Thoughts on the Passing of Jack Felton
In my last blog entry I talked about the developmental stage of a public relations initiative or campaign. Between then and now the public relations profession lost ...
Read More...In my last blog entry I talked about the developmental stage of a public relations initiative or campaign. Between then and now the public relations profession lost ...
Read More...It stands to reason, and many studies have shown, that employees who are proud of their company are more engaged, stay longer and work harder. They improve innovation, productivity, safety and ...
Read More...Visual data is more effective for readers who are already feeling a positive emotion, according to recently published research from Ph.D. student Lane Harrison. In a blog for the Harvard Business Review “Don’t Read Infographics When You’re Feeling Anxious,” Nicholas Diakopoulos describes the correlation between a reader’s emotions and comprehension of the visual data. Diakopo ...
Read More...In response to Tom Watson’s post in IPR’s Research Conversations blog on May 28, I agree that reputation resides in the minds of one’s stakeholder ...
Read More...The following article was originally posted in Tom Watson’s blog, FiftyOneZeroOne. I’ve been following the various debates on blogs (PR Moment, Wadds, etc) and in PR Week (May 17) about the reputation of public relations. ...
Read More...The first element of an Institute for Public Relations (IPR) research program exploring best practices in global employee communications is now available free on the IPR website. The results of in-depth interviews can be found in a new report entitled “Best- In-Class Practices in Employee Communica ...
Read More...I’m a big believer that employees can be effective brand advocates. After all, Edelman’s 2013 Trust Barometer shows employees are viewed as a highly credible source of information ...
Read More...The following article was originally posted in Ken Makovsky’s blog, My Three Cents. Public relations and capitalism have something in common. Both rely on some of the same principles: relationships, mutuality and community. ...
Read More...Employees are ambassadors of their employers. That idea of “ambassadorship” isn’t really new, and it is much more literal than figurative. Employees (and, really, members of any organization) are insiders who represent their employers to people outside the company’s walls. That insider status makes employees authoritative and authentic communicators about their employers. So the natural question is, “How well do employees represent their companies?” Notice that the question ...
Read More...In their 2013 book, Conscious Capitalism, Whole Foods Co-CEO John Mackey and Conscious Capitalism, Inc. co-founder Raj Sisodia discuss how the prosperity creating marvels of capitalism are so often misunderstood, maligned, o ...
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