global discussion. local perspectives.
Management wants data. How can anybody think otherwise in a business world ruled by six sigma, key performance indicators, balanced scorecards, dashboards and ROI. Yet studies continue to show that many public relations practitioners still do not use research
Readers of PR Conversations (particularly those involved in media relations or media coaching) might find the weekly e-newsletter, Touchdowns and Fumbles, produced by Veritas Communications to be just the ticket for a Friday half-time break. Its game is to provide a brief analysis of select news stories from a PR perspective. As indicated in last week’s issue (July 6th), “…we only comment on the communications play, not on the substance of the issue.”
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”.
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:
Entries to the Jack Felton Golden Ruler Award must be received online at www.instituteforpr.org by by July 31, 2007.
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
While in Lisbon last week I met Gregory Payne, with whom I had the privilege to share the panel at the conference.
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
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
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?