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Social media newsrooms at CIPR Social Summer

By + on July 2, 2012 in CIPR, corporate communications, Media, public relations

Social media newsrooms and modernised media relations was the topic of my workshop last night at the latest Chartered Institute of Public Relations Social Summer. When the alternative was enjoying some rare summer sun I was delighted that so many PR and corporate communications people turned out. More than 50 signed up,which I think is [...]

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PR practitioners should not directly edit Wikipedia according to new CIPR guidance

By + on June 27, 2012 in CIPR, public relations

I wouldn’t normally publish a news release verbatim, but this is important and I’m pushed for time this week! Disclaimer: I’m a founder member of the CIPR Social Media panel that created the new Wikipedia guidance and made a few small suggestions of my own to its development. Public relations practitioners should not directly edit [...]

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Social media newsrooms workshop at CIPR Social Summer

By + on June 27, 2012 in CIPR, public relations, social media

Social media newsrooms and modernised media relations is the title of the CIPR Social Summer seminar that I’m delivering on Thursday evening. It’s at the Russell Square headquarters of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations and starts at 17:00. 28 June 2012 – Social Media Newsrooms With Stuart Bruce, International Communications Consultant and Trainer at Stuart [...]

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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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Public relations defined for the 21st century

By + 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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State of Social Report 2011 by Econsultancy

By + on November 10, 2011 in corporate communications, Marketing, public relations, Reputation Management, social media, Social Networks

Today Econsultancy published its new State of Social Report 2011. It make interesting reading. Thanks to Econsultancy I was lucky enough to get a sneak preview and was able to provide some comments on its findings. I’ve published my comments at the end of this report, but if you’re responsible for any aspect of social [...]

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Did Bingle bungle blog on Pickles?

By + on November 1, 2011 in CIPR, Marketing, Public Affairs, public relations, social media

Online public affairs and using social media and the internet for analysing and influencing public policy isn’t as well advanced in the UK as it is in the USA where Washington lobbyists use it far more than public affairs professionals do in Westminster, Whitehall and Brussels. Last month I ran a training webinar for the [...]

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Liam Fox and Adam Werritty put lobbying back on the agenda

By + on October 17, 2011 in CIPR, Ethics, Government, Politics, Public Affairs, social media

The Liam Fox and Adam Werritty saga has absolutely nothing to do with legitimate public affairs practice, but unfortunately it has served to put lobbying firmly back in the media and political spotlight. Today’s Guardian has an interesting article that analyses the coalition government’s meetings with external representatives in the first 10 months of coming [...]

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Public Affairs: Soap Box | PRWeek

By + on October 7, 2011 in CIPR, Public Affairs, public relations, Self Promotion, social media, Social Networks

This week’s PRWeek Public Affairs: Soap Box is a short op-ed by me on the importance of social media to public affairs professionals. This is the original piece, before I edited it down to fit PRWeek’s word count. As party conference season ends we’ve seen how all of the political parties have enthusiastically adopted social [...]

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Public affairs and social media on CIPR TV and training webinar

By + on October 3, 2011 in CIPR, Public Affairs, public relations, Self Promotion, social media

Public affairs and social media is very much on the agenda for the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR) at the moment with both a CIPR TV special and a training webinar on public affairs and social media.   Firstly, this Thursday (October 6) at 17:00 there is a special public affairs double bill on [...]

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