Posted by Paul Seaman under Media issues / PR issues on 21 May 2010. 6 comments.
There’s been lots of talk in PR circles about value networks and the network society. Here I take a closer look at what the fuss is all about and issue a note of caution and a call to moderate the hype. More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under Media issues / Trust and reputations on 23 April 2010. 8 comments.
I had thought that Facebook would go the way of Friends Reunited, Bebo and MySpace: hyped today, sidelined tomorrow. But what if Facebook became the new Google? That’s now the company’s objective and it is backed by some substance. More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under Crisis management / Media issues / Trust and reputations on 1 February 2010. 4 comments.
Warning: this post is counter-revolutionary. A recent BBC’s Culture Show celebrated how Wikileaks exposes anything which comes its way with no chance of legal comeback. Supposedly this will usher in a revolution in openness. Here’s the case against transparency in defence of trust. More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under CSR reality check on 26 October 2009. 10 comments.
This post is a reaction to Paul Holmes’s post Transparency is a principle, not a tool for manipulating the public. His headline was much more one-sided than his text, which was well-argued. So what comes next is a critique of the Big Idea of his headline, not his considered view. More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under Credit Crunch / Opinion research / Trust and reputations on 30 September 2009. One comment.
Financial Times (FT) research suggests that the public trusts itself to look after savings and investments more than banks, building societies or independent financial advisers. Yet most respondents said that, despite their lack of trust, they had not reduced their risk levels in these bodies. More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under Media issues on 8 January 2009. 5 comments.
My “10 points: social media reality check” provoked some interesting challenges from Twitters. So this piece is dedicated to @PressReleasePR, aka Danny Brown, who sparked the debate. More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under Media issues / PR issues on 5 January 2009. 2 comments.
“Social Media” are The Thing at the moment. And I’m a bit of a-twitter about them myself. But this is not half the revolution people are making it out to be. So here are some incautious predictions. More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under Crisis management / PR issues / Political spin on 1 December 2008. No comments.
Going by the media outrage over shadow immigration minister Damien Green’s arrest, the entire Tory front bench should seek to get its collar felt. The right is discovering what the left long ago learned. There’s nothing so chic as a policeman’s truncheon. More »
