PRoust Questionnaire: Mat Wilcox
Mat Wilcox, founded and leads Wilcox Group, a management consulting firm specializing in corporate issues and crisis communications management.
Public Relations before, during, after acquisitions and mergers. Fascinating lessons from Poznan, Poland!
Ok… it took me more than 20 hours by van to return to Italy, while an Icelandic dust closed all of Europe’s airports… courtesy of two young polish drivers (found…
How cognitive dissonance is impacting this growing universal habit of blaming the media for the worsening of the crisis.
Some 77% of american public opinion (if such an animal ever existed) is reported to consider media reports largely responsible for the worsening of the global economic crisis. What is…
Will our ‘golden goose’ inadvertently become a blessing for the public relations profession?
A recent Security Exchange Commission investigation on an insider trading scam, innocently involving a Brunswick New York manager, spurs calls for the regulation of the public relations profession. Nina Devlin,…
The Strategist’s “Where PR Belongs” crosses borders and triggers some international discussion
On August 15th my quarterly copy of The Public Relations Strategist (published by the Public Relations Society of America) arrived. The Summer 2008 edition’s cover highlighted the feature article, “Where…
Entertaining the “R” word. Will you embrace, spin or hide from that elephant in the room?
“Entertaining the ‘R’ word” is rather poetic, isn’t it? Would it surprise you to know that it was economist Derek Holt (assistant chief economist, RBC Economics Research) who came up…
One Two Three Four, tell me that you love free/online PD opportunities more
With apologies to Leslie Feist, but the talented singer/songwriter is a compatriot, after all, and the fast-approaching PD events I’m about to detail are all Canadian in origin and (I…
Summing up the licensing debate, a post on Strumpette
The Public Relations Society has decided yesterday to set up a task force to explore the certification issue, while many of my students from NYU’s Global Relations course selected licensing…
Research report on sustainability reporting in Canada
Earlier this week Benita Steyn asked me if I knew of any research relating to “enterprise strategy in Canada,” for use in her current research. Although information on that specific…
How do I ‘black pr’? Let me count the ways…At least 13. 150 professionals from 7 european countries meet in Vilnius (Lithuania) today to compare notes.
Many will remember Elizabeth Browning’s lovely poem…