How to organise and operate a public relations department
This topic remains as relevant today as when the following insight into the public relations department of 1948 was written by Conger Reynolds, public relations director at the Standard Oil…
Fifty shades of PR
What shade of PR do you practice? I believe that “PR is what PR does” which offers a broad perspective encompassing many shades. In a recent PR Conversations post, Fraser…
The PR impact of rejection and denial
Modern media is making it ever easier for people to reject things that they don’t want to hear. We can scan and filter out sentiments or information that we find…
OOPS! Gordon Brown's recent debacle leads public relators to think this one out, with some care….
If a subject to be trusted is ‘one who does what he says….walk the talk and, when useful, talk the walk…' then we must discipline ourselves to think, speak privately…
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…
Stockholm Accords first draft up for comments. Please contribute, suggest, criticise and help shape the future of our profession
Have you ever heard of any profession uniting more than 70 national professional associations to implement a global yet highly flexible and local advocacy program to enhance its own perception…
Obama losing control of his narrative? Then why is Berlusconi successfully holding his?
It seems that, during his first year in office, President Obama is progressively losing control of his narrative. It also seems that Italy’s Berlusconi is, instead, holding on to his…
Talibans implementing an apparently effective public relations campaign in Afghanistan, reports the New York Times.
This morning's edition of the New York Times carries on it's front page an enligthening article by Alissa Rubin on the Taliban's public relations campaign in Afhganistan, casting a well…
Tackling social migration tensions with the architectural and the generic principles and specific applications concepts of public relations
You might have read these last few days of the serious social crisis developed in the southern Italian city of Rosarno in the region of Calabria, where an exasperated local…
A year end invitation to discuss the global public relations attack against Google
I have no personal gripe with Google If anything, as an intense yet only partial user of its many and increasing services, I am a satisfied consumer of Google. This…