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Tom Foremski Thought Leaders event at the CIPR

By + on May 14, 2013 in CIPR, Conference Speaking, Content, corporate communications, Ethics, Journalism, Media, public relations, Reputation Management, SEO, social media

Last week I chaired a ‘Thought Leaders’ event at the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) in London where I interviewed Tom Foremski who became the first major journalist to quit mainstream media to make a living from blogging when he left the Financial Times to found Silicon Valley Watcher. The event did leave me [...]

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PR ethics – European Association of Communication Directors’ debate

By + on January 14, 2013 in CIPR, corporate communications, Ethics, PRCA, Public Affairs, public relations, social media, Training

In December I took part in a fascinating panel debate on ‘Defining ethics for today’s communicators’ at the European Association of Communication Directors‘ forum in Amsterdam. It was facilitated by Mike Cooper, editor-in-chief of the Holland Herald and the other panellists were Andre Manning, the vice president and global head of external communications at Royal [...]

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The truth about dishonesty by RSA Animate

By + on January 10, 2013 in Ethics, public relations

The RSA in London produces RSA Animate an excellent series of animations on a variety of topics. Courtesy of public relations academic Philip Young I’ve just watched this thought provoking one on “The truth about dishonesty”. It’s well worth the eleven minutes it takes to watch and you’ll want to view it full screen so [...]

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Leveson PR and social media implications

By + on November 29, 2012 in CIPR, Ethics, Journalism, Media, Politics, public relations, social media

Just to demonstrate that it is old media that still rules Leveson has only made advance copies of his report available to mainstream media. So I’m writing this as the minutes countdown to its release without the benefit of actually knowing what is in it. Two of my questions are around its implications for both [...]

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Online PR conference speaking

By + on November 13, 2012 in corporate communications, Ethics, Measurement and Evaluation, public relations, social media

A couple of weeks ago I spoke at the Share This: CIPR Social Media Conference 2012 and I have got a few more speaking gigs coming up later this year. It is great to see quite a few friends and acquaintances also speaking at some of them. Social Media in a Corporate Context 2012 This [...]

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Commschat on CIPR Wikipedia guidance

By + on July 4, 2012 in CIPR, corporate communications, Ethics, public relations

I missed last night’s #commschat with Philip Sheldrake on the Wikipedia guidance that was published by the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) last week. I think the CIPR guidance is a great first step and is currently the best way for public relations professionals to engage with Wikipedia on behalf of clients and employers. [...]

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Can CIPR Wikipedia help with a real life problem with a Wikipedia entry?

By + on June 27, 2012 in CIPR, corporate communications, Crisis Communications, Ethics, Training

  I spent most of today providing online crisis communications training for the head of corporate communications for an overseas government regulatory authority. Coincidentally, one of the topics we covered was its Wikipedia page which is incomplete and out of date. It isn’t a commercial company and is notable enough to warrant an entry.   [...]

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CIPRTV special on new UK public affairs lobbying register consultation

By + on April 20, 2012 in CIPR, Ethics, Government, Public Affairs, Video

If like me you missed this week’s CIPRTV on the UK Cabinet Office’s proposals to introduce a Statutory Register of Lobbyists then it’s well worth catching up with it here: It’s presented by Russell Goldsmith of Marketiersdc and guests are Iain Anderson, of Cicero Consulting and Tamasin Cave, director of Spinwatch and leader of the [...]

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FIR Interview: Stuart Bruce and Phil Gomes on PR and Wikipedia

By + on January 14, 2012 in CIPR, Ethics, public relations

Global PR podcast FIR co-hosts Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz used Google+ Hangout to record a special FIR Interview show with Phil Gomes (Senior VP, Edelman Digital) and myself discussing current initiatives to improve how public relations professionals can work with Wikipedia. Related articles CIPR to work with Wikipedia on how PR professionals should interact [...]

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CIPR to work with Wikipedia on how PR professionals should interact with the Wikipedia community

By + on January 6, 2012 in CIPR, Ethics, social media

In my post calling on Wikipedia and PR to work it out I said I’d raise the issue at the next meeting of the CIPR social media panel. Well since then things have moved a bit faster than that and today the CIPR issued a statement about its intention to work with Wikipedia to provide [...]

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