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My name is Philippe Borremans and I am a Risk & Crisis Communications Consultant and current President of the International Public Relations Association.
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Articles
Making your audience care: lessons from literature for PR professionals by Andrea Gissdal
ipra.orgAs communications professionals, we can learn a lot from literature, and not just to write better corporate brochures and press releases. While we have more channels to reach our audiences at our disposal than ever before, we also have more competition.
Employees and Crisis Communications via Ronn Torossian
commpro.bizAfter over a year of unpredictability and drastic change, plenty of people around the world are still looking to feel safe. Although many have already gone back to feeling relatively normal after the tumultuous months that have passed, there are still people who are operating on high alert and stressed about potential disruptions.
Podcasts
Video: Spotlight on Crisis Preparedness & Internal Communications
How important is communication preparedness in the scheme of things? Why must communicators focus on this area? in what way can we risk mitigate issues? Great chat/interview with Aniisu Verghese Ph.D.
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Mark Ritson: Growth and the Peril in Purpose - YouTube
Join the inimitable Mark Ritson as he challenges the marketing and advertising industry on growth drivers and barriers, including on the power of diversity a...
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Conferences
ECREA - Keywords in Technology and Society: Crises
The University of Surrey invites you to join Crises - one of the final events in the Keywords in Technology and Society series hosted by the research theme Technology and Society at the University of Surrey. Crises will consider the role of digital societies in moments of crises, with this particular edition focusing closely on the COVID19 pandemic. Each talk will address a facet of data/digital technologies in relation to the ongoing pandemic.
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Reports
European Communication Monitor via Ralph Tench & Ansgar Zerfass
The European Communication Monitor is the largest transnational study on strategic communication worldwide. It has been conducted annually since 2007 with more than 30,000 participating communication professionals.
Similiar surveys have been initiated in Asia-Pacific, Latin America and North America. The Global Communication Monitor series covers more than 80 countries. More than 6,000 practitioners working in communication departments of companies, non-profits, governmental organisations and agencies are surveyed in each wave of the comparative study.
Living up to highest academic standards, this study is run by a network of leading research universities organised by the European Public Relations Education and Research Association (EUPRERA) and the European Association of Communication Directors (EACD), supported by Cision Insights and Fink & Fuchs.
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Rhetoric and frame analysis of ExxonMobil's climate change communications
cell.comA dominant public narrative about climate change is that âwe are all to blame.â Another is that society must inevitably rely on fossil fuels for the foreseeable future. How did these become conventional wisdom? We show that one source of these arguments is fossil fuel industry propaganda. ExxonMobil advertisements worked to shift responsibility for global warming away from the fossil fuel industry and onto consumers.
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