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How to successfully advocate for transparency – Jamie Floer

Ethical Voices

How to protect your company’s reputation when other similar brands are having ethics failures. Why we need to keep ethics front and center. What is the most difficult ethical challenge you ever confronted at work? As ethical public relations professionals, we need to be transparent at all times.

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P.T. Barnum: “There’s No Such Thing as Bad Publicity”

Doctor Spin

This was done by embracing controversy, using storytelling to his advantage, and sometimes, pushing ethical boundaries. Today’s leaders can draw from Barnum’s playbook, albeit ethically, by using powerful narratives and effective public relations strategies to garner attention and influence their stakeholders. The power of a brand.

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After a Recent Three-Way Tie Up, Onclusive Acquires Critical Mention

Sword and the Script

I took a business ethics course when I was studying for my MBA. The transaction follows a private equity-backed three-way merger between Kantar Reputation Intelligence, PRgloo and Onclusive which closed in the beginning of the year. million over five venture rounds since 2004. Onclusive acquires Critical Mention.

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The four Ps of public relations leadership

PR Conversations

Our professional codes of ethics say that ultimately our role is to serve society and sometimes that is seen as being in conflict with the interests of the organisations that we work for day to day. Intangible assets include people , relationships , reputation …our territory. That is how large our contribution is.

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Exposing PR’s weaknesses

PR Conversations

Criticism by Gawker (among others) led to a ‘pseudo’ apology (as defined by Lazare 2004 ). I’m also concerned that the consequences for PR practitioners of taking a position that is publicly vilified are personal and often immediate e.g. being fired or losing any good reputation they may have had.