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Melbourne Mandate will be Established at World Public Relations Forum

By: Toni Muzi Falconi and Emilio Galli Zugaro on Tuesday, November 13th, 2012 at 10:14 am

The Seventh World Public Relations Forum (WPRF) convened by the Global Alliance for Public Relations and Communications Management (GA) is set to take place in Melbourne, Australia from 18-20 November, 2012. The Melbourne Mandate will be established, which builds on the Stockholm Accords from the Sixth WRPF, which will be a modern ‘mandate’ for organizational and societal value of public relations and communication management. Toni Muzi Falconi Two speakers at the WPRF are PR industry figureheads who also happen to be first cousins, Toni Muzi Falconi, Senior Counsel of Italy’s Methodos, and Emilio Galli Zugaro, director of Group Communications at Allianz Group. Below is ...

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Legendary Research Conference, Stunning Venue

By: Frank Ovaitt on Tuesday, April 24th, 2012 at 10:13 am

The organizers of Bledcom, the legendary international public relations research conference at Lake Bled, Slovenia, have released the program for 2012. The July 6-7 conference breaks into two tracks focused on academic and corporate research.  Current and former IPR Trustees, Research Fellows and commission members appearing the program include Don Wright, Rob Wakefield, Ansgar Zerfass, Krishnamurthy Sriramesh, James and Larissa Grunig. Registration is available online. Frank Ovaitt is President and CEO of the Institute for Public Relations.

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Numbers Add Up For PR History Conference

By: Tom Watson on Monday, March 26th, 2012 at 1:59 pm

Twenty countries represented by 36 papers on the history of public relations shows that this “niche” area of study is becoming an important field of research. That’s the basic math of the abstracts for this year’s International History of Public Relations Conference to be held at Bournemouth University in England on July 11-12. The submissions were the highest so far in the three years the conference has been running. This year, we have a rich range of subjects but the one that has caught my interest is a cluster from the US on ...

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The 8th North American Summit on Measurement

By: Robert W. Grupp on Thursday, October 7th, 2010 at 4:25 am

More than 70 public relations professionals, academics and measurement experts gathered in Portsmouth, NH on October 6-8 for the Institute’s 8th annual Summit on Measurement. If you want the links and highlights, visit the social media hub created for the event by Tim Marklein and his digital team at Weber Shandwick. More on the Barcelona Declaration of Research Principles Among the sessions was a panel moderated by Peter Wengryn, CEO of VMS, and including Marklein and Mike Daniels, director at Report International. They provided an update on the Barcelona Declaration of Research Principles – including several recommendations to advance these new global ...

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Takeaways from The National Summit on Strategic Communications

By: Nancy Snow on Monday, June 7th, 2010 at 12:21 pm

There’s much talk these days about the “say-do gap” in communications – the best communications narrows that gap between what you say and what you do. Certainly anyone in a position of authority (parent, teacher, officer) may be able to get away with a wider gap, but what about when your actions impact global public opinion or company-client relations? This is where understanding strategic communications pays off. At the National Summit on Strategic Communications in Washington, DC, speakers from government, industry and the military shared insights from a lifetime of learning, including those teachable moment missteps and stories of success. Here ...

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