Advertising Standards Authority gets online power

This is an interesting bit of news. In the UK, advertising regulators have now extended their power so they are now monitoring social media/online advertisements. This means that online campaigns that are problematic can expect scrutiny and censure. This quote from the story pretty much sums it up:

"This is a massive step. Consumers don't differentiate between adverts on TV or online and this ensures that claims online will be subject to the same strict scrutiny of those in traditional media," said an ASA spokesman."

Barcelona Principles

The Barcelona Principles. A new action movie? A new controversial Dan Brown novel? Well not really. They are the recently agreed upon ideas on how to carry out public relations research more effectively. They are at the top of my summer reading (a long list that waits to be finished):

http://www.cipr.co.uk/content/news-opinion/presidents-blog/4912/barcelona-principles-the-end-of-ave-

20PR Grants Available for Not-for-Profit Organizations

I like this idea. This organization (CyberAlert) is giving monitoring services to non-profits.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20100909005970/en

What a unique way to promote public relations research.

Amazing Insight on the "Antennagate" Apple PR scandal

This video offers funny insight on the Apple faulty antenna crisis. It is done by the same group that did the Tiger Woods crash animation. Funny.

I just won the National Science Foundation's|Public Entity Risk Institute| Swiss Re Dissertation Fellowship (a long title)

My friends & collegues

I hope you are having a good summer.

Today, I found out I was awarded the National Science Foundation's|Public Entity Risk
Institute| Swiss Re Dissertation Fellowship (a long title).

In summary, its a top award in the field of disaster studies.

More details can be found here:
http://clas.ucdenver.edu/periship/Program.html
http://clas.ucdenver.edu/periship/Fellows.html

A formal press release will be issued in the coming days.

Thank you for your help and support everyone.

A fascinating public relations tactic

BP is blaming Transocean; Transocean is blaming Halliburton; Halliburton is blaming BP. Publics will blame all three companies. These companies really need to rethink their approach to handling this crisis.

Completed Web Redesign

I was tired having a Flash site so I have moved everything to Blogger.

With the arrival of the iPad I (like many others) are thinking twice about using Flash. I loved Flash but it does make maintaining things a challenge. Rather than investing in a content management system, I just decided to tweak blogger to my liking.

Plus as a graduate student, paying a hosting amount to Yahoo was getting old.

I hope you like my new site. I will continue tweaking it. Thank you for visiting.

If you are interested in how I made the edits, email me. I will be happy to share them with you.