This is my professsion. Oh, alright. It’s my trade. But I still think it’s a business capable of integrity, honour and decency.
Posted by Paul Seaman under Political spin / Reviews on 2 September 2010. 2 comments.
Tony Blair’s memoirs are the most confessional in years from a world leader. The devout Catholic convert explains why politicians stray from their wives (not him so far as we know), escape to the loo for peace, and seek comfort in drink (in his case shockingly little of it). More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under CSR reality check on 27 August 2010. 5 comments.
Richard Edelman’s Voodoo Academia replies to Professor Aneel Karnani of the University of Michigan’s Business School’s WSJ article The Case Against Corporate Social Responsibility. But who’s voodooing whom? More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under CSR reality check / Energy issues on 23 August 2010. One comment.
According to The Guardian’s John Vidal, the UN is set to report that Shell is responsible for just 10% of the oil spilt in Nigeria’s Niger Delta region over the last 40 years. Time to lay off Shell, or time to wheel out conspiracy theories? More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under Trust and reputations on 19 August 2010. 3 comments.
What are we PRs to do with the troublesome issue of privacy? We certainly have an interest in leading this debate because reputations are linked to the public’s perception of its protection. More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under Trust and reputations on 19 August 2010. One comment.
Google’s Eric Schmidt says we should be able to reinvent our identity at will. That’s daft. But he’s got a point. Most personalities possess more than one side. More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under Media issues / PR issues on 18 August 2010. 2 comments.
Remember when Web 2.0 was all about creating, sharing and collaborating to produce Long Tails that favoured small players at the shallow end of the bitstream? Well, now Chris Anderson says the World Wide Web is dead. Goodbye “Free”, hallo value. More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under Political spin / Reviews on 18 August 2010. One comment.
There’s been a hullabaloo about how Tony Blair’s gift of £4.6 million profit from his book to fund a Royal British Legion rehabilitation centre backfired. So allow me to defend Tony Blair’s acute sense of aligning his PR with the public mood. More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under CSR reality check / Crisis management on 16 August 2010. 6 comments.
What happened to Mark Hurd at HP was the stuff of Hollywood. Michael Moore or Oliver Stone to the fore? More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under Trust and reputations on 13 August 2010. 5 comments.
Posted by Paul Seaman under Crisis management / Trust and reputations on 10 August 2010. 3 comments.
I’m home refreshed after two weeks in the Swiss canton Ticino on the shores of Lake Lugano. It didn’t take long, however, for me to get my focus back and decide to take a swipe at some PR nonsense. More »
