Mar 26
Japan's lesson for a tougher kind of PR
If we want a glimpse of where PR might go over the next ten years, we should examine Japan. The
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Paul Seaman
Analyst and PR consultant
Mar 23
The death of journalism? Not likely!
Clay Shirky argues in his controversial article "Newspapers and Thinking the Unthinkable" that because the barriers to entry
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Mar 13
The web suits the BNP better than the mainstream
The British National Party (BNP) is thrashing the mainstream parties - but only online. This says as much about the
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Mar 10
Cohn & Wolfe tells bank bosses to communicate
There's a timely call in today'sTimes for bank bosses to take the lead in restoring the
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Mar 10
Play nicely, and you'll still get green custard
Richard Edelman argues on his blog 6 AM that we are entering a new era of Mutual Social Responsibility, in
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Mar 03
Max Clifford tells it straight to me online
After my post in homage to Jade Goody and Max Clifford, CIPR President Kevin Taylor left a comment on my
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Mar 03
Homage to Jade Goody and Max Clifford
Today's Jade Goody story in the Sun is very touching. The PR trade needs to get over its
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Feb 24
PRs (not journos) should apologise for the Crunch
This is when I miss London. It stages the debates we need. Last night Polis, the London School of Economics
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Feb 13
BBC Swiss 'race' attack report stuns Brazil
Here's an example of the risk of fast-news. This morning the BBC reported an alleged racist attack by
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Feb 11
Corporate responsibility: the least we can do
The first job of the firm is to fulfil corporate objectives on behalf of shareholders, which is the job of corporate governance to oversee, and to do so honestly. Corporate social responsibility is somewhere between secondary and a distraction.
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Feb 06
The sustainability which bothers business and PRs
The Financial Times' management columnist Stefan Stern and others have been assessing the point and meaning of this year&
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Jan 28
Would you trust a trust survey?
According to the 2009 Edelman Trust Barometer, the public is now nervous of banks and finds itself reliant on government. Can you imagine any other survey results at this moment?
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