Social Media go Mainstream? Euprera spring symposium in Gent (Belgium)
The most stimulating came from Betteke Van Rule: never has public relations been more public! she said from the floor. Which led me to think that, yes!, public relations is…
And now, let's work for the Stockholm Accords and the future of our profession!
The communicative organization acts on the insights that relationships have real value, that reputation is shaped through relationships, and that the organization’s own values must be lived in constant dialogue…
Arresting consequences of life with the Thought Police
The story concerning the man who joked on Twitter and subsequently found himself under arrest caught my eye yesterday, particularly after the story a couple of months ago involving the…
The Communication Initiative and Haiti: how we, public relators, can hope to add real value
My good friend Warren Feek, from the Communication Initiative, has sent the following message...very relevant in general, but even more specifically for our professional community. Please read and, where possible,…
Tackling social migration tensions with the architectural and the generic principles and specific applications concepts of public relations
You might have read these last few days of the serious social crisis developed in the southern Italian city of Rosarno in the region of Calabria, where an exasperated local…
Have More Walls Come Tumbling Down?
Co-authored with Mike Klein In the later part of the year that ends today, much attention has been paid to the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.…
Transforming a Fly into an Elephant: our Russian Colleagues have an Official Hymn! While CIPR in the UK grants Chartered Status to 25 professionals
….And it’s true, my friend, we can even do miracles, create a legend; turn a fairy-tale into reality, transform a fly into an elephant, a donkey – into a camel,…
An effective communication campaign: #PicturesTalk
This detailing of a case study began life as an intended comment on Kristen's Sukalac's recent blog, Pink Gloves, Hashtags and Lost Opportunities, but it became so involved and long…
Jon Iwata at the Yale Club last night. Are corporate ideology and cultural integralism back in town?
Last night, at New York’s Yale Club, I participated in the Institute for Public Relations’ Annual Distinguished Lecture and Awards event. The lecture was by Jon Iwata, IBM’s Senior Vice…
The End of the World as We Know It?
PR Conversations talked to Silvia Cambiè (top left) and Yang-May Ooi (below left), authors of the recently published International Communications Strategy: Developments in cross-cultural communications, PR and social media about…