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’.
Priorities for public relations research: Watson’s delphi results and Robert Wakefield’s comments…
I have mentioned before in this blog Tom Watson’s on going deplhi study on priorities for public relations research. Well, the study is now finished and you can read all…
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…
Is licensing an option or a must? Depends on whether we believe we are a profession or an organizational activity.
This is not the first time that licensing of public relations professionals is discussed in this site (if you digit the term in the ‘search this site’ area of this…
Licensing yes, licensing no. A first rationalization of an online teaching experience which is now half way through.
Tomorrow Monday July 16 I will be having my fourth (out of seven) online two hour session with some 14 executive masters students from New York University’s Master of Science…
Gordon Brown (and the Financial Times) is at it! What should we do?
I feel like blogging this lovely Sunday morning from my terrace over the charming bay of Italy’s Porto Ercole and am musing over the issue I wish to address
The Fork in the Road to PR Research
Management wants data. How can anybody think otherwise in a business world ruled by six sigma, key performance indicators, balanced scorecards, dashboards and ROI. Yet studies continue to show that…
From Bled: insights on the institutionalization of the pr function and its connection to the interrelationship between strategic management, corporate governance and sustainability
In a recent comment to a post in which I linked you to the most recent Larissa and Jim Grunig presentation, Estella de Beer from the University Pretoria wrote:
Public diplomacy, soft power and sociological globalism: where they integrate with public relations.
While in Lisbon last week I met Gregory Payne, with whom I had the privilege to share the panel at the conference.