In just under a month, I’ll be speaking at the IABC Global Conference for Asia Pacific in Hong Kong: Loads of great sessions and speakers! As well as my good pal Adrian Cropley leading the charge on Internal Comms expertise, Aussie evaluation specialist Jim McNamara from UTS will be giving updates on how the world [...]

Engage ORM’s Gerry McCusker is confirmed to speak on “Crisis management for a Web 2.0 world” at the IABC Global Conference in Hong Kong 7-9 April.
In his PR textbook ‘Public Relations Disasters’, Gerry wrote that the first 24 hours of any PR crisis usually defines how the issue plays out. Well, he’s changed his tune [...]

As a speaker and trainer, it’s always useful to get feedback about the seminars and sessions you run. Feedback is just in from IABC’s World Conference where I staged an in-depth session on CEOs relationship with Social Media. I’m informed that (Gerry McCusker) “Your excellent audience evaluations, rating 6.3 or higher, at the IABC 2009 [...]

ACMA statistics and report on how Australians are using the Internet.

Over at her Conversations blogsite, Dina Mehta explores the notion of evaluating Soc Med engagement by assessing the richness of the conversations that take place, rather than with traditional metrics. For a taster of Dina’s article and thoughts, she suggests the following be considered: Participation, Engagement, Influence, Imagination, Energy, Loyalty and stickiness…

Gerry McCusker, PR adviser and author of PR disasters, will deliver the opening keynote at Frocomms upcoming Issues and Crisis Summit in Sydney, November 5 and 6, 2008.