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I sometimes think that we get a little obsessed with what PR is and isn’t, and I am not always sure that these conversations do anything more than keep us busy navel gazing. What I’d like to think about is what PR is becoming…and that’s everything. My personal belief is that formalized communications evolved because it was the only way to manage as organizations grew in size. What is happening today, in my opinion, is...
Something awful is happening in my country (Italy) these days, with many implications on public relations (specifically in the sense of public diplomacy) which I feel we should all be aware of. …
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), his most recent opinion…
Is it communication for development or public relations? Click here to rsvp wb1.doc
Last Wednesday (October 10) in Berlin, some 150 senior professionals and scholars from the largest and most reputed German companies, agencies and universities met in Berlin to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Deutscher Rat fur Public Relations drpr_flyer_einladung_11.pdf,
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 are Anne Gregory’s thoughts, lucid and controversial as ever
With this post, our blog celebrates its first anniversary since the time of its inception under the original name of Toni’s Blog.
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 it is, as a post in itself
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 for their final paper. Here, in Strumpette, is a post which summarizes the debate. Let me know your thoughts….
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’.