global discussion. local perspectives.
The canadian professional community is commenting on the first of six hours of canadian broadcasting corporation radio coverage of the relationship between public relations, spin and journalism. Here is the link to the first program. Listen and comment if you wish. I found it very well done, balanced and interesting: http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/spincycles/index.html
At the risk of seeming complacent…says in the following interview to this blog, Colin Farrington, chair elect of the Global Alliance and since seven years director general of UK’s Chartered Institute of Public Relations…
Jack O’Dwyer’s web site has brewed, in these last few days, a very interesting discussion sparked by a caustic and titillating op-ed authored by Bill Huey under the title ‘Sorry State for PR Education’ Huey jan 18.doc …
Last week in Washington DC, 150 Senior Public Relations Professionals -from as many powerful private US corporations- gathered by the PR Coalition (an organization which comprises many American professional associations representing overall some 50 thousand members), met with the leaders of the State Department to discuss how enhancing joint programs between public and private sector may help in improving the world reputation of the United States (Copyright 2007 HT Media Ltd final.doc)..
Public, private and social institutions, supported and assisted by our colleagues around the world, are having an increasingly hard time in coping with the fact that even if and when they succeed in controlling mainstream media (a daring task in many countries), there is little they can do to control social media. The most they can do is to monitor them and, avoiding those typical and traditional knee jerk reactions which are so evident in...
A recent post on whether our license to operate should be renewed to professional associations has attracted some very interesting and authoritative comments which, I believe, allow us to make a step forward. I sincerely hope that others, who have not yet expressed opinions, might be encouraged to do so by realising that some added value was gained in the first round.
I had met Shameem in 2004 when she represented her Institute at the World Pr Festival in Trieste. We haven’t seen each other since, but I remember very well her enthusiasm and desire to change. I have just received this article she wrote for the New Straits Times. Take a look and express your point of view..
I dare to predict that in a few years (or maybe even a few months) many of those who, on-and-off-line, today criticise Richard Edelman for his ‘mistakes’ in the use of the blogosphere to represent the interests of big league clients such as Wal Mart and Microsoft will grudgingly recognize that our professional community owes a substantial professional as well as cultural debt to one of its more distinguished, successful and competent senior colleagues…
Is there any sense in attempting -in days such as these when one is supposed to be thinking of new issues to tackle in order to keep up with change, and where possible anticipate it- a critical analysis of professional association performances within the global public relations community?
In these days I have been exchanging some interesting views with Jack O’Dwyer. We respect each other but have different opinions. I asked Jack if he authorized me to post a part of out debate in order to stimulate other visitors from around the world to comment and/or criticize.