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Corporate communications and PR conference speaking summer 2013

By + on March 29, 2013 in CIPR, Conference Speaking, corporate communications, public relations, Reputation Management, Self Promotion, social media, Training

I’ve got a few new corporate communications, PR and social media speaking engagements coming up over the next few months. I’ll also shortly be announcing dates for a series of two day online PR and corporate communications strategy master classes to be held in London in early July, Mumbai (India) in late July and Houston [...]

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Digital communications top PR skills gap

By + on February 28, 2013 in corporate communications, public relations, social media, Training

New research shows that digital communications is the top skills gap amongst PR professionals. The research was conducted by PR Academy amongst its past and present students and 52% of respondents identified digital comms as the top skills gap, followed by strategic planning (46%) and measurement (44%). This isn’t surprising as the much bigger and [...]

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PR training international blog visitors

By + on February 2, 2013 in corporate communications, MENA, Middle East, public relations, Self Promotion, Training

Next week’s World Communications Forum in Davos has PR and corporate communications speakers and delegates from dozens of different countries so I thought it would be interesting to take a look at where visitors to my public relations blog come from. Not surprisingly for an English language blog most are from the UK and USA. [...]

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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 perfect Twitter client

By + on November 20, 2012 in public relations, social media, Social Networks, Technology, Training

Neville Hobson has an interesting post on the latest iteration of TweetDeck. Like Neville I was an original TweetDeck fan, in fact we were probably both amongst the first to use it after Ian Dodsworth launched it. When Twitter acquired TweetDeck and re-launched it I continued to use the original Adobe Air version for a [...]

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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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