What is ‘the public interest’?
A run on the Northern Rock bank in the UK this week got me thinking about ‘the public interest’ again, especially after Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England…
Start planning now for pr/communication conferences in 2008
Below are comments from various PRC contributors (that were hidden away elsewhere on this blog) on European conferences taking place next year. Should you want to recommend another PR/ communication…
Alan Chumley opines on “the current state of the art (science?) of measurement in Canada”
When it comes to an overview of the Canadian measurement scene, few can match the depth and breadth of knowledge of Alan Chumley. Instead of an interview, I offered Alan…
Lobby in Portugal: When the PR industry doesn’t succeed in producing social change
Portugal has a 33 years old democracy achieved after a peaceful military revolution that ended a dictatorship that had lasted for several decades. Propaganda was one of the major strengths…
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…
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
Thoughts from Geneva and from Bled: “Business will change the world because it can and it must”
There I was in Bled taking part in a wonderful conference on “Environmental Citizenship Through Communication: Trends, Challenges and Solutions” when I received an extraordinary e-mail from John Plauszek (Ambassador…