#PRC2010 Trends impacting Public Relations world
This is the time of year when many of us are reflecting about the future, trying to figure out how our profession, our companies, our clients, our societies will be…
Pink Gloves, Hashtags and Lost Opportunities
A few weeks ago on the Hobson and Holtz Report (For Immediate Release 493), Shel Holtz mentioned that participants at this year’s Blog World Expo had been requested to use…
Difference between King III and King II Reports on Governance
The King Report on Governance for South Africa 2009 and the King Code of Governance Principles (King III) plus the Practice Notes that support it, were released at the beginning…
Storytelling, Public Relations and The Drum Beat… a wealth of suggestive cases from the world
As our global public relations community intensifies its discussion and analysis of the storytelling approach to organizational communication, may I strongly suggest you make good use of this link to…
On Berlusconi again: when advertising and information find a synthesis and fiction becomes the only reality
Some of my international friends and colleagues have been probing me in these weeks to try and rationalise, from a communicational perspective, what is going on in my country. A…
Two ditsy thoughts and one good answer to the question: what now after Grunig? Online Public Relations by David Phillips and Philip Young
In these recent weeks, and in various encounters with professionals and scholars from around the world, I have stumbled more than once on to the question: ‘what now after Grunig?’……
Culture and Public Relations: a letter from Bled, Slovenia
As many of our visitors know, Bled is a small and lovely Slovenian town on the shores of a charming lake where, for 16 consecutive years, a trio of committed…
Bulgarian blog converses on integration difficulties of social media into public relations practice
Nelly Benova is a forceful and highly proactive figure in Bulgarian Public Relations. She represents the Bulgarian PR Association in the Global Alliance, in Cerp and also manages the CIPR…
Lies, Damn Lies and Twitter
When used properly, statistics can be very informative. However, some statistics are meaningless, and some are dishonest. Interpreting statistics requires some technical knowledge, and most people do not have the…
Freshly squeezed takeaways from the Edelman new media academic summit in DC…
Leaving aside a fastidious reiteration of usual buzzwords such as twitter and facebook, closely followed by obama and engagement, and the conceptual thinness of some of the cases which were…