Why Public Relations should celebrate the G20 meeting
As PR professionals we should celebrate the G20 meeting this week in London as an opportunity to demonstrate what public relations is all about. Essentially, this “informal forum” seeks to…
The Crisis. What else? Jean Pierre Beaudoin: social networks rather than storing oil and sugar.
Is public opinion, like the mythic Penelope, undoing in the night of the crisis what it reluctantly had accepted to weave in the light of growth? Has public opinion thus…
Public Diplomacy with Teheran and direct involvement with the American taxpayer.
Are we finally seeing, moment by moment, a public relations approach unfold…or is it only a disastrous and desperate exercise in spin? You will remember that years ago (not as…
Are We Losing Our Cathedrals of Knowledge to Web-based Information?
Many thanks to Judy Gombita for recently sharing the blogpost “Librophiliac Love Letter: A Compendium of Beautiful Libraries“. As I was perusing the photos, it struck me that these libraries…
Integrating Public Relations and Public Diplomacy: a workshop in Rome for 25 diplomats by FERPI, the Italian professional association
In agreement with the Diplomatic Institute of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, FERPI -the Italian Federation of Public Relations- is holding in the English language, on March 3,4,5,and 6…
Luxottica, world leader in premium and luxury prescription frames and sunglasses, stuns all with daring stakeholder relationship program
Quanno ce vò, ce vò (pronounced: cannocievò, cievò). So goes an old roman expression indicating that when something is so, it is so… no matter what, no buts or ifs……
Reputation lost, reputation won: Lessons from Aristotle and Barack Obama. Ronel Rensburg on Rhetoric and Public Relations. A South African Perspective.
by Ronel Rensburg While watching the acceptance speech (“This is your victory”) by Barack Obama upon winning the presidential race in Chicago, I experienced a long-forgotten feeling of excitement towards…
Live at the Inauguration with 3000 “Friends” per Minute
I had a new experience yesterday that helped me understand the “social” in social media a little better. I use Facebook to maintain with far-distant friends and to get back…
The Business of Business is… Responsible Business: where public relations becomes relevant, in the form of stakeholder relationship management
1. The perspective of this new-year note on ‘the business of business is responsible business’ is that the current economic crisis is only one of the consequences of a historic…
CCO’s from major global corporations discuss the path from sustainability to durability. A blind report from a secret summit…
Last week I participated to an exclusive and ‘secret’ summit of CCO’s from 15 major global corporations during which they discussed some of the major challenges facing their increasingly relevant…