A Wake-Up Call for the PR Industry, or an Unwarranted Attack?

This is a must read for anyone in PR. Are you still working in a company where they try and measure publicity success by how many media releases you produced? Last week this practice came under fire and damaged the reputation of PR practitioners around the Globe, after Chris Anderson, the executive editor of Wired […]

Last Stakeholder Workshop for 2007

Due to demand I will be hosting another Stakeholder Reputation workshop from the 7th to the 8th November in Johannesburg, South Africa. This will be the last one for this year. This workshop provides leaders and practitioners with powerful tools and competencies to optimise their stakeholder reputation building efforts and relationships with key stakeholders.  The […]

Am I a Thought Leader?

I have taken the bold step and want to change my email signature to include a category called thought leader. Why? Well I am currently reading a brilliant book called “The New Rules of Marketing and PR – How to use News Releases, Blogs, Podcasting, Viral Marketing & Online Media to Reach Buyers Directly” by […]

Another One Bites the Dust!

Decisionmaking is never easy! All managers know that! But the crisis in the Financial Industry is starting to bite big time. I just read an article http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jFilemDz23jniJrwYeBy-NA-8fXA that speaks about some directors leaving a German Bank and then the words: "On Monday, the German lender unveiled the results of an audit by PricewaterhouseCoopers which said […]

Prepare Now for Heightened Health & Safety scrutiny

Do you value your organization’s Reputation? If you do I would suggest that you step up your efforts to comply with Health & Safety standards ASAP. My reasoning for this warning is simple. There is going to be a fall-out after the South African President Thabo Mbeki ordered a safety audit of all the country’s […]