It’s not if but when should C-suite executives truly embrace the social age. Here are five reasons leaders should be social leaders.
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What Cecil the lion’s death reminds us about the social age
There’s no longer a meaningful distinction between our personal and professional lives. We should take care to protect our hard-won reputation from poor decisions we make in our personal lives.
Facebook’s Instant Articles explained via dairy farming
Facebook Instant Articles is a game changer for the social media goliath. But will it remain good news for news outlets and us, the news consumers?
5 ways to enhance your creative thinking for business success
Economic growth is best understood as the rate in which firms solve problems. 20th century capitalism worked by efficiently allocating existing resources. 21st century capitalism works by efficiently creating new solutions to human problems
Using Circloscope to build relationships on Google+
Building mutually beneficial online relationships starts with identifying people with reach, resonance and relevance to you and your brand. Using Circloscope within Google+ cuts out the legwork in finding these people – writes Scott Guthrie
The Art of Giving it Away
Altruism or self-interest? The Art of Giving it Away. 36 professional communicators from around the world tell Glasgow-based PR agency owner, David Sawyer, why they’re give-a-holics.
New book modernises PR workflow
Today PR practitioners launch an ebook in a bid to help modernise the public relations workflow – writes Scott Guthrie
How will your firm compete tomorrow?
Mindsets act as short cuts to making sense of situations. But they can lead to blinkered thinking about what business you’re in – writes Scott Guthrie
3 ways CEOs build digital presence
CEOs build digital presence: For CEOs a digital, social presence will become a competency requirement to lead. Here are three ways leaders can build that online presence.
How the social age is redefining success in management
Many successful managers rise to fulfill responsible C-suite positions through their political prowess rather than through their abilities to lead satisfied, committed team members who habitually produce mountains of high calibre work. The social age will turn this on its head – writes Scott Guthrie.
Giving new ideas the run of the house
New ideas can be like anxious guests – worried about putting their hosts to too much effort. But ideas need to be welcomed. Given the run of the house. If not, they’ll quickly make their excuses and leave.
Who will notice another national news agency closing?
The rupture in the global media landscape claimed another high-profile scalp in Gigaom this month. But tomorrow a national news agency will close its doors. Who will mourn its passing asks Scott Guthrie?
How PR builds success from OZ innovation
Australia is poor at converting innovation into commercial success. A fundamental reason is a mistrust in business. Here are four universal ways to embrace PR skills and earn trust in business in the Social Age – writes Scott Guthrie
What Pharrell warned me about creativity, innovation & change
As Pharrell Williams warns of copycat legislation ruining the creative industries following his $7.3m copyright case defeat Scott Guthrie asks what creativity and innovation mean in 2015.
Public relations: More barber than barrister?
Respondents to a recent PR industry body survey say being professional is important to public relations. But does being professional at your job make you part of a profession – asks Scott Guthrie
Etsy IPO forms show modern PR themes
Etsy, an online marketplace specialising in crafts and other artistic items, just filed to go public. Nothing remarkable in that. But, what caught my eye in the documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission was remarkable in an age of profit maximisation, short-termism, and shareholder activism.
#PRstack first Twitter chat now on Storify as database adds 50 more products
The crowd sourced #PRstack initiative is an example of a shift in thinking from Industrial Age to Social Age. It’s gathering pace, too, with a further 50+ public relations tools added to the database and its first Twitter chat now on Storify.
4 reasons why senior PR can’t opt out of social or digital media
A recent CIPR survey has identified a widening gap between the skill sets PR practitioners have and the skill sets that businesses increasingly need. Here are four imperatives for embracing social and digital media management – writes Scott Guthrie
#PRstack: Mapping tools to public relations workflow in new open source project
From a crowd-sourced spreadsheet in December to the launch of a free web app today and Twitter Chat later this week the #PRstack community is gaining momentum as it characterises the public relations third-party tool market mapping them against the public relations workflow – writes Scott Guthrie.
PR isn’t dead – but it needs a fresh expression
Robert Phillips’ new book: Trust Me, PR is Dead examines core themes of today’s complex, chaotic, and messy world but is most powerful as a change agent.
A secret of creative communications plans
Successful modern communications plans are integrated communications plans. They require co-operation, collaboration and co-creation between the communication specialisms. We could learn a thing or two by unlearning. By remembering what we did as kids – writes Scott Guthrie
How to solve big problems asking one small question
Critical thinking is a bedrock-skill of the modern communicator. The ability to provide plans and advice based on clear, reasoned judgments is a core requirement as organisations strive to cope with increasing complexity and uncertainty. Here are some tools to help provide that critical thinking – writes Scott Guthrie.
Employee engagement meets reputation management as Glassdoor hits $1billion valuation
Glassdoor melds two of the biggest concerns for organisations: (1) how to best use their employees to achieve corporate objectives (2) how to manage their reputation positively with the outside world. As such the site further blurs the roles of internal communicator and PR practitioner – writes Scott Guthrie.
Online community management: everything in moderation, including moderation
As the media landscape continues to splinter organisations no longer rely solely on column inches gained from media relations initiatives to influence their publics. Instead public relations practitioners are easing organisations away from third-party, earned media towards shaping communities which allow organisations to engage directly with their publics – writes Scott Guthrie.
Should public relations own content marketing and where does brand journalism sit?
Brand journalism and content marketing are often thrown into the same bucket. They occupy different ends of the marketing funnel but will achieve more than the sum of their parts when integrated within a wider marketing communications or public relations strategy delivering business objectives – writes Scott Guthrie
PR Redefined: a conversation on where content marketing belongs
I recently moderated a conversation for PR Redefined on whether or not public relations should ‘own’ content marketing.
A lively debate it attracted a lot of insightful comment from public relations practitioners over the course of the month it ran. I have curated some of the comments by theme and posted them to Storify. You can read it here.
Why public relations must embrace digital naturals and ditch the natives
Digital can no longer be regarded as a specialism in PR with internet now reaching 2 in every 5 people on planet Too many public relations practitioners still think in terms of an online/offline world. But, today, it’s about having ideas fit for the digital world we live in rather than about having digital ideas.
The Press don’t know what public relations is. Who should tell them?
Modern public relations practitioners have changed. PRs understand that digital is not a specialised activity. It’s a fundamental requirement to getting the job done. PRs need to tell their own stories about how their industry has evolved. Stories about how their craft, expertise and strategic insight help transform organisations into social businesses – writes Scott Guthrie
Public relations professional as ethical guardian
Public relations professional as ethical guardian: The measures of business are no longer purely efficiency and profit where all’s fair in love and war – as long as your owners get their dividends. Today, all stakeholders count. And public relations professionals are best placed to act as their organisation’s ethical guardians.
4 tips all change sponsors need to know
The number one success factor in delivering business outcomes through the process, tools and techniques of change management is having an engaged, visible sponsor. Here are four tips change sponsors should follow to drive business outcomes – writes Scott Guthrie