IPR Webinar | The Future of PR: Social Impact in the Age of AI
In this IPR Webinar,Thomas Stoeckle from Bournemouth University, UK, and I present our global report, “The Future of PR/Comms and Their Social Impact.” This report explores three key themes: Following their presentation, Brian Snyder of Axicom shares his expertise in artificial intelligence (AI) and explores its implications for the evolving landscape of the public relations […]
Earlier this year, the PRCA with the entire Future of PR/Comms and their Social Impact research collective have launched the reports of the study in English and Spanish. Since then colleagues have made great efforts to promote the study and facilitate conversations around its findings. The preliminary results of the study have been presented at […]
FREE DOWNLOAD OF THE FULL REPORT It has been many months in the making. It started with an idea to follow up on the findings of the PR2025 study and on the observation that many use the term PR but mean different things by it. Thanks to PRCA’s invitation to join their University Advisory Group […]
FREE DOWNLOAD In June this year, I have launched a call for contributions for a free ebook about Ai in PR/Comms. 3.5 months later, there’s a book: Artificial Intelligence in Public Relations and Communications: cases,reflections, and predictions – all 140+ pages, 16 authors from 6 countries packed with insight and thought provoking reviews and questions. […]
Call For Papers And Contributors: Free E-book On AI In PR/Comms
I am planning to edit a new, free e-book, under a creative commons licence on Artificial Intelligence in Public Relations and Communications, using a similar system of collection, review and publication as I have used with the Corporate Activism, Women in PR and #Rezist2017 books. Whether research, opinion pieces, case studies or useful toolkits, this […]
The COVID-19 pandemic has provided rich learning opportunities for public communicators: from positive, and unfortunately too often, also from negative examples. From the difficulties of relaying scientific information to publics and political partisanship colliding with public health interests, to the ‘misinfodemic’ (in particular, but not only, on social media) exacerbating the pandemic, to HR departments […]
ACCESS HERE FOR FREE 10 months ago Thomas Stoeckle and I were launching the call for papers for the special edition of ESSACHESS – Journal for Communication Studies focusing on the future of PR. We were in the mid-pandemic. The edition is now complete and available to read, download, share and discuss. It features 7 […]
Call for papers: ESSACHESS – Journal of Communication Studies
Colume 14, n° 1(27)/ 2021 ESSACHESS – Journal for Communication Studies[1] www.essachess.com Future of Communications and Public Relations (PR). (Re)Imagining the Role, Function and Purpose of the Communication Profession Call available here: http://essachess.com/index.php/jcs/announcement Guest editors: Ana ADI, Professor of Public Relations/Corporate Communications Quadriga University of Applied Sciences, Berlin, GERMANY Thomas STOECKLE, Lecturer Bournemouth University London, Analytics & […]
What started a couple of years ago with me questioning students about the missing voices in PR history and continued with one of them wanting to focus their thesis on women telling their stories about getting in or out of PR, ended up with a podcast. Women in PR released its first episode on SoundCloud […]
A collection of articles, research updates and solutions for a rising trend FREE DOWNLOAD One of 2019’s most prominent theme for PR/Comms was business with purpose, a new take and a mixture, it felt to me, between Kramer & Porter’s creating shared value (CSV) concept and Simon Sinek’s “start with why”. In a sense, the […]
DOWNLOAD THE FULL REPORT HERE During November 2018 and March 2019 I have been running a Delphi method study investigating the trends, competences, solutions and responsibilities for development for development for PR/Comms in the mid-term. It started off as a discussion and debate about communicators are ready for a tech-driven future (whether they would work […]
New book OUT NOW. Use FRL40 for a 20% discount Love and thanks from the editor I cannot be more thrilled (and perhaps a little spooked – what if I missed a typo?) that my first solo editorial project is out now, in print, packed with awesome content from fantastic contributors from around the world! […]
AMEC’s Measurement Month has been incredibly busy, with loads of interesting events around the world, and some fantastic publications too. PRNews (usually focused on the North American communications market) had quite a full list dedicated to measurement, so needless to say, it feels fantastic to be part of it representing both Quadriga University of Applied […]
November is not only a time to grow beards but also a month to talk about measurement and evaluation of communication. It is thus a time when under AMEC’s Measurement Month umbrella, communicators around the world, talk (a bit more loudly) about the need for measurement and evaluation, diss AVEs and think about how automation […]
Toolkit: Corporate Volunteering Evaluation with Digital Storytelling
Download paper Executive Summary:Â Corporate volunteering is an important vehicle for delivering care and compassion to causes and communities in need (Grant, 2012: 589). Identified by Bussell and Forbes (2008) as the fastest-growing area of volunteering in North America and Western Europe, corporate volunteering is being adopted more readily by organizations and their employees as […]
Research: Instagram study on Romanian Presidential Elections is out now
#yeslavot is finally out. Our article (co-authored with Roman Gerodimos and Darren Lilleker, both from Bournemouth University) is finally out in Javnost – The Public. This is based on Instagram data we collected in 2014 during the second round of the Romanian Presidential elections and is, perhaps, the first Instagram study looking at political communication, […]
PR Conversations with Thomas Stoeckle on PR for the 21st century
With the rapid changes in the communications landscape, including the technologies that enable/mediate communication, the skillset and job description of the PR practitioner is often in focus. More technical skills are in demand and more focus is on measurement and evaluation (so research and critical thinking). None of these point to PR being a management […]
GMP PR Romania has organised their second international conference dedicated to PR measurement. I was invited to join them again (I was thrilled but they say I have done a good job the first time around) and my brief was to talk about what should PR practitioners measure after a crisis. Like with the PROI […]
At the end of the DC Protest debate organised in Berlin by Diaspora Civica Berlin, Documentaria.ro and Funky Citizens, I gave an interview to DW. They asked me if the #rezist protests have been successful. Check the video below and some further reflections in this blog post I wrote earlier. The video was also embedded […]
#Rezist in focus: reflections on how to keep civic activism going
The online book that Darren G. Lilleker and I have edited and published this June analyzing the #rezist anti-corruption protests in Romania has given us numerous opportunities of reflection. Protest PR and the future of civic activism in two events Ghildul activistului obosit (The guide of the fatigued activist) debate in Romania, organized by Frontline […]
Augmented reality, virtual reality and artificial intelligence are interesting technological developments that PR practitioners could use for their organisations and clients. At the PROI Worldwide meeting in Bucharest (PROI is the longest-running partnership of independent public relations agencies) practitioners were more concerned with how these creative applications can support their work and, most importantly, how […]
Quadriga’s Social Media Conference has reached a beautiful milestone this year – 10 years – and we celebrated it the way we know best: focusing on the things that matter most this year, that is “influencer relations, channels & content and performance & controlling”. The colleagues have prepared a very exciting line up and program, with very […]
“Fake news” is 2017’s word of the year (or at least it is so in Australia). Joined by alternative facts and post-truth society, fake news is a signal to a changing trend in how people relate to information, the sources that share it and their credibility. Fake news is not new The concept of fake […]
This year’s European Communication Summit has focused on collaboration. I had the pleasure of joining the summit as a speaker again this year and thus had a chance to revisit and renew a topic close to my heart, my research and something I had spoken about before. Storytelling as narrative The talk of this year was […]
Lessons from the Romanian #rezist protests – online coverage
At the end of July, Dr Darren G. Lilleker (from Bournemouth University) and I have edited andlaunched an online publication focusing on the Romanian #rezist protests. In an effort to incentivise reading, we have also shared the report widely but also published several separate articles reflecting on the lessons learned from the protests. The context […]
OUT NOW: #rezist – Romania’s 2017 anti-corruption protests
The beginning of 2017 brought attention to Romania and its street protests against corruption. What started for me as a “watching the news unfold” exercise turned quickly into many questions that I could not answer on my own. This is how the idea of a flash report on the Romanian protests came about. #rezist […]
Science Communication & Measurement – PARI 2017 workshop notes
I am these days in Garching, near Munchen, the home of the European Southern Observatory (an absolutely stunning and inspiring place) and the host of the PARI 2017 Workshop on Public Awareness of Research Infrastructures. This is an event dedicated to science communication (as I understand it) where scientists turned communicators and communicators with a passion for […]
The 3rd Employer Branding conference organized by Quadriga, the mission was ambitious: to follow the entire roadmap of developing an employer brand, encapsulated in ‘think – do – measure – learn’. My Twitter “Moments” summary captures some of the insights from the day. It’s been a very busy two days, packed with very diverse presentations […]
In preparation of the PR Impact Awards, I also met with JÅ«ratÄ— ŽuolytÄ— from Delfi, Lithuania’s biggest online news platform, to discuss (what else) about PR measurement. I have to admit that she grilled me on why PR should be measured and how it can be done, teasing out a preview of my talk planned for […]
I have been looking forward to my visit to Vilnius and my participation to the PR Impact Awards 2017 and it was so great! It was at Lina Jakucioniene‘s invitation, an ambassador of the European Association of Communication Directors and Chairperson of the Board of Lithuanian Public Relations Specialists Association, that I went there and I […]
Vilnius, here I come! I am really looking forward to joining Lithuania’s largest annual PR and Comms event (PR Impact Awards 2017) organized by the Lithuanian Public Relations Specialists’ Association and the Lithuanian Association of Public Relations Agencies. It is a conference-awards combo (speakers in the morning, shortlisted projects and awards ceremony in the afternoon/evening) so […]
Social media and political communication in #posttruth times
One November evening (Nov 14, discount 2016) I had the pleasure to be part of an EACD Forum expert panel discussing the then recent results of the US presidential elections and their similarities with other elections in Europe and beyond. The video of the entire panel discussion is here. Happy watching:
I have been researching and writing quite actively about storytelling in the past months. What has started with my moderating the Play Video Conference last year and continued with a masterclass given at the European Communication Summit, anesthetist  has prompted by my collaboration with Dr Camelia Crisan from the Progress Foundation on the CSR Corporate […]
New publication: PESO media strategy shifts to SOEP
The first academic article reflecting on the results from the first Asia-Pacific Communication Monitor research which I coordinated last year has been now published. Published with Jim Macnamara, May Lwin andAnsgar Zerfass in Public Relations Review, the article reveals a major shift from the traditional PESO model of media use by organizations (paid, earned, shared, owned) […]
Beyond the PhD life: guest blog post for Warwick Uni
Some of my recent thoughts on how to succeed in academia were published on PhD Life, a blog ran by Ana Kedves, a second year PhD researcher at Research Exchange, University of Warwick. It all started with a tweet seeking female academics to share their stories in a series of posts to be published in […]
A new article on digital storytelling and empowerment marketing and their application to corporate communication, about it public relations and corporate social responsibility has been recently published in the Management Dynamics in the Knowledge Economy Journal. Co-authored with Dr Camelia Crisan and Razvan Constantin Dinca, viagra sale and the result of a conference paper presented […]
An article I recently co-authored with Dr Camelia Crisan, sick executive director of the Progress Foundation in Romania, mind has been published in the Communication Director Magazine. The article is a providing some background information which inspired our recent research project on digital storytelling reflections of corporate volunteering. This has been further elaborated on in […]
Earlier this year I have joined the core research team of the Asia-Pacific Communication Monitor 2015/16, viagra sale the first of its kind for the region and a spin-off of already existing and highly insightful monitors for Europe and Latin-America. I have coordinated the research team efforts (Jim Macnamara, misbirth May O. Lwin and […]
Conversation is dead. Repetition and parallel talk rule Twitter.
Masterclass #storytelling as a legitimization tool: just humanize the story! Peer to peer trust @ana_adi #ecs15 pic.twitter.com/wiUbPEWfvm — TamaraGNS (@TamaraGNS) June 25, 2015 UPDATE: The article elaborating on the conference paper has now been published in the Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations. The full reference and link to the FULL article are below. […]
My first participation at the European Communication Summit (#ecs15) has recently concluded. It has been amazing; it brought together more than 600 participants and 80 speakers all working in communication, public relations and public affairs and plenty of examples, ideas, buy reflections and projections all debating the value and impact of “Anticipation and Disruption” (this year’s theme) […]
Conference paper: Visual framing of Romanian migrants
I had the pleasure to collaborate recently with Bianca Cheregi, PhD researcher at the Doctoral School in Communication Sciences from the National University of Political Science and Administrative Studies on a research paper exploring the role news images play in framing Romanian immigrants to the UK and how they construct the social issue of migration, […]
An article I wrote has been accepted for publication in the Public Relations Review and is now available Occupy PR Here are some highlights: Although Occupy protests have concluded, cough occupy groups continue to communicate online. Occupy Wall Street and Occupy London continue to be the most visible occupy accounts. The websites and Twitter […]
I have just returned from Bucharest where I was invited to share the lessons I learned from my consultancy and social media training with SMEs at PR Measurement. Organised by GMP PR, dosage  this was the first conference in Romania focused on measurement of public relations campaigns and outputs. It was also the first conference aiming […]
#playconf2015 – reflections on the state of video communication
Quadriga University was the host of the 2nd Video Communication International Conference (Play)Â on the 21st and 22nd of May and I had the pleasure of moderating it for the two days. Although I have moderated academic conference sessions before, order this was the first time I have moderated an entire conference. The line up was […]
I have just received in the post today my complimentary copies from Emerald of “Corporate Social Responsibility in the Digital Age”. Part of David Crowther`s Developments in Corporate Governance and Responsibility series, side effects this volume edited with Georgiana Grigore and David Crowther is the first I co-edited. It has been quite a journey with […]
The International Conference on Digital Culture, ailment Communication and Society organized by the Cyberspace Working Group of the Faculty of Communication at the University San Jorge in Zaragoza and my participation as keynote speaker and panelist has been extensively covered in local media and blogs. Here is a list: El Dia Aragon Digital El Periodico […]
Keynote – Digital Culture, Communication & Society
On the 16th and 17th of March, ampoule I had the pleasure of traveling to Zaragoza to join the International Conference on Digital Culture, pharmacy Communication & Society organized by the Cyberspace Working Group of the Faculty of Communication at the University San Jorge. The event was well covered, the local media and journalism students […]
New publication: Olympic humanitarianism – the fundamental principles of Olympism
The Journal of Olympic History recently features on the cover of its latest number my article “Olympic humanitarianism: the fundamental principles of Olympism”. While I have published shorter articles on the same topic before in Culture @ the Olympics and Sportanddev.org this is the article that contains the research that informed them. This article, […]
I have started the new year with my visit to Vives in Belgium, ampoule delivering again the New Media course to a new group of Erasmus exchange students. Using the feedback from every group, ampoule the course has become over time more focused on social media marketing and communications. This also includes more extensive discussions […]
Collaboration at the heart of Thai and British researchers’ development
A month ago I was making my way to Thailand excited to finally see happening the Researcher Links workshop. Organised by Bournemouth University and Chulalongkorn University, treatment the workshop was the result of a successful bid to the British Council that Prof Tom Watson and I as part of the BU team and Assoc Prof […]
Bizcampbe #11 – lessons for academics from the start-up world
 It is the start-ups that I look up to these days. They look for the bright ideas and for the ways in which the world can be a better place and people can be happier. They do it on the move, endocrinologist out of traditional office hours and sometimes even out of traditional […]
Social media monitoring tools in higher education marketing
Nathaniel Hobby and I delivered a conference paper in November 2013 at the 1st Marketing and Communication in Asia Conference, dosage organized by Bournemouth University and Chulalongkorn University. The Conference proceedings have been now published and our full paper is included in them. The summary of the paper and the powerpoint are here.
You can now find my PhD thesis in the British Library collection of electronic theses. Below is the abstract of my thesis: The Olympic Games is a mechanism through which numerous advocacy and political groups compete to frame the media coverage that it generates. These processes are restricted by the relatively fixed guidelines imposed upon […]
Social media monitoring tools in higher education – a conference paper
Last week has been extremely busy with travels, prescription work, visit this site meetings and presentations both in Asia and Europe. It started with a lengthy journey to Thailand and a much expected participation in the 1st Marketing and Communication in Asia Conference, advice organized by Bournemouth University and Chulalongkorn University. It has been […]
The Dorset Coast Forum took place in Poole on the 14th of November. Desribed as a strategic partnership, pestilence the Forum brings together in a yearly event many local and national coastal and marine organizations to discuss long-term broad scale issues facing the Dorset coast and its inshore waters. Social media was on this […]
I have recently returned from MediAsia 2012, an annual conference dedicated to media studies, held every year in Osaka, Japan. Organized by IAFOR, one of Asia’s think tanks, the conference gathered more than 120 participants from over 20 countries in the world, many of them from North America, Asia and Europe. The keynote, offered this […]
In top 20 of 101 Twitter Accounts Every PhD Should Follow
The Dorset Coast Forum took place in Poole on the 14th of November. Desribed as a strategic partnership, pestilence the Forum brings together in a yearly event many local and national coastal and marine organizations to discuss long-term broad scale issues facing the Dorset coast and its inshore waters. Social media was on this […]
Out now: 2 chapters on social media in higher education
The 13th of June in Bournemouth University’s calendar of the Festival of Learning was dedicated to visual communication. Aimed mainly at people working within the third sector, the workshop which my colleague Anna Feigenbaum and I ran challenged participants to think about creating images that stick on a shoestring budget. To make the challenge more […]
New Publication: Media Regulations and the Olympic Charter
Today I had the opportunity of lecturing via Skype to a group of Master’s students from the University of Kansas about digital media research. The invitation came from Dr Mugur Geana, mind Associate Professor of Strategic Communication; Director, viagra order Center for Excellence in Health Communication to Underserved Populations at the William Allen White […]
Today I had the opportunity of lecturing via Skype to a group of Master’s students from the University of Kansas about digital media research. The invitation came from Dr Mugur Geana, sales Associate Professor of Strategic Communication; Director, geriatrician Center for Excellence in Health Communication to Underserved Populations at the William Allen White School […]
“The Best Games Ever”: a review of Olympic closing ceremony remarks since the 1980s
I was asked in the summer to write a short article for the Newsletter of the International Olympic Academy Participants Association reflecting on my experience of the London 2012 Olympics. Keeping in mind the skeptical enthusiasm displayed before the Games in the UK and also remembering my experience of the Beijing Games, phthisiatrician I […]
At the beginning of this month I wrote about the EuroBlog Social Media Award I have received for my use of social media for research and more. The University of the West of Scotland (where I pursue my PhD) picked up the news and shared it with the Scottish press. As a result of their […]
MediAsia 2012 – Pfizer’s social media uses in Europe
I have recently returned from MediAsia 2012, prosthesis an annual conference dedicated to media studies, held every year in Osaka, Japan. Organized by IAFOR, one of Asia’s think tanks, the conference gathered more than 120 participants from over 20 countries in the world, many of them from North America, Asia and Europe. The keynote, […]
I had the opportunity and pleasure to present part of my work with and on social media in academia at this year’s Media Education Summit organized by The Centre for Excellence in Media Practice (CEMP). Based on my upcoming book chapter “Social Media Audit and Analytics: Exercises for Marketing and Public Relations Courses”, web […]
The Institute of Internal Communication has their Super Thursday on the 13th of November: launching the Communicator of the Year, illness celebrating the ICon Awards, FEIEA Grand Prix and Under 30s all interupted and supported by an Insight Seminar. My talk on social media and internal cross-cultural communication aimed to challenge current practices while […]
Beijing: when humanitarian issues and Olympic values collide
Earlier this summer I wrtoe a short piece for Sportanddev.org about the challenges the IOC and the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games organizers faced when questions about human rights, approved freedom of speech and freedom of the press were raised by internaitonal media and advocacy groups. The entire article is here. Here’s an excerpt: […]
The new edition of Culture @ the Olympics hosts an article I wrote about the contractual limitations for artists working around the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, treat from the perspective of a corporate sponsor for the Olympic arts. The entire article is below:
Creating a social media daily routine #engagingbmth
Including monitoring, resuscitator measurement and analytics Here’s my prezintation from yesterday’s talk given at Engaging the Public event organized by the Media School of Bournemouth University.
Yesterday has been filled of very interesting presentations from my colleagues and equally engaging and challenging questions from our guests.You can find the white paper Darren Lilleker and I wrote in the “Getting the message out” post, capsule and my presentation on creating a social media daily routine here. Here’s a short review of […]
Getting the message out – a social media daily routine with metrics and analytics included
Today I am at the Executive Business Centre at Bournemouth University holding an event about politics and public engagement called “Engaging the Public: putting the people back into democracy”. The talks, rx cure inspired by our research and consultancy practice, check will introduce a wide range of ideas from understanding the political consumer to […]
A historical study of the evolution of the definition and rules regulating media presence at the Olympics in the Olympic Charter from 1908 to 2011 – a conference paper presented at I Congress on History and Sport, anemia May 31-June 1, steroids 2012, Lisbon, Portugal – On the 1st of June, I had the […]
UPDATE: NOW WITH THE VIDEO RECORDING OF THE TALK Organized by the FEIEA Academy (March 29, impotent 2012) I find myself speaking quite often about social media. Whether it is as part of the Digital Communication Strategies course I teach at Bournemouth University, artificial the New Media and Branding courses I am to teach […]
It all started with calls for acknowledging the source of information shared as a means of providing some credibility checking for it. On the microblogging site Twitter several practices were in places from “via” to the more commonly agreed (and shorter) RT (re-tweet). Besides acknowledging a source, overweight the RT practice allows people (marketers/researchers) […]
A LinkedIn picture or the beauty and challenges of visualized data for researchers
These days we are innundated with data. Every question we have is a query. Every answer we give is an input, web a result. What we know or what we want to know is, sale in a way or another, searchable. More recently, we ourselves ARE data. Our visit to a website is a number […]
Update The visual CV platform arena is getting more competitive. After Vizualize.me generating CVs as infographics based on LinkedIn data, two more platforms are currently offering the same features: CVgram.me and Zerply. CVgram imports data from LinkedIn and enables editing when to it comes to linking skills with particular jobs. Zerply, on the other hand, […]
Social Media 4 Beginners: Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and WordPress tutorials
At the beginning of this month I wrote about the EuroBlog Social Media Award I have received for my use of social media for research and more. The University of the West of Scotland (where I pursue my PhD) picked up the news and shared it with the Scottish press. As a result of their […]
Keynote – DICID 9th Doha Conference of Interfaith Dialogue
During the past days I had the honor to offer the keynote address opening the thematic part of the 9th Doha Conference of Interfaith Dialogue organized by the Doha International Centre for Interfaith Dialogue (DICID) and sponsored by the Qatar Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It has been an event that I have been waiting to happen for […]
Research at the confluence of business and academia
This Saturday (October 15) I had the opportunity to participate to my first conference in Bahrain: 1st Tripartite Business Research Conference. Organized by the AMA International University-Bahrain, prescription the conference focused on government, industry and academia working together for better quality of live through research. The invited speakers at the conference reflected the theme in the sense […]
It is with tremendous pleasure that I announce the publication of one of my co-authored contributions to Sage’s Encyclopedia of Social Networks. My article on Yahoo!, psychiatrist its history and contribution to the internet world is part of this massive  e-reference work that comes with a 2-volume print version that features 350 signed entries […]
I am working on a keynote address that will touch among others on the rise and impact of social media as a medium for communication that I have to deliver at a conference next month (details to follow later, heart I don’t want to spoil the surprise yet). To make my keynote more attractive […]
While checking out the notes and ideas that I might use for some future academic publications, discount I came across this essay (of sorts) that I wrote while the voting for the 2016 host of the Olympic Games was being broadcasted online and heavily commented on Twitter. While the attention the voting received online was […]
This Saturday (October 15) I had the opportunity to participate to my first conference in Bahrain: 1st Tripartite Business Research Conference. Organized by the AMA International University-Bahrain, prescription the conference focused on government, industry and academia working together for better quality of live through research. The invited speakers at the conference reflected the theme in the sense […]
This semester saw me developing and teaching a new extensive course. Following the positive evaluations received from the students taking the New Media course at Katho and their calls for more specialized courses, treatment I was asked to prepare and deliver an introductory course on Branding. The course After extensive research of other branding courses […]
At the beginning of this month I wrote about the EuroBlog Social Media Award I have received for my use of social media for research and more. The University of the West of Scotland (where I pursue my PhD) picked up the news and shared it with the Scottish press. As a result of their […]
Capture that: recording and capturing (web) screens
Visuals aids especially when talking about internet and technology are becoming increasingly important in a presentation. Whether it is just a print screen of a displayed webpage or a recording of what you do on the screen, price it is useful to know some of applications (free or freemium based) that can make capturing a […]
Word clouds are visualization of a given text based on the frequency of the words it contains. A word cloud generator will usually eliminate punctuation and common words and mostly display nouns. They follow a simple rule: the bigger the word, generic the more often it is used. Why I use word clouds? I have […]
Social Media in the Classroom, Social Media Tools For Research
The middle of November was a busy and workshop-rich week for me. After a workshop on social media strategy and policy delivered at the UWS Library and a lecture on social media to support an acting career given to Stuart Hepburn‘s contemporary screen acting students, mycoplasmosis I also delivered with the great help and support […]
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New Media. New Games. Lessons from the Beijing Olympics for #media2012
an unconference talk covering 3 stories: of access, viagra of media and of cultural exchange New media. New games. Lessons from Beijing View more presentations from Ana ADI. On the 4th of October I was invited to speak about my Beijing Olympics experience and research at the launch of #media2012 blueprint for the London Olympics, during Abandon […]
Teaching Public Relations and Journalism with Paper.li and Storify
If you want your students to keep up with the latest news that the Internet is ranging about, anorexia tag related dailies generated on Paper.li are an appealing way to do. While the format will remind them of “old-school” newspapers, order the information within it will be fresh and up to date, complied from links […]
Among the many tweets I read every day there was one last week advertising a London event dedicated to researchers and academics. The event organized by the Research Information Network (RIN) and the National Endowment for Science, erectile Technology and the Arts (NESTA) is meant to help academics and researchers understand the influence of […]
Free Video Conferencing Platforms for academic conferences, remote lecturers, research or group projects
When I started my PhD 3 years ago there were many opportunities for guest lectures and workshops that I missed mainly because I was too far away from the places and institutions were these events were supposed to be held. Similarly, illness there were too many times when I wanted to submit a paper to a […]
10+ Free Online Slideshow Resources for Lecturers and Communicators
I have delivered many conference presentations and guest lectures in the past, illness enough to realize that if one can have a slideshow with a twist (not the traditional click through powerpoint) half of the job of capturing the attention of the audience is done (of course, hepatitis this still requires a good presentation concept […]
Twitter tools for journalism and strategic communication students
An online live video guest lecture with real-life examples and immediate applicability On July 19, refractionist last Monday that is, I had the opportunity to speak to yet another group of Missouri School of Journalism students found in London for the summer for an exchange program. I say yet again because I have delivered numerous […]
Several weeks ago I was asked to deliver a talk that would describe trends and issues in the media in the following five years that I believed would influence higher education. As I believed the topic to be too broad and media as a term too unspecific (media can mean mass media, medicine can mean […]
MeCCSA-PGN: UK media framing of the Beijing 2008 Olympics
Last week I have delivered my last conference presentation for this academic year and conference season. It’s been a busy year, recipe the MeCCSA paper being in fact my 4th for this year (after 2 in Vancouver and 1 in the US at the Power of Sport Summit). There are two more presentations scheduled for […]
At the ISDPA Power of Sport Summit held in Boston in June I presented a paper that heavily relied on historical data and therefore needed a simple yet memorable visualization. Ideally the tool I searched, pulmonologist had to: automatically order the data chronologically enable me to group or color code the events so that I […]
ISDPA Power of Sport Summit – Innovation and New Media
Even before I was accepted to deliver a presentation as part of the works of the summit, hygiene Eli A. Wolff and I have been in touch discussing on several occasions my views on the need of making events of the scope and role of the ISDPA summit available to people who for several reasons, […]
The Summit These days Boston, search MA (USA) is the home of the ISDPA 2010 Power of Sport Summit where practitioners, nurse researchers, activists, advocates, educators, policy makers and academics work together to define and address current and emerging issues involving the intersection of sport and social change. The works of the summit combine panel discussions with […]
UPDATE: This post was picked up and reposted on the blog of the Research Students’ Society at UWS. You can therefore read it there as well. Good luck to all participating students at the UWS poster event! On Friday, May 7, 2010 the University of the West of Scotland is organizing a poster event for […]
UPDATE: This post was picked up and reposted on the blog of the Research Students’ Society at UWS. You can therefore read it there as well. Good luck to all participating students at the UWS poster event! On Friday, urticaria May 7, 2010 the University of the West of Scotland is organizing a poster event […]
A guest lecture on using social media in communication environments I was invited again by Byron T. Scott, pills Professor Emeritus of Journalism at the University of Missouri – Columbia, cure to talk to a new group of Mizzou students in London. As the group of students I met last year at Imperial College, these too […]
The Twitter Olympics? I’d say the digital social activist Olympics.
Just days before the Games were ready to begin talks online were already debating the future of the Olympics and their relationship with the online, viagra approved social media. Many have asserted then that these Winter Games will mark the history of the Olympics by being the first where Twitter, buy as a micro-blogging platform […]
On February 19th, adiposity together with my supervisor Andy Miah and my PhD colleague Jennifer Jones, thumb I have attended the 3rd International Sport Business Symposium organized by UBC and the Johannes Guttenberg University of Mainz.  The symposium brought olympic academics, IOC members and sports practitioners in the same room enabling a fruitful conversation after each […]
On the 16th of February, pulmonologist my PhD Colleague Jennifer Jones and I were invited in our quality of staff writers of Culture @ the Olympics to join an International Journalism Panel on CKNW News Talk Radio here in Vancouver  discussing how journalists from across the world are covering the Olympics.We joined Jill Bennett and […]
International Journalism Panel on CKNW News Talk Sports Radio
On the 16th of February, pulmonologist my PhD Colleague Jennifer Jones and I were invited in our quality of staff writers of Culture @ the Olympics to join an International Journalism Panel on CKNW News Talk Radio here in Vancouver  discussing how journalists from across the world are covering the Olympics.We joined Jill Bennett and […]
On Friday, there December 11, I delivered a lecture to Alan McCusker-Thompson‘s 3rd year students undertaking a BA in Commercial Music at UWS in Ayr. The module in which this lecture was included focuses on Popular Culture and Music. My talk therefore had to show how the internet and Web 2.0 in particular has enabled, through open […]
A live video guest lecture to KathoNewMedia students by Dr Mugur Geana. Photo: Peter Budai I have started teaching my New Media course at Katho last week. This is the third edition, medications or better-said, the third semester when I am teaching it. Like with previous semesters, I am trying to continuously update the course […]
I had the honor to be invited to deliver another lecture at to the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communication of The University of Kansas. Many thanks to Dr Mugur Geana for inviting me. This time however was to address a group of master’s students enrolled in a research methods class. My […]
Today the Social Media Education Club organized their first twitter chat on social media education. Attendants were few and all of them except me (maybe I’m wrong) were from the US. Some interesting questions were asked but I for one found the twitter chat quite confusing when it came to follow the conversation as people’s […]
I have received in the post today a certificate recognizing me as a Fellow if the Higher Education Academy as evidence of my “expertise and commitment to enhancing and supporting the student learning experience”. This certificate is linked to a post-graduate course I have taken last year focusing on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. […]
Live Video Guest Lecture – Florida Southern College
Back in May when in Lausanne, medic Switzerland I blogged and tweeted live from  IOC’s first ever International Forum on Sport, Peace and Development (IFSPD).  Just recently my review of the same event has been published in Culture @ the Olympics. I had a video guest lecture to Florida Southern College, mind to the class […]
Back in May when in Lausanne, medic Switzerland I blogged and tweeted live from  IOC’s first ever International Forum on Sport, Peace and Development (IFSPD).  Just recently my review of the same event has been published in Culture @ the Olympics.
Researchers in Europe would definitely benefit from including in their work routines some online collaborative tools. In this post I intend to present some of the collaborative platforms that allow sharing and live working on documents I have discovered during the past months. They are Google Docs, visit Socialtext, anaemia Colaab, OneHub and Scribblar. Out of […]
Last week I was in Coventry, gynecologist UK, to present a paper at Play the Game 2009, one of the biggest communication conferences on sport and society, now at its 6th edition. It was a busy conference with many speakers coming from a very wide range of fields and institutions, starting from sports journalism up […]
Some weeks ago I wrote a post about vizualization tools focusing on what could be useful for quantitative and qualitative researchers alike. I have mentioned then that my favorite was IMB’s ManyEyes platform. An update to that post is needed but this time I’ll be focusing on chart and diagram making applications. Below is a […]
Timelines are important and necessary visual elements that make any presentation that encompasses any historical information – be it personal, healthful institutional, youth health national or be it related to recently or long passed times -. Luckily there are a couple of platforms out there, rubella free of charge, that researchers can use to make […]
IOCFSPD – report of rapporteurs and closing session
 The report is based on the presentations, information pills speeches and keynote addresses given yesterday and today. Lord Colin Moynihan is now reading some ideas from Jacques Rogge’s, IOC President, address from yesterday and it looks like he’ll continue to summarize the presentations of yesterday, or at lest that he was made responsible to […]
Byron Peacock, a friend of mine and master’s student at the Graduate Institute of International and Development studies in Geneva gave me this in reaction to Mr Verbruggen intervention and speech earlier this morning. I am inserting here, without any changes, his comment and question. I have to say though, that due to Mr. Verburuggen’s […]
Two keynote addresses and three presentations scheduled, click one of which being introduced the last minute. The session starts with Hein Verbruggen, pharmacy President of the General Association of International Sports Federations and former Chairman of the Coordination of the Coordination Commission of the Beijing Olympic Games. He started speaking about legacy part of the […]
The session’s presentations are brought together but an interest into and relevancy to promotion of education and healthy life-styles through sport. Frankie Fredericks, surgeon Chairman of the IOCs Athletes’ Commission, had the keynote address. He shared a lot of his personal experiences stressing the importance of sport as a “school for friendship, solidarity, fair-play”. VANOC […]
IOCFSPD – Session 3 -keynote address and presentations
Lamine Diack, health system President of the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) shared his personal experience with sport in his keynote address. General Lassana Palenfo, IOC Member, Member of the IOC International Relations Commission, gives the first presentation, worried that the minutes he has are not enough for a large topic like the one […]
First presentation is given by Brigadier General Giovanni Gola, order President of the International Military Sports Council (CISM). He’s giving a historical review of the relationship between sports and the military and brings plenty of examples from the Military World Games (some editions took place in Croatia and India). After CISM has received UN military […]
This is the first ever Forum on Sport, ambulance Peace and Development organized by the IOC today and tomorrow (May 7-8) in an attempt to bring together experts from the fields of sports, education, media and much more whose insights from the event will be taken later this year to the Olympic Cogress in Copenhagen. […]
International Forum on Sport, Peace and Development – Session 1
This is the first ever Forum on Sport, ambulance Peace and Development organized by the IOC today and tomorrow (May 7-8) in an attempt to bring together experts from the fields of sports, education, media and much more whose insights from the event will be taken later this year to the Olympic Cogress in Copenhagen. […]
Over the past few months, this web I have come across a series of visualization options for new media research and not only. My favorite right now is ManyEyes, buy more about a platform powered by IBM, that offers plenty of visualization options for both qualitative and quantitative data. What you do: upload your data […]
I have been invited to offer a New Media course at Katho, physiotherapy the university where many years ago I studied as an Erasmus student. The course happened last week, from the 1st to the 5th of December, and was quite intensive involving 3 hours of teaching every day. Changing the roles and returning to […]
I have started writing my thesis… or at least organizing the literature review, clinic conference papers and other presentations that I’ve delivered during the last university year into a more logical, cure structured document. It is not at all a simple task since I have to revisit many of the articles I’ve once read as […]
I have started writing my thesis… or at least organizing the literature review, clinic conference papers and other presentations that I’ve delivered during the last university year into a more logical, cure structured document. It is not at all a simple task since I have to revisit many of the articles I’ve once read as […]
This summer was full. I was the lucky UK representative at the International Olympic Academy, implant a one month seminar held in Olympia, more about Greece on Olympic topics ranging from the Ancient Olympics, bronchitis to ethics, human rights and marketing. I have particularly enjoyed the marketing and ethics presentations given by Dr Benoit Seguin […]
Conference: "Changes and Challenges. China Media Today"
This summer I was accepted to present at two conferences: one in London and one in Sussex. While I could not honor the one organized by MeCCSA conference abstract due to scheduling incompatibilities (I have to be in Greece, pharm attending the International Olympic Academy at that time) I just came back from the other […]
These days the Czech Centre Bucharest with the help of volunteers and in partnership with One World Prague are organizing in Bucharest, ailment Romania a film festival showcasing more than 40 documentaries from 20 countries. The festival is centered around some thematical programs including globalization in actions, viagra 60mg quest of identity, health care dictatorships […]
The Innovation and Research Office (IRO) of the University is organizing tomorrow a poster presentation hoping to give the PhDs enrolled full-time to showcase their work, dosage interact with each other and meet some potentially interesting contacts from outside the university. Unfortunately, medicine the posters have to be all printed any use of new technologies being thus […]
Here are some snapshots from the NOA presentation. As mentioned before it was a great opportunity to make my research known to a highly interesting and interested group. Therefore, ascariasis many thanks to the BOA team for inviting me! Â Â Â
Going at conferences is an important and integral part of a PhD’s academic pursuit, shop quest and knowledge as well as of recognition. I was very lucky to be invited, order only 5 months after starting my programme and my research, symptoms to give a presentation at the National Olympic Academy in London. I was […]
This weekend I am going to attend the National Olympic Academy down in London, buy recipe an event organized every year by the British Olympic Foundation. It is a great opportunity to meat people that research the Olympics or are involved in one way or another with the Games. It is even a greater opportunity since I […]
I found this ad today after jumping from one blog to another. It is the first of four such ads that TWBAChina and Stink created for Adidas and the 2008 Olympic Games. You can find here and here two slightly different versions of the same concept which heavily emphasizes the support of the great/ numerous Chinese people. Interesting!  Andy […]
The readings for the human rights and the Olympics piece are becoming more interesting every day. It might be because the acumulation of knowlegde lead to the creation of a bigger and understandable picture but might also be because the more I read, cystitis the more questions arise and the more challenges come with them. Nevertheless, hemorrhoids […]
I have met Dr. Miah two weeks ago and he made me a very tempting and challenging offer: to work with him on an article about the Beijing Olympics, no rx China’s human rights issues and the way one impacts the other. I have already started reading several articles on the topic and realized that […]
Every emblem of the Olympics tells a story. For example, one health the one of the Beijing Olympics represents Beijing’s hospitality and hopes. It is also said that in its dancing (for the emblem is called “Chinese Seal, Dancing Beijing) carries the city’s commitment to the world. Creating an emblem that should satisfy all, and […]
I read a piece of news on a Romanian website some days ago saying that the Chinese authorities have now two online virtual policemen (a woman and a man) that will show up on the main Chinese portals every 30 minutes asking users to report any illegal information they see and prohibiting them to access […]
