Required reading

For those who want to take a deep dive into the field of communications, I highly recommend The Handbook of Strategic Public Relations and Integrated Marketing Communications.

Edited by Clarke Caywood of Northwestern University, the second edition of this tome just hit the bookstores. The blurb on the inside flap calls this “the most authoritative, comprehensive resource of its kind” – and based on length alone (900+ pages), I don’t doubt that. Continue reading

My reputation management journey

man walking up mountain pathA popular Chinese proverb says that a 1,000-mile journey begins with a single step.

Though I started blogging on corporate reputation management in 2007, my personal journey in this field actually started decades earlier.

In the mid-1980s, I participated in a Continue reading