New Zealand Police open up law-making to the public
As a follow-on to the posts regarding Madeleine, the Portuguese police and the public interest, I thought you might be interested in a real life ‘open conversation’ involving New Zealand…
Web info sessions on new master of communications management degree program
Back in May my post Stamp of approval on (distinctly Canadian) master’s of communication management degree program generated some great discussion and interest; this DeGroote School of Business program at…
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…
Fires in Greece, Crisis Communication and a serious example from Portugal on synergistic communication and the power of networks
In recent debates on PRConversations about the level of strategic practice of PR, the value of licensing, the role of active professional associations or even the misguided conceptions about lobby,…
Two important new entries for our first anniversary and a proposal to enhance the value of these conversations… what do you think?
With this post, our blog celebrates its first anniversary since the time of its inception under the original name of Toni’s Blog.
Benita Steyn on Strategy and Public Relations
A previous post dwelt on the abuse of the term strategy by public relators and raised a number of interesting concepts. Benita Steyn is one of the commenters and here…
What Can Today’s CEOs do for Tomorrow’s Leaders?
This post on the Institute for Public Relations website is from guest author Ken Makovsky. Think about all the issues that face CEOs at major companies: everything from ethics, safety…
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’.
Ulysses Sarkozy’s doing his thing…and Jean Pierre Beaudoin, one of France’s public relations superstars, comments on changing publics…
Jean Pierre Beaudoin, one of France’s most reputed public relators, is not a particularly abundant writer and speaker; he is very careful at what he says; but when he does…
Are YOU comfortable with ambiguity? An invective on behalf of The Public Benefit of Public Relations theme of the London 2008 World Public Relations Festival
…in a July 17 column, Stefan Stern, the Financial Times commentator, confesses he is not comfortable with ambiguity, and argues against the recent consultants mantra by which organizational leadership must…