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Yes! An unabashed praise for Richard Edelman. We will learn from your mistakes..

I dare to predict that in a few years (or maybe even a few months) many of those who, on-and-off-line, today criticise Richard Edelman for his ‘mistakes’ in the use of the blogosphere to represent the interests of big league clients such as Wal Mart and Microsoft will grudgingly recognize that our professional community owes a substantial professional as well as cultural debt to one of its more distinguished, successful and competent senior colleagues…

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the impact of compromised decisions create potentially harmful situations for those involved that include: loss of credibility, being labeled as purveyors of deception, engineering misinformed publics, or spinning/framing information simply to suit a clients taste….sound familiar?

Louisa Bargeron, another of my NYU students, dwells in this paper Truth in Public Relations Bargeron.doc on the issue of the ambiguity of public relations. Great reading and learning for all of us….

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Public Relations, the Kremlin, international agencies and russian public relations practice. Oxana Trush gives her view…

Oxana Trush, a young russian public relations professional who actively and intensely participated to my NYU class, submitted her final paper oxana’s second part.doc analysing Russia’s current public relations environment and, in the excerpts you may read here, she supplies interesting information on a recent public debate concerning Ketchum’s role in the G8 summit, Tim Bell’s activities in defence of the Litvinenko family ,and a number of issues I had raised in a recent post which had, at the time, not succeeded in...

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Doing what comes naturally:using prevailing conceptions of public relations to support global diversity

…..If money ‘talks,’ –writes Amy De Robertis– let the wealth of these younger generations defend communication for diversity, in diversity and with diversity while the pr industry builds its knowledge of global public relations practices that are more effective at engaging diverse publics in excellent communication and enable practitioners to reach cultures that are struggling to retain their identities and provide for their people…. 

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On the ambiguity of public relations and corporate social responsibility. Michael Porter speaks out on the Harvard Business Review. Moving out of the usual dilemma..

I am nearing the end of this highly intense and fantastic cultural experience of teaching global relations and intercultural communication at NYU’s Master of Science in Public Relations and Corporate Communication (see earlier post) and the last session will be next Wednesday when every student will have five minutes to present to the whole class the core concepts of a 15 page final essay.