Playing Catch up

I am still struggling to catch up on last week’s events, however here are a few things that have caught my eye…

 Silicon Valley PR pioneer Fred Hoar passed away last week.  Jeremy Pepper has a touching personal post on Fred’s passing and in other sad news, Richard Bailey points out that UK PR pro Esther Kaposi also passed away last week.

 The New Yorker profiles Gene Weber, an eighty-eight year old PR man still going strong.

 Some tips on how to work with a PR firm…..

 

PR Opinions is back online unfortunately internal comms isn't

Hello.  Well PR Opinions is back online after some much required rest.

A new year but some of the same old issues keep coming back.

While I was away, Towers Perrin, a (take a deep breath) global professional services firm that helps organizations around the world improve their performance through effective people, risk and financial management, published an interesting study that found that only 51% of employees believed that their employers generally tell the truth.

Now as we all know, good communication starts at home (ahem) and it looks like there are a whole range of issues there.

“These results reveal a worrisome employer-employee dynamic that should be a wake-up call to any senior executive or leader who will need to communicate with employees in 2004,” said Mark Schumann, Towers Perrin principal and leader of the firm’s HR Services business communication consulting practice. 

Thanks to Joanne for the link.