Self administered seminar – your thoughts?

First a story appeared in the local Bournemouth Echo based on an interview with our Vice Chancellor. It painted a picture of a VC who did not feel too good about the organisation he currently heads.

Ming has been mangled

Liberal Democrat leader resigns – is this ageism or the age of constant change of leader?

“Darren Lilleker”: and I have just finished editing a book – working title Voter as Consumer: Imaging the contemporary electorate. My chapter in this book of readings is entitled

Examples of political communication

can be engagaing

Boris Jonson in Bournemouth.mov

The Chartered Institute of Public Relations [CIPR] has delivered a robust response to recent media commentary that has criticised the increase in the number of press officers working within government departments but fail to get a real handle on the workings of the government communication machine.

Wired’s cover feature this month is all about corporate transparency, blogging, etc., and features a case study on Microsoft’s plunge into these unknown depths. But Anderson has a sting in the tail…

My attention was recently drawn to an item by our very own Heather Yaxley on her blog, which raises a number of interesting issues.

IPPRC – the International Public Relations Research Conference – in Miami is a fast-moving snapshot of North American public relations research. TOM WATSON reports:

…personal endorsement of a product is far more powerful than promotional communication…

Alex, one of the final year students here at Bournemouth, alerted me to this article http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,2001647,00.html and reminded me of this new idea that seemd to be emerging within the PR/Advertising field.