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 [...]
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TweetLevel for PR, public affairs and corporate communications
There are a lot of Twitter analysis, influence, measurement and evaluation tools. A lot! However, for PR and corporate communications professionals TweetLevel from Edelman is definitely worth a look and there is new version just released. For a start it is designed by people who really understand public relations, corporate communications, public affairs and the relationship [...]

Klout adds topic pages – as preview perk for influential users
Another day, another new announcement from Klout. This time it’s topic pages: Topic pages on Klout are coming! Dig deeper into topics, see the top influencers, the most influential content, and the latest activity around topics. Klout topic pages launch in September, but only for selected news – Klout is treating the preview as a [...]

Are new Klout connected social networks a dilution?
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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CIPR president election for 2014
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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.