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Is the idea of immaterial (intangibile?) infrastructure only an oxymoron? Or could it also be part of the foundation materials for PR 2.0?

You might remember that only a short time ago it was generally accepted that the Dutch or British ways to integration via a multicultural approach (i.e. stimulating different identities to be maintained and preserved by fostering and enabling dialogue and conversation) had produced effective results; while the traditional US based approach to integration via the ‘melting pot’ had exploded in the early eighties with the eruption of traditional American societal values.

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Disintermediation can be a nightmare for many of us! Should we join the blogosphere purifyers?

Is it professional blasphemy to draw a comparison between some of the worries over the excessive autonomy of the blogosphere, recently voiced by the Presidents of Iran and China but clearly argued and prepared by their public relations advisors, and the growing frustration that many of us who work for, or inside some of the larger institutions and corporations nurture for that same environment?

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Listen to this: wish all journalists were so correct in their handling of our profession!!

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

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About this ‘country reputation’ fad after last week’s summit in Washington and the coming one in London..maybe the World Bank has got it right?

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)..

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Our colleagues from the Presidential Office of the Government of Iran warn that blogosphere should not only avoid criticisms but also abstain from being overzealous! So what else is new?

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...

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Public Relations in Iran! Here is the opinion of Shameem Abdul Jalil, President of the Institute of Public Relations and director of Corporate Communication Public Bank of Malaysia

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..