Ethics, Interviews, Privacy and Technology

This Week in PR Ethics (03/02/23): Do Businesses Really Care About Diversity? What Happens When Employers Monitor Your Brain?

Ethical Voices

MARCH 2, 2023

Some weighty, fascinating, and depressing ethics stories this week. From continued corporate failure when it comes to diversity, to further erosions of privacy, there are a number of deep and interesting ethics articles. The decline of privacy and ethics around big data are two topics I discuss regularly.

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How To Use Timing For Top B2B PR Results

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

AUGUST 16, 2023

Data Privacy Day (January 28) : This occasion offers a perfect chance to emphasize a company’s commitment to data privacy, or to share thought leadership on the importance of privacy in the digital age. It’s also critical to prepare your spokesperson for the interaction, even if it’s not a formal interview.

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Ethical Issues in Merging the Science and Art of Public Relations: Aaron Kwittken

Ethical Voices

MARCH 14, 2022

Note: This interview was conducted before Aaron and PRSA NY spoke out and drew greater attention to the Crain’s Story on the horrible actions of Ronn Torossian. Ethical issues in merging the science and art of public relations. I learned the ethics challenge very early on in my career. I worked for some great people there.

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How can we best balance safeguarding confidences and disclosure of information – Pete Scott

Ethical Voices

APRIL 3, 2023

What is the most difficult ethical challenge you ever confronted at work? The good thing is I had a great leadership team and we were able to sit there for sometimes hours and just talk about what’s not only right and wrong, but what’s ethical and really kind of debate it. We’re not in a technology company.

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People Are Not Props – Christie Goodman

Ethical Voices

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

She discusses a number of important issues, including: How to avoid using people as props and authentically engage Ethics challenges with assumptions How to effectively engage and learn from diverse audiences How to effectively advance social justice issues Tell us a little bit more about yourself and your career?

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We Must Confront the Uncomfortable Truths – Roger Bolton

Ethical Voices

APRIL 17, 2023

He discusses a number of important ethics issues, including: It’s great to be with you, Mark. Thinking over your career, what is the most difficult ethical challenge you ever confronted at work? ” Thinking beyond your own personal experience, what are you seeing as some of the key ethical challenges for today and tomorrow?

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Enterprise Ethics Engineering Technology

Why public relations must wake up to wearables

PR Conversations

AUGUST 7, 2014

Things ain’t what they used to be; the end of the beginning around wearable technologies and the device jumps PR practitioners are about to encounter. As I sit here, at the end of the beginning, I wonder what future colleagues will make of the collective inaction around wearable technologies and the device jumps we are about to encounter.

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Dawn of the Intelligently Automated Agency

PR 20/20

MAY 8, 2019

Artificial intelligence is accelerating change in the marketing industry, and your career: Consumers will demand greater personalization , while wanting to control their data and privacy. Technology will get smarter , intelligently automating traditionally human-powered activities while adding layers of complexity to your martech stack.

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Own Your Idea, Grow Your Audience with Storytelling [Case Study]

PR 20/20

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Regardless of whether marketers embrace AI, it is accelerating change in the industry and transforming careers along the way: Consumers will demand greater personalization, while wanting to control their data and privacy. We built the Institute’s readership by connecting with marketers interested in the latest marketing technology and AI.

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PRoust Questionnaire: Sean Kelly

PR Conversations

APRIL 27, 2015

Sincerity, loyalty, sound judgment, trustworthiness and a commitment to the values and ethical foundations of the PR profession—which just happen to be expressed in the CPRS Code of Professional Standards —are the qualities I most admire. The film (starring Al Pacino) was about ethics and standing up for your principles at any cost.

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PRoust Questionnaire: Sean Kelly

PR Conversations

APRIL 27, 2015

Sincerity, loyalty, sound judgment, trustworthiness and a commitment to the values and ethical foundations of the PR profession—which just happen to be expressed in the CPRS Code of Professional Standards —are the qualities I most admire. The film (starring Al Pacino) was about ethics and standing up for your principles at any cost.

Film

Film Crisis Communications Ethics Crisis

Will humans have to re-write AI’s draft of history? 42 marketing and communications predictions for 2024

Sword and the Script

DECEMBER 26, 2023

But it’s easy to imagine this technology being used in more subtle but dangerous ways, such as politicians ‘saying’ things that are not totally out of character but more extreme or subversive than anything they would really say. .” ” ~ Khaner Walker , Senior Director, Corporate Communications, Syneos Health 16.

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How Much Human Agency Do We Require in Public Relations? – Ant Cousins

Ethical Voices

AUGUST 21, 2023

I recently read how Cision created a code of ethics for AI development and I wanted to have him on to talk about it. Ant discusses a number of important issues, including: Cision’s AI ethics policy The ethics implications of the use of AI in public relations How much human agency do we require in public relations?

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Agency Publicity Ethics Analysis

Conducting historical interviews in a transparent age

PR Conversations

JULY 8, 2016

My primary method of research was a series in-depth, oral history interviews with UK-based PR practitioners who have 10-20 years experience in the occupation. In particular this addresses ethical and practical challenges that arise when using the internet and social media within a research methodology. Issue #1: Being an insider.

Interviews

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Future of PR and social media for International Air Transport Association crisis communications conference

Stuart Bruce

OCTOBER 30, 2014

I will be talking about mobile, data and wearable technology as the drivers and ethics, real time and content as the issues. In his interview with PRWeek Danny Rogers asked Martin if the danger was that the growth of social media meant that it would be adopted and subsumed by advertising agencies. The importance of data.

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Crisis Communications Transportation Conference Social Media

Conducting historical interviews in a transparent age

PR Conversations

JULY 8, 2016

My primary method of research was a series in-depth, oral history interviews with UK-based PR practitioners who have 10-20 years experience in the occupation. In particular this addresses ethical and practical challenges that arise when using the internet and social media within a research methodology. Issue 1: Being an insider.

Interviews

Interviews Ethics Education LinkedIn

Conducting historical interviews in a transparent age

PR Conversations

JULY 8, 2016

My primary method of research was a series in-depth, oral history interviews with UK-based PR practitioners who have 10-20 years experience in the occupation. In particular this addresses ethical and practical challenges that arise when using the internet and social media within a research methodology. Issue 1: Being an insider.

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Interviews Ethics Education LinkedIn

Public Relations Today

This Week in PR Ethics (03/02/23): Do Businesses Really Care About Diversity? What Happens When Employers Monitor Your Brain?

How To Use Timing For Top B2B PR Results

Ethical Issues in Merging the Science and Art of Public Relations: Aaron Kwittken

How can we best balance safeguarding confidences and disclosure of information – Pete Scott

People Are Not Props – Christie Goodman

We Must Confront the Uncomfortable Truths – Roger Bolton

Why public relations must wake up to wearables

Dawn of the Intelligently Automated Agency

Own Your Idea, Grow Your Audience with Storytelling [Case Study]

PRoust Questionnaire: Sean Kelly

PRoust Questionnaire: Sean Kelly

Will humans have to re-write AI’s draft of history? 42 marketing and communications predictions for 2024

How Much Human Agency Do We Require in Public Relations? – Ant Cousins

Conducting historical interviews in a transparent age

Future of PR and social media for International Air Transport Association crisis communications conference

Conducting historical interviews in a transparent age

Conducting historical interviews in a transparent age

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