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Closing the gap – Utopr
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A blog by Michael Carhart-Harris. May 1, 2015. May 1, 2015. One thing is worrying me. There is too big a gap between what I think and tell others that comms should be and what I actually do in practice. I like to think I’m pretty good at thinking innovatively, seeking out best practice and sharing new ideas when I discover them. But the examples of where I have taken a risky, innovative idea and implemented it in my work are few and far between. So my new mantra will be #JFDI. It’s time get out of ...
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Lately I’ve been thinking – Utopr
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A blog by Michael Carhart-Harris. Lately I’ve been thinking. July 30, 2014. July 17, 2015. This post originally appeared on my other blog, Don’t Believe the Hyphen. I never intended to do PR for a living. All I ever wanted was to be a writer. As a journalist throughout my 20s I felt like Robert Peston does. That PRs were the enemy. Purveyors of bullshit. How many PR people have I known turn back towards the former ‘light’ and a media job? But, to the point. When we get there, what do we find? Society nee...
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Getting Started | Confessions of an internal communicator
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Confessions of an internal communicator. Exploring internal communications, employee engagement and social media. Starting out in internal communications is never easy, and sadly still not a path many people think about after doing a degree or college course. So I thought it might be a good idea to pull some resources together to help those who might want to get started:. Based on the need to understand communication, people and business. If you’re on Twitter you might also want to join The IC Crowd.
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Click here to download your latest PR Executive, version 3.6 | Michelle Allison
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Pontificating about stuff since 1984. Dear journalism, we still need you. Love from, PR. Has there ever been a more perfect PR topic than the smartphone? Click here to download your latest PR Executive, version 3.6. September 25, 2014. Former FT journalist, Tom Foremski, recently wrote a piece asking if PR can be automated. It’s a bit of a head-scratcher of an article that compares how the media industry ‘has been dragged kicking and screaming into the modern world and forced to adopt new media. Leave a ...
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Science | PR Studies
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Richard Bailey on public relations education. RSS feed for this section. Campaign of the century. This is a summary of a paper I presented at the International History of Public Relations Conference at Bournemouth on 8 July 2015. Presenting the paper at Bournemouth. Photo: Heather Yaxley. Is the anti-smoking campaign the public relations campaign of the twentieth century? Change came with the election of Robert Platt to the presidency of the Royal College of Physicians in 1957. His greatest achieveme...
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Politics | PR Studies
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Richard Bailey on public relations education. RSS feed for this section. Let’s stop to consider a group of people who are widely derided – and assumed to be liars. Yet they’re natural communicators who take every opportunity to seek public engagement. They live with a high degree of job insecurity, yet they are strategic thinkers as well as doers, managers and activists. They believe in the power of ideas to effect positive change. Who’d be a politician? At a junior level you need to make stuff happen...
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Careers | PR Studies
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Richard Bailey on public relations education. RSS feed for this section. One of the most important measures of performance in Higher Education is ‘student satisfaction’, as measured through the annual National Student Survey. Wouldn’t it be good to gauge a student’s response to their education over time? My Twitter timeline gave some clues this morning. One noted how far he’d come in five years since graduating, and how well his year group were doing. As for working in PR, that didn’t really work out for...
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Social media | PR Studies
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Richard Bailey on public relations education. RSS feed for this section. Nothing to see here. Move along please. I keep half an eye on vanity measures (likes and follows etc) but don’t pay them much attention. Score of 58 (today) is a perfectly respectable average grade, but slightly below the percentage most of my students aspire to achieve. Yet it doesn’t mean much. Yet clearly some people do unfollow. Who are they, and why? I’ve installed Unfollowers. I’ve not learnt much though. Some unfoll...Some, I...
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It’s deceptively simple. So how do you teach PR? | PR Studies
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Richard Bailey on public relations education. It’s deceptively simple. So how do you teach PR? At a junior level you need to make stuff happen. At a senior level, you need to add value to the organisation. Sounds easy? When you break down the steps involved in making stuff happen, you realise there’s more to PR than just common sense (though that helps). By way of illustration, a student blogger. Make your posts discoverable. There’s a fourth step: have something interesting. So, this is a good achieveme...
