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PR, does it do what it says on the tin?
Dustmen became Waste Disposal and Recycling Operatives, Personnel managers became HR and then Human Capital, and sometimes Talent Management directors. PR people decided at some point that the...
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Ch, ch, changes…
As I am ‘between jobs’ at the moment, I tend to have more time on my hands than has been usual for more philosophical conversations with friends about the meaning-of-life over the odd convivial glass...
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PR and the art of perception
Public Relations is a young business, less than a century old in its American birthplace and even younger across the world. Bob Leaf, the first international chairman of Burson-Marsteller, the world’s...
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What is PR (cool infographic from PR Newswire)
PR Newswire has today published a great infographic explaining the results of their industry survey “what is PR”. Not surprising, but encouraging that storytelling, engagement, conversation, dialogue...
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The truth will out
I was once told by a barrister that he did not plan on calling me to give evidence in a court case because he saw me as “a paid liar”. My immediate response was that as a barrister he was undoubtedly a...
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Call a spade a bloody shovel?
Just read an interesting discussion on Linked In regarding the naming of things. Or more accurately, the naming of corporate functions and the people who work in them. The writer is an “HR” expert and...
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Freedom or entitlement to be represented?
This is an interesting debate led by the Public Relations Consultants Association. (A declaration of interest here as my own employer is a member). It starts with a quote, a little out of context I...
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Best business new year resolution: be prepared
The age-old PR mantra that the “best way to manage a crisis is to avoid having one” is a favourite trotted out by professional crisis managers, often accompanied by that other old chestnut fro m the...
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Is digital really different?
I had an interesting, at least to me, exchange of view on Twatter this morning on the subject of digital communications. @HMATomFletcher argued that ”in comms terms, channels transmit. Transformational...
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PR is Alive, Thriving and Inspiring – My Week in PR!
Every week is interesting when you work in the world of public relations, and the past seven days have been no exception. One of the many reasons I have always loved doing what I do for a living is...
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The ivory towers of Jericho
Fascinating criticisms of me from the learned old gentlemen of Jericho Chambers who continue to write obituaries for the practice of public relations. They accuse me of being “obsessed with selling.”...
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Reading and Meeting – Core PR Competencies
In such a seamlessly connected world where we are all so well networked it seems strange that so many people working in PR and related communications disciplines overlook two competencies and...
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