Time to bend gender attitudes for social and professional change
Just when you think an issue is sorted, done, dusted and settled – up it comes again. The issue on my mind today is gender and its impact on public…
On the current crisis, institutionalization and regulation…
Would a more ‘institutionalized’ PR function have performed a more useful function of warning and advising financial institutions over the last few years? I suspect not – because the process…
“I Haven’t Got Time” or How to Doom a PR Career
I should warn readers in advance that this column is going to be a bit of a rant because I am very frustrated by many of my peers. If you…
The Strategist’s “Where PR Belongs” crosses borders and triggers some international discussion
On August 15th my quarterly copy of The Public Relations Strategist (published by the Public Relations Society of America) arrived. The Summer 2008 edition’s cover highlighted the feature article, “Where…
A virtual space to play in…
I got a bit over-excited with all the talk of spaces and what we do with them, so I have created a virtual world for PR Conversations if you want…
Anne Gregory: we must re-frame our thinking and practice where it is naïve, weak, self-deluded or in it for the money
I was fascinated to read Toni Muzi Falconi’s reflection on the London World Public Relations Festival on the 28th June 2008 and the subsequent comments. Oh what lather we get…
Filling a PR void of “established media outlets” in Canada
At least that’s what members of the Canadian Public Relations Society (CPRS) were told on July 8, 2008, in an e-mail blast (presumably) provided by US-based publisher director, Julia Hood,…
An apology to PRSA and its leadership. I was mistaken on the dates…
I owe a public apology to the PRSA and its leadership. I do not believe this should only go as a comment on the specifically relevant post but as a…
A highly disappointing London World Public Relations Festival: a politically correct, lip service tribute to everything and its contrary! Too bad..
The very selection of the overall theme ‘The public benefit of public relations’ reveals a strong affiliation with that ‘pr-for-pr’ thread of thought which, if one patiently recalls similar attempts…see…
McClellan, PRSA, Cohen and CBS, You Tube, Harold Burson, Jack O’Dwyer, Myself and…boy what a blunder!
As professionals, we know only too well how often we are called on to discover or even create reasonable opportunities for published visibility, as well as to rouse and galvanize…