Posts tagged ‘cipr qualifications’

Excellence can be achieved at any stage in a career – Jane Wilson CEO of the CIPR on the changes to membership

Being critical makes for a better practitioner. Why we need more critical thinking in PR and communications.

Meet our 2011 Advanced Certificate bursary winner, Rebecca from Dyslexia Action.

What lessons can we learn from the way that the Blackberry crisis has been handled?

It seems that lots of internal communicators want to get stuck into the engagement-enhancing stuff but are getting bogged down with day-to-day operational comms. Is this happening to you?

Why blocking social media in organisations is pointless.

Its back to school time! The case for of a bit of theory to underpin what we do.

I think PR people really want to get on and recognise the value of high quality qualification in helping them to do so.

That was the question that was posed to PR Academy’s Kevin Ruck by the good folk at PR Moment.  It started off as a question about what other professions PR people could move into, but we thought: ‘Hold up – why would you want to leave PR?’  We think PR people who want to stretch their wings [...]

We are really pleased to have a very worthy winner of our bursary for the Advanced Certificate in Public Relations.  Alexandra Bolton, communications assistant at Centrepoint.   We introduced the bursary three years ago because we wanted to give people without access to funding the opportunity to study for a CIPR professional qualification.  To win the bursary, which consists of [...]

It was great to see a whole conference being devoted to measuring PR (PR Week 18 August) but I couldnt help wondering why we are still having the conversation.  I was heartened to read some common sense though, including that of Philip Sheldrake of Influence Crowd who – thanks goodness – emphasises the need to focus [...]

Good and timely topic for the CIPR Inside conference this year: Beyond cost-cutting: Raising the game of Internal Communication. It all happens on Thursday 7 October, more info here. Here at PR Academy we are really pleased to be supporting the event with a copy of Kevin Ruck’s book on internal communication going to the first ten to [...]

High excitement here in the PR Academy office as the launch of our first book – Exploring Internal Communication – approaches next week (15 July). So excited are we that the book has its own website: http://www.exploringinternalcommunication.com. Kevin has edited it and also written a fair bit of the text and we have some great [...]