Fifty shades of PR
What shade of PR do you practice? I believe that “PR is what PR does” which offers a broad perspective encompassing many shades. In a recent PR Conversations post, Fraser…
The PR impact of rejection and denial
Modern media is making it ever easier for people to reject things that they don’t want to hear. We can scan and filter out sentiments or information that we find…
Online public relations is not that different—crowdsourcing isn’t a feasible strategy
There’s an old adage that decisions by committee really aren’t that effective, particularly as the eventual outputs and outcomes tend to be second rate. Plus no one is truly accountable…
London 2012 – stories of a peripatetic PR
Guest post by Peter Brill, Managing Director, Net.Mentor Ltd There are a group of people who spend their life seeking the constant change and irregular adrenaline rush of the Olympic…
In praise of PR silence
This is possibly the shortest ever post at PR Conversations. Normally we like to stimulate a conversation with a lengthy and considered post. We develop a line of thought and…
The final word – why PR books still matter
When was the last time you read a public relations book? I mean a proper book with pages that you turn by hand, not a representation that you flick with…
BLEDing-edge public relations research in 2012
Bled Symposium 2012 summary by Toni Muzi Falconi Ten years ago, in July 2002, some 100 scholars and professionals from many European countries met in Bled, Slovenia, to discuss and…
Archiving the future of public relations
The International History of Public Relations Conference (IHPRC) at Bournemouth University again delivered much fascinating and thought-provoking insight into our past, present and future. None of the papers could be…
Making public relations history
“Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it”, according to Oscar Wilde. Those of us assembling in Bournemouth for the third International History of Public…
PRoust Questionnaire: Jane Tchan
The PRoust Questionnaire provides a quick insight into a public relations practitioner’s interests and point of view, as well as his or her professional beliefs and values. If you are…