Blogging from Vilnius on black pr. A really freezing shower for all of us!
The only thing that I regret is not having been able to understand (because of the lack of an english translation) of three and one half presentations (out of nine!)…
How do I ‘black pr’? Let me count the ways…At least 13. 150 professionals from 7 european countries meet in Vilnius (Lithuania) today to compare notes.
Many will remember Elizabeth Browning’s lovely poem…
Measuring Social Media: a post from Frank Ovaitt, President of the Institute for Public Relations
“A new blog is created about once every two seconds. New videos are posted to YouTube even more frequently. Virtually everyone with a computer (98%) goes on line to search…
A Message Bazaar? Is this where we are heading? An interesting perspective from Iran
I have just come across a highly interesting read from Iranian scholar Mehdi Mohsenian Rad, Ph.D. on Globalization, Culture and Message Bazaar. Please take a break, its tough reading but…
“Transparency is harder than it looks”
How would you feel if your personal file on a reporter went public? And what could happen if this reporter was doing a piece on one of your organisation’s Transparency…
New tools don’t make New PR
I probably don’t come to this in the best frame of mind, having just listened to several hours of rant about how social media is ‘The New PR’. I am…
Catherine Arrow comments on more than one recent post and talks to us about our optical illusions and cultural tribes in public relations…
Dear Toni,This comment really bounces across several of your recent posts as there are certain threads of thought which criss-cross and intersect. I don’t know if you have come across…
Again on one-company-one-voice: is it feasable? is it desirable? And how does one cope with social media?
A friend sends me the following: Your recent post on the idea of the one-company, one-voice concept becoming more obsolete as a result of diversity and social media is very…
And now to Vilnius, to discuss Lithuania at the crossroad of ethical and “black” public relations..
While preparing for last winter’s ‘Global Relations and Intercultural Communication’ course for the students of NYU’s Master of Science in Public Relations and Corporate Communication, one of the most surprising…
Is the idea of immaterial (intangibile?) infrastructure only an oxymoron? Or could it also be part of the foundation materials for PR 2.0?
You might remember that only a short time ago it was generally accepted that the Dutch or British ways to integration via a multicultural approach (i.e. stimulating different identities to…