the issue of the ambiguity of public relations concluding with the question: Are we ready to challenge ourselves over our own ambiguity?. Here…
Summing up the licensing debate, a post on Strumpette
The Public Relations Society has decided yesterday to set up a task force to explore the certification issue, while many of my students from NYU’s Global Relations course selected licensing…
Strategic? Careful! Words are essential… at least for us! We should not abuse….
Nine out of ten communication and public relations thesis discussions a couple of weeks ago at Lumsa University in Rome overtly abused the term ‘strategic’.