The two-faced god and our cusp catastrophe
News that celebutante Kim Kardashian is to produce a ‘reality’ show on public relations sent shivers of dread down my spine this week. More than anything else, it highlighted (for…
Action diplomacy, just like action PR
As I was reading the thoughtful article by Carne Ross in Europe’s World on the need to re-think national diplomacy, I was struck by the parallels with discussions of the…
Really “strategic” communications!
In an analysis of the speech John Brennan delivered yesterday about the Obama administration’s anti-terrorism efforts, Steven R. Corman notes that one of the five elements seems to be “stop…
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…
Show me the money? A challenge for PR
For the last 50 or so years, advertising money has made the world go round. Despite the fact that Viscount Leverhulme (or was it John Wanamaker – either way, both…
Cultural diversities [sic], isn’t it implicit?
As early as my teenage years, I claimed that every family is a kingdom with its own culture and language. It only took the annual debates over which grandmother’s stuffing…
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…
Who should be dealing with the sponsoring of online conversations?
A sponsored online conversation is loosely defined as ‘the practice of paying a blogger to post about your brand’. This is how Bateman Group’s Bill Bourdon begins a post in…
Test of the Twitter Broadcasting System
One of the arguments of the proponents of social media is that the audience reigns, choosing which content it wants to consume. Broadcasting is bad, the logic goes, because it…