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For public relations practitioners who include strategic or tactile media relations in their job responsibilities, there was an interesting announcement last week about the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s new partnership with Technorati.
Last Friday I was in London and had the privilege, as Honorary Fellow of the CIPR, to participate to the Annual Fellows Luncheon which is held in the austere House of Lords, in the Cholmondeley Room: a truly fantastic setting on a gorgeous day overlooking the River Thames.
(Extracted from Strumpette) Here’s an excellent example of a corporation doing it right and utilizing social media to LISTEN to the “conversation.” Meet our new friend Roberto Zangrandi.
With increasing frequency we are rapped by the media. Many times this is justified, and this what hurts the most. A few weeks ago this is what Gene Weingarten wrote about us in the Washington Post
I don’t know how to do this properly, but I would like to recoup the discussion which has been going on in this blog about this evergreen issue because it seems to me that every comment raises new issues. So I will profit from this very welcome contribution from professor Anne Gregory to Judy Gombita’s excellent report on Ira Basen’s recent remarks at the cprs annual general meeting with a warm invitation to all visitors...
Recently I reviewed a research thesis written by Anastasia Grynko, a Ukrainian student based in the U.S., titled “Bribery for News Coverage: Research in Ukraine”. Anastasia interviewed 30 “communication leaders” – 15 leading journalists and 15 well-known PR practitioners – and painted a staggering picture, which perfectly illustrates the hypocrisy traditionally surrounding all ethical issues in our profession.
I am sure you are going to love this one…if you have a little bit of patience: it is well worth it!
Ira Basen of CBC Radio’s “Spin Cycles” series fame recently addressed attendees at CPRS Toronto's annual general meeting. Ira has kindly granted permission for his speaking notes to be reproduced on PR Conversations.
If we agree that credibility and familiarity of both source and content are prerequisites for any communication to be effective, we must always remember to be very careful when we tend to enhance and exalt social media as we often do when we write, make presentations or lecture.
This morning CNW Group sponsored one of its semi-regular “Breakfast with the Media” events, this time featuring investigative reporter, Robert Cribb (see full description below). I registered to attend in person, but as a morning meeting got scheduled too close to the event, I opted to listen to the webcast instead. As is often the case with webcasts, CNW Group announced at the session that it will be archived and available for several months (generally...