The election for the 2014 president of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) has sparked several fascinating debates on both public relations and the future and relevance of the CIPR. What is without question is that this time, in Dr Jon White and Stephen Waddington, we have two absolutely outstanding candidates for president. I [...]
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CIPR president election for 2014

Corporate communications and PR conference speaking summer 2013
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 [...]

UK Social Media Awards
Entries have just opened for the UK Social Media Awards 2013 which are now in their fourth year having previously been known as the Some Comms Awards. I’ve been a judge since the start and am pleased to say that I’m judging again this year alongside some great people including: PRCA chair Sally Costerton; Frank [...]

Tom Foremski and Stuart Bruce speak at CIPR event and ask could corporate media win a Pulitzer?
On Wednesday May 8 I’m looking forward to speaking at a special event with Tom Foremski looking at ‘Can corporate media support serious journalism?’ The session is at the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) head office and sponsored by content sharing technology provider PressPage which has posted a social media news release: Can ‘corporate [...]

Public relations isn’t part of marketing
This blog post started as a comment on Stephen ‘Wadds’ Waddington’s thought-provoking article about ‘The public relations industry’s confidence problem’, but it was so thought-provoking the comment rapidly became too long. His central thesis is that public relations is too introspective and needs to have more confidence of the role it plays in the broader [...]

CIPR’s success in 2012
The UK’s Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) had an extremely successful 2012 and has published an infographic detailing some of its achievements. On a personal note I was elected to the CIPR’s national governing council to serve a three year term. The CIPR has also issued a news release with some of the key [...]

PR ethics – European Association of Communication Directors’ debate
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 [...]

Share This Too: Social media for PR professionals
Earlier this year I was one of several contributors to the ‘best-selling’ PR book Share This: The Social Media Handbook for PR Professionals. It was published by Wiley in July and on pre-sales alone became a best-selling PR book on Amazon (which admittedly doesn’t require huge volumes of sales!) Despite the breadth of is content [...]

Online PR conference speaking
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 [...]
Commschat on CIPR Wikipedia guidance
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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Public relations isn’t part of marketing
February 4, 2013
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PR ethics – European Association of Communication Directors’ debate
January 14, 2013
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PR, Wikipedia and BP–a sorry tale
March 28, 2013
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EE customer service eventually comes up trumps
January 10, 2013
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How PR can use Flipboard to create magazines
May 14, 2013
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Tom Foremski Thought Leaders event at the CIPR
May 14, 2013
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How PR can use Flipboard to create magazines
May 14, 2013
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Celebrate Europe Day today
May 9, 2013
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CIPR president election for 2014
May 8, 2013
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UNICEF reminds people Facebook Likes don’t save lives
May 2, 2013
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Stuart Bruce
Award-winning international communications trainer and consultant specialising in online PR, digital corporate communications,digital public affairs and social media. Frequent international media commentator and conference speaker.