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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..

October 22, 2006

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…

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Thai communication leaders confident the recent military coup will boost their activities!

October 15, 2006

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…

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How public relations improves the quality of organizational decisions and accelerates their time of implementation

October 15, 2006

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…

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Again on licensing. The Puerto Ricans will have a go at it….

October 9, 2006

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…

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Is the UK practice more focussed on media relations while the USA practice is increasingly straying away from media relations? Your opinion?

October 1, 2006

I receive mixed reactions from my interlocutors when I argue that, while it is fair to consider, as a great many do, the UK model of practice in public relations…

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Telephone eavesdropping as a new ‘listening’ tool for pr: the recent cases of Hewlett Packard, Telecom Italia and George Bush

September 25, 2006

I imagine that of the many tools we currently adopt to ‘listen’ to stakeholders (focus groups, participatory observation, network analysis, quali/quantitative research, opinion polls, meetings….) the one which, in many…

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Europe’s new publics are not national but European. However White Paper ignores this as it approaches a highly relevant conference in Madrid on European public opinion

September 23, 2006

I already mentioned in one of my first posts that the European Commission has opened a wide public consultation process amongst its citizens on a White Paper for Communication, which…

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Teaching Global Relations is truly experiencing the infancy of a new discipline..

September 22, 2006

I am now in New York teaching a 42 hour Global Relations and Intercultural Communication course at New York University’s Master of Science in Public Relations and Corporate Communication

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Harold Burson speaks out….times are-a-changing…

September 22, 2006

The September issue of Italian monthly media and journalism monthly Prima Comunicazione , which has just hit the newstands, has a four page interview I did with Harold Burson in…

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A crucial appointment for concerned public relators will be next month in Rome at the first ever World Congress of Communication for Development

September 16, 2006

The principle that public relations in any organization (private, public or social) needs to be involved in the decision making process before decisions are taken…and this…. assuming that the truly…

Richard Bagnall on Tracing the measurement origins of PESOJune 30, 2020
PS I should have added that as a lasting tribute to Don and his amazing contributions to advancing the measurement…
Richard Bagnall on Tracing the measurement origins of PESOJune 30, 2020
What an excellent piece Heather. Sorry it's taken me a few days to comment, but I felt it important to…
Heather_Yaxley on Tracing the measurement origins of PESOJune 30, 2020
Sherrilynne - thank you for stopping by, and I remember our interactions, especially at my Greenbanana blog (where I haven't…
Sherrilynne Starkie on Tracing the measurement origins of PESOJune 30, 2020
Heather thank you for writing this. Reading it is a wonderful trip down memory lane. I've always contended that we…
Heather_Yaxley on Tracing the measurement origins of PESOJune 30, 2020
That's great to hear - the linkage to measurement and evaluation is critical of course.

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