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PRoust Questionnaire: José Manuel Velasco

The PRoust Questionnaire provides a quick insight into a public relations practitioner’s interests and point of view, as well as her or his professional beliefs and values. If you are not familiar with the original 19th-century Proust Questionnaire, please see details at the end of this post.   PRoust Questionnaire answers from José Manuel Velasco: What is your most striking characteristic as a PR practitioner? Appreciating and understanding the context of an initiative or challenge,...

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Fit for the 21st and digital century: PR should abandon its managerial dreams and focus more on achieving its promises

Is it time for public relations practice to abandon its managerial dreams? Prompted by the previous PR Conversations post (Professional PR Development. Why bother?), Dr Ana Adi and Thomas Stoeckle consider the legacy of Grunig’s Model of Excellence and a need to adjust to a contemporary digital environment. Ana Adi With all the recent focus on the rapid technological changes, I have found myself confronted more often, both in my courses at Quadriga University of Applied Sciences...

Professional PR Development. Why bother?
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Professional PR Development. Why bother?

Let’s talk about professional PR development. Why bother? That’s the question that started the following PR conversation between Kevin Ruck and Heather Yaxley. If you have views on this topic, then add a comment here or on social media. Dr Kevin Ruck Co-founder, PR Academy With PR bodies increasingly focused on the importance of raising standards in professionalism and ethics, why are some (or most?) practitioners not that bothered about career development? I have seen...

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Practical perspective of PR management

The 2017 European Communications Monitor report has been published recently detailing challenges facing strategic communicators in 50 countries. In this guest post, Anastasiya Shyrina, provides her perspective on the practicalities of PR management in Ukraine. My friends know that I work in public relations. What they frequently don’t know is what exactly I do every day. Looking back at my 5-year career full of diverse hands-on experience, I came up with a list of 15...

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PRoust Questionnaire: Kim Blanchette

The PRoust Questionnaire provides a quick insight into a public relations practitioner’s interests and point of view, as well as her or his professional beliefs and values. If you are not familiar with the original 19th-century Proust Questionnaire, please see details at the end of this post. PRoust Questionnaire answers from Kim Blanchette: What is your most striking characteristic as a PR practitioner? Can I have two? When under pressure, I can jump to tactics....

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Maximising resilience of health and well-being assets in crisis situations

A comment left by New Zealand PR consultant, Catherine Arrow, on a recent post on my personal Greenbanana blog indicated that the topic (the language of grief and a biopsychosocial perspective on mental health issues) was worthy of further investigation. The following is the result of our subsequent shared musings concerning the impact of crisis situations on the health and well-being of public relations practitioners. If you have any thoughts on this topic, we invite you to continue...

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Home sweet home – return to blogging, address well known

It has taken rather a while to unpack all the boxes, redecorate and invite you round for a house blog-warming party chez PR Conversations*. We trust that our return to posting is good news as we’re ready to converse again with our usual sassy attitude. During our blogging hiatus, Judy Gombita has kept up the PR Conversations action via our hugely successful Twitter micro-blog. That’s why we’ve included its feed as a major element of...

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We’re on the move

We’ve been a bit quiet – because we’ve been reflecting on the future directions of PR Conversations. The communicative landscape has changed significantly in recent years – and will continue to do so. So we’re making some changes. These include some ‘behind the scenes’ moving as the site will migrate to a new server. It will take us a little time to get everything sorted but once the movers and decorators have done their job,...

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Getting serious about the social science of public relations

I often have email conversations with my PR Academy colleague, Kevin Ruck PhD. about public relations and communications. We have a shared interest in psychology (both being qualified at degree level in the discipline) and believe the social sciences have much to offer in our work. The following post sets out our latest debate – please add your thoughts in the comments below or join us in the Facebook group: Public Relations Community of Practice....

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There’s no place for women at the top of the edifice

It seems like the one voice that’s been silenced in the gender diversity debate is that of Saatchi & Saatchi chairman Kevin Roberts. Since his controversial interview with Business Insider UK, many people have shared their thoughts via social media, blog posts, articles and interviews. But not a peep from Roberts who ‘has been placed on leave’. One wonders where the public relations executives at Saatchi were during Roberts’ interview. Did they set this up?...