A PR Guy's Musings: Stuart Bruce

Edelman Capital Staffers Index 2011

By Stuart Bruce on December 10, 2011 in corporate communications, Government, Politics, Public Affairs, social media

Edelman and StrategyOne, its global public affairs team, has just released the 2011 Capital Staffers Index which “analyses top trends in global public affairs and communications.” It’s the third such annual report and is based on interviews with more than 500 senior staffers (legislative directors and above – not sure what job title this translates [...]

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Bell Pottinger, Uzbekistan and digital public affairs

By Stuart Bruce on December 6, 2011 in public relations

Just pulled together a quick Storify of how I followed and participated in the discussion and reporting around today’s Bell Pottinger Uzbekistan story. View the story “Bell Pottinger, Uzbekistan and digital public affairs” on Storify]

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Bell Pottinger Uzbekistan: a maelstrom in a teacup?

By Stuart Bruce on December 6, 2011 in Business, Ethics, Government, Journalism, Politics, Public Affairs, Reputation Management, social media

It seems a month can’t go by without Bell Pottinger, the UK’s self-styled “leading” lobbying company, embroiling itself in a scandal. Today’s Independent article has certainly sparked off a plethora of criticism and commentary, much of it ill-informed and ill-conceived. It’s important to try and separate fact from fiction and cut through the spin on [...]

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TUC using video to win public support for public sector strikes

By Stuart Bruce on November 29, 2011 in Politics, Public Affairs, Video

From a professional communications perspective it’s interesting to see how the TUC (Trades Union Congress) is making good use of online video. Yesterday a poll about the Day of Action for the BBC showed that 61% of the public believe public sector workers are justified in going on strike over pension changes. It will be [...]

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Public relations defined for the 21st century

By Stuart Bruce on November 23, 2011 in CIPR, public relations, Reputation Management

The Public Relations Society of America has sparked some interesting discussion by launching a ‘crowd sourcing’ initiative to create a new definition for public relations. Neville Hobson is encouraging people to take part and has helpfully shared some of the various PR definitions that exist – PRSA, CIPR and even Wikipedia. Danny [...]

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Top 50 business blogs 2011 by Strategist News

By Stuart Bruce on November 11, 2011 in Business, public relations, Self Promotion

PR people and bloggers love lists and A PR Guy’s Musings is listed on a good few public relations and business blog rankings. But, I’m actually quite pleased to be on this new ‘Best Business Blogs 2011 list from Strategist News. Pleased because it has helped me to discover some interesting new business and corporate [...]

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