Category: Professional Development

  • Introducing "FIR On Strategy with Andrea Vascellari"

    By Andrea Vascellari, Host of “FIR On Strategy with Andrea Vascellari.” Every week, the For Immediate Release podcast brings us news, commentary and case studies about organizations and new emerging communication technologies – who’s doing it well and who isn’t.…

  • Talking social internal communication at #smwSMILE

    Social Media Week London starts next week, on Monday September 23. Hosted by Chinwag, the week-long event – part of the global SMW event taking place in eight cities around the world – features 245 individual events spread across London,…

  • The Age of Context comes to London in October

    If you’re a follower of trends in technologies and people’s behaviours – and that mashup between the two – an event in London next month will be of interest to you. On October 28, Robert Scoble and Shel Israel will…

  • FIR Interview: Jean Valin and Dan Tisch on the Melbourne Mandate

    At the World Public Relations Forum 2012 in Melbourne, Australia, almost 800 public relations practitioners endorsed the Melbourne Mandate, a call to action of new areas of value for public relations and communication management. It was co-created by 1,000 people…

  • Should PowerPoint be banned from meetings?

    If you’ve suffered through meetings where colleagues use PowerPoint decks as their autocues for droning ‘presentations,’ you’ll love this development at two leading companies that could be a model for others to emulate. Author and communicator Eric Bergman reports that…