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July 7, 2007 Seasoned Posts

Thoughts from Geneva and from Bled: “Business will change the world because it can and it must”

There I was in Bled taking part in a wonderful conference on “Environmental Citizenship Through Communication: Trends, Challenges and Solutions” when I received an extraordinary e-mail from John Plauszek (Ambassador at Large for the Global Alliance) who was taking part in the “2007 United Nations Global Compact Leaders Summit: Facing Realities; Getting Down to business”, described by organizers as “history’s largest and most significant event on the toic of leadership and corporate citizenship”.

July 7, 2007 Seasoned Posts

From Bled: insights on the institutionalization of the pr function and its connection to the interrelationship between strategic management, corporate governance and sustainability

In a recent comment to a post in which I linked you to the most recent Larissa and Jim Grunig presentation, Estella de Beer from the University Pretoria wrote:

July 5, 2007 Seasoned Posts

Deadline Nears for PR Research & Measurement Award

Entries to the Jack Felton Golden Ruler Award must be received online at www.instituteforpr.org by by July 31, 2007.

July 3, 2007 Seasoned Posts

Updating mini-history of public relations

Don Bates is an Honorary Trustee of the Institute for Public Relations and the author of an abbreviated public relations history on the Institute Web site

July 1, 2007 Seasoned Posts

Public diplomacy, soft power and sociological globalism: where they integrate with public relations.

While in Lisbon last week I met Gregory Payne, with whom I had the privilege to share the panel at the conference.

July 1, 2007 Seasoned Posts

Linking business strategy and excellent communication. The Grunigs are at it again..

Once more, on the new global public relations framework issue I have the pleasure of linking you to a presentation leipzig-linking-business-strategy-and-excellent-communication.ppt Jim and Larissa Grunig presented in Leipzig (Germany) last week on the theme: linking business strategy and excellent communication

July 1, 2007 Seasoned Posts

Who owns relationships? The case of Mo.Ve at the Lisbon conference on public relations and democracy

How does one approach the issue of stakeholder relationship management (or, better, governance..) from an operative perspective? This is the basic question which scholar Tom Watson from Bournemouth University in the UK, recently posted on his blog

June 28, 2007 Seasoned Posts

Linking Trust and Transparency

In 2006, an Institute for Public Relations survey identifying priority research topics put trust right at the top of the list. And what produces trust?

June 27, 2007 Seasoned Posts

The Ugly Side of Eastern European PR. I Wish it Were a Joke

Here is an ad that a Ukrainian firm mails to prospective clients. It’s self-explanatory, really. *** SmartManager company offers: 1. Placing PR-materials in the elite pool of publications that usually decline to publish paid-for materials without marking them as advertising. 2. Placing stories in Ukrainian media (television, Internet, press, radio) on the most attractive terms. 3. Producing high quality PR texts effectively forming the public opinion without being identified as paid-for. We write with a...

June 27, 2007 Seasoned Posts

Blogger outreach efforts gain “authority” when the CBC partners with Technorati

For public relations practitioners who include strategic or tactile media relations in their job responsibilities, there was an interesting announcement last week about the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s new partnership with Technorati.

PS I should have added that as a lasting tribute to Don and his amazing contributions to advancing the measurement…

What an excellent piece Heather. Sorry it's taken me a few days to comment, but I felt it important to…

Sherrilynne - thank you for stopping by, and I remember our interactions, especially at my Greenbanana blog (where I haven't…

Heather thank you for writing this. Reading it is a wonderful trip down memory lane. I've always contended that we…

That's great to hear - the linkage to measurement and evaluation is critical of course.