PR definitions – should do or do do?
A starting point for anyone seeking to understand public relations ought to be a definition. However, the fact that there are several hundred formal definitions and myriad contradictory views to…
Public, private, community, individual
I received a friendship request today on a social networking platform for communicators. I have no idea who this person is, and I suspect that he is a consultant randomly…
What-were-they-thinking Moments
All of us have run across examples of communications that are so inept or so risky that we are tempted to quote Tony Blair in the movie The Queen, when…
Ukrainian Elections Aftermath: PR Needs Massive Cleaning
Yesterday, the people of Ukraine cast their ballots in national elections for the third time in three years. In just a few days, Ukrainians will know who will run this…
Results of European wide survey: corporate pr to overcome marketing pr; social media relations to catch up with mainstream
I am sure that our visitors will be interested in reading results of the survey ecm2007-pressrelease-20070927.pdfof a ecm2007-resultsfindings-20070927.pdf conducted on more than 1000 well experienced European public relations ecm2007-summary-20070927.pdf by…
A growing and comfortable sense of community patches things up. We’ve recovered much of the Princeton Review debate. Thank you!
I am not so sure the debate will start again, but in any case it makes sense to repost the original text of the Princeton Review prc_princeton-post.pdf and recap the…
I really goofed! One of the most interesting recent threads of discussion has been inadvertently deleted!!
Wow, just one little blunder and a whole lot of interesting content disappears in a second and cannot be retrieved
Updating mini-history of public relations
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
The Ugly Side of Eastern European PR. I Wish it Were a Joke
Here is an ad that a Ukrainian firm mails to prospective clients. It’s self-explanatory, really. *** SmartManager company offers: 1. Placing PR-materials in the elite pool of publications that usually…
Internal communication as part of nationbuilding in government
I was recently summonsed to the Presidency in Pretoria to come and assess their “internal communication”. It struck me – once again – that even in the highest order of…