Category: Professional Development

  • Mashing up the New PR

    Well over 150 communicators participated in Delivering The New PR, the one-day conference in London last Friday organized by Philip Young at the University of Sunderland. I took this photo in the conference room at the hotel as we were…

  • Delivering the new PR is hot

    It looks like Delivering The New PR in London this Friday 12 May will be a hot event as almost 150 people so far have signed up to be there. Last week, PR Business (a new PR print magazine in…

  • The meaning of corporate governance

    The Summit for The Future on Risk conference starts today in Amsterdam and runs until Friday. I’ll be there this afternoon and Thursday morning, participating in the corporate governance knowledge stream. Should be a stimulating session with plenty to talk…

  • New intranet report includes social media

    Melcrum Publishing has just published a research report entitled ‘Transforming Your Intranet.’ I got an email about it yesterday and my first thought was: yet another expensive report about intranets with the same old late-90s view about them and the…

  • Social media drives greater employee engagement

    Here’s a terrific case study from Swedish/US communication consultants and training firm Gronstedt Group on the role social media plays in helping the sales team at US educational publisher Prentice-Hall improve their sales performance. The case study describes how the firm…