Archive for July, 2008

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Bob Feldman

Where’s the beef? The keys to calming a panicked population


July 28th, 2008

Originally Published PR Week

This month I’m going to shift from internal management to issues management, and our case study comes straight from the last few weeks’ headlines:

Day after day, we’ve seen pictures of Koreans jamming the streets to protest lifting of a ban on U.S. beef imports. The protests were inflamed when the U.S. ambassador insulted Koreans by saying they were ignoring what science knows about mad cow disease, fear of which underlay the import ban. (more…)

Tom Martin

With a lack of men entering PR, we need new ideas for recruiting


July 21st, 2008

Originally Published PR Week

Anyone who has spent time lately in college classrooms speaking to students in public relations and communication disciplines has seen first-hand an unmistakable trend. The field is finding it increasingly difficult to attract male students. I have spoken on a half dozen campuses in addition to my own in the last year and the gender ratio I’m seeing is about seventy percent female; some of the classes I taught didn’t have a single male student. (more…)

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