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Musing on PR, privacy & confidence – part 2

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 »

Musing on PR, privacy and confidence – part 1

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 »

HP, Hurd, soft porn & the morality game

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 »

How PRs advise firms to grovel and deceive

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 »

Google comes of age in China

Posted by Paul Seaman under Media issues / Trust and reputations on 12 July 2010. 4 comments.

‘Do No Evil’ Google has, rightly, returned to China. However, Google was also right when it withdrew because its reputation and survival were at stake. More »

WBCSD’s Vision 2050 is myopic

Posted by Paul Seaman under CSR reality check / Energy issues / Political spin on 8 July 2010. 3 comments.

Here’s a thought. Is the World Business Council for Sustainable Development’s Vision 2050 anything more than a PR survival plan for today’s big companies seeking a long-term and popular licence to operate?
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Proud to pay for The Times-online

Posted by Paul Seaman under Media issues on 2 July 2010. One comment.

I took a peculiar pleasure today in helping Rupert Murdoch turn The Times in to a club for grown-ups who acknowledge that free journalism online is unsustainable. More »

Stockholm Accords are useless for PR’s future

Posted by Paul Seaman under Media issues / PR issues / Political spin on 19 June 2010. 9 comments.

The last in my trilogy on the Stockholm Accords is dedicated to rebutting the authoritarian notion that PRs are “ideological governors of value networks”. More »

Briefing for PRs on E2.0′s brave new world

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 »

Let’s interrogate Shell’s CSR in Nigeria

Posted by Paul Seaman under CSR reality check / Crisis management / Energy issues / Trust and reputations on 18 May 2010. 5 comments.

Yesterday Shell said it was going to clean up the Niger Delta, compensate local communities for past injuries, and institute a local stakeholders’ program that will help lift the region out of poverty. That sounds like good news. But what if the real victim is the truth?  More »

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