Corporate blogs are emerging as an important tool of communicating
transparently and becoming an integral part of business marketing
and PR strategies. Many companies are looking to embrace corporate
blogging or are already interacting with their stakeholders through
their corporate websites. Corporate blogs are being looked at as a
platform for businesses to maintain an [...]

Date Published: Apr 29, 2009 - 2:35 am
{New media assignment 3} My Viral idea – Viral video suggesting
that the employees at Nestle look forward to going to work &
live for mondays.

Date Published: Apr 23, 2009 - 11:20 pm
The topic of debate in today’s (25/03/2009) Contemporary PR module
class was “Success in PR is determined by personal qualities and
contact; PR qualifications are irrelevant. I put my heart and soul
in opposing the motion. I feel very strongly for this topic, even
more so, because my first degree ( BE Mechanical) had nothing
[...]

Date Published: Mar 25, 2009 - 4:26 pm
Social marketing is a theory that aims to influence people’s
behaviour to bring a change in the society. I stumbled upon a
synopsis on social marketing that made me aware that the term
social marketing was coined in 1971 by Kotler and Zaltman. They
defined social marketing as ”the design, implementation and
control of programs calculated [...]

Date Published: Mar 19, 2009 - 4:42 am
Martin Langford in Exploring Public Relations (2006) defines
Crisis as “An event that disrupts normal operations of a company or
an organisation and if badly managed can ruin hard-won reputations
in just days and even, in some cases, write off companies” (p397).
Looking back, I am trying to remember how many such situations can
I [...]

Date Published: Mar 15, 2009 - 9:59 am
The phenomenon called globalisation in itself has been a hot topic
of discussion. Simon Jeffrey (reporter, theguradian) attempted to
define globalisation for us in an artice published in the guardian.
He stresses that it is the modern communication process that has
helped globalisation become a successful ‘process’. The term
globalisation was first defined in the 1980′s, [...]

Date Published: Mar 06, 2009 - 2:54 am
Corporate Social Responsibility(CSR) – Am I right in saying that
broadly CSR is being responsible as an organisation or a business
and giving something ‘good’ back to planet earth and it’s
inhabitants. Primarily to human beings in return of all the damage
that might be caused to our environment in the process of making
money [...]

Date Published: Mar 02, 2009 - 9:10 am
(Assignment 2 – SMPR, New Media Module)
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challenges courtesy Rise of Social [...]

Date Published: Feb 28, 2009 - 10:19 am
(Assignment 1, New Media Module) There seems to a be a battle going
on between traditional media and new media. While one is being
portrayed as our future, the other is fighting to prove it’s stand.
It gets you thinking if the rise of new media is actually calling
upon death of traditional media? Internet [...]

Date Published: Feb 27, 2009 - 11:05 am
I am asking you – What’s the big deal if the proportion of women
working in the PR industry is higher than men? I mean there are
books being written about it, studies being done, surveys being
carried out and it certainly seems to be a hot topic on the
blogosphere as well. I have [...]

Date Published: Feb 20, 2009 - 7:07 am