IPR Leaders Honored for Contributions to Research and Education in Journalism and Communication
The European Communication Monitor 2013 (Part 3): Salaries and Status
This is the third in a series of IPR blog posts summarizing the results of the 2013 European Communication Monitor (ECM). The ECM is an annual longitudinal trans-national survey of European communications professionals, first carried out in 2007. It describes itself as, “the largest su
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How Do You Define Employee Engagement?
What do CEOs mean when they talk about employee engagement? What do your colleagues have in mind when engagement is discussed in your workplace? Ask around, do people describe broadly the same notion, or are they miles apar
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Ruminations on Employee Communications
Breathing and communication: We need both to survive. But breathing is autonomic; we don’t consciously control it. Less so communication.
Over the years, leaders and even professional communicators have labored to shape its content and direct
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Examining How Social and Other Emerging Media Are Being Used in Public Relations
For the past eight years, we have conducted an annual survey measuring how social and other new media technologies are being used in public relations practice. Results of our
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Are We Measuring the Right Things?
Assigning specific value to work in public relations is never simple. The challenges were under a spotlight at the recent Summit on Measurement organized by the International Association for the Measurement and Evaluation of Communication
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The “Right to Be Forgotten” in International PR Practice: Four Things Practitioners Need to Know
Since the Internet’s creation, one universal truth is that “whatever is put online stays online forever.” In May of 2014 the Court of Justice of the European Union turned that adage on its head when it ruled that search engines must remove specific material from websites when formally requested by individual users. In short, that means that if
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An Innovative Organization and Its Many Oracles Part II
This blog post is Jeong-Nam Kim’s follow up post to last week’s entry, “An Innovative Organization and Its Many Oracles.”
Promotive-Consequence of ECBs: Strategic Value of ECBs in Innovation Management
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Ethical Practice of Social Media in Public Relations
Navigating social media ethically can be especially challenging since the tools keep changing and companies are constantly faced with staying current, entertaining, and engaged. These challenges were what led Denise Bortree and I to edit the book ...
An Innovative Organization and Its Many Oracles
In Latin origin, the word, oracle, from “ōrāre” that means “to speak” about the future foretold by the gods. In the modern world, an organization has many gods to whom the management and leadership should listen and adapt. These are strategic publics or strategic constituencies. A
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