Tom Murphy, Microsoft's director of corporate communications, corporate citizenship & community affairs
Contrary to claims, Irish luck has little to do with Tom Murphy’s successful career path in public relations.
Arresting consequences of life with the Thought Police
The story concerning the man who joked on Twitter and subsequently found himself under arrest caught my eye yesterday, particularly after the story a couple of months ago involving the…
The End of the World as We Know It?
PR Conversations talked to Silvia Cambiè (top left) and Yang-May Ooi (below left), authors of the recently published International Communications Strategy: Developments in cross-cultural communications, PR and social media about…
Lessons on targetting audiences from Iran
One of the things that has struck me in the coverage of events in Iran is how well protestors there seem to have grasped a basic point of effective communications…
European studies on communication: two reflections
The European Communication Monitor study has put it clearly: for public relations professionals in Europe, Internal Communication and change management is the fastest growing area in terms of importance. It…
PR case studies from countries in transition
Judy Turk and Linda Scanlan are back with the third edition of The Evolution of Public Relations: Case Studies from Countries in Transition. The book, published free online by the…
Ethics, Culture and Public Relations
I’ve been perplexed for a long time about the interface between public relations and ethics. Most PR associations espouse codes of ethics, although they seem devillishly hard to police, leading…
Reinventing diplomacy
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…
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…
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…