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 6 January 2010. 9 comments.
Amnesty International has accused Shell Nigeria of human rights abuses, spreading pollution and other crimes against corporate responsibility (CSR). It provoked Paul Holmes, editor and publisher of The Holmes Report, to argue that companies will and should be held to the same standards globally. That’s a naïve response. More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under Political spin on 26 November 2009. 4 comments.
Barack Obama has 2.6 million followers on Twitter and follows around 750, 000, but he recently admitted that he’s never Tweeted in his life. Are you surprised? I’m not. But some people might need to reconsider their hype. More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under PR issues on 12 November 2009. One comment.
When local boy Roman Geiser, Burson-Marsteller’s Swiss CEO, was catapulted into the stratosphere as Chief Operating Officer for EMEA, I just had to make the twenty-minute train ride to Zurich to interview him. 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 Crisis management / Media issues / Political spin / Trust and reputations on 22 May 2009. 9 comments.
I’m thinking of pitching for the PR business of restoring trust in British politics, its MPs and its Parliament. Somebody’s got to do it. In the spirit of transparency, here’s my first draft of a pitch. More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under CSR reality check / Crisis management on 6 February 2009. 3 comments.
The Financial Times’ management columnist Stefan Stern and others have been assessing the point and meaning of this year’s Davos. Much of it comes to the need for capitalism to express itself differently. More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under Crisis management / Trust and reputations on 18 January 2009. One comment.
British lawmakers have criticised the police for leaking too much information to the media. I agree. But what’s really required is a communication overhaul. More »
Posted by Paul Seaman under Media issues / PR issues on 13 January 2009. 3 comments.
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 »
