Public Relations

Net Neutrality is an important resource for e-Government

August 25, 2010

Right now we live in a world where Net Neutrality is a given. This means that you can open any website or webservice just as fast as anyone else on the network, subject only to network congestion or issues of bad reception. The proposition against Net Neutrality would allow your ISP to segment the services [...]

The future of communication platforms

May 9, 2010

My last post was about how I see the web, as being made of platforms, channels/instruments, contexts and content. A few days after I pressed publish, Steve Jobs sent out an announcement stating that Apple would not be supporting Flash on the iPad or the iPhone. First, what is Flash? It’s Adobe’s answer to our need [...]

What the web is made of (and what that means for PR Strategy)

April 27, 2010

If we would ask David Phillips or Philip Young what the web is made of, they would tell us about Platforms, Channels and Context. When we talk about the Internet we are talking about a series of technologies that indeed communicate among themselves, things like satellites, routers, servers and other infrastructures. Information can travel across [...]

Euprera Spring Symposium and the Values School of Thought

March 7, 2010

Saying it was a pleasure to be in Gent for the Euprera Spring Symposium 2010 is nothing short than an understatement as it is the kind of event that can give you enough energy and insight for the whole year. I was sorry to have missed the first day, but the second day and the [...]

Grunig on the Digitalisation of Public Relations

December 29, 2009

Philip Young’s blog, Mediations, is one that I follow for quite some time now. Yesterday, it mentioned an article on PRism by Jim Grunig titled Paradigms of global public relations in an age of digitalisation. Among other subjects, Grunig comments on the book written by Phillip Young and David Phillips, Online Public Relations 2nd Edition. [...]

A clean slate

September 25, 2009

Some of you may remember a different blog, Relações Públicas. Written in Portuguese, It is still the blog that ranks second for google searches on the portuguese translation of Public Relations. Positioned as the best place for dialogue on PR, it stands as the result of three years of work. It reached 550 RSS Subscribers [...]