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PR and corporate communications conferences in early 2013

By + on January 11, 2013 in corporate communications, public relations

There is a raft of interesting public relations and corporate communications conferences on my radar at the moment, some of which I’m speaking at, others simply attending and others that just look good. Reputation in Financial Services, London, UK 22 January Now in its fourth year (I’ve previously been a speaker) it looks at how [...]

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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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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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Corporate affairs is gaining in influence and should never report to marketing

By + on November 2, 2011 in corporate communications, Marketing, public relations, Reputation Management, social media

Just catching up on last week’s PRWeek and Danny Rogers, editor-in-chief of Brand Republic’s marketing titles, wrote a great op-ed on the growing importance of corporate affairs directors. A top corporate headhunter told me this week that corporate affairs directors had, without doubt, gained in influence compared with marketing directors over the past few years. [...]

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The 100 most important in-house communicators in the world

By + on September 13, 2011 in corporate communications, public relations, Reputation Management, social media

The Holmes Report has researched an interesting list of the 100 Most Important In-house Communicators in the World. It is a fascinating compilation of 100 of the most senior corporate communications professionals in some of the world’s largest companies who are responsible for the reputation management of some enviable and challenging brands. It’s also released [...]

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New Klout social networks

Are new Klout connected social networks a dilution?

By + on August 10, 2011 in corporate communications, public relations, social media, Social Networks

Klout has today added five new networks that you can connect to your Klout account to improve your Klout score. The five new social networks are Instagram, Tumblr, Blogger, Last.fm and Flickr. Coming soon are Facebook pages, Quora, Yelp, Posterous and WordPress.com.   On the face of it this is a good thing, but I’m [...]

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UN supported international research into how FT Global 500 use social media for CSR

By + on June 7, 2011 in corporate communications, CSR, public relations, social media

Last week I spoke at Wolfstar Consultancy’s Global Social Media and CSR Forum in London which was supported by the United Nations Office for Partnerships. The forum was to launch the results of our extensive international research programme examining how companies in the FTSE Global 500 use social media and social networks to support their [...]

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Who am I? PR, public relations or social media?

By + on March 22, 2011 in corporate communications, public relations, social media

Over the last few months I’ve been involved in a fair amount of navel gazing and talking to colleagues, friends and clients about quite what it is I do. The navel gazing has involved lots of reading around the internet of mainstream media articles, research reports, blog posts and presentations as well as brainstorming sessions [...]

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Speaking at Reputation in Oil, Gas and Mining conference

By + on December 22, 2010 in corporate communications, public relations, Reputation Management, Self Promotion, social media

Next month (January 20) I’m one of the speakers at Communicate magazine’s Reputation in Oil, Gas and Mining conference. It looks set to be a good conference as there are some great speakers and it comes at a time when the extraction industries are facing increasingly complex reputational issues. There have been tremendous marketing and [...]

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Digital PR in The Economist

By + on December 17, 2010 in public relations, social media

This week’s The Economist has a great article on the history of public relations and its potential growth thanks to the rise of social media. The history is as good a summary as you’ll read anywhere of the role of industry forerunners Ivy Lee and Edward Bernays. Looking forward the article says that some PR [...]

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